How to defeat websites that block your ability to paste in Firefox
You know those super-annoying websites–yes, Aeroplan, I’m talking about you–that hijack your ability to paste values into password?In Firefox, at least, you can defeat this hijacking, for all sites,...
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Using Aeroplan Miles to Pay Tuition
I was in the midst of looking for options for paying Oliver’s tuition at the University of PEI for next semester when I came across a reference to HigherEdPoints.com, which allows you to redeem...
View ArticleFloating Buildings
I’m a sucker for a good floating building story.Foxley RiverThelma Phillips
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The oldest traffic light in Charlottetown?
You may remember this humble pedestrian signal, at the corner of Prince and Kent in downtown Charlottetown, from my post 11 years ago wherein I complained that the “DONT WALK” light was burned out. It...
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"Shifting sands: Capturing climactic and cultural change through art"
My friend and collaborator Brenda Whiteway is delivering the November Island Studies Lecture at the University of PEI on November 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge in Main Building:The...
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The First Snow of 2019
As in 2017, I’m late to put away the garden hose. But I got a better jump of everything else, including Oliver’s bicycle, which I moved inside yesterday, just in time. The snow has mostly melted now,...
View ArticleLe mieux est l'ennemi du bien
My friend Elmine, in her post Leer weer langzaam denken, passes on a piece of advice from Frank:Belangrijk nog om te melden is de tip die ik van Frank kreeg: ook met vijftien minuten per dag kom je...
View ArticleDave Atkinson Groks Pen Night
pen_night_atkinson.mp3My friend Dave does a regular segment on CBC’s Island Morning called The Things We Do For Love, wherein he interviews people about their esoteric passions.Tuesday morning Dave...
View ArticleDriver's Licenses Don't Want to Be Free
In the middle of the April provincial general election campaign here on Prince Edward Island I was having a chat with a friend: he related the story of the incumbent Liberal MLA coming to his door to...
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High water in Venice today was 144 cm
When we opened the door to our apartment in the Cannaregio district of Venice on December 3, 2010, here’s the scene we were greeted with:Historic water level data from Venice shows that at 8:00 a.m....
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Marking up blog posts with carbon emissions data
On Monday my friend Ton posted a brief update on his blog:Arrived in Brussels for Edgeryders SF authors and economists meetup. Looking forward to it.Like a lot of blogging, this post concerned travel:...
View ArticleCold Island
If you set aside your “exactly how is it that this millennial couple have their own helicopter?!” feelings, this series of videos covering their trip from Buffalo to Newfoundland is breathtaking.
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Icy Purple Phlox
The weather has turned over the last week from “late autumn” to “early winter,” and with the turn came the first snow and ice. This was the scene that Oliver and I were greeted with on our way out the...
View ArticleLife in the Aftermist
The salvation of any Island family with needle-averse children in recent years has been the “flu mist,” an alternate form of the yearly influenza vaccine that gets squirted into the nose rather than...
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Options for Watching the Legislative Assembly Stream
The official wrapper for the live video stream from the Legislative Assembly of PEI is here.But you have options:There’s a standalone page here (it’s what gets embedded in the page above).There’s a...
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Norm Rukavina, 1937-2019
In the spring of 1980, the year I turned 14, Greyhound Lines, a bus company in the United States, ran a “Thank You Canada” special to mark our country’s role in the Canadian Caper that had seen U.S....
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APARTMENTS
Oliver and I were out for a walk yesterday in downtown Burlington, a brief bit of exercise between breakfast pizza and a family donut run, when I spotted this interesting typography on the side of 1355...
View ArticleLet there be light
Walking downstairs into my parents’ basement involved navigating a dark patch before you could get to the light switch for the basement lights, so my father installed a battery-powered motion-detecting...
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RoxAnn
Toward the end of his career as a nearshore sedimentologist, one of the tools my father spent a lot of time working with was RoxAnn, which a paper of his describes like this:RoxAnn is an acoustic...
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Extending the Cycling Season
Oliver and I arrived home last night on the Maritime Bus around supper time to find the larder in need of replenishing, so my first task on this bright fall day was to head to Riverview Country Market...
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