Appointed School Boards
In an interview with CBC this weekend Premier Robert Ghiz suggested that the government was leaning toward appointed rather than elected school trustees for the new single English-language school board...
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My Sphere of Influence
I’ve been running Latitude Auto-Update on my Nokia Lumia 800 for the last month: it sends my current location to Google Latitude every 30 minutes. Here’s the last 14 days of my location on a map: It’s...
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Plant, Glass, Water
Here’s a bit of office life-hacking that’s been working out for me: on the office windowsill I have our newly-acquired schefflera arboricola plant sited beside our newly-acquired in-office water jug...
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Everything else you can buy...
Reading Practical Tips from 4 Years of Traveling The World — written by a woman who is doing just that — makes me want to travel again soon. Not only is it a good thumbnail sketch of some useful...
View ArticleTranslated Home and School Toolkit
I was in Province House this morning for the announcement by Hon. Allen Roach, Minister of Innovation and Advanced Learning that our PEI Home and School Federation’s Home and School Toolkit has been...
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Draw Something
Thanks to my sister-in-law Jodi, I spent a good deal of yesterday afternoon and evening addicted to Draw Something. Not only did I help Oliver go toe-to-toe with Jodi, and with my mother, but I also...
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The Office Beanbag
Prolific maker and friend of the blog Erin Bateman has a stall at the new Queen Square Market in the Murphy’s Community Centre and she is selling beanbags of two varieties, “heavy” and “light.” They...
View ArticleNumbers in a Monthly Calendar
I’m setting a calendar for the month of May, and I need to know how many of each numeral I need to set the day numbers. So I figured it out, and here, for future reference, is a table of my count:...
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SET A GOAL.
I appear to have entered the “printing inspirational quotes” phase of my life, as today’s letterpress project as a bright red “SET A GOAL.” Here’s what it looked like: Here’s a brief movie I shot of...
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A Perfect Day?
Not only is it 9°C outside with an expect high of 18°C, but here inside the Reinventorium it’s 21°C and 52% humidity, which, my humidistat tells me, is right in the middle of the “comfort zone” for...
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Envelope Die Lines
What a great resource Designers Toolbox is, especially this envelope reference. Want to make your own envelopes? Just print, cut and fold. Here’s one I just made: There’s a magic transformation that...
View ArticleTesting the Jabra Speak 410
Every Friday afternoon for many years we’ve called up our colleagues at Yankee for a weekly review. We’ve experimented with various technologies for this call, from regular old telephones to our own...
View Article2012 Icelandair Schedule from Halifax
Pretty well most of the time I’m in a state of readiness to drop everything and fly to Iceland on a moment’s notice. While this is something that, in practice, rarely happens, it’s always good to have...
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Helping our politicians out of the uncanny chasm of media training...
The uncanny valley is a “hypothesis in the field of robotics… which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion...
View ArticlePrince Street School Concert, 1899
In The Guardian of December 30, 1899 was the following review of a concert at Prince Street School (I’ve broken the text into paragraphs to improve readability, but this is otherwise verbatim, thanks...
View ArticleSomebody to love...
All week long students from the Holland College School of Performing Arts have been rehearsing for in the theatre next to the Reinventorium, readying for this weekend’s showcase event Love and the Lack...
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Go next door and borrow a cup of ink...
The great corporate patron of my letterpress project continues to be Kwik Kopy in Charlottetown, just 4 blocks north up Queen Street. This week I’m plotting a poster for a May event, and I needed some...
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I love it when a plan comes together...
Back in 1999 Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article for The New Yorker, Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg, an article that factored prominently in his book The Tipping Point. In the article Gladwell profiled...
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Back when Brutalism was Brutal
Here’s an undated postcard from the PEI Museum and Heritage collection showing the Confederation Centre of the Arts: The Centre is in the Brutalist style that was typical of institutional buildings in...
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