Posts tagged “California”

CA DMV

CA DMV

Unnecessary fees are obnoxious.

Weather

It rained in Los Angeles today. Rain? <Princess Bride>Inconceivable!</Princess Bride> An inch of rain in Los Angeles will cause flooding. I grew up in Daytona Beach and spent the 90s in Gainesville, Fl. Rain was not unusual. In Daytona it rained like clockwork from 3 to 4 pm pretty much every day for eight or

Trip

I finally managed to finish all my Christmas cards last night. It figures that I would run out of stamps with three left – mom, dad, and Nana Rainy’s. People should start getting my Christmas cards around the first week of January, so that’s always pleasant. And of course I haven’t mailed any gifts yet.

Earthquake

So what’s shakin’ in your neck of the woods? Apparently the San Andreas decided to wait exactly one year to welcome me to California.

San Fran

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

I was shocked and amazed to find that the California Department Of Motor Vehicles actually has a great web site. It’s informative and helpful and easy to navigate. Inconceivable!

Megnut mentioned one of those ‘net services a few days ago. The mylackey.com and askjeeves.com sites are nifty, to be sure, but I just found a place that is even more useful. While I was in San Diego this weekend Chris showed me Food.Com and I was astounded. What a wonderful web site! You enter your address and the site tells you which restaurants will deliver food to you. You can see the entire menu and pay by credit card. It’s like amazon.com for dinner! It is totally rocking cool. I’m very excited about it.
[Oh, and if everyone else in the world already knows about this place, shame on you for not telling me about it sooner!]

San Fransisco

San Fransisco is cool. I promise I’ll be back soon. Go Gators! Take a sad song and make it better.

Jason Chilton in California

Jason finally made it to California. Read his synopsis of the journey. It’s quite interesting.

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.