Getting Out of Dodge
In Travel, the autism spectrum, and the pandemic, Edward Hasbrouck writes, in part:Re-emerging from our COVID-19 cocoons is disorienting and stressful. This psychological phenomenon was anticipated...
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Vestibule Dining
With the dining room table taken up with Hallowe’en-related activities, we needed an alternate place to eat supper. 100 Prince StreetVestibuleDinner
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My iPhone translates from Dutch into English now…
When the built-in translation features for iOS were first launched the list of language pairs was limited, to the point where I stopped even trying to use the feature, as Dutch, Swedish, Danish,...
View ArticleThe One Where I Need to Get Fingerprinted
To be able to volunteer in public schools in Prince Edward Island, policies now dictate that a criminal record check be completed:6.1 A person wanting to volunteer in a school is required to provide...
View ArticleExcuse me, can you tell me your name?
Tyler Crane was a presence in our Saturday morning life for years and years: behind the counter (or out in front) at Riverview Country Market, he was universally helpful, funny, kind, generous, a case...
View Article“What it requires of men is only this: step back. Quit guarding the doors.”
Annie Mueller’s What feminism means to me is a stunning piece of writing.Feminism
View ArticleThe Irascible Eddie Rice
From 1994 to 2000 we lived in a little house on the Kingston Road.One day I was at home alone.There was a knock on the door. A disheveled man was standing there when I answered; he asked if he could...
View ArticleGoodbye Heather and Norman
Norman and Heather have been neighbours, up the street in the brick building — “Peter Ghiz’s old office,” in Island parlance — for as long as I can recall. They’re dog people, and so they are...
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Plum Tree Remediation Project
Hurricane Fiona spared our apple trees, and, indeed, almost spared the plum tree but for the large Norway maple that fell on top of it. The plum tree wasn’t snapped, however, and its roots stayed in...
View Article"as a desperate attempt to immerse myself in the unknown"
Ida Josefiina, in Me (a brief history):I moved to Shenzhen, China as a desperate attempt to immerse myself in the unknown. I wanted to feel like I was drowning in a pool of unfamiliarity and novelty,...
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Zone 5 Public Schools Branch Candidates In Sane
By way of trying out Sane, I pulled some information from the PEI Home and School Federation candidate profiles for the Public School Branch trustee elections and put it in a graph.It was a helpful...
View ArticleThese Hands
Recorded for the 2020 Celtic Colours, These Hands, featuring English, Mi’kmaw, Gaelic, and French by Dave Gunning, Darren Stevens, Mary Jane Lamond, Nicole LeBlanc, and Kaia Kater.Link from my old...
View ArticleFavourites? What favourites?
The Favourites page that I set up in 2019 to automatically generate from the RSS reader, stopped working in mid-July when I moved my RSS reader to a new host. I’ve patched things back together, so...
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The Frightening Essence of our AI-Distilled Selves
Andy Baio posted Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model today, and I immediately followed his lead and used this (very helpful, clear) YouTube tutorial...
View ArticleCleaning out a Full Google Drive
All the experimenting I was doing yesterday with AI-generated images almost filled up my Google Drive. Fortuitously, Kris Howard pointed to this helpful Google tool to assist with identifying and...
View ArticleAnd beets taste like dirt and despair
This piece by K’eguro Macharia may be the single best thing ever written about vegetables. Or at least about beets:I have roasted beets. I have roasted them when they are wrapped in foil and I have...
View ArticleMy TFA Codes Aren't Working!
A coworker was having an issue logging into a website that requires two-factor authentication. We keep the authentication information for this site, including the TFA code, in a corporate 1Password...
View ArticleChattel Fixtures
David Cyrus MacDonald’s new Chattel Fixtures podcast is an entertaining look into real estate on PEI. His first guest is Steve Barber, impresario turned real estate agent; they had a good chat. Real...
View ArticleToxic Individualism
Looking more broadly, the price we pay as a society for our toxic individualism and patriarchy is our permanent estrangement from one another. If I can’t connect to you, I can’t connect to us. Whether...
View ArticleCoach to Thrive
This post is an ad, of sorts, for Lisa’s Coach to Thrive program, a two-day leadership coaching workshop being offered this month and next:We created this workshop for leaders who are tired of spending...
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