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Hardware Sucks

Heh. Cool. I’m a computer programmer. I am not a hardware guy. I am using a server as a development machine. The hardware guy just gave me a sound card and a screwdriver. Let’s see if I can do this … <Dr. Nick>Good night, Everybody!</Dr. Nick>

Being Honorable Sucks

I don’t like being honorable. Not. one. bit.

The Most Judicious Use of the Word Belgium in a Foreign Film

I feel like such an ass. I made a horrible, horrible mistake in #blogIRC last night. I said the wrong thing. If you were logging it, you can go back and read it. I knew it was wrong when I typed it. I couldn’t think of what I wanted to say though. It really, really

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URLDroppings

URLDroppings: Firda has redesigned again and I am completely amazed at how wonderful the new wannabe site looks. It is beautiful! Nik helped her, and for that I will correct the fact that I’ve had him listed in my Prolific-style combo-box as Fairvue Ventral for weeks now. Plus he’s got a great page. Jason sent

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Being Me

Sometimes it is very difficult to be me.

“you’re the best friend a guy could have and i would trust you with my life. (but not with my daughter)”
received via email

I need some help.

There are two songs that I’ve known and loved for my entire life. Well. A long time, anyway. They are not my two favorite songs or anything like that. Simply two wonderfully beautiful songs. I think one or the other should be my b l i n g theme song. No, I’m not going to make them midi files and force you to listen to them. Gak. I hate when people do that. I can’t decide which one is better though. So here they both are. You tell me which one you like better.

2008-05-27: There were two mp3s linked here. I have since forgotten what those songs were.

I have… at this moment… an inexplicable… and completely uncharacteristic… craving… for some Chips Ahoy cookies.

Christmas in July

There are something like 3000 employees at the Home Shopping Network HQ. This is where I am working now. Apparently there is a strange thing that only I have noticed happening here. I am finding it increasingly difficult as the day progresses to not grab someone by the lapels (or blouse) and scream, “Why the

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simulblogulation

More Vocabulary with Dan: simulblogulation (si·mull·blog·u·lay·shun) n. the new (and pointless) act of identical content being posted to several weblogs simultaneous. I’m sure the authors believed themselves to be funny, but simulblogulation is simply stupid. like that wasn’t gonna happen!

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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.