Posts from 2021

It is baffling to me that I can no longer reliably use iTunes to manage the music on my iPhone. I have tens of thousands of tracks which I’ve lovingly curated and maintained for over a decade, and dozens of custom dynamic playlists, which are now essentially useless.

The only truly bad part of DirecTV Stream is the design of the remote control. It’s impossible to know which button you’re pushing by feel and the backlight only lasts 3 seconds. The old DirecTV remotes were intuitive and simple and the new ones are just awful.

RIBBIE FROM CODY!!!

As a Red Sox fan, it breaks my heart that we lost Mookie.
As a Dodgers fan, I love that we got Mookie.

I absolutely loved the This American Life episode on the Cisco default hold music, Opus Number 1.

Slept in my Beatles t-shirt. Woke up, got outta bed, dragged a comb across my head.

Slept in my Jane’s Addiction t-shirt and now I’m done with Sergio.

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.