Posts tagged “rants”

What is the appropriate way to deal with the sunk cost fallacy after being on hold with the IRS for 90+ minutes?

Don’t trust anyone who makes the middle of the word experiment rhyme with spear.

Selling Christmas wrapping paper that is impervious to standard scotch tape should be considered a war crime.

If your phone system is smart enough to let me know my hold time is likely to exceed one hour, it should be smart enough to let me leave my number to call me back. Also, you’re severely understaffed.

I don’t know if I can handle another sideways flat-screen mirror-embedded exercise device commercial.

I cannot fathom why so many of Publix Greenwise organic products are paradoxically packaged in single-use non-biodegradable plastic.

The Venn diagram of people who eat organic and people who hate plastics is just a circle!

Two Months with an iPhone 6

In which I detail all the problems I’ve had with the iPhone 6

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.