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Hotel Mirror
Hotels are the only place I’ve ever come across these magic-seeming mirrors. It’s an amenity less common than a mini-fridge, but more common than a trousers-press.
View ArticleWest Block Time Lapse
Public Works and Procurement Canada has a really interesting YouTube channel that has only 398 subscribers. Because it’s the federal agency in charge of renovations, it produces cool timelapse videos...
View ArticleThe Confessional Style of Public Consultation
From today’s Citizens Alliance newsletter, a sage comment about the current PEI public consultation on sustainable transportation:Just noting that this is not true public consultation: Once again,...
View ArticleLawnmowers + Kijiji
Over the last 18 years we’ve purchased two gasoline lawnmowers that, for reasons of poor (no) maintenance and initial flimsiness, stopped working.This summer I purchased an battery-powered lawnmower...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Three years after we moved into our house at 100 Prince Street we got an ominous letter from a firm handling the “prophylactic bankruptcy” of W.R. Grace, a U.S. company that made vermiculite...
View ArticlePete's Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide
Chili Infused Raw Honey from Forty Six° North in Murray Harbour. Available at Riverview Country Market (if there’s a business that deserves the 46° in its name, it’s this one: the latitude line runs...
View ArticleSchool Food Student Think Tanks
Watching these videos of “School Food Think Tanks” held this fall made me so happy:East Wiltshire School Food Think TankKinkora School Food Think TankMontague Regional High School Food Think...
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The 12 Tips of Christmas
Like last year, I invite you to join me in a small intervention into the service economy that I call The 12 Tips of Christmas.The idea is simple: every time you leave a tip in a restaurant or coffee...
View ArticleEuan Semple Drives Trucks
I first encountered Euan Semple when he spoke at Reboot 11 in 2009, and I’ve been a reader of his blog, off and on, for the years since.Recently I noticed that he’s been referring to a sideline as a...
View ArticleHow Charlottetown Clears Our Snow
It snowed yesterday, quite a lot. School was closed, and then it was closed again today given the condition of rural roads. I stuck my phone on the front screen door this morning as the snowblower and...
View ArticleGreta Thunberg is Changing the World
Greta Thunberg is an autistic teenager from Sweden. She is changing the world with her clear-eyed talk about climate change (watch her TEDx talk or her speech at the COP24 last week).Autism | Greta...
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Bibimbap in Charlottetown
Of all the foods of the world that have come to be regularly available in Charlottetown in the last 25 years, among my favourites is bibimbap, a Korean rice dish available at Mr. Sushi, at Seoul Food...
View ArticlePeter Bevan-Baker on Priorities
PEI Green Party leader Peter Bevan-Baker on the importance of priorities:Politics is how we make collective decisions, and it touches on every aspect of our shared lives. Part of the art of politics, I...
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文喫
In 2013, on our last night in Tokyo, Oliver and I went out for conveyor-belt-sushi to Pintokona in the Roppongi district.After supper we wandered up the street to the Aoyama Book Center Roppongi, where...
View ArticleThe Tale of Mice and Cats
If you’re a new friend of the blog you may have missed this fascinating tool of cats and mice, related to Matthew Rainnie on CBC Mainstreet on September 22, 2000 (9 days before Oliver was born!).I have...
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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...
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Finial Day
Today was the day for the installation of the new finial, crafted by Kelly Caseley, above the door to St. Paul’s Anglican Church. The new finial is a bang-on reproduction of the original; Kelly did...
View ArticleThe Shortest Train
By far and away my favourite YouTube find of the year was All the Stations, a project of the entertainingly nerdy and passionate couple Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall wherein they undertake to visit...
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Son and Father in Repose
Ton kindly sent me some photos from our visit to their house in Amersfoort this summer, and this one is my favourite. If memory serves, we were listening to Frank talk about the IndieWeb (Oliver was...
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Making a Dumb Humidifier Smarter
I spent Sunday working out the details of this epic Node-RED flow, designed to turn my dumb (but effective) Venta Airwasher humidifier into a smart (and even more effective) humidifier.The basics of...
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