davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

DSR

I added a few new items to my collection of personal disturbing search requests. I guess I can understand why Yahoo! or Google! would send searchers to davidgagne.net for dave gagne custom ice. That makes sense. I’m sure I must have used the words custom and ice at some point in the last two years.

One

One – U2

Number One

Number One

It’s so good to be home! It just doesn’t feel right anywhere else ….

“At that time my Dad made a pretty good living as a pirate so Mom really didn’t have a choice. She did eventually take some correspondence courses, it did take longer than usual due to our wanderings but she did manage to get an Associate’s Degree in TV/VCR repair (which was even more impressive in light of the fact that our boat had neither a TV or VCR).”

from the About Page at Scurvy Boy

Druzblog

In which I recommend some Texan bloggers

Problems

There’s a fascinating article at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the sort of essay that makes you wonder about yourself. Just in case you weren’t already wondering. Or in case you thought you were

Meme

In which an online personality quiz misses the mark

Three-For Thursday

A Three-For Thursday! We Can Work It Out – The Beatles Help! – The Beatles All You Need Is Love – The Beatles

Quiz

Take a quiz on Middle East Geography and History from Encarta and MSN. I got 7 out of 10.

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.