Posts in the category “rants”

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.

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

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

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!

The only people who don’t think the entire health insurance system in these United States is irreparably, tragically, insultingly broken are the incredibly healthy and the absurdly wealthy.

Everyone else is screwed, and we know it. And yet nothing changes because the incredibly wealthy make the rules.

Four legs good, two legs better.

Four legs good, two legs better.

What bothers me the most about the recent cyber-hack of the Anthem BlueCross system is not that a company that large and that profitable — one tasked with the care of the most personal data of millions of Americans — did not have adequate security in place to prevent such a thing from happening. That’s

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.