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The 3D Printed Fountain Pen Works!
Earlier in the month I printed myself a fountain pen on my 3D printer. Without a nib assembly–the only part I couldn’t print myself–I wasn’t able to actually use the pen, however. This changed today...
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Flash Freeze Warning
There is a “flash freeze” warning in place for Prince Edward Island today, something that this temperature chart, from Dark Sky, shows the backstory of very well:When I woke up this morning it was...
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Victoria Range Light Sketch
Last week I learned there’s such a thing as a “grey marker”–I don’t know why this came as a surprise to me–and so I purchased one from The Bookmark, and tried it out over the weekend with this sketch...
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Nervous Dog Waits
Oliver’s at the dentist for the first time in a long while—yes, we are bad parents who simply forgot to book an appointment—and this is his first appointment in the dental chair by himself.So Ethan and...
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Perforated Notes: Behind the Music
Today I finished binding the last of the 23 notebooks I’ve been printing, folding, perforating and binding all month long; on the penultimate notebook I stopped to take photos of each step of the...
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Libby Osgood in El Paso
Libby Osgood writes from El Paso where she’s supporting those just released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement:That’s not what shocked me. The nurse agreed we needed the papers also asked if they...
View ArticleBerlin's Yellow
This season I’m deeply invested in two television shows Counterpart and Berlin Station.That they are both set in Berlin, and that they both feature the actor James Cromwell, to say nothing that...
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Wayward Crows
There’s a bug in Charlottetown’s crow population that’s caused hundreds of birds to congregate in our back yard. It’s very weird.
View ArticleJacqueline Mabey on Meditation
Jacqueline Mabeymakes a case for meditation in a most eloquent and convincing fashion. I would quote from it, but it demands to be read as a whole.Meditation | Art
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Our Oil Consumption, 2014-2018
In 2014 I posted about our energy consumption at 100 Prince Street: that year we used 3,710 litres of home heating oil.I asked Kenmac Energy for a statement of the three years we’ve been a customer (we...
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Scanning Found Slides using the Robertson Library Slide Scanner
Robertson Library at the University of PEI has a Jumbl slide scanner available, for in-library use, at the service desk. It doesn’t look like much–it’s smaller than a bread box–but it turns out to be a...
View ArticleMore /now
A month into my /now experiment, I’ve updated my /now, editing to reflect what’s actually happening and, inspired by Belle B. Cooper (whose Exist.io I’ve started to use, inspired by Jeremy Cherfas),...
View ArticleRed Clay Roads and Internet Wires
Seven years ago I posted the text of a talk I gave 25 years ago in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Adventures on the Information Red Clay Road: Getting Wired Cheap. I was able to do this because my friend...
View ArticleRob Delaney on Grief
Rob Delaney, who co-writes and co-stars in the British TV show Catastrophe, is a very funny man. But as funny as he is, he is even better at truth-telling, which is what he does in this interview with...
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Tryon River Trail
My Saturday afternoon activity yesterday in Greater Crapaud was seeking out the Tryon River Trail, a trail maintained by the Tryon & Area Historical Society that runs through the woods and along...
View ArticleRachel Nabors' Golden Rule
Rachel Nabors, writing in You literally cannot pay me to speak without a Code of Conduct, includes a principle I’ve been trying to adopt myself of late:I have a principle that drives my every decision...
View ArticleThe Social Model of Disability
The Social Model of Disability is a new term for me:The social model of disability is a way of viewing the world, developed by disabled people.The model says that people are disabled by barriers in...
View ArticleThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: Smart Car Video Edition
In August of 2006 we made a quick 24 hour trip to Halifax for a medical appointment; Oliver and I took a spare hour and test drove a Smart Car. I recorded the “video podcast” we made in the car on my...
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Oliver's 10 years of Blogging
Oliver reviews the last 10 years to mark a decade of his blog.I can’t wait to see what the next 10 years hold for him.Oliver | Blogging
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