Posts about “work”

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

assuming

Many people visit this site, I’m assuming, and never even realize that by clicking on the menu bar above they can find out even more useless information about me. Did you know that I used to run Track for a bit in high school? That I used to row Crew for the University of Florida?

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.

Serendipity Surfing

Good Christmas! I can’t believe I’m serendipity-surfing at 7:30 am. But just check out “I Shoot With My Mind” … … must … shower … shave … go … to … work …

Work v. Play

I told my boss that I would either spend the day downloading mp3s instead of coding or he could just hand over his stack of 30 CDs full of ’em. Heh. He’s pretty cool actually. So all the CDs are alphabetized and I put in the L, figuring that any good man has some Led

Home Shopping Network Direct

My office at Home Shopping Network Direct used to be occupied by the person in charge of deciding what got on the air. There are a hunka buncha file folders next to my computer. The things that didn’t make it. When my mind wanders … when I’m thinking of non-computer-related stuff (which is once every

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.