Fall 2020 Electric Vehicle Statistics for Prince Edward Island
I received an update to the latest electric vehicle statistics for Prince Edward Island this week:Vehicle Type20192020 (Aug)2020 (Oct)Battery Electric338499Hybrid403862862Plug-in...
View ArticleDump, Hazardous, Police
I am just back from a waste-management run in the Kia Soul, part of my drive to clear out Catherine’s studio for a new tenant at the end of next week.I started out dropping off a dozen bags of bits and...
View ArticleThe Market Goes Back Inside
After a wave and a half of COVIDing to the parking lot, the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market moved back inside today.The rigour that this required of patrons—queue to enter, one-way loop only, no...
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Prepared for Socially Distanced Halloween
We traditionally receive approximately two kids every Halloween, living in the city’s seedy underbelly as we do. But were prepared, with local treats, hand sanitizer, traffic cones and a complicated...
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Emotional Dry Dock
I saw the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture at a matinee with my father in San Antonio, Texas in 1980; even though it was 40 years ago, I remember the experience palpably, no part of it more so...
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Last Plane Out
While it wasn’t quite the last flight out of Saigon, I just heard the last scheduled WestJet for Toronto, Boeing 737 C-GQWJ, rumble into the sky. While we’re still connected to Canada by the one daily...
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The Lucky Bean
Our Sunday drive this week was to Montague, and a first visit to The Lucky Bean Café on Main Street. We’d been in the building before, back in the days when it was more french fries than flat whites;...
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Unwieldy Things to Give Away
I’m down to the last few things to find new homes for in Catherine’s studio, the large, unwieldy things that don’t have a self-evident destination.Maybe the destination is you? I’ll happily give any of...
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The Queen Square Press Online Shop
I woke up this morning determined to, well, not particularly determined to do anything of great import. But, as the day progressed, I decided that today was the day to open an online store for my...
View ArticleAntarctic Extremes
The Antarctic Extremes series from PBS is well-produced and entertaining. AntarcticaPBSTelevision
View ArticleWhat to do when the funding for your friend's cancer treatment is "not in...
I first met Lucy Morkunas in the most in-passing way that one can: in the chaos of the summertime Charlottetown Farmers’ Market she stopped me, introduced herself, and told me I had to meet her friend...
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The Empty
In the game of grief, I’ve had a special bonus round as I’ve worked to clean up Catherine’s studio, across the hall from my own shop, over the last ten months.St. Paul’s Anglican Church has been...
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Making a Siri Shortcut to tell me how much electricity we're generating from...
hey_siri_wind.mp3Shortcuts are a delightfully powerful set of digital Lego blocks for iOS, a modern day HyperCard, in a way. This guide from Apple to creating Siri Shortcuts using web APIs prompted me...
View ArticleBut the levee was dry...
I maintain a small mailing list of those responsible for organizing New Year’s Levees each year, and around about this time I generally get in touch with them to start gathering information for the new...
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Evidence of the corona times on the plaza at Confederation Centre of the Arts. SignageNumbersConfederation Centre of the partsCOVID-19
View ArticleTubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story
Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story is an interesting BBC documentary about Oldfield and his seminal album. Without Tubular Bells, you never would have heard of Sir Richard Branson or Virgin...
View ArticleMa vie n'est pas à Paris
I liked the sound the book of Ma vie à Paris and requested a copy by interlibrary loan from the Provincial Library Service. For the first time ever in my long history of interlibrary loan requests,...
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A Map of Pre-Amalgamation Charlottetown
I got an email, tailor-made for procrastination, this morning from a correspondent in Prince County:Do you know if there is an online map of the boroughs, neighbourhoods, districts of Charlottetown?...
View ArticleCopycat Killer
New track from an impending new album by Phoebe Bridgers.Phoebe BridgersMusic
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