davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

ego-surf

Great Caesar’s Ghost! Oh! How I missed being able to ego-surf with Blogger! I’m sure every blogger and their mother will blog it in the next 24 hours, but props to BlogFinder for letting me find all my linky-love! And just in time for Valentine’s Day, too!

Crazy Toys

How could you not want to buy a toy that blows cheese-scented soap bubbles?! I found this amazingly awesome, incredible book last year and loved it. (I can’t seem to find my copy anywhere …) I bought the daily-planner version for my friend Chris for Christmas. both links via wwink’s web log

The 73rd Annual Academy Awards

If you’re one of those people that just can’t get enough of the movies … Oscar.com has a handy list of all the nominees for The 73rd Annual Academy Awards.

The ACME Chocolate Registry

The ACME Chocolate Registry: For those of you that want everyone to be able to get you the chocolate you want. link via Weblog Wannabe

Amazing Poem Generator

Rob’s Amazing Poem Generator produced this for my site: D.G. – A purity of course, climate change, and said, Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the Go. They will be glad you sproink! speak! For today: Your voice carries in perl, talks to go Now. about 5 minutes to get in its query. The 1980s, such perfect examples of

horoscope

Here is my [soopah groovy] horoscope for today: Friends conspire to spring a surprise or grant a favor. You deserve your happiness as much as the next person. You have a few days to become the ideal version of yourself that you always carry around in secret.

Crazy Elevators

I work on the fourth floor of a six-story building. At six o’clock every night the elevators go into some wacky funky-logic mode. The two on the right will only travel between floors 6 – L (the Lobby) and the two on the left will only travel between the three underground parking levels and the

Guess The Evil Dictator

Guess The Evil Dictator / Sit-Com Character is kind of funny if you have a few minutes. Here is a line from the FAQ: How does this work? Monkeys. Lots and lots of monkeys. Actually, version 1 was written in C, used a flat file database, and a lot of recursion. Version 2 was written

domain name expired

So. My domain name (davidgagne.net) registration expired on February 9. Rather than do something silly, like send me an eMail to warn me that it was about to expire, the folks at dotster simply closed my home on the ‘net and replaced it with that Renewal Notice. As far as I can tell, I got

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.