Posts from January 2001

Page Blocking

I find it incredibly amusing that my company’s proxy server prohibits me from visiting swoon.com, an astrology site, but has no problem letting me browse All About My Vagina.

Game Theory

The bonus question @ sylloge.com is: “Does anyone know if there are an infinite number of chess games? If not, what the limit is?” The answers are “no” and “I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head, but I suspect it’s a great big number”. This is a topic tackled in Prisoner’s Dilemma

Complete Idiot Guides

Now they’ve just gone too far. (“Hey look, if we can explain Windows, how complicated can Judaism be?”) These are actual titles! The Complete Idiot’s Guide to: Understanding Judaism Understanding Catholicism Improving Your IQ the Life of Christ Being Psychic Wicca and Witchcraft Pro Wrestling the Vietnam War Sex on the Net Extraterrestrial Intelligence link

Page2

The ESPN.com – Page2 Fearless Forecast for College Football in 2001 predicts that the strangest sight of the season will be seeing Florida play Miami in the Rose Bowl for the national title. That’s good to hear, because Page 2 also predicts that New York will come from 14 games back to steal the AL

Wall-Mounted Singing Fish

Are you enthralled and amazed by the wonder that is the wall-mounted singing fish?! I know I was … until I discovered that it’s not really an actual singing fish. It’s a hoax! It’s motorized! It’s simply a toy! [Update: eGads! Not only is it a toy, but the kids at MIT have figured out

Resolutions

I’m 27. I know I’m a week late (or so), but I plan on making some resolutions for 2001. Soon. Yes. I’ll post them here. Hold your horses.

Lyrics

Foo Fighter Lyrics

Assorted Links

In which he again lists some good web links

The First Annual Weblog Awards

In which I am nominated for a bloggie

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.