Posts tagged “Florida”

Submerging Vehicle

How to Survive Due to increased public interest, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles offers an instructional video for motorists on how to survive a submerging vehicle. You will need RealPlayer Video to view.

Watch for Tarpon!

Surfing in New Smyrna can be dangerous.

New Words

The Pseudodictionary is full of words (and phrases) that aren’t really words but should be. In the early 80s we used to call these sniglets, a term coined by, I think, Rich Hall of HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. I first found the Psuedodictionary several months ago when there were only a handful of words

3 … 2 … 1

The space shuttle Endeavour launched this afternoon. I was lucky enough to live in Daytona Beach, FL when I was a kid so I was able to see this many, many times … My mom took us to Cape Canaveral to see one of the very first launches. Incredible. Awe-inspiring. Loud.

Less Than Jake

I saw Less Than Jake last night at The Hollywood Palace. Amazing concert. I love those guys. One of the songs from their new album is called Gainesville Rock City. (The CD case has a spinner-dial on the back that tells you the mileage between numerous cities and Gainesville, Florida. Very cool.) The encore began

Kathleen Gagne

If you live in the Gainesville / Ocala Florida COX Cable market you have a chance to see my mom on television. She’s in the currently-airing COX Happy Holidays commercial, sitting at her desk and waving at the camera. Wave to her and tell her how much you love being a COX Cable subscriber. Hi,

weather in Los Angeles and Florida

<understatement>One of the little differences between California and Florida is the weather.</understatement> Today we are under a “Severe Wind” warning. What the heck does that mean? In Florida we were always under “Thunderstorm” warnings or “Tornado” warnings” or “Torrential Freakin’ Downpour” warnings. I don’t really know what to do to prepare for “Severe Wind”. I

Underwear

About 200 years ago I used to work at a place called InterLink Paging in Gainesville, FL with a woman named Anita. I worked there for years. During the holiday season, Anita would always talk to me about a song called Walking ‘Round in Women’s Underwear sung to the tune of Walking in a Winter

Gator Links

Gator Links

The Florida Team Report from CBS For the first time in nearly a decade, both No. 8 Florida and No. 13 Georgia come into “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” with every reason to believe they can win a title with a victory Saturday. This is a game that has earned something of a mythical

Gainesville Is Tops

Gainesville Is Tops

Your experience inside the place, where Florida has lost only four times in 11 seasons, may not be the best. But look at a game experience as the whole package.

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.