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The IWMC App is Broken
Island Waste Management, which handles compost and recycling pickup on Prince Edward Island, has an mobile app that, among other things, can send me alerts about which cart to put at the curb when. Our...
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Open Tables
It took about four hours of effort, but I cleaned the print shop this week, in preparation for a tour this afternoon. I touched things I hadn’t touched since I moved them in. The label maker was...
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Posted up in Kensington
I got in my Kia Soul EV this morning to head to Freetown (to ride Tye the Horse) only to find that I hadn’t plugged the charger plug into the car sufficiently snuggly for it to actually charge. So I...
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Blackwing Pencil Point Guard
You can buy an official Blackwing Pencil Point Guard for around $14.00. They are lovely and well-fitting and appropriately beautiful. Alas that level of stationery nerdery is too much even for...
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“Daddy, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before…”
Riding back from a paddle at Andrew’s Pond this afternoon, pulling my canoe behind my bicycle, I passed a family out in their front yard.“I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before!”, said the father,...
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Poll Weeping
Standing a few steps from the Poll 53 table in the Murphy Community Centre this morning, just after 9:30 a.m., watching Olivia vote, I had tears in my eyes.The tears had many tributaries.Olivia finds...
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iOS 15 Live Text
The ability to seamlessly copy-and-paste text directly from photos in iOS 15 is breathtaking. iOS 15Live Text
View ArticleNot a restaurant
I love that this freshwater spring in Nova Scotia has three reviews and a 5-star rating on Google Maps: it feels like a subversion. Nova ScotiaGoogle Maps
View ArticleThe Adult Bed
Sarah Miller writes about her bedclothes:Adult bed was about aesthetics, not pets or snacks. “Adult bed” just meant no more aggressively mismatched sheets, pillowcases and comforter covers. The bed...
View ArticleThe Hardest Time
Bill Voyd, from Funk Architecture in Shelter and Society, 1969, on Drop City:The hardest time in a commune, particularly Drop City, is the time after the building gets done. While everyone is working...
View ArticleMagic Psalms of Rotting Cities
Geoff Manaugh, writing in Of Comets and Ruin in the Volume 24: Counterculture in 2010, about his friend Allen Ginsburg:Allen once urged me to write as simply as possible so that whatever I wrote could...
View Article"The Diver Who Saved the Cathedral"
Diver William Walker saved Winchester Cathedral:From 1906, Walker laboured under water below the Cathedral for six hours a day at depths up to 6 metres (20 ft). He worked in total darkness, using his...
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The Clothes Dryer that Ripped Holes in my Clothes and Set them on Fire
We bought this Kenmore clothes dryer at Sears twenty-one years ago:The dryer served us well, but for the last year it’s had the unfortunate new feature of occasionally ripping holes in our clothes, and...
View ArticleWhen you think Tim McGraw I hope you think of me
Taylor Swift’s Tim McGraw, released in 2006, a solid country song, has new life breathed into it by Maggie Rogers’ 2018 cover, which makes it something else entirely. Taylor SwiftMaggie Rogers
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Blackwing
When you run out of things to sketch1, sketch your pencil. I haven’t run out of things to sketch. SketchPencilBlackwing
View Article"Though fortune may be pleasing, I'll go along with you..."
Craigie Hill is a track from Karine Polwart, from her upcoming album Still As Your Sleeping. I’ve listened to it about 100 times today.Karine Polwart
View Article"A fetlock is part of a horse’s leg, and therefore not near its ears."
Rhik Samadder tried horseback riding, and wrote about it in The Guardian:I tell the brown-and-white beast to walk, and miraculously, it does. I’m riding! A horse! It’s more comfortable than I’d...
View ArticleYou can’t name your British horse Charlottetown
You also can’t name it Pete. Or Brighteyes. Or Pickle. Those names are taken. To find out what unique horse names are available, use the British Horse Racing Horse Name Availability Tool
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