Posts from June 2001

purity

I just took The Brunching Shuttlecocks’ Ten-Question Purity Test. Here’s what it told me: Thou hast scored only 30% pure. Thou suckest in the eyes of thy Lord. Repent now or be cast into the lake of fire to whine for all eternity. So I guess that’s kind of rough.

AOLiza

You simply must visit AOLiza. I was in tears. You can read all about it at the site, but basically here’s the story: A guy took one of the original artificial intelligence programs (ELIZA) and connected it to an AOL instant messenger account. The account sits on line and people attempt to chat with it

San Fran

Here’s a great photo of the view from Jason’s balcony in San Francisco.

Handle with Care

Handle with Care – Traveling Wilburys

Car Flamethrower

Crime-obsessed South Africans have a powerful new weapon with which to stop likely criminals: the car flamethrower.

Determined Chimp

If the space program teaches us anything about electroshock conditioning, it’s that a strong mind can get past it. Enos, a 39-pound chimpanzee, was trained with the technique to run through the routine he’d need to complete the first primate orbiting of the Earth. During months of training, if he pulled a switch or lever

Bus Stop Heads

Police in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal found 86 human skulls at a bus stand after complaints of a stench coming from an unclaimed bag.

Oh! Canada!

Nearly one Canadian in two expects Canada to be part of a North American union within 10 years, a new opinion poll finds, while one in four believe the country will be absorbed by the United States within 20 years.

Add It Up

Add It Up – Violent Femmes

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.