Posts from 2011

  • Declaration 1776 sells Revolutionary t-shirts celebrating the origins of our nation. (*These are badass.)
  • I used the free version for about a month and last night finally decided it was time to cough up the $3.00/mo for my Instapaper subscription. “What’s Instapaper, David?” It’s only one of the most brilliant apps EVAH! Basically it lets you save webpages to read later, but it’s so, so much more than that. You really need to try it for yourself. I use this every single day.
  • Color me shocked. A new study finds that all plastics are bad for you.
    2019-11-30 Update: It looks like rodale.com is no longer around, so that link is dead.
  • Everyone knows that you’re born left-handed or right-handed or ambidextrous. But did you know that you have a dominant eye? (And apparently there’s no such thing as ambidextrous sight.) It’s pretty simple to determine which eye is dominant. (Thanks, Shawn!)
  • TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) gave a glowing review of 3D4Medical.com‘s iMuscle, calling it, “a must for exercise aficionados.” Andy Faust wrote a much more in-depth review at AppAdvice, though, and let’s just say that he wasn’t quite as impressed.
  • Honestly I had no idea that at some time in the 1930s some Nazis built an elaborate compound in the hills around the Pacific Palisades.

Contains Quinine

Let’s avoid malaria together

For some reason I have an irrational distaste for tablespoons. I don’t know why this is the case. They just seem too big to me, and there’s something pretentious about them. (Who needs to put that much of anything in his mouth all at once?) I’m a teaspoon man and probably always will be.

  • Fun Stuff
    • Nick Holmes posts cute and funny things.
    • How Potholes FormI’ve always wondered exactly how potholes are formed. Now I know.
    • Need some cool wrapping paper? Try rapping paper.
    • Thinking about the Monty Hall Paradox always makes my head hurt.
    • Do you feel like you’re too old to start getting into shape? Listen to Charles Eugster, who is a champion weightlifter: “I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”
    • I, for one, am very happy to get to go to Mars. You can go, too.
  • Sports
    • I love this photograph of a guy painting the hash marks on Florida Field.
    • Agree +1 with this tweet from @drsaturday: “I like Tim Tebow but I don’t think I can convey in 140 characters the visceral hate I have for this commercial.”
  • Parenting

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