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Part of Crapaud is not in Crapaud
Given the atypical amount of time that I spend in Crapaud (for a non-resident), I have a particular interest in its geography–see Why is Crapaud Round? and the follow-up Did Crapaud incorporate “in...
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Fixing Crapaud in OpenStreetMap
Being immersed in Crapaud’s roundness, I decided it was finally time to do something about how grossly inaccurate Crapaud’s representation in OpenStreetMap was: somehow, when boundary was imported as...
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Postcard from Montreal
The greatest thing about mailing things to my young nephew is that he mails me back.Mail | Montreal | Family
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Using QGIS to find the Smallest Civic Address Community on Prince Edward Island
The Province of PEI has a Civic Address Communities data layer in its GIS Data Layers offering. Civic Address Communities are used solely as the basis for civic addressing: they aren’t real...
View ArticleCrapaud Log, Supplementary
If you’ve been following along with my documentation of Crapaud and its roundness, might want to visit the updated Did Crapaud incorporate “in order to purchase a short piece of fire hose?” (Or, How...
View Article"In Berlin, you can be whatever you want..."
From David Noel’s Friday’s Five newsletter, a pointer to a video love letter to Berlin by Bob Mould.We spent most of August 2011 living in Berlin; the way I’ve long-described that amount of time was...
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Supertrain
I viscerally remember the 1979 NBC show Supertrain: more so than any TV show or movie I’d seen before, it showed a tantalizing vision of the future that I could get behind. A train with a swimming...
View ArticleGood Mail Day! Workshop
Jennifer Brown (you’ll remember her from the Japanese Bookbinding Course and its sequel, as well as from her role as Oliver’s artistic spirit guide) is holding a workshop on Saturday, March 23, 2019...
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Greetings from Victoria
At the last Pen Night our newest member, Ian Scott, generously gave each of us a blank postcard of heavy Japanese paper, remnants of his crafts tour to Japan, and invited us to experiment.Sitting in my...
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Open Your Mouth Very Wide
I read somewhere—perhaps it was “5 Tips to Instantly Up Your Instagram Game” or some such—that, when taking photos of people, you should ask them to open their mouths as wide as possible.Interestingly,...
View ArticleThe Cannon at Queen & Grafton
Perhaps, like me, you’ve wondered why there is a cannon embedded in the sidewalk at the corner of Queen & Grafton in downtown Charlottetown. In Never fired in anger: the shore defences of Charlotte...
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Vertigo
I don’t think I managed to capture the essence of what vertigo feels like in this sketch, but I like it anyway.I’ve been surfing along the edges of a kind of “background vertigo-like sense” for the...
View ArticleHow to Play Charades
I thought I knew how to play charades, but watching this 1962 appearance of The Dick Van Dyke Show cast on the Stump the Stars game show, it turns out I don’t know the half of it.Charades | Television
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Cancellation Vertigo
Sometimes when I make an appointment for something I’m told that there’s no availability, but I’m offered the option of going on a list “in case there are any cancellations.”I’ve always treated this...
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MMP Killed my Sheep and It's Coming for Yours
The first of the publicly-funded mixed-member proportional representation referendum advertising hit PEI mailboxes today, from the No side.MMP… Confusing, Complicated and Dangerous screams the...
View ArticleNewhart
Bob Newhart was 53 years old when Newhart premiered in 1982. I turn 53 next month.I noticed this coincidence because, watching the pilot tonight, I thought there was something strangely familiar about...
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"One-page work of fiction"
I received my copy of Robin Sloan’s Treasured Subscribers, today in the post.The “detailed description of contents” on the USPS customs form reads “One-page work of fiction.”Which is exactly what it...
View ArticleMonster
This cover of Dodie’s Monster by Pomplamoose ft. Dodie is brilliant.Pomplamoose is on fire these days and Pomplamoose ft. X, more often than not, results in a version of X that’s better than X...
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March for Climate Justice
When is a “student strike” not a strike? When the school’s morning announcements invite students to participate.Climate Change | Protest | Colonel Gray High School
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The Bookmark[let]
Over the quarter century we’ve lived in Charlottetown, I’ve never particularly thought of The Bookmark, our local independent bookstore, as a place to order books. For some inexplicable reason I...
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