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No Unifying Theme
Paul Graham, in Fierce Nerds:To be a nerd is to be socially awkward, and there are two distinct ways to do that: to be playing the same game as everyone else, but badly, and to be playing a different...
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Building Better Picnic Tables
I’ve always hated standard picnic tables: they’re hard to get in and out of, and uncomfortable to sit in. Today I spotted this design, which seems to have a lot to recommend it. Design
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Berlin Typography
My copy of Berlin Typography arrived at The Bookmark this morning; I learned this because I happened to walk by the shop and was enthusiastically waved in.There is a large part of my heart in Berlin,...
View ArticleAnticipation is, in truth, the real thief of joy
The end of World War I was reported prematurely on Thursday, November 7, 1918. Two days later the New York Tribune reflected on what followed:The Thief of JoyIt was the absolute spontaneity of Thursday...
View ArticleDemur vs. Demure
For the first 25 years I pronounced awry as ow-ree.Today I realized that I’ve been writing demure when I mean demur.As in “I must demur, as I have no knowledge of phlebotomy.”Words
View ArticleChance
If you can look beyond the “Hugh Laurie playing Dr. House again, but as a consulting psychiatrist in San Francisco, with more violence,” the TV drama Chance, streaming on Disney+, is compelling. Laurie...
View ArticleUse Scene Points to Stream Cineplex Movies
It’s possible that, like me, you ended up with a bunch of “Scene” points from the Cineplex movie theatre chain from the Before Times, and now find yourself thinking “why oh why would I ever go to a...
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How to have a Successful Family Zoom
Just over a year ago we started the tradition of Friday Family Zoom, gathering my family from PEI, Quebec, Ontario, and California together every Friday night for some family fun. At full strength...
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2019 vs. 2021
Here are photos of our back yard, both taken on May 23rd, the first in 2019 and the second in 2021.There’sa big difference in the lawn due the absence of Ethan, and a palpable difference in the leaf...
View ArticleBy times...
Regular readers will know that I frequently use the phrase “by times” in this space:…and, by times, an overpowering feeling of wanting to smash my new eyeglasses with a hammer and revert to my old...
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Life is Short
“Life is short,” wrote a friend in an email last week.Typographic gears started to turn in my mind.Which begat this.Yellow ink with a splotch of red added in, creating an interesting shimmering effect....
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Remix
Remixing my own work for the tiny gallery at 100 Prince Street.100 Prince StreetGalleryLetterpress
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New Bicycle Rack at Sobeys
Kudos to Jeff Jenkins, Manager at Allen Street Sobeys, for having a new bicycle rack installed. It’s better, stronger, and more conveniently located than the one it replaces (which, in fact, has simply...
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The Normalizers
Last summer, once the lockdown was over and it was permitted to hold small face to face meetings, I went to my first meeting of a non-profit board I sit on. I arrived second to last, and found that...
View ArticleA Love Letter to Stewart Memorial Hospital
On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, Thelma Phillips writes Stewart Memorial Hospital a love letter.Tyne ValleyStewart Memorial HospitalThelma Phillips
View ArticleThe Creaky Fax Backbone
Due reasons of proximity to our family doctor and loyalty to a locally-owned pharmacy, we have our prescriptions filled at Murphy’s Parkdale Pharmacy.Murphy’s is nominally a member of the Guardian...
View ArticleTurn around and wave to America
A montage of appearances by Meg Parsont on Late Night with David Letterman. Parsont worked on the 13th floor of the office building across from the Late Night offices in Rockefeller Center, and...
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Negroni Sketch Sunshine
Posted up at The Inn at Bay Fortune for the evening. The night is young yet; I leverage the late afternoon sunshine to sketch and drink a Negroni. The Inn at Bay FortuneSketchNegroniVacation
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Alone vs. Lonely
I spent last night at The Inn at Bay Fortune where, in 2015, Catherine and I spent our last weekend away together by ourselves.What I didn’t know when I booked—I thought I was just getting away for the...
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