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Three Gagne Men

Walter Gagne – William Gagne – David Gagne Good night, Walter. I hardly knew you. I’m sorry.

#death #family #gagne #my life

#FridayFive: Irrational Fears

View the Friday Five from March 5th, 2010

#death #fridayfive #lists #psychology

Spenser: For Hire

Spenser: For Hire

On the death of my favorite author

#books #boston #crime #death #favorites #robert b. parker #spenser #writing

#FridayFive: Natural Causes

View the Friday Five from January 22nd, 2010

#comedy #death #fridayfive #health #lists #sharks

Brad Graham“My favorite animal at the Zoo is the lesser kudu. You have to admire an animal with a name like that, laboring as he must in the shadow of the greater kudu. It must be like having an older brother who excelled at sports and academics in school, to whom you have always been compared and found lacking. A few months ago, I was visiting the Zoo at lunch with a friend and discovered the area where the lesser kudu is ordinarily found was empty.

I hope he made a break for it. I hope he made his way out into the world, free of expectations, shedding labels, determined only to be the best damn kudu he could be.”

R.I.P. Brad Graham —1968 — 2010

  • General Stuff
    • Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates is fascinating.
    • If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
    • Top Ten Favorite Numbers
    • I guess if hanging out with beautiful women, on the beach, in Spain, drinking, on a Tuesday afternoon, while being ridiculously rich is your definition of “cool”, then… yeah, being Leonardo diCaprio is probably fun.
    • When you’re old, you have to have something to give you pleasure.
    • So what does all this mean if you’re ambidextrous?
    • I read Men’s Health and Sports Illustrated all the time. I never read Time or Newsweek. This is why.
    • I can’t see any special effects, but I find it hard to believe that this amazing waterslide jump real.
    • Coke vs. Pepsi: The truth about the logos.
    • About a decade ago I worked for a company that did “every-other-Friday-off” and I thought it was extraordinary.
  • Techie Stuff
    • The Smoking Gun catches a loser.
    • Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update. If you have a Mac, click the little Apple logo in the top left and choose “Software Update…” to update your system. (This means you, mom.)
    • To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.
    • PHP comes with a bunch of functions designed to help you manage URLs.
    • And speaking of URLs… Comcast will now send you to a crap spam page if you type an URL incorrectly.
  • Gator Stuff
    • Urban Meyer: This is it.
    • The University of Tennessee has some serious issues.
    • Welcome back, Riley!
    • College Football Preseason Top 25 Power Rankings: Cheerleader Edition

#aging #apple #coca-cola #dailydavid #death #domain names #google #mortality #numbers #sports illustrated #statistics #weblinks

Play This When I Die

My grandmother’s wake and funeral were — of course — very, very sad. I think one of the things that bothered me the most was the music at the wake. It was so … depressing. Now, my grandmother was 86 years old before she was killed by the incompetence of morons; she wasn’t exactly a

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#death #let it bleed #lists #music #my life #rolling stones

What could possibly go wrong?

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Sand Holes!

People naturally worry about splashier threats, such as shark attacks. However, the Marons’ research found there were 16 sand hole or tunnel deaths in the United States from 1990 to 2006 compared with 12 fatal shark attacks for the same period, according to University of Florida statistics. <link src=”Treblig“>

#death #florida

Indigo Manor: Assisted Living in Daytona Beach, Florida

Indigo Manor: Assisted Living in Daytona Beach, Florida

The assisted living facility that killed my grandmother

#albanese #crime #daytona beach #death #family #florida

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