Posts from 2014

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
Alfred Hitchcock

Another Anniversary

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

Sometimes you don’t know if you’re Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy

You eventually learn that true priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.
Merlin Mann

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

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.