Posts in the category “asides”

Quick blurbs

The easiest way to teach siblings how to count is to give them a different number of M&Ms with dessert.

Madden 97 CD Cover

I played this game so much my fingers bled.

Happy New Year, everyone. Please learn from your mistakes.

Happy New Year!

Phase One: In Which Doris Gets Her Oats

Fun activity: Any child who licks their elbow can open one Christmas present early.

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.