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Inter-Library Loan: Still working at this hour
If the inter-library loan system can get this book to me, from Edmonton, it means modern civilization has not yet completely crumbled. LibrariesCoronavirusBooks
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Love as practice rather than product
I was browsing the call-for-apprentices for a Costa Rican radical queer jungle/farm sanctuary for post-capitalism exploration yesterday, and came across this, one of its goals:Developing love, care,...
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City Tree 482
A new sign sprouted on Prince Street this morning, in front of our neighbour’s house:The C1A 4R4 Arts District is the lucky recipient of the art and presence of artist Melissa Peter-Paul, who is...
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Upsold to YouTube Premium
It is de rigueur of late for phones and operating systems and apps to provide analytics on usage time, and YouTube is no exception. I was somewhat surprised to learn just how much time I spend on...
View ArticleNo more library fines on PEI
How long have I been blogging?Long enough to see public library fines introduced, in 2004, and eliminated, today, 16 years later.The bookending CBC stories: 2004 and 2020.This is a great...
View Article"Exploring the World of Tiny Houses Through Design-build Research"
It’s not Architecture Week on Prince Edward Island this week, although, according to the celestial calendar, it should be (2011, 2012, 2013).But it is World Architecture Day, and the architects of the...
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29th
On this night, around this time, 29 years ago, this woman asked if she could kiss me. The rest is history. CatherineAnniversary
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The Library
I have, slowly but surely, been cleaning up the room on our first floor variously known, over the years, as “the office,” “the situation room,” and ”the library.”Catherine designed the mantlepiece and...
View ArticleFree Books for Kids
There are problems that are gnarly and hard and take years or millions or both to solve.Then there are problems that, relatively speaking, are easy to solve.Like getting books into the hands of Prince...
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Boxes and Boxes and Boxes
It’s taken me almost 9 months and one pandemic, but I’ve got Catherine’s fabric, yarn, fleece and various and sundry tools boxed and ready for pickup by volunteers from the G’ma Circle of...
View Article"...everything's sped up, she has lots of superhuman energy, and she talks...
In the summer of 2017, Catherine started a round of Docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug, with the goal of reducing the size of the tumours in her back, shoulder and skull. Because Docetaxel is known to...
View ArticleSylvan Esso
Watching Sylvan Esso at work makes me want to chuck it all and become part of an electropop duo. Or at least to cultivate a better fashion sense and a more delicate quotidian choreography. MusicSylvan...
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Downtown Electric Vehicle Charger
The first on-street EV charger in Charlottetown sprouted this week in front of Maritime Electric‘s headquarters.
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3D Printing with Siert, Cura, Monoprice Select Mini, Raspberry Pi Zero and...
Ten years ago in Copenhagen I heard my friend Elmine’s brother Siert Wijnia, with Erik de Bruijn, talk about the RepRap project:Democratizing fabrication — The beginning of this talk will be about the...
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Unprecedented Printing
There was a story told in the composing room of the Peterborough Examiner that, during the days the type was cast from hot metal, a typecasting machine got stuck–perhaps while its operator was...
View Article“Who are you talking to, Oliver?”
Oliver is over on the couch, with his laptop on his lap. I assume he’s surfing the net, or watching YouTube, or doing any of the myriad other things he does online. Except he’s talking to someone. “Who...
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Cones
I’m getting the eavestroughs replaced on 100 Prince Street this morning, and the crew from North Shore Eavestroughing needed the parking spots in front of the house for their truck.Irrationally, this...
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Eavestroughing Underway
As seen through the front doorbell camera. Ladders in every direction. EavestroughsRing
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Endless Waves
Earlier in the month I found myself on the north shore, between Rustico and Cavendish, and I took a photo with my iPhone. Yesterday my iPhone suggested that it could automagically transform this photo...
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