Sounds of the beach at Wood Islands
recording-20200531-130651.mp3When Oliver and I were on the beach at Wood Islands Provincial Park on Sunday, I recorded just under two minutes of the same of the water lapping against the rocks. You’ll...
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Four recommendations, all of which can be found on Crave in Canada (a Bell-owned mashup of HBO and Showtime):The Newsroom— The Aaron Sorkin one, not the Ken Finkleman one. Three seasons of Jeff Daniels...
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Jackson and Fiero
My friend Brenda generously gifted us a hot pepper plant and a tomato plant, and I found a place for them in our back yard this morning. We have named them Fiero and Jackson, respectively (the tomato...
View ArticleUpdated Blogroll
I’ve updated my blogroll, the list of blogs that I subscribe to and read every day.It’s simply an export out of the FreshRSS newsreader that I use for RSS reading, with the addition of a stylesheet to...
View Article“A Little Patch of Something”
Imani Perry, writing in The Paris Review:I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped and eaten. They sit on my nightstand, and there’s just enough light,...
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You Daredevil You
One of the fringe benefits of the pandemic has been that the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle has launched an ambitious program of remote workshops over Zoom. Which is how I came to be learning...
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Kirsten Dirksen on a three story shipping container house in Toronto.The house was built on top of Harlem Restaurant, which closed last November:On November 9th, 2019, Harlem Underground turns 10 years...
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Crafted {:} a Life
One year ago today, we gathered a ragtag bunch of friends in St. Paul’s Parish Hall for Crafting {:} a Life. These are those people.
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round and round and round and round
In the shadow of yesterday’s daredevil printing workshop, I was ready to see where I could go with printing in the round.One of the key things I learned yesterday was that 18 point type will fit...
View ArticleFree Parking
Two months ago I proposed that the City of Charlottetown take steps to make the downtown, south of Grafton Street, an “active transportation first” zone:As spring arrives and we all spend more time...
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Herbs
The cinder block herb garden in our back yard is again filled with herbs.Gardening100 Prince Street
View ArticleThe Louisiana Channel
The Louisiana Channel—from the Danish art gallery, not the U.S. state—is a deep well of interesting video.LouisianaYouTubeArt
View ArticleGet off my lawn!
100_prince_st.mp3Back in the day, when it seemed like Nickelback was playing at the Charlottetown waterfront every second weekend, I developed the reputation of being something of a curmudgeon. Truth...
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Sledgehammer
The Rogers Hardware sledgehammer, which I bought more than 20 years ago at their going-out-of-business sale, is useful about once a year.But when it’s useful, it’s really useful.Like today, when I...
View ArticleGoodbye Catholic Family Services Bureau
The CBC reported today that P.E.I. Catholic Family Services Bureau [is] shutting down after 89 years.Catholic Family Services has been of great help to our family over the years, and I am sad that it...
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The Joel for 2020
Every year around this time Joel Fitzpatrick at Receiver Coffee reveals a new incarnation of “The Joel,” my official iced coffee drink of summer.Today was the day.It’s outstanding.It’s also my first...
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Fixing the problem with sideways iPhone photos uploaded to Drupal
So I have an iPhone now–more on that later–and one of the first things I noticed as a side-effect of switching from Android is that portrait-orientation photos I take on the iPhone and upload to this...
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The one where delivery to C1A 4R4 failed...
I’ve been proudly going around for several years now proclaiming that it’s possible to send me a letter with the address:Rukavina C1A 4R4My friend Chantal decided to take me up on this offer. And it...
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