Posts in the category “writing”

Mathematical Physics

Embedded in Week 152’s essay by John Baez for This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics is a very sad love story. I mean it. I think I will subtitle this post, Love Surrounded by Confusing Mathematics.

LifeShots

<excited> Look, ma! I’ve been published! </excited>

In Which He Laments a Lost Post

Sleep? I doh-ah nee no steenkin’ sleep. Visine, now. And coffee. They come in handy. 7:20 am and all is well. Or something. I fell asleep in a rage because I had written, of course, the perfect post. Oh, it was a thing of beauty. It was the post to end all posts. And then

An Invalid

You can imagine how stupid I felt when I called someone an “invalid” in high school. As if they weren’t valid. And don’t even get me started on “epitome”. ehp-ih-tohm. Fark this farking language! Drives me nutty sometimes, it does.

each friend represents a world

each friend represents a world in us & it is by this world that a new world is born – Anais Nin

window pain

window pain I am Jack’s diseased kidney. fresh goes better how can you go on when you’re murdering someone killing me like you do personal injury protection benefits/property damage liability and don’t get me started about your overuse of colons No! I don’t like to think. little frayed around the ends quick reference guide stopitstopitstopit

Hemingway

Hemingway

You may know, if you’ve ever let your eyes wander all the way to the upper left-hand corner of this page, that I run a pretty nifty Hemingway site. The site gets something like 800 hits daily. I’m sure a bunch of those are spiders and search thingies and who-knows-what else. But I know that

words

I recently read an excellent article on word usage based on perceived hacker v. cracker differences. I would consider myself a hacker while the person who sent it to me is definitely a cracker. The article earned 4,377 cool points for both liberal references to Shakespeare and, amazingly enough, a reference to packet monkeys …

New Blog

There’s a new blog in the mists. Firda and I started a Haiku Blog!

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.