Posts from April 2000

World’s Largest Tetris Game

Another crazy link from Jason: I am amazed that the world’s largest fully-functional Tetris game is in Rhode Island. On the trip from Jacksonville to Los Angeles I scored 508348 points with 420 lines at level 30 on my Gameboy Tetris … not that that makes me cool or anything …

Patent to Keep Your Head Alive after Your Body Dies

Jason sent me this link this morning and I am thrilled. Just when I thought that there was little to no chance of keeping my head alive after my body dies, someone goes out and patents a technique to keep it going!

Los Angeles Haiku

In the spirit of yellow, I offer you a ‘Back in Florida’ haiku: jetlagged, hungoverwish I was still in LAthe sun is bright here

Vacation Part 2

Now here’s when the vacation really started. I got up at 6:30 am and finished packing my stuff. Drank some coffee. Read the paper. I was showered, dressed to fly, refreshed, and on I-75 North to I-10 East by 8:30 am. Ack! What an unbearably boring drive. Hung over. Anticipating burning wreckage. The stewardesses were

Vacation

Officially this was the first day of my vacation. I was at work all day, so I don’t know if you can consider it a vacation day; but I had that peculiar sort of flick it attitude that one gets the day before one leaves for a vacation. It was about the best day at

Red Sox

I will have to tell Axodys that it is never stylish to mock the Red Sox.

Hey! I didn’t even notice that packetmonkeys.net has a sidebar link to me!

links

Okay … yes I mercilessly am blogging something from www.packetmonkeys.net twice in a row. The previous one was terrible, but maybe it was because it was a non-monkey-themed page. I guess if he sticks to chimps he’s okay. (This is one of the funniest sites I’ve seen in weeks.)

Ryan

Ryan blogged this and for the life of me I can’t figure out why. This thing has a dialect that sounds more like bad Chinese than ‘robot-speak’. Oh well … he’s new.

Heineken

Okay: What freak-o brought Heineken to the party Saturday night? There’s one sitting in the bottom of the fridge …

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.