Posts tagged “birthdays”

Cool Mystery Gift

When I got home from work last night, there was a mysterious package waiting for me. I wasn’t expecting anything and the return address was nothing I recognized. Inside was a small silver and black box and a note saying that it was a late birthday present from my friend Bob. Bob is an arms

How to Make Great Coffee with a French Press

Last year while visiting David Snyder, my business partner and a man who positively oozes class, I enjoyed for the first time a cup of coffee made with a French press. It was just about the best cup of coffee I’d ever had. I remember when I was in high school my father went through

The Bats Are Coming

The Bats Are Coming

It’s when you can’t hear the bats, that’s when the bats are coming. That is what is printed on the front of the birthday card I received from my brother-in-law. On the inside it says, “Other than that, I have no birthday advice.”

Only Old Men Wear Colored Socks

Black cashmere socks are a sort of gateway drug into other colored socks.

Blog Anniversary

By the time you read this post, I will have been blogging (more or less) continuously on davidgagne.net for 3300 days. I somehow managed to miss my nine year anniversary two weeks ago, so I thought I should say something about my 3300th day.

Happy Anniversary

Awesome. “This blog has been online for 8 years, 5 months, and 26 days. I have now been blogging here for 3100 days.” I almost never notice when my footer notes a milestone. That’s pretty cool — 3100 even.

Don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time to get something in time for my 35th birthday next week. If you’re wondering what to get a guy who has everything, you should take a look at my 13-page Amazon wishlist

I just noticed that a few days ago was the eighth anniversary of this blog. It seems like only yesterday …

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.