Posts tagged “work”

American Girl by Tom Petty

American Girl by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers is, hands down, the best driving-to-work song ever.

My Resume

Just in time for the Fall Sweeps! Now you can marvel at the wonder that is my work experience!

Heaven & Hot Rods

The guys from Burdine’s just delivered the couch and took away the chair. Doug, the thorough home inspector, will be here in a few hours to make sure the contractors fixed everything they were supposed to fix. I am going to take the digital cable box to Time-Warner, see if I can find a cell

Dealing with Irrational People

Once again, Jason is scouring the ‘net to find me valuable information. This primer on Dealing With Irrational People could be very useful …

Walking Blues

I have to walk in front of the CEO’s office on my way to my office at HSND. This morning she said she didn’t know who I was because I was wearing my Red Sox hat. “I don’t recognize you unless I see that shiny blonde hair!” I laughed and took off my hat so

coding

From the Things That Are Not As Easy As They Sound Department: in-line unzipping of PGP-encrypted files with a .dll From the Valuable Resources for This Sort of Thing Department: vbAccelerator Okay, I really just wanted you to see what the heck it is I’m doing right now. In case, y’know, you were interested. Which

Kinves, Spoons, and Forks

Okay now that’s odd. I mean, you can tell that the knives are knives and not spoons or forks.

Christmas in July

There is something mildly disturbing about the fact that this is still happening. It’s not as disturbing as the very obviously female 300 lb person with a goatee and ponytail I saw smoking a cigarette and eating a twinkee in a wheelchair on the median while driving home from work, but that only happened once.

Wondering about Plastic Forks

Have you ever been searching the office coffee area for a plastic spoon, found an unmarked box full of plastic utensils, thought to yourself, “I just know they’re all gonna be forks,” looked and found that they are all, in fact, forks, and then wondered if that had ever possibly happened to anyone else? Man.

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.