You Could NOT Care Less January 26th, 2010 @ 6:51 am PST
I can’t stand when people say, “I could care less.” “I could care less,” is one of those little things that drives me absolutely batshit crazy. If you could care less, it means you care. That’s not what you mean when you say that, is it? What you mean is that you don’t care. Someone […]
Dangerous Mistakes January 11th, 2010 @ 8:00 am PST
I was blessed — or cursed, I suppose, depending on your point of view — to have my first “real” programming job in the medical field. I wrote software which managed the processing of human tissue (knees, fascia lata, femurs, etc.) for implantation into human patients. I was very young and very stupid at the […]
Pontiac G5 Rental Car August 18th, 2009 @ 8:16 am PDT
Poor UX/UI
#FridayFive: Bally’s Encino April 10th, 2009 @ 9:19 am PDT
Read the Friday Five …
Rescue Me on DirecTV FXHD April 7th, 2009 @ 9:06 pm PDT
C’mon, C’mon
Elevator Warning March 26th, 2009 @ 9:48 am PDT
Both elevators in my office include this notice: SHOULD THE ELEVATOR DOORS FAIL TO OPEN DO NOT BECOME ALARMED. THERE IS LITTLE DANGER OF RUNNING OUT OF AIR OR OF THIS ELEVATOR DROPPING UNCONTROLLABLY. PLEASE USE BUTTON MARKED “ALARM” OR TELEPHONE (IF FURNISHED) TO SUMMON AID. Here are a few of the issues I have […]
Cotner and Santa Monica January 21st, 2009 @ 9:44 am PST
In keeping with Obama’s new “Era of Responsibility”, I’m going to start a new recurring feature here at davidgagne.net. I was thinking of naming it “Assholes Who Refuse to Pay Attention to Traffic Signs”, but I think instead I’ll just go with the name of the intersection. Since I am forced to take the same […]
J.Crew Follies December 17th, 2008 @ 8:10 am PST
I am astounded by how bad the J.Crew website is. The .jsp filenames indicate that the site is Java. It is tragically slow and the senseless implementation of AJAX makes it near impossible to use. It’s almost 2009! How can there be so many horrible shopping cart systems on the ‘net? And for such a […]
Sexual Harassment Training November 21st, 2008 @ 7:08 am PST
Alexander McPherson, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UC Irvine’s school of biological sciences, wrote a bitchin’ letter to the LA Times on the subject of sexual harassment training. This is a must-read for anyone that has a brain. As far as I can tell from my colleagues, it is worthless, a childish […]
McCain? Obama? Who Cares? October 21st, 2008 @ 11:28 am PDT
Lifehacker has a great list of tips to help maximize your influence in the election. The most important one is the last one, and it’s the one I’ve been trying to explain to people for months. McCain is not going to do anything about speeding on my street and Obama is not going to cut […]
