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Social Distancing Pop-in
Oliver and I went out to enjoy the afternoon sun; we walked by our friend Catherine Hennessey’s house and enjoyed a socially-distant pop-in. She benefits from having a veranda custom-tailored for this...
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Handpies!
Our friend Frances volunteered to deliver a box of handpies from The Handpie Company to our vestibule, as she was driving out to Albany to pick up her own.And so, on our return from our walk, we were...
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The Most Complicated Text Ever
themachine.mp3On Thursday morning I was immersed in a video conference, with the personable Josh MacFadyen, when I got a text message:As Oliver was across the street, at home, and “five machine” sounds...
View ArticleThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: World Under Quarantine Edition
recording-20200322-144602.mp3Recorded eight days ago (8 months in quarantine years) on the Charlottetown waterfront at the end of a drive in the countryside on a sunny Sunday.Coronavirus | The Peter...
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Professor Pete's Philosophy 1010
Oliver has been auditing Philosophy 1010 (Introduction to Philosophy) at the University of Prince Edward Island this semester. When the university closed for COVID-19, classes paused for a week and...
View ArticleHow To Be Champion Storytime
Sarah Millican reads a little bit of her book How To Be Champion every day.Champion the adjective.Brilliant.Sarah MillicanCoronavirusVideo
View ArticleImprov Dessert Waffles
Given the current perils of grocery shopping, every leftover becomes all the more precious. Indeed, never have I been more aware of what is, and what is not, in the fridge and the pantry.This has led...
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There Will Be Better Days
Tomorrow, by Miner.A song for the times.There will be better days.MinerMusic
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TRY TRY TRY TRY
For five glorious Tuesdays in the summer of 2011 I walked from our apartment on Graefestrasse and walked through Kreuzberg to Druckwerkstatt where I would design, set, and print something.I would...
View Article#Vanlifers in the Pandemic
For more than a year I’ve been caught up in the day-to-day drama of a bunch of loosely-affiliated YouTube couples driving their customized camper vans through Central and South America. Given the...
View ArticleKerri Wynne MacLeod Asks Questions
Which journalist is asking the most useful questions during the daily public health briefing from Dr. Heather Morrison?Hands down it’s Kerri Wynne MacLeod from Ocean 100, a radio station I was...
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Free Will
The best way to understand something is to try to explain it to someone else.PhilosophyFree WillDeterminism
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"While practicing this technique at home, don't hit your housemates in the...
Eli Lynn teaches us about slapping and sightlines as part of Theatre Horizon’s Horizon at Home service.Teachers suddenly and involuntarily dropped into the abyss of “e-learning,” consider this a...
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Elmine writes about how consumption habits are changing as we shelter in place.
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Personal Surveillance in the Time of the Plague
Two ways that I’m using surveillance to manage the changed reality.First, I’ve been having Google surveil me for many years via Google Location History, wherein I give the Google Maps app on my phone...
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When is Sobeys busy?
If you Google your local grocery store–Sobeys, in my case–one of the things that Google Maps will show you is when the store is typically busy on any given day, and how busy it is right now. Useful...
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100 Drachmas
In my pants pocket this morning I found a Greek 100 drachma bill.I have never been to Greece.Greece has not used the drachma since 2002.I suspect sleepwalking involving time travel.GreeceCurrencyTime...
View ArticleTen Days Later
I ventured off-world today to grocery shop for the first time in ten days, proud of my ability to feed myself and Oliver, with little food waste and optimal leftover usage, for as long as I did.Since I...
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