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Green Shoots
When I planted our Karla Bernard campaign sign in the front garden 10 days ago, it was still decidedly winter-like on PEI.This morning, the morning after the election where Karla won her seat, the...
View ArticleDennis King Can Take the Bus to Work
Conservative Leader (and possible Premier) Dennis King was quoted in The Guardian this morning on the carbon tax:“We understand the premise, that if you put a price on carbon, it is to encourage people...
View Article"Like Greta Thunberg, I am on the autism spectrum. She gives me hope."
In a piece in this morning’s Guardian, Charlie Hancock writes, in part, about what a meltdown is like:This is what it’s like. To be autistic is to live in a world where everything is too loud, too...
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The Weight of the Decades
Here’s how the final mark will be calculated for Oliver’s high school course History and Styles of Popular Music.High School | Oliver | Music
View ArticleME!
The video for Taylor Swift’s ME! is a stunning visual tour de force that demands watching and rewatching. The effort expended on small details that are on screen for only a second or two is...
View ArticleOut of Office Messages
From an October profile of Gavin Newsom in The New Yorker:Newsom gazed up into the building’s marble dome. Did he get smaller, or did the problems get bigger? You enter politics to change lives, and...
View ArticleVictory at Pancake Ridge
If you Google “pancake recipe,” the first search result, for the past couple of months at least, is this one from Allrecipes.The flour-milk-egg ratio of that recipe produces batter with the consistency...
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Moto G7 Play
My Nextbit Robin phone gave up the ghost this spring: as an orphaned product, it hadn’t received software updates for several years and, perhaps because of this, as well due its aging battery, it...
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Shredded Scroll Nib
One of the nice things about Pen Night is that it is, by its very nature, self-documenting: as pens get passed around, inks tried out, tips shared, my notebook fills up with a cacophony of penliness:We...
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Oliver at the Podium
This afternoon Oliver and I went to a volunteer social at Green Party HQ. There was pizza and sushi and punch and lots of talk about the election campaign and its results and what comes next.Midway...
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How to turn off Notifications Prompts in Firefox
The ability of websites to send push notifications has extremely limited practical utility. I’m fine with getting notification from the website that lets me send and receive text messages from my...
View ArticleShow me the email addresses in this file that aren't in this other file...
I have two text files, each containing a list of email addresses.The first file, invited.txt, has 82 email address of people who responded positively to my initial call for interest in the Crafting {:}...
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Eating Fountain Pens, Cancelling Amazon Prime
I’ve been faithfully keeping a diary since October 27, 2018. It has become one of my most successful new habits. I write a brief summary of my day every night before bed, and the next morning, as I...
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Gender Representation in PEI Party Caucuses, 1993 to 2019
I’ve lived on Prince Edward Island for 26 years and elections have been part of my experience since the beginning: the fateful 1993 election, where Catherine Callbeck’s Liberals won all but one seat,...
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TWSBI GO Fountain Pen
My favourite new fountain pen this year is the TWSBI GO that I purchased at Oblation Papers & Press in Portland, Oregon in March:The GO is an inexpensive pen–it cost me less than $20–with a...
View Article"And driving 45 minutes home just to update the games really isn't an option..."
A lovely story about planning for edge cases by Anne Gibson; in part:Internet in homes is pretty ubiquitous, especially among those who can afforda Nintendo Switch or a Playstation 4 in the first...
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"The Most Stunning Passport Photo You'll Ever Have"
For many months now I’ve been passing a sandwich board on Queen Street, just up from The Guild, advertising “The Most Stunning Passport Photo You’ll Ever Have,” for $13.91. I was intrigued both by the...
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STREET CLOSED
It is May Day, and thus the start of the tourist season in Charlottetown, part of which involves turning Victoria Row back into a pedestrian-only thoroughfare.After many years of using bollards, the...
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QR Codes Have Jumped the Shark
On page 73 of the 2019 East Coast Music Awards program there’s a half page advertisement for the PEI Liquor Control Commission:You will note that a QR Code figures prominently in the design of the ad;...
View Article"Another WestJet YYG to Calgary"
Two Weeks, from The East Pointers, is one of those songs that instantly and naturally finds its place in the canon, filling a void we didn’t know existed.It also happens to include what I believe to be...
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