The Solar Energy Stars are Aligned
On a Monday afternoon in May 1998, Keith Milligan, Leader of the Official Opposition on Prince Edward Island, was playing golf at the Mill River Golf Course, up west.The Guardian picks up the story...
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Secret Design Bunker
My friends at Nine Yards Studio have been skunkworking away for months now, inside a sonically-isolated design shop floating inside the courtyard of their headquarters on Fitzroy Street, on a project...
View ArticlePride Pride
The first Pride Parade happened in Charlottetown in 1994, the summer after we arrived on Prince Edward Island. It was a shameful event, not for the parade itself, but for the insults and objects hurled...
View ArticleEast Pointers + Wiggles
A lovely new video from The East Pointers, featuring Emma Watkins, aka Emma Wiggle.And, in the other direction, The Wiggles ft. Tim Chaisson of The East Pointers.Let us never forget that Steven Garrity...
View ArticleMark Leggott, Climate Hero
My friend Mark lives out in Pownal, about 15 km east of Charlottetown.On Thursday he was at home and needed to get to town to rendezvous with his wife Trina, and with us, for a trip out to Oyster Bed...
View ArticlePlanes, Trains, and Automobiles
VIA Rail has a page that compares various aspects, including emissions, of the train vs. the car vs. the plane for some common central Canadian routes.The fine print is interesting:Train emissions...
View Articlewget a list of files
Pro tip: if you have a list of files that you need to retrieve from a webserver, you’re better off putting the list of URIs in a file, and then:wget -i list-of-files.txtthan you are crafting a shell...
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Folk Typography
There’s some pretty funky homebrew typography painted at the entrance to our driveway.
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The One Where I Use a Guardian Article to get a U.S. Passport
After many months of back and forth with the U.S. Department of State, my new U.S. passport arrived in the mail yesterday, c/o Canada:I hold a U.S. passport, as well as a Canadian one, by virtue of...
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Whole Nine Yards
A reminder that the Secret Design Bunker pop-up at Nine Yards on 63 Fitzroy Street runs today only from 12 noon until 8:00 p.m. I’ve just returned from a visit: it is the most wonderful thing. You...
View ArticleAnd I was stuck on Joy (that was her name)
I’ll be doing a dramatic reading of Kim Mitchell’s iconic Patio Lanterns tonight after 8:00 p.m. at The Haviland Club, as part of the launch of Island Fringe.Oliver put me up to it.Kim MitchellIsland...
View ArticleOliver, Blackbird, Liverpool
oliver-fringe-blackbird.mp3Oliver was dismayed to learn that the 2019 Island Fringe Festival wasn’t going to include any audience-participation activities in its launch event, as it had in previous...
View Article"I'm looking at reducing my footprint from transportation, can you connect me...
I am planning a trip to New Hampshire in September and I want to travel with the lowest carbon emissions possible.According to the our Climate Change Action Plan:Transportation accounts for almost half...
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The Local Food Trail, by Bicycle
Here’s a photo of Oliver on his bike riding to the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market yesterday along the Confederation Trail:You may see that photo and think “oh, riding to the market, what a nice idea.”I...
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Fields of Gold
The Experimental Farm, Charlottetown, from the Confederation TrailPhotosConfederation Trail
View ArticleThe Island Fringe Festival 2019
For the sixth year in a row, Reinvented is a corporate sponsor of The Island Fringe Festival, which, for my money, is about the best and most useful investment I make every year.Oliver and I have seen...
View ArticleReducing Emissions is Slow and Costly
The Province of Prince Edward Island announced a solar energy incentive program last week, one that will cover up to 40% of the cost of solar panel installation, to a maximum of $10,000, for farms,...
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Overflowing Groceries
I’ve been doing the weekly shop with my bicycle and the cannibalized cycle trailer of the Atkinson-Bateman children, with a giant plastic tub bungied to the top.Tonight’s grocery shop ended up being...
View Article"Grades Are Capitalism in Action"
In today’s email came a link to Grades Are Capitalism in Action. Let’s Get Them Out of Our Schools., an op-ed on Truthout, that concludes:Meritocracy redirects the blame for capitalism’s failures onto...
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