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Social Change
My go-to place for coffee when I’m down here working with my colleagues at Yankee Publishing is Countryhouse Corner, down the road in Dublin. It’s an unassuming little place, built into an old barn,...
View ArticleShortening the Teacher-Parent Feedback Loop
Other than what shows up every night in the bookbag, the “feedback loop” that we’re all used to as parents of kids in elementary school mostly happens at the two parent-teacher interviews that happen...
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Do Not Mix Rabbits and Geese
On the wall at Beijing Restaurant in Charlottetown are two facsinating charts: on the left is a chart showing foods you should eat together; on the right is a chart showing foods you shoul not eat...
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Annals of Sentences I Never Thought I'd Be Typing
“I scanned a QR code on the back of David Weale’s car to go to his website.” (Said website is here). Add a Comment
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New Saigon: Bánh Mì in Boston
My eyes were first opened to the wonders of Bánh Mì by Peter Bihr, who pointed to Babanbè in Berlin, which happened to be just around the corner from Betahaus where I was working last summer. I enjoyed...
View ArticleJane Jacobs and The Music Man
Every Tuesday morning Michael Pendergast, aka “The Music Man,” has a session for young kids in the theatre here at The Guild, right next to our office. The walls are thin here, and so this means that...
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Letters en Route
After lollygagging for almost a month, I finally got around to packaging up and mailing the ill-fated “Concentration” cards out to a random group of 22 Mail Me Something subscribers yesterday. I...
View ArticleSunday Afternoon Bluegrass
The PEI Bluegrass & Oldtime Music Society organized a concert this Sunday afternoon at the Benevolent Irish Society Hall in Charlottetown and so that’s where Oliver and I spent the afternoon,...
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That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
When I was in Boston a few weeks ago I found a small tube of gold letterpress ink at Cambridge Paper Source at Porter Square. It was an accessory for a hobby printing kit, but I saw no reason I...
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If it’s not the heat...
As we get used to working here in the Reinventorium, we’re getting better at adjusting the office climate. Ye olde office up on Fitzroy Street varied between too-cold and too-hot over the years, but...
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My New Eyeglasses
Back in 2008 I posted a photo of my eyeglasses prescription in this space, something that, the following year, stood me in good stead when I was away and needed to purchase a replacement pair of...
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The one where I'm outed as a racist idiot ass goon for poking fun at...
In a recent blog post Stephen Fry relates, in compelling detail, several “Twitter firestorms” he has inadvertently set off. He begins:Every now and again, what with me being what I am (a human), I find...
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Akzidenz Grotesk
The Visual Communications program at Holland College is essentially a digital program these days — when you visit their facilities in the basement of the downtown campus you find workstations and...
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Progressive Me
Picked up my new eyeglasses today. Whoa, momma — hard getting used to the new “progressive” lenses. Everything’s alternately blurry and clear. They say you get used to it: I hope so. My patience for...
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Word in Progress
Some challenges still to work out. Not much to be done, using borrowed type, with the lack of A-V kerning in “HAVE” (if it was my type, and abundant, I could take a hack saw to it). Still working on...
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Here’s to the crazy ones...
A couple of crazy, passionate entrepreneurs, Rebekha and Adam Young, have relocated from Ottawa to Charlottetown to open a coffee shop-cum-knitting café at 98 Water Street, a space formerly occupied by...
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Convert Unixtime with Alfred
If you’re anything like me you have a regular need to know that 1242007264 in “Unixtime” means Monday 11th May 2009 02:01:04 AM in plain-language UTC. Up to this point I’d been calling up a Terminal...
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