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Boulder Park Refill
Three years ago I installed brochure holders in the Charlottetown Boulder Park. I’m happy to say they’re still there, and, as of yesterday, refilled with brochures.
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Tall Back Yard
Camera phone hack: shoot in panorama mode, but vertically. The iPhone, at least, is smart enough to figure out what you’re doing. And the vertical is often a lot more interesting that the horizontal....
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The Shed
Via Clark I learned about The Shed a few weeks ago. I made my first visit this afternoon and had an exceptional macchiato. It’s located in a corner of the Royal Canadian Legion building on Pownal...
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Adding Miꞌkmaq Place Names to OpenStreetMap
Prince Edward Island is missing Miꞌkmaq-language place names on OpenStreetMap, something easily resolved using this list from the Miꞌkmaq Confederacy.Here’s how.Go to OpenStreetMap.org and search for...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications via RSS
The (other) Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications section is among my favourite destinations to check daily, made easier by being available as an RSS feed.Two musical gems from yesterday:Despite...
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The importance of not letting YouTube pick your thumbnail automatically...
To be clear, there actually is a need to get vaccinated.YouTubeCOVID-19
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Alec Baldwin interviews Eddie Marsan and David Arquette
Alec Baldwin interviews Eddie Marsan and David Arquette. He is such a masterful interviewer. And Marsan and Arquette are more interesting that you might assume.Alec BaldwinPodcast
View ArticleDad’s BPM
My father opted to solve his high cholesterol with walking instead of medication. And because he was who he was, his walking program included detailed diagrams of the local shopping mall’s step count,...
View ArticleFrozen Yogurt
It will be eight years this weekend since frozen yogurt last hit the big time in Charlottetown:It’s like 1998 all over again – the year Deep Impact vs. Armageddon, both asteroids-vs-Earth movies,...
View Article“Sex is back, but it’s going to be different”
Isn’t this paragraph, by Eva Wiseman in Sex is back, but it’s going to be different in The Observer, just the greatest:The trick will be to weaponise this awkwardness, and transform it into a series of...
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Purity Oats & Barley
Olivia and I have been proud to have contributed, in a small way, to the development of Purity Dairy’s new Oats & Barley beverage: over the last year we’ve been secreted out of the dairy with...
View ArticleVan Neistat & Rich Roll
There aren’t many interviews two hours and twenty minutes long that I would willingly sit through, but Van Neistat interviewed by Rich Roll is one of them. Filmmaking, sobriety, work, craft, money, and...
View ArticleSpotify → Apple Music
I’ve generally averse to bundled services, as they almost always feel like a trap.But I’ve started to be annoyed with the prominence of podcasts in Spotify: I’m happy happy and longtime Pocket Casts...
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Inarguably Freckled
Sometimes I forget that I’m freckled. But then I sit for a close-up, and it’s inarguable. Witness:I am modelling my new AirPods Pro, which I’ve been using for a week now, after a recommendation from my...
View Article"So why do people think you're weird?"
Another passage from Joe Biel’s The Autism Relationships Handbook:A common joke in autistic circles is about the horrors of the allistic (non-autistic) disability. It goes roughly like this:Person A:...
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Second Shot
The provincial vaccination clinic was as much a beautiful interlocking ballet of efficiency as the first time (April 22, a seeming eternity ago).I learned a lot from my nurse about the places squirrels...
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Second Shot Redux
Beyond the familiar “who came into my bedroom in the middle of the night and punched me in the arm?!” feeling this morning, and a mild headache, I seem to have survived Shot Number Two unscathed. But...
View ArticleOne Book Bookstore
In Praise of Small Menus, by Rachel Sugar:The first New York City restaurant I fell in love with served only one thing. I had not known this was a possibility. I had never encountered a restaurant that...
View ArticleUnethical Investing
It’s rare to find commentary on ethical investing embedded in TV reviewing, so I was happy to find it in Sarah Miller’s She’d Like To Make An Unethical Investment — In Another Man’s Penis:I’m not going...
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