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Magic Eyeglass Defogulant
I have mused in frustration several times over recent years, usually around this time of year, about my eyeglasses fogging up when I come in from the cold. This is usually met by either stony silence...
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The Waning Conversation
Back at the dawn of the century, when the web was a new frontier and we were making it all up as we went along, a lot of what was written about in the nascent weblogs of the day (did we even call them...
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The Waning Conversation
Back at the dawn of the century, when the web was a new frontier and we were making it all up as we went along, a lot of what was written about in the nascent weblogs of the day (did we even call them...
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Marimekko Cash & Carry Shoulder Bag Review
For several years I’ve been casually looking for a bag to carry all my everyday stuff. If I was a woman this would be called a “purse,” but I’m not yet confident enough in my sexuality to call it...
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Marimekko Cash & Carry Shoulder Bag Review
For several years I’ve been casually looking for a bag to carry all my everyday stuff. If I was a woman this would be called a “purse,” but I’m not yet confident enough in my sexuality to call it...
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SoundCloud does HTML5 Audio
Nice to see that SoundCloud has upgrade to include the ability to embed an HTML5 widget, instead of a Flash one. Here’s an audio snippet I grabbed last night at the beginning of The National; it’s an...
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SoundCloud does HTML5 Audio
Nice to see that SoundCloud has upgrade to include the ability to embed an HTML5 widget, instead of a Flash one. Here’s an audio snippet I grabbed last night at the beginning of The National; it’s an...
View Articleпітер Рукавіна
My Cousin Sergey has been here on Prince Edward Island for a month now, and while he’s been learning English, I’ve been learning a lot about Ukraine, and the Ukrainian branches of my family tree....
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My Cousin Sergey has been here on Prince Edward Island for a month now, and while he’s been learning English, I’ve been learning a lot about Ukraine, and the Ukrainian branches of my family tree....
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The Catherine and Oliver Bag
It’s only fair, after I lavished so much praise on my Marimekko Cash & Carry bag, that I give credit to the bag that started it all for me, one designed and manufactured for me by Catherine and...
View ArticleWe are spirits in the material world
I’m happy to report that after more than a month of searching, I’ve found a space to house my newly-acquired Golding Jobber letterpress, in the basement of The Guild, two blocks from my house and two...
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More Pachube
Pachube, the “plumbing system for the Internet of Things,” has widened the range of services it offers at no charge. This means, among other things, that a much longer data trail is now available from...
View Article“Social networks exist to sell you crap”
The Social Graph is Neither, an essay by Maciej Ceglowski on the Pinboard Blog lays out eloquently many of the thoughts about current Internet trends that I’ve intuitively felt for a long time but have...
View ArticleA Call from my Meter Reader
On my way out the door this morning Catherine handed me a business card from our electric meter reader; he’d knocked on the door of our house yesterday looking for information about the Blueline Power...
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The Letterpress Came to Town
You may recall that when we last spoke my Golding Jobber letterpress had made it from Tryon to Clyde River — half way along its journey to town. It’s taken me almost a month to get it the rest of the...
View ArticleCatherine's Got My Back
Remember how I told you that my letterpress has found a home in the basement of The Guild? Well Catherine reminded me this morning that soon after arriving in Prince Edward Island back in the early...
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Letterpress Assembled (Mostly)
On Saturday night I arrived at The Guild with a full kit: toolbox, varsol, paper towels, rags, and a giant sledge hammer (purchased from Rogers Hardware on the day they closed for good many years ago)....
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Potato Acreage Calculator
I didn’t notice until a couple of days ago that the counter that’s bolted to the top of my new letterpress is, in fact, a Potato Acreage Calculator made in Fort Kent, Maine by the Morin’s company. Add...
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Missing Letterpress Part: Somewhere on Rte. 1 between Tryon and Charlottetown?
It seems that an important part of my Golding Jobber letterpress is missing. As it was on the press when we started moving it, it’s likely, because it wasn’t firmly bolted on, that it went missing...
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