Posts in the category “asides”

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The Wile E. Coyote tangent in last night’s A Closer Look was .

If you have kids, I highly recommend subscribing to the Daily Dad newsletter. It’s a little nugget of great parenting advice every day.

It’s not even Thanksgiving yet so cool your jets on that Best of 2021 article, captain.

A fun part of parenthood is routinely getting into 6 AM arguments over things like whether Tom Hanks was in Ghostbusters, why you must wear shoes to school, or which day of the week it is.

I don’t know if I can handle another sideways flat-screen mirror-embedded exercise device commercial.

Single-Use PlasticSingle-use plastic is going to bury us all.

This is beautiful:

“It’s not cancel culture unless it comes from the Cancelle region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling consequences.”
– via Michael Burns

I cannot fathom why so many of Publix Greenwise organic products are paradoxically packaged in single-use non-biodegradable plastic.

The Venn diagram of people who eat organic and people who hate plastics is just a circle!

Pro Tip: There are exactly two things you can try AND do. You can try AND fail or you can try AND succeed. Otherwise you try TO do something.

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.

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.