Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
May’s five weeks of Saturday Movie Night were programmed by brother Steve, arguably the family member with the deepest intellectual bench regarding film.Last night, the final Saturday of the month, his...
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I Hedcut Myself
I have long admired the Wall Street Journal hedcuts, used for author portraits. Originally these were painstakingly created by artists; recently, though, the paper has been experimenting with an...
View ArticleBye Bye Bernie
From the weekly update from Charlottetown Farmers’ Market:We bid our fantastic Market Manager, Bernie Plourde, a fond farewell this past weekend. Bernie has been with the Market for 7 years and has...
View ArticleDopplr: “a feature of a larger service, called the internet”
On this day in 2007, the BBC ran a story about Reboot, which included word of Dopplr, the (now) late, great service that, for many, represented a high water mark of enlightened web services:Another...
View ArticlePublic Health Surrealism
Dr. Heather Morrison at today’s public health briefing:The thought of transitioning out of a public health state of emergency is hopeful, it is doable, and almost surreal. So true. COVID-19
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Sugar Maple at Five Years Old
Five years ago today the City of Charlottetown planted a Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) in front of our house at 100 Prince Street (link), replacing the Dutch Elm tree that was there previously that was...
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Plants & Shoes
I’m late to the seedling-hardening game by about a week, but today I’ve got my tomatoes, acorn squash, eggplant, watermelon, and the tenacious last-surviving broccoli out for a day in the warm and sun....
View ArticleEarly Reboot
I stumbled across this blog post of mine from 2001 about Reboot 4.0, three years before I made my way to Reboot 7, and two years before I’ve always thought I’d first heard of the Copenhagen conference...
View ArticlePermanent Press
Both my washing machine and my dryer have a “permanent press” setting; I realized this morning that I had no idea what that meant, putting it in the same class as “ball joint” or “surf break” or...
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The Mat Map
On this day, 15 years ago, we were in Copenhagen as a family, and took advantage of an unseasonably warm and sunny day to spend the afternoon in Frederiksberg Have, a 160 acre oasis of forest, river,...
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Bumble’s Island Problem
I’m certain there are many estimable women in Pugwash for whom I’m an ideal suitor. And, let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to date a gal from Pugwash. The only strike against it is that it’s 2 hours...
View ArticleNew Disaster
I would have loved Barenaked Ladies’ new song New Disaster based solely on its creative rhyming of prestidigitation: they’re the only band on Earth that could get away with that with such aplomb.But...
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Rhubarb
Having exhausted our supply of front yard rhubarb, we were forced into the inexorable choice between Johnston’s River rhubarb and Belfast rhubarb. Riverview Country MarketRhubarb
View ArticleWhen Bruce Met Shirley
My friend Bruce tells the miraculous story of meeting his wife Shirley.Happy 35th anniversary!
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Ferns
Crocuses gave way to tulips. Tulips have given way to ferns. 100 Prince StreetGardenFerns
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Peak Verdant
The large back garden is one of the great aspects of 100 Prince Street, and never is it more beautiful and verdant than in June. Two years ago—can it really been have been so little and so long ago...
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Délices de l’île Maurice
Seventeen years ago today I was in Montréal, and brother Steve and I found ours way to Délices de l’île Maurice for supper.Partially due coincidence, and partially due my love of leveraging...
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Pete's Easy Rhabarberschorle
My favourite summertime drink when in Germany is Rhabarberschorle, a rhubarb spritzer. Here’s a bottle I enjoyed in 2011 in Berlin:With rhubarb in season, I resolved to make some for myself. It’s...
View ArticleA Permanent Experiment of Cooperation between Sunday and Weekday
On Sunday I went wandering on the web, ambling about as I sometimes do.“I should go to a bookbinding workshop!”, I thought to myself. “In Stockholm!” Post-COVID thoughts were afoot!So I Googled...
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