“This nation was founded on the principle of being a merit society...”
In the ABC News Iowa Republican Presidential debate held last week candidate Mitt Romney was asked a question by moderator George Stephanopoulos: Governor Romney, Speaker Gingrich crystallized his...
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Readmill Highlights via RSS
Last week when Readmill launched to the public I jumped in with both feet, blogging about its general greatness and on some novel uses for it. Inevitably, after I started using the Readmill iPad eBook...
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Everything was going so well...
Tonight was my first night in the basement of The Guild taking the new Golding Jobber No. 8 letterpress for a ride, printing something actually useful (or, at least, something actual): it was printing...
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Dave’s Service Centre
When we last discussed my ailing Volkswagen Jetta you may recall that it was in the context of the $3,242.94 estimate to repair it from Brown’s Volkswagen. For additional guidance on this matter I...
View ArticleSocial Destratification FTW
In last week’s accidental destratification episode I found myself at a house party with the city’s hipster intelligentsia nervously clutching a glass of red wine while listening to Foster the People on...
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Christmas Cards in the Mail
After a lot of printing and labelling and stamping, 64 copies of the 2012 Christmas Card went out in the mail earlier this week. I used small poly bags as envelopes, sticking a white mailing label and...
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The Charlottetown Festival announced yesterday that it’s cutting the size of its orchestra from 19 to 13. My friend Dale eloquently dicusses all of this from the point of view of a musician in the pit,...
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We live in the future...
This photo of my mother and Sergey in my parents’ Ontario kitchen having a Skype video chat with Sergey’s wife Leisa in her apartment outside of Kiev in Ukraine could very well have been featured in an...
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Oliver’s Christmas Word Search
Oliver is quite resourceful when it comes to navigating the alleys of the Internet, and his creations are a constant source of surprise and delight. Here’s a word search he made for Christmas (you can...
View Article“None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.”
Senator Percy Downe posted the text of a 1990 New Year’s Eve address to the nation by the late Václav Havel; it’s a stirring speech, the heart of which, for me, is: The previous regime — armed with its...
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The Election of 1966
From Wayne MacKinnon’s book The Life of the Party: A History of the Liberal Party in Prince Edward Island: The 1966 Provincial election in Prince Edward Island remains perhaps as the most novel in...
View ArticleHoliday Netflix Picks
With network television on hiatus over the holidays, we turn to Netflix for our entertainment. Here’s what I’ve enjoyed so far: The Hour — A 1956 period drama set at the BBC. I’d describe it as “Mad...
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Lest Peter-of-the-future wonder “what happened to Peter over the Christmas week in 2011?”, here is a quick update. After flirting off-and-on with various rhinoviruses over the fall, which made for a...
View ArticleNabaztag Rabbit + PEI Energy
Back in the spring I did some work on extracting and reporting on the current “PEI Energy Interchange” figure: the amount of electricity that Prince Edward Island is pulling from (or pushing to) the...
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Full Moon Calendar, Activate
If you’re a Mail Me Something subscriber from the summer, you received a Vollmond Kalendar 2012 in the late summer. Vollmond is German for “Full Moon,” and the calendar kicks into relevance next week...
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1:08 of Mechanical Wonder
I was in the letterpress shop this afternoon printing up some note cards (New Year’s resolution: send more thank you notes!): While I was there I shot some video on my iPad of the Golding Jobber No. 8...
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Serial No. 1786
I my process of getting my Golding Jobber No. 8 letterpress up and running I’ve had a lot of help from Gota in Sweden who has the same press. She connected me with Stephen O. Saxe in White Plains, New...
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Moving Reinvented HQ
Our headquarters here at Reinvented Inc. has been at 84 Fitzroy Street for as long as I can recall: we started renting our two first-floor rooms from silverorange in the fall of 2003, more than eight...
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Help us lay out the new office!
So, like I said, we’re moving office over the next few weeks, and we’re starting with what amounts to an empty 26’ by 11’ white box that looks like this right now: We’ve got to figure out both how to...
View ArticleUkrainian Rules
Here are some of the rules I learned from Sergey: Don’t cross over two lanes of traffic in one move: the police will give you a ticket. When you’re meeting someone, and when you’re saying good-bye,...
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