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Tradescantia Alba
My Tradescantia Alba, purchased on my birthday in early April, seems to be doing well in the front window at 100 Prince Street. It’s about to bloom. PlantsTradescantia Alba
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Doses of the unknown
Beau Miles in The Backyard Adventurer:My Africa trip encouraged me to unlearn the habits of information overload. Two years of preparations went mostly out the door as soon as I landed on the giant...
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Olivia
One of the things I’ve learned from my trans friends is that we who aren’t trans place an inordinate amount of effort on trying to anchor things to the past rather than the present—“Erica, who used to...
View ArticleSunday Grocery Shopping Fail
Saturday and Sunday nights have always been my favourite ones to do the grocery shopping: whatever you give up in selection, you gain in store-emptiness and calm.‘Twas not meant to be this week,...
View ArticlePlywood Arbitrage
News about birch plywood from the DNA Lounge:Birch is normally one of the more expensive woods, but as it turns out there’s some kind of supply-chain fuckery going on affecting most of the softer...
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From this New Yorker article about the Penobscot language:Francis, who is in his early fifties, grew up on Indian Island in an era of burgeoning indigenous activism. He feels that the key to saving...
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Archaeological Extraction of Blockquotes
OPML is much in the air these days: Ton is experimenting with federated bookshelves, and Paul is using OPML of yesteryear to explore his feed-reading past.Which got me thinking about blog post...
View ArticleTire Pressure Sensor on Kia Soul
The summer tires on my Kia Soul EV have whatever gizmos inside them needed to allow the car to read the tire pressure. The winter tires do not.When I switch from winter tires to summer tires, it takes...
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GeoJSON Collectibles
I went for a long bicycle ride this morning: it was sunny and warm and I needed to clear my head.Last night, while chatting with an old friend about walking and cycling, I complained that, because...
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Mining Copper from my Basement
While I was hauling up the summer tires from the basement–one of my least favourite activities of the season–I noticed a roll of copper tucked in a back corner, a vestige of Catherine’s career as a...
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Erratic Rhubarb
We have rhubarb growing in our front garden. How did it get there? No idea.But: rhubarb pie!Did you know rhubarb pie has only three ingredients!? Rhubarb. Flour. Sugar. Presto!RhubarbPie
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“Sex and the Island”
“Sex and the Island”: Lives of Single Women in Prince Edward Island, a 2011 Island Studies Journal article by Kristie Collins:This article considers the significance attributed to Prince Edward Island...
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Family Cycling Season
Today was the official start of cycling season in our family: we headed out over the Hillsborough Bridge pathway as far as construction allowed (to the Stratford end of the navigation span). It was...
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Romantic Seaside Dinner for One
My therapist and I were talking about relationships—romantic and otherwise—and she offhandedly mentioned that an important part of the bedrock of relationships is sharing common interests.This came as...
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In my early days and weeks on PEI, in the spring of 1993, I sold my Ford F100 pickup and replaced it with an aging Nissan Sentra wagon. I asked around for a good place to have the Sentra inspected, and...
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Cycling from Downtown to Home Hardware through Parkdale
Every now and again I find myself in need of something from the hardware store, and the handiest, Home Hardware, is conveniently a short cycle from home.The challenge of cycling there from my house is...
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Sketch of Artist
From the front window at The Gallery on Great George, a quick ballpoint pen sketch of a painter at work. Sketch
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