davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

Horse

One of my favorite parts of Raiders of the Lost Ark is when Indy says, “I gotta see a man about a horse.”

New Blog

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

Frustrated

<frustrated> C, I know exactly how you feel. I don’t want to jump on the blogger-bashing bandwagon, but it’s getting a bit ridiculous. I think it would be easier for me to cope if they posted system status somewhere (presumably on a different set of servers!) so I at least knew someone was aware of

Furious George

I swore I wouldn’t link to Furious George because I’ve already seen it linked everywhere else in Bloggerville. But when I went there and got this message: “The monkey releases a horde of killer bees into the ventilation system of a crowded office building in Providence, Rhode Island,” I knew I had to tell everyone

RTI

I am in the IT Dept. at RTI. Duh. The IT Dept, Facilities, and the HR Dept had lunch together today. HR was thanking us for helping move into their new building. We had one of those team-building sessions after we ate. Everyone wrote a one-word, complimentary description of everyone else on a yellow sticky-note

Manifesto

I’ll take Things That Are Really Funny for $1000, Alex! (Note: only *really* funny if you are employed …) link via BLEAT!

WinAMP

Speaking of WinAMP … I decided to post my mp3 collection. WinAMP has a nifty function you can use to dump your playlist into an HTML file. This is by no means a very good sampling of my favorite music, but it is what I am stuck with at work. The list in the sidebar

WinAMP at work

On WinAMP at work: yeah let’s just see how jealous she’ll get when I start stalkin’ Alanis Morissettewell my baby’s in love with Eddie Veddershe’s all crazy ’bout that Eddie Vedder (I can’t help it. I love Weird Al …)

Kids

These two kids must think I’m ancient. June 26, 1973

Crow

I’ve been swimming in a sea of anarchyI’ve been living on coffee and nicotineI’ve been wondering if all the things I’ve seenwere ever real, were ever really happeningevery day is a faded signevery day is a winding road

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.