Posts tagged “death”

Got Sleep?

Sleep hogs beware. A new study suggests that individuals who sleep eight hours or more a night actually have an increased death rate compared to those who average fewer hours. Study subjects who slept seven hours a night had the best survival rates. Those sleeping eight hours a night were 12 percent more likely to

Tony Kornheiser

In which I make a mistake on national radio

Not So Happy Ending

The scene was jubilant — a dream come true for a loyal New England Patriots fan like Michael Downing. His beloved team had just capped an improbable comeback to defeat the Oakland Raiders in one of the most memorable playoff games in NFL history. Just seconds later, as his family cheered amid the bedlam at

DT

Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world’s most successful fast-food enterprises, died today of liver cancer. He was 69.

George Harrison

In Memory of George Harrison Two of my all-time favorites: Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps – The Beatles

George

George Harrison just died. That sucks.

Finding Patterns in Hemingway and Camus

Finding Patterns in Hemingway and Camus

An essay on A Farewell to Arms by Robert D. Lane and Steven M. Lane

India

I’m going to guess that the gunmen in India who shot a 10 year-old-boy and left a note warning the government not to support the US in any retaliatory action against the Taliban didn’t read The Dalai Lama’s letter to the President of the United States of America.

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.