Posts from 2000

Song of the Moment

Back by Popular Demand I’ve finally updated the Song of the Moment page. This should make some people happy. The millions of you who didn’t notice will probably persist in not caring. I’m fine with that. Really.

The Face of Love

The Face of Love – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder

futility.com

Chris went to futility.com and jumped through some other little hoops and now has a pretty good chance of being a contestant on Win Ben Stein’s Money! How cool is that?!

Memepool Contest

I should warn all that I am going to enter the Memepool Contest.

Support Counter Intelligence

“Support Counter Intelligence” – seen on a tip jar in a coffee shop near UCLA

Helping Hands Monkeys

Monkeys Abound: Helping Hands is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for quadriplegic individuals by training capuchin monkeys to assist them with daily activities. There was, coincidentally, a capuchin monkey at the party I attended Saturday night. Cookie Monster and a llama were there as well, but there was nothing coincidental

What Badgers Eat

I missed The Simpsons last night so I don’t really understand the story behind What Badgers Eat.com. I’m sure it was amusing though.

Blowing up balloons for health

Blowing up balloons has made me healthier! I used to have chronic bronchitis – wake up coughing my head off every morning like I had smoked 3 packs of cigarettes (I have never smoked!!). When I started blowing up balloons that went away. My doctor decided it was because I was blowing up balloons. I

Bernard Berenson

“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born US art critic I share my birthday with him.

Fixed Earth

The belief that the Earth is rotating on an “axis” and orbiting the sun is The Granddaddy of All Deceptions in the World Today!

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.