Free Driver's Licenses
I likely don’t understand the whole picture here, but it seems odd to make driver’s licenses free as part of a climate change policy designed to get us to a carbon neutral economy,Climate Change
View ArticleAll is Calm
Patrick Rhone’s family has an excellent plan for Christmas Day:My wife and I have settled on the following idea; about mid morning we’ll start up the fire, light some nice smelling candles, lounge...
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The Road to 2020
When you drive an oldish car like ours, a 2000 Volkswagen Jetta, the yearly requirement to have a vehicle inspection done is never something greeted with enthusiasm, as the prospect of “this is the...
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2019 Charlottetown Levee Schedule
This is the 2019 levee schedule for New Years Day, January 1, 2019 for Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island.This is the 14th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information. If you’re new to...
View ArticleGlass Onion
Oliver and I were listening to the new pressing of the Beatles’ White Album on Spotify last week:Me: What is a “glass onion” anyway?Oliver: It’s a glass onion.Me: But why have we never seen glass...
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Calfornia Typewriter: Playing this Sunday at City Cinema!
Coming up this Sunday, December 9 at 1:30 p.m. at City Cinema is a screening of California Typewriter that I’ve arranged.I have a soft spot in my heart for typewriters.I wrote all of my high school...
View ArticleListening to Autistic People
The Autism Coordination Act received Royal Assent in the Legislative Assembly today, just after 5:00 p.m. and is now law.This is the first time in a Prince Edward Island law or regulation that the word...
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Worlds Colliding
Twenty-five years ago, when Catherine and I moved to Prince Edward Island, our early experiences suggested that the Island was a magical place where almost every need could be met simply by asking...
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Province House Disappearing
The exoskeleton around Province House is finally getting its skin this week.Province House | Exoskeleton
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Outbreak of Joy
This morning’s project: this year’s Christmas card. More work to do for the reverse side, but I was happy with the way the JOY worked out.Joy | Letterpress | Golding Jobber | Christmas Card
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Automated Hansard Analysis: The Third Session of the Sixty-fifth General...
The Third Session of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly wrapped up on Wednesday after 14 sitting days and I’ve written some code to do some statistical analysis of how the session went.The code is rough...
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"Stewart says of this photo"
I appreciate the pains that CBC editors took to make it clear that the CBC itself wasn’t accusing Dave Stewart of looking dumb in a hat.
View Article"to improve energy security, we need to make the power grid less reliable"
Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security is a fascinating reexamination of what we mean by “energy security.”Because demand and supply influence each other, we come to a...
View ArticleCalifornia Typewriter Sales Report
This afternoon’s screening of California Typewriter went perfectly: we had a good mix of people, including friends of typewriter collector Martin Howard, who featured prominently in the film.Last month...
View ArticleI Reported a Bug and It Got Fixed
Seventeen days ago I reported a bug in the Bookmarks app for Nextcloud. Three days ago it got fixed, and today I installed the updated version.The bug I reported concerned the way that tags are entered...
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Human Rights Day
December 10 is Human Rights Day and the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations.I didn’t know this when I set and printed an index card with the first...
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Tidings of Comfort and...
I’ve a sneaking suspicion that the second “I” in “Tidings” was actually a lower case “L”.Letterpress | Christmas Card | Golding Jobber | Typography
View ArticleShirley McGinn
There are few truly selfless people in the world, but I’m pretty sure that Shirley McGinn, who died on Saturday at the age of 87, was one of them.I met Shirley for the first time when we both...
View Article"Hey, are you Dan's father?"
In the elevator at the hotel where we are staying for three days I kibbitz with the other passenger about elevator operators. “We’re old enough to remember those days,” they joke.This other passenger...
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"Music is just organized noise..."
A couple of weeks ago I got a signal from my friend Josh:I’m putting on a concert of ambient/drone/noise music here at the house on december 13 at 8:00. also featuring some other...
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