Posts tagged “family”

Birthday

Happy 50th Birthday, Dad!

Helium Joke

Every now and then my mom – because she loves me like silly – sends me newspaper clippings from the comics section. I just got a particularly funny one from Frank and Ernest. Two microbes are reading the latest issue of BioWeek magazine and one says to the other, “There’s a cover story on helium.”

Intellivision Video Game Console

For about a year and a half … somewhere between the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo, between grade school and high school … there was Intellivision. My mom bought Jenny (my little sister) and I an Atari 2600 the second Christmas they were available. We lived in Holly Hill, FL – the closest thing to

One More Minute

I’d rather have my blood sucked out by leeches Shove an ice pick under a toenail or two I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station … with my tongue … When we were (much, much) younger, my little sister and I used to thrill and delight our gathered relatives by singing our

Halloween

Halloween

Some thoughts on the upcoming holiday

Mike

BOSTON (CNN) — The Boston Harbor was shut down Sunday for about three hours after the U.S. Coast Guard received two bomb threats. After a sweep of the area, Coast Guard officials found no sign of anything suspicious and reopened most of the harbor. My little brother is in the Coast Guard (see here). My

New England

So did anyone miss me last week? I have the feeling that nobody even noticed I wasn’t here. It’s okay. As much as I kid, it’s a feeling I know well. Whatever. While I was gone – and my week away from the keyboard was probably the longest I’ve gone without posting anything in almost

games

I got to play Scrabble with my mom at games.com tonight. She’s been telling me about it for a few weeks now and for one reason or another I just haven’t had the chance to play. I finally managed to steal an hour or so and had a great time. She beat the *#%(@ out

Fuji MX-2900

Dad tells me that he just snagged one of these at a church auction for $275. Nice. I can’t wait to see some photos. My dad’s a great photographer and I’m excited because I think with him being digital now I’ll get to post more of his stuff here. I’m positively drooling over the Elph,

GagaCards

I just learned that most of the photographs at Ocean State Adventures were taken by my dad! Way to go, dad!

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.