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Christmas Recycling, Compost & Waste
From yesterday’s Citizens’ Alliance News, a helpful guide to sorting waste streams at Christmas.By volume our Christmas morning wrapping was about 65% compostable, 30% waste and 5% reusable. We can do...
View ArticleThe Joy of Unintended Fun
In this post about SimCity for the NES:The original version of SimCity was written by Will Wright for the Commodore 64 as a follow-up to his first game, 1984’s Raid on Bungeling Bay, a helicopter...
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Christmas Morning
Sometimes Google Photos comes up with the most interesting things, all on its own. Here’s an animated GIF it made for me yesterday: Catherine is looking through the jars of the “studio snack station” I...
View ArticlePermanent Partner
I had a nice chat with my friend Stephen and his mother Carol last night on the telephone. Carol was talking about her 6 children, and how 4 of them have “permanent partners,” which was her way of...
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A6
Catherine generously gave me a copy of Making Books, from the London Centre for Book Arts, for Christmas. Many handmade books are sure to follow.I love that they have a project called A6 that accepts...
View ArticleWhat am I doing /now?
Inspired by Patrick Rhone (who, in turn, was inspired by Derek Sivers), I have created a /now page. As outlined here, this is a that fills a gap that exists amidst blogging, social media et al:No. If I...
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CRA 503.0 (or "why can't I file T4 slips over the holidays?!")
Every year, like clockwork, between Christmas and New Year’s Day, as work is quieter than normal and the financial year-end approaches, I think “I should get a jump of end of year payroll, and file T4...
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Quality Service from Khoaw Pon
Khoaw Pon Authentic Thai on Great George Street has become one of my regular lunch stops: the food is well-made and well-spiced, the staff are friendly, they serve cold water in a tall ice-free glass,...
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Making a Notebook for my Bag
I like to have a notebook in my bag to jot notes on, and often I want to tear those notes out and hand them to someone, so today I made a prototype of a “removable notes” notebook:When I write...
View ArticleHow to thread a needle
If you can overlook that it’s on a site called “The Art of Manliness,” this guide to threading a needle got me threading needles 100% of the time (up from approximately 0% of the time previously).How...
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New Year's Eve in Belfast
We came out to our friends Ila, Sosi, Paul and Lori’s Belfast compound for the afternoon. The main event was an failed attempt to light the burn pile; a disappointing conflagration, but a nice photo of...
View ArticleOpen Data from Presto Card Usage
An interesting post from Jarek Piórkowski about the open data available for Presto card users about their transit usage (Presto is the contactless transit fare scheme used in the greater Toronto area...
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A Book a Day
My friend Elmine made a new video every day in December and posted each to her YouTube channel.Spurred on by her disciplined example, and with the helpful guidance of Making Books, I’ve been trying to...
View ArticleSt. Paul's at 250
st_paul_s_at_250_1.mp3St. Paul’s Anglican Church commemorated the beginning of its 250th year by ringing its bells 250 times at midnight tonight.
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An Abbreviated Year for Levees
January 1, 2019 saw Prince Edward Island receive a 20 cm dumping of snow and, later in the day, an increase in the wind; as a result, many of the scheduled New Year’s Levees were cancelled, especially...
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The Best Resolutions are the Ones Started in October
At the end of October I purchased a lovely Baron Fighardbound dot grid notebook and, eager to take both it and some new fountain pen ink out for a ride, I put it beside my bed and set out to write a...
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Perforated Notes
Following on from my late-2018 prototype, I’ve taken the book of “perforated notes” forward to the next level.Yesterday afternoon I set and printed some covers (Perforated Notes in Tourist Gothic 36...
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FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!
In the late 1980s Canasta scene in Peterborough, Ontario of which I was an active member, it was tradition to believe that it was required to say “partner, may I please go out,” when ready to do so....
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Lord Leighton's Short Peerage
From William Denton I followed a link to this recording of a Royal Academy talk by David Cannadine on Churchill and art. In the introduction to the talk, Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal...
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Tryon River Bridge
It was warmer than it’s been all week today, which made for a nice 90 minutes of sketching beside the Tryon River while Oliver was in Crapaud with Jennifer Brown.Tryon | Bridge | Sketching | Photos
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