Posts in the category “asides”

Quick blurbs

All children’s clothes should have a blank tag where you can write your kid’s name. How is this not a thing?

It’s unfair that Someone Like You (from the 1989 Bang Tango album Psycho Café) isn’t more popular.

PSA: It’s still easier to win back-to-back Super Bowls than it is to bat .400 for a season.

My 11-yo son and all his friends have discovered rickrolling.

How about distributing (and installing) free solar panels on every home in America? Job creation, save the planet, and annoy the two dozen or so old white guy companies who profit from destroying humanity – win, win, win!

I lean pretty hard to the left, but sending free masks and tests in February of 2022 is a lot like finally explaining the rhythm method to someone on their kid’s second birthday.

What is the appropriate way to deal with the sunk cost fallacy after being on hold with the IRS for 90+ minutes?

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.