Posts from June 2001

Mt. Everest

A man who successfully climbed Mount Everest last month left a Red Sox cap at the summit and burned a Yankees cap at base camp in the hopes of removing the ‘curse of the bambino’.

GPS Fun!

A man in Connecticut rented a car and was shocked to discover a $450 charge for speeding on his bill when he returned the vehicle. It seems the rental company has GPS devices in their cars so they can track what the driver might do. Now … in general I think this is a pretty

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out – John Lennon

everlong (acoustic)

everlong (acoustic) – Foo Fighters

Lady-Vi

The faq page at the site for Lady-Vi Cream has a wealth of information. Answers to questions like, “What is an Orgasm?” and tutorials, such as “How A Woman Achieves Orgasm” could make the whole “birds and the bees” conversation obsolete! I’d like to explode their web site. I visited the site for The Nobel

Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash

Roo Pouch

This web site that sells gifts made from kangaroo scrotum proves that you really can find everything on the ‘net.

Gurdjieff and Marcus Aurelius

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” – Gurdjieff (1873-1949) “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that

Feng Shui

I’d like to tell you how cool fengshui.com is. But I can’t. Because instead of a useful resource on Feng Shui or anything worth visiting, there’s nothing at the site except some mindless doodles. How. Annoying. You’re much better served by a visit to Lillian Too if you want to learn about Feng Shui.

Eddie

Eddie

On eddies in the space-time continuum

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.