Posts from July 2014

Throwback Thursday

For a long time — a year and a half? — I had a webcam uploading an image to this website every minute of every hour of every day. It was a pretty ridiculous thing a bunch of early bloggers did. I have thousands and thousands of these 160×120 snapshots of those days floating around

You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Homer Simpson

Throwback Thursday

Happy birthday (tomorrow) to my awesome little brother, Mike. It seems like he joined the Coast Guard yesterday!

“Cold beer is bottled God.”
Dylan Thomas

It’s been 15,000 days since I was born. It is a meaningless number, but I felt like I should mention it.

I wish my mom was around to celebrate this milestone. She’d undoubtedly think it was really cool.

Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday

A photo of me at my favorite restaurant in Hawaii

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Mickey Spillane

I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights Announcement, June 11, 1963

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.