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We Unpaved Paradise and Tore Down a Parking Lot
While we’re talking about infrastructural evolution, here’s something I stumbled across the other day.Here’s a 2010 aerial view of the Coles Building, current seat of the Legislative Assembly of...
View ArticleFree Driver’s Licenses No More?
Good on Hon. Brad Trivers for speaking the truth about the truly inane move to use carbon tax revenue to make driver’s licenses free-of-charge enacted by the previous government.While it would be an...
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The Direct Route to Crapaud
As a kind of beta test of a possible cycle ride from Charlottetown to South Melville, we drove the route in our car this afternoon as our way of getting from town to Crapaud for Oliver’s weekly art...
View ArticleWhat the Spotify Takeout Contains
Remember how I found that Spotify requires up to 30 days to provide me with a copy of my personal data? It turns out they turned it around in 6 days. Still longer than makes any sense at all, but,...
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Act Quickly (Framed)
In addition to being a talented visual artist, Stephen B. MacInnis is also a talented framer-of-things, and when he casually mentioned to me, in a conversation at the Farmers’ Market, that he picks up...
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Live Charlottetown Bus Map
Something that might have escaped your attention is that, in addition to having a mobile app, T3 Transit also provides real-time bus location information on the web.Here, for example, is a screen shot...
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New Drinking Water Fountains in Charlottetown
The City of Charlottetown has recently installed drinking water fountains in Orlebar Park, Connaught Square and at the Dog Fun Park. The fountains are striking, and have novel water-bottle filling and...
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Energy from Waste
I took a cycle out Riverside Drive and into the Hillsborough Hospital grounds and back tonight.On the return journey I stopped to make a sketch of the Energy from Waste Plant; while I was sitting...
View ArticleUsing my Desktop USB Keyboard with my Android Phone
There’s this standard, which seems mostly ignored by mostly everyone, called USB On-The-Go, that allows mobile phones and tablets to connect to USB peripherals like flash drives, keyboards and mice.It...
View ArticlePete vs. The Dishwasher
The dishwasher wasn’t draining.I methodically (read: in a random, chaotic, increasingly raging fashion) tracked the clog to a tiny piece of plastic that had found its way into the drain near the sink.I...
View ArticleFossil Fuels are Unethical
On July 11, 2019 there was an exchange between the Hon. Peter Bevan-Baker and Hon. Darlene Compton in the Legislative Assembly surrounding a question by Bevan-Baker about government investment from...
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How many electric vehicles are there on Prince Edward Island?
In the April 2019 provincial general election, all four of the political parties on Prince Edward Island had planks in their platforms related to electric vehicles.The PC Party pledged to “develop a...
View ArticleLast Minute Notices
I expect that the cadence of the reading of this blog does not lend itself to last minute notices of things, but just in case:It’s Pen Night tonight and I’m hosting at my print shop in St. Paul’s...
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The Summer of '69
My family spent the summer of 1969, as we did most summers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, “in the field” with my father. His work as a nearshore sedimentologist, with a particular interest the...
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Bolstering my Bolstr Bag
In January 2018 I replaced my venerable Marimekko Cash & Carry Shoulder Bag with a Bolstr EDC bag.The Bolstr has much to recommend it, and I happily carried it on my shoulder for over a year.Until...
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Painting Graham Norton
I quite enjoyed this television program about the painting of a portrait of Graham Norton. Both subject and painter are interesting people and Norton especially is so much more textured than his...
View ArticlePublic Transit Chain Reaction
Oliver and I have settled into a comfortable pattern of taking the bus home from Stars for Life every weekday afternoon: I catch the 3:45 p.m. bus up, and we catch the 4:30 p.m. bus back.The Route № 2...
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Martin Scorcese's Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees
The latest season of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee includes an episode featuring Martin Short.In addition to learning that Short is friends with Carol Pope, I was reminded of the...
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