The Unmasked
The current guidance here on PEI regarding masks is this:The PEI Chief Public Health Officer recommends that individuals, who can wear a non-medical mask, should do so, especially indoors when physical...
View Article“At daylight I am writing on your side of the screen”
Eleven years later I am still delighted by Oliver’s stream of comments on this blog post. That summer we spent in Berlin was magical. BerlinOliver
View ArticleStitching the years together
It’s only been a few days that I’ve been feeding myself a diet of “on this day” blog posts, but I’ve already found it enormously helpful.Not for insight or research or resurfacing old ideas (although...
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City Cinema is Dead. Long Live City Cinema.
Earlier this week, with a mid-COVID reopening in the offing, City Cinema launched a new website.With the flip of that switch ends a 25 year partnership between the cinema’s founder Derek Martin and I,...
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"That's a nice mask, did you wife make it for you?"
In case you were wondering, the correct answer to the question “that’s a nice mask, did you wife make it for you?”, when posed by your plasma donation nurse, is not “she died back in January, after...
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Repairing my Bose Headphones
Eight years ago I bought a pair of Bose AE2i headphones, for $169. At $169 they weren’t cheap disposable headphones, but they also weren’t high-end the higher-end $400 Bose QuietComfort either. They...
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Cycling with Other People
At this week’s meeting of the Mayor’s Task Force on Active Transportation we heard from local resident and active cyclist David Sims about his ideas for active transportation in the city (you can watch...
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How to properly dispose of a dead kangaroo on Prince Edward Island
After many years of maintaining the same old website, the Island Waste Management Corporation has a smart new mobile-friendly site that includes an updated sorting guide tool. I’ve been trying to get...
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Multi-Faceted Shimmering Colour
With the dead kangaroo properly handled, it was time to turn to the accumulation of hazardous chemicals that had built up in the household, chemicals that had been left unattended to given the...
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Madam Vuong Comes to Town
Since I first had bánh mì in Berlin in 2011 I have been hooked, and these Vietnamese sandwiches have become one of my favourite foods, on a ”if you had to choose one thing to eat every day for the rest...
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Yesterday
Yesterday we took our new screen projector out for a ride, sacrificing a white bed sheet for the screen, and setting the projector on a step ladder. I plugged our Apple TV into the projector, and set...
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Truth in Advertising
On the Amazon product description for the Powerextra 120 Inch Projector Screen:Tips: pure white wall may work better than the screen, it’s recommended to use when don’t have pure white wall or in...
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New Potatoes
Two small victories for Oliver today: first, he’s now become the “quick, jump out of the car and pick up some new potatoes from that roadside stand” point person in the family; second, by telling me...
View ArticleCan you give me microphone help?
I’m continuing to assemble the pieces of my “stream the sounds of Prince Edward Island to the web” project, and I’ve reached the stage where I need to buy a microphone.The Pisound box I’ll be using has...
View ArticleSetting the self-signed certificate expiration date
Last month I generated a self-signed certificate like this: openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out example.com.crt -key example.com.keyYesterday, a month later, things depending on this certificate started...
View ArticleOh, the humanity
My mind often turns back to May 26, 2020, when Hon. Peter Bevan-Baker opened the then-“emergency session” of the Legislative Assembly with a question to the Premier:Leader of the Opposition: My first...
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Capability Surge
Homemade pesto (Heartbeet basil, Brighton Clover Farm pine nuts, Riverview Country Market Parmesan and garlic) with Island strawberry and basil soda. Perfect summer supper. FoodRiverview Country...
View Article“No More Saviors”
No More Saviors, by Society If Dads:A savior is supposed to do something no one else can, otherwise their semi-divine services wouldn’t be needed. They supposedly have more of something—faith,...
View ArticleV.S. Naipaul’s Cat
V.S. Naipaul about his cat (and also about grief) in The New Yorker:The kitten was absolutely terrified. It had had an up-and-down life for many days and had no idea what was coming next. It tried now...
View Article“...the dimension of time that you have in liquids...”
Creating a Lens out of Fluids. Artists and physicists should talk more. ArtPhysicsFluids
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