Posts tagged “books”

Contentville

The previous post got me thinking about all the continuing hullabaloo about content. Continuing? Yeah. Continuing as in, the same thing people were debating 300 years ago. I took entire classes in college about content and what it is and where it originates and why it’s good or bad. What I learned was that nobody

Good Books to Read

I finally got around to updating my list of books to read before you die. See if you have been through some of the same ones as me. Let me know. I’m interested. But do me one favor? Read Lempriere’s Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk as soon as you can.

Dr. Twitchell

So yesterday, while I was reading this, I ate an entire bag of microwave popcorn. No, I’m not a slow reader, you dork. I am an extremely fast popcorn-eater. I in-freakin’-hale the stuff. I love popcorn. Then when we went to see X-Men I consumed a Large bag during the previews. So by like nine

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

Phenomenon

From Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, by Edward Tenner (p.11, 1996, Vintage Books) When innovation opens a new space, there is at first a euphoria of endless horizons. Somehow, though, a new frontier is never stable. Either people lose interest and it becomes a series of literal or metaphoric

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silver

Fellow bloggerville resident Silver doesn’t want you to know it, but she is very trendy. The second person today who needs to pick up a copy of AdCult by James Twitchell.

colors

I‘m getting kind of tired of the blue. Blue blue blue … and Firda thinks I have an obsession with little dots. I guess there’s really too many ..::.:::.. all over the page. This can only mean one thing. I think redesign is the new paradigm. In other news … (damn dots!) … Best Sentence

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.