Posts from December 2021

If your phone system is smart enough to let me know my hold time is likely to exceed one hour, it should be smart enough to let me leave my number to call me back. Also, you’re severely understaffed.

Serious question: Why aren’t Moonlighting and Remington Steele on just as frequently as Law & Order?

About five years ago I bought myself a leather wallet from Saddleback Leather Co. that I absolutely love. If you’re looking for a Christmas gift for someone, check them out.

I just realized it’s probably been 25+ years since I heard a song start to slowly lose tempo and grind to a ghoulish, warbled halt because the batteries were dying in my cassette player.

Okay. This freaked me out. I have been riding bikes my whole life and have no idea how they work. You probably don’t either. – via @kottke (of course)

I am loving Wordle. I wish I could play more than once per day, though.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.