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.
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.
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.
As I understand it, you only risk an amoeba brain infection during lake swims. How about these?:
1) Amazonian Candiru fish and his pee-swimming abilities
2) Getting raped by gorillas at the zoo
3) Eating orzo pasta only to discover it was mostly fly larvae
4) Hard drive malfunction…in bed
5) Attending a Poison concert and NOT knowing the lyrics to every song they’ve ever sung, including Bret’s solo stuff (i love you bret!)
… that I’ll grow a melon tree in my tummy if I eat the seeds.