Simplifying the School Acceptable Use Policy
Every year at our Annual General Meeting, the PEI Home and School Federation considers resolutions presented by our local associations and by the provincial board. This year many of the resolutions...
View ArticleSteve Martin on Technology
On last night’s Tavis Smiley show on PBS:Tavis Smiley: “Technology offers us a lot of good, a lot of advances, but it’s as fraught with as much potential danger as it is with the good stuff.”Steve...
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Humidity Update
I know that, after reading about our humidity challenges here in the Reinventorium, you’ve all been wondering “how’s the humidity in Peter’s office these days.” And so here’s an update.The first...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about the crazy part of the USA in one sentence...
From tbt, the free newspaper put out by the Tampa Bay Times, part of an article about a plan to force boats to slow down in areas of the ocean frequented by manatees:Tea party members showed up at the...
View ArticleRobots!
We are nothing if not a science-museum-going family. We could have saved hundreds of dollars if we’d simply joined a science museum years ago and taken advanatage of reciprocal admittance policies, but...
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Are you interested in bulk order of IKEA ALEX drawers to PEI?
I’m interested in ordering a couple of these ALEX Drawers from IKEA but I’m put off by the $189 shipping charge for a $149 item. It seems, however, that I can order up to 10 of these for the same...
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A Week Away in Florida
We’re back from a week away in Florida spent with my parents in their condo on the beach near St. Petersburg. I never pictured myself a Florida-traveller, and it’s still not a suit of clothes that’s...
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A Room Full of Obligations
For a few weeks now I’ve been working on a poster “You Have An Obligation To Explain.” I’m still working on it — and, indeed, an explanation of what it actually means. In the meantime, I made good...
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Today, Red
After printing the black yesterday, I moved on to the red today. The last step will be to set the explanatory type that will appear under “explain” and will, well, explain. Add a Comment
View ArticleThe Cure for Infectious Monotony
I had a good chat with Olle last night, on the horn from HQ in Sweden. We talked a lot about our work and our workplaces and our workmates. We agreed that, among other things, silence is important to...
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An Organized Reinventorium
Since we moved into the Reinventorium earlier in the year, about a third of the office floorspace has remained littered with Bankers boxes filled with everything from old tax returns to metal type....
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Comic Oliver
Nokia just released an Instagram-like app for Windows Phone called Creative Studio and I took it for a ride a few nights about down at Youngfolk and the Kettle Black, snapping and transforming a photo...
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Insert Generic Old Building Photo Here
Last week a big sign went up at the corner of Prince and Grafton in downtown Charlottetown advertising a new house project called Grafton Street Condominiums: While the top photo is clearly of the new...
View ArticleIt is an open house, open to all comers...
Robert Oppenheimer, from Science and the Common Understanding: “The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance — these are...
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Backwards Day
I’ve been thinking of printing a short book on my Golding Jobber letterpress. Its capacity to print materials up to 12 by 18 inches means that I could print multiple book pages on a single sheet of...
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46
I turn 46 years old today (photo from Leo Reynolds). I’ve been writing long enough in this space that I have record here of turning 36, ten years ago, where I wrote, in part: Thirty-six is one of...
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Charlottetown Subway Map
Some things you just have to get out of your system, and the long weekend is a good opportunity to do so. Add a Comment
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You’re soaking in it...
Inspired by Ian’s musing about the difficulty that machines have an automatically identifying photographs of him, I gave the Face.com demo a try with a photo I took of myself, and here’s the result: My...
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A Tiny Book of Letterpress Cuts
Now that I have figured out imposition, I’m moving on to make a sample book, using some of the letterpress cuts loaned to me by Ian Scott. Here’s the layout I’ve set up as a first draft: Although I’m...
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Charlottetown Subway Map Refined
Some refinement of this weekend’s draft of a Charlottetown Subway Map. Switch from Arial Narrow to Futura for the body type; changed the name of the Nassau station to CBC to accommodate Kerry Campbell;...
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