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What the first five minutes of recent COVID briefings has felt like...
On exigent COVID days, our Premier has taken to appearing for a few minutes of scene-setting cum pep talk before Dr. Heather Morrison. When what we really want to know is whether school is cancelled,...
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An iOS Shortcut to Send iPhone Battery Level to a URL
For reasons only related to his mentioning of battery levels and automation in his 2021 Week Eight update, I was prompted by Paul Capewell to see if there was a way to send the current battery level of...
View ArticlePlumbing with Mandy
If Homeland had been about household plumbing, I think it would still have been interesting.Mandy PatinkinPlumbing
View ArticleRomesh: Talking to Comedians
Romesh Ranganathan’s BBC show, Romesh: Talking to Comedians is the anti-Seinfeld you might be looking for. Romesh RanganathanBBCComedy
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Adorning my Outgoings
As part of an orgy of stationery buying from Sumthings of Mine in the late fall, I acquired a Chinese Mini Traditional Calendar:Palm-size Chinese lunar traditional for the 365 days of the year!Lunar...
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Masked Foggy Glasses Haircut
We emerged from “Modified Code Red” into what I keep referring as “snapback,” but is actually called “circuit breaker,” and I used the opportunity to get a haircut. It had been 104 days since the last...
View ArticleFriend to the Humanities
On Zoom this afternoon I talked about my 2019 The Government That Swallowed a Pond presentation with Josh MacFadyen’s geospatial humanities class at the University of PEI.When Josh introduced me, he...
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Pizza Fight
Receiver Brass Shop, understandably given the snapbacks and lockdowns, cancelled Thursday Pizza Pasta tonight, throwing the responsibility for pizza provision back to me. This pizza fought me all the...
View ArticleThe Last Morningside
If you’ve got a spare hour this weekend, you could do worse than listening to the first hour of the last Morningside. I remember it like it was yesterday, in part because I listened to it with...
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Tonic for a Cold Winter’s Night
Remember the Jacobean Cacao Husk Chocolate Tea that I mentioned in November? Well it’s back in stock at Riverview Country Market after a long time out of stock. “You got more of the Jacobean tea in...
View Article15 Years of The Peter and Oliver Podcast
I missed in January that The Peter and Oliver Podcast passed its 15th anniversary. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos of Oliver over the last 20 years, but none captures as much of him, and of us,...
View ArticleAnoxic Masculinity
I have taken great comfort from attending the monthly grief support group sessions offered by Hospice PEI. As Catherine was living with cancer, and my thoughts would turn toward how I would live on...
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"The lightning passed right through the house shattering a salt shaker held...
Don Jardine has been posting up a storm on his Our Island Climate site of late, including an item today about a 1963 lightning strike on Trinity United Church, our neighbour just down Prince Street.The...
View ArticleBeau Miles Walks to Work (Again)
Beau Miles walked 88 km in 29 hours, from his home in the countryside to a workshop he was presenting in the city. The topic of the workshop: “I chose to walk to work, and this is why.”He is such a...
View ArticleHighly Defended
In his New Yorker piece on Mike Nichols, Louis Menaud writes:Nichols later said that he never had a friend until he went to the University of Chicago. He entered in the fall of 1949, when he was...
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Thumbs
Lucy Dacus’s Night Shift has been on repeat in my house, my car, and my head for months: while I lack the vocabulary to describe its wonderments, suffice to say that it’s three or four songs packed...
View ArticleJohn’s Birthday Wish
My office mate, and the closest thing I have to a spiritual advisor, Archdeacon John Clarke turns 60 on March 10, 2021, and all he’s asked for is healthy mothers and children in Rwanda, Burundi,...
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Smart Casual
I sought outfit advice from my brother Mike this morning—he has stronger connections to the real world, and tells the truth, both useful qualities. He branded it “smart casual.”Which is a huge step up...
View ArticleOn the Ground in Myanmar
Kalinko distributes Burmese-crafted objects around the world from their base in Yangon. They posted today on their blog about the situation on the ground there:We’ve had team members having to hide...
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