Flux Capacitors Firing
It’s been a busy week here at Reinvented HQ as I prepare to move said HQ three blocks south while, at the same time, attending both to regular day-to-day jobs and also doing the paperwork for our...
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Canada411's Popular Names Directory: Good Idea that’s Broken
On first blush the Popular Names Directory on the Canada411.ca website (the site through which most of Canada’s telephone companies make their white pages searchable online) is a great resource: for...
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Five Downtown Schools Cooperating
Within a few kilometers of each other in downtown Charlottetown are 5 elementary schools — Parkdale, Prince Street, Spring Park, St. Jean, and West Kent. Each school serves its own neighbourhoods, and...
View ArticleVisit to the Journal-Pioneer
Back in the fall, when I was spending time out at Campbell’s Printing arranging to purchase and the get delivered my Golding Jobber No. 8 letterpress, I had a good opportunity to talk with Bill...
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Welcome to The Reinventorium
Regular readers may recall the photo of my virgin office at 84 Fitzroy Street on the day I got everything set up there back in December 2003: Well, here’s the same photo for the 2012 version of...
View ArticleIan Petrie on Potatoes
Ian Petrie’s recent post on the “potato shortage” on Prince Edward Island, Mashed Potatoes, is a worthwhile read. He writes, in part: What’s really at play is a kind of psychological warfare: once one...
View ArticleHats
At lunch at Tai Chi Gardens this afternoon there were half a dozen other customers in the house, and all of the men present were wearing those sort of “too tall floppy toques” that are popular with the...
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Hamilton Type Case
Remember back in December when I took a drive out to Campbell’s Printing in Tryon to pick up a type cabinet? Well the cabinet made it to town, got assembled (with some help from Sergey) at the old...
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Furniture Cabinet
Another wonderful, useful gift from Bill and Gertie Campbell (see also Hamilton Type Case) was a “furniture cabinet.” In letterpress, “furniture” is the wooden or metal spacing material of various...
View ArticleFinding the Reinventorium
Our new office has many great attributes, but being easy to get to is not one of them. After trying to describe the complicated route several times to various friends and colleagues I decided I needed...
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Tearseep! (Hello World!)
With the move to the Reinventorium finally complete, and my head-cold-induced fog finally on the wane, it was time to go back to the print shop this afternoon, in part to take the new set of rollers...
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Islander Membership Cards
While it’s little-known outside of inner circles here on Prince Edward Island, each bona fide Islander is issued an “Islander Membership Card” in the hospital at birth. The card entitles one to...
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Canada Post Biggest and Smallest Postcard and Letter Sizes
If you’re anything like me, forever mailing odd-sized things around the world, you’ve probably had cause to wonder “what’s the limit on how big or small I can mail things?” So, to help you and to help...
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The End of The Bus
Just over six years ago, in October of 2005, I released thebus.ca, a Google Maps-driven public transit schedule for Charlottetown. I was scratching my own itch by doing so: I wanted the transit system...
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Mail Me Something
For five Tuesdays, starting July 19, 2011, I spent the day at the letterpress studio at Druckwerkstatt in Berlin making printed things; I made enough of everything I printed to send a copy to people...
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The Grand Homburg at Night
The Grand Homburg may be an ugly colossus, but its multi-coloured facade can have its moments; here are four shots over four minutes last night, with the Moon high in the sky above. Add a Comment
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How much Internet?
Johnny and I moved office just over a week ago. Before then we used the same network for both our own work activities — emailing, browsing, uploading, downloading — and for the server that runs this...
View ArticleThe One Where Oliver Almost Falls into the Bubbling Springs
We are the way we are because of an irrational collection of biases. Take winter boots. I haven’t owned a pair for more than 25 years. Why? Because I remember tramping around the Burlington Mall with...
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Luisa’s Type, Concentration and the Importance of Standards
I’ve decided that unless I block out regular times during the week to spend at the printing press, the seemingly endless digital task list will always win out, and the press will lay fallow. So every...
View ArticleSchool Doings
A brief update from the home and school front, a little corner of my life that, when you combine activities at Prince Street School locally with the crazy projects I’m working on for the provincial...
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