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CD Player List

In the CD player right now: Less Than Jake, Hello Rockview Foo Fighters, There Is Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication soundtrack, Go

ADSL Hell

I was just in the middle of reading about TheBrad’s journey through ADSL Hell when the thunder began a-rollin’. Hard core thunder. Thunder such that you would be hard-pressed to determine if what you were hearing was thunder or someone trying to recreate the running of the bulls at Pamplona in your attic. Thunder so

Sometimes… it’s just awesome to be living. And that’s enough.

Firda hair and goatee

Firda thinks I should do my hair and goatee like this. I guess it would certainly be different, but I don’t know if I’m willing to invest that much in hair gel.

Toy Yoda

Toy Yoda

The best line in this article about a toy Yoda is, “Yoda and his ten-inch light saber will certainly appeal to younger kids.” There’s also a photograph of what appears to be a tremendously huge Yoda somewhere in New York.

I guess I really should say something about the fact that last night it rained the most and the hardest and the craziest and the lightningest that is has here in at least two years. It was an amazing downpour. It was biblical. Did I mention that the block of condos behind mine – like 20 feet behind mine – was struck by a wayward bolt from the clouds, burst into flames, and burned like a volcano for several hours?

Today at lunch Ryan said, “I am Jack’s uneaten pizza.”

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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.