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Le Eyké Sous Le Akbé Orchpé in Asketbé
In Rukavina family written history, perhaps the preeminent distillation of my grandmother Nettie came in a note she left for my father (her son) one day, taped to the back window of her house in...
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3 Al Purdys, from Bruce Cockburn’s 2017 album Bone On Bone, has been running through my head since I first heard it last week.It may have inspired in me a newfound love for poetry, especially the...
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The Government That Swallowed a Pond (Using Open Data and GIS to Inform...
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Annual Meeting of Engineers PEI today in Charlottetown, with a talk I called The Government That Swallowed a Pond (Using Open Data and GIS to Inform Policy and...
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"A Special Note from Norm's Son"
When my father retired from his position as a research scientist at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, he took on the task of editing and distributing a monthly newsletter to his fellow retirees. By...
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Cellar Door Software
When I was 16 years old, my father and I started a company together called Cellar Door Software.We got the name from the CBC: one day we were listening to the radio in the car and heard a segment where...
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Father and Son
I took this photo of me and and Oliver last week on the train home from Ontario. Its accidental fogginess proved an accurate reflection of how we were feeling at the time.OliverPhotosVIA RailTravel
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I Heart Cycling
In one last mad attempt to prove my love, I rode my bicycle to City Cinema tonight, thinking that somehow all reports of the incompatibility of snow, ice, salt, and sand with cycling were exaggerated....
View ArticleOpenStreetMap Edits to Internet Archive Donation
The Android OpenStreetMap-based app OsmAnd has an intriguing scheme whereby you can register your OpenStreetMap account and a Bitcoin address and then receive regular monthly deposits of Bitcoin based...
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Mike sold us his Soul
Remember how we test drove a 2016 Kia Soul EV from Mike Kenny at Pure EV a month ago?Well, in what may well be the longest test-drive-to-purchase period ever, today we took possession of the selfsame...
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The government paid me $23.00 to register my car...
I took the new Kia Soul EV to Access PEI to register it and I left with a new plate sticker, a new registration slip, and $23.00.This is because registration for electric vehicles is free, and I’d...
View ArticleTherefore be it resolved...
One of the lovely things about participating in a grassroots movement like the PEI Home and School Federation is the pride one can take for seeing the collective will of parents, guardians, teachers,...
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Goings On About Blog
The overlap between what I write here and the regular everyday world is, most of the time, unidirectional: I write, you read. Other than Oliver and my mother (and mother-in-law) I’m never 100% sure...
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The (Kind of) Return of the Wednesday Charlottetown Farmers' Market
A group of enterprising Charlottetown Farmers’ Market vendors have followed Brett Bunston’s better-utilize-the-resource effort and are opening for take-out lunch on Wednesdays.Regular market-goers know...
View ArticleThe Great Under the Protection of the Small
Prince Edward Island’s motto, since 1769, has been Parva sub ingenti, Latin for “the small under the protection of the great.” Former Premier J. Walter Jones described the origin of the motto, in a...
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Pete vs. Tiny Piece of Plastic (or How I Channeled my Father and Fixed the...
I came home from a late nite work session around 11:00 p.m. and went to empty the dishwasher before going to bed, as is my habit.Except the dishwasher hadn’t drained, and no amount of pushing “drain”...
View ArticleCarl Phillis
Our friend and neighbour Carl Phillis has died.I couldn’t tell you how I came to know Carl: I just kind of woke up one day and he was ever-present in my life; we would often find ourselves walking...
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Twilight in Charlottetown
A late afternoon, late fall walk to buy a battery for my car’s key fob before heading into Central Queens for an evening event. The sun seemed to be complaining about being forced to set at such an...
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Our First Long Distance Trip in the Kia Soul EV
We had a holiday party to go to in Victoria last night, presenting us with the first opportunity to, at least relatively speaking, engage in long distance travel in our Kia Soul EV: Victoria is 39 km...
View ArticleСлуга народу
In case you missed it, season one of Слуга народу (Servant of the People) is available on Netflix in Canada. It’s a sitcom starring Volodymyr Zelensky, who plays a humble school teacher who...
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