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Downtown Abbey
A full two years after everyone else was bitten by the Downton Abbey bug — and after figuring out that it’s not called Downtown Abbey (“a rogue pastor quits his rural parish to become a renegade cop on...
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Where is Arthur Peters?
In this biographical note about Arthur Peters, Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1901 to 1908, is this intriguing note:There is some debate over the exact burial location of Arthur Peters. While his...
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Pressing "Play" on a Newspaper
The January 20, 1912 issue of The Charlottetown Guardian was notable for having sheet music on the front page. The song, “Jack O’Lantern Boogieman,” was from the show How Baxter Butted In which ran on...
View ArticleIf Prince Edward Island was a country...
The population of Prince Edward Island is, according to the government, 146,105. If Prince Edward Island was a country, thus, it would be the 188th largest country in the world, and 53 other countries...
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The Guardian on Christmas Day
While it is tradition for newspapers to not publish on Christmas Day, this hasn’t always been the case: The Guardian printed on Christmas Day in (at least) 1913 through 1920 and in 1926. Here are the...
View ArticleThe Forest Rangers
I’ve had the theme for The Forest Rangers running through my head all morning. And now you can too!Add a Comment
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Prince Street Raffle Tickets
Every year the Prince Street Home and School holds a Christmas raffle to raise money. And every year for the past 5 years I’ve volunteered to produce the tickets; for the last three years it’s been a...
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A Year of The Guardian
Many years ago, when Mark Leggott first moved to Prince Edward Island to become University Librarian, we had lunch at the old Interlude restaurant on Kent Street. Mark and I first met in 1994 in St....
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Maquette
One clear signal that you hanging out with an art-insider crowd is overhearing frequent use of the word maquette, a word almost never heard elsewhere. If you’re an art-outsider, dropping an m-bomb...
View Article2013 Charlottetown Area Levee Schedule
Here’s is the 2013 levee schedule for January 1, 2013 for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and area. This is the 8th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information; who would have thought!...
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iTunes Album View Colours
Until I read about it in this Panic Blog post I’d been missing one of the new features of iTunes 11: in “Album View” (just click the “Albums” tab when looking at your music) the background and text...
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Arms of Canada + Letterpress
My friend Ian Scott dropped round the Reinventorium yesterday with an early Christmas gift: the loan of another set of cigar boxes filled with old letterpress cuts. By far and away the most brilliant...
View ArticleDeep Dive into Arms
Here’s a 600dpi scan of the Arms of Canada run through zoom.it to make a zoomable image:Add a Comment
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The New 230 MW Electricity Peak
I’ve been keeping a watchful eye on Prince Edward Island’s electricity usage for the past couple of weeks, and noted that this Monday afternoon we hit what appears to be a new all-time peak load of 230...
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The Notebooks
I am a collector of notebooks. Other than (cheap, usually disposable) fountain pens, they are my only indulgence, and it’s rare that I don’t come back from a journey away with a few choice notebook...
View ArticleCapsule.me
I encountered self-styled “ActorPreneur” Michael Ronen at a Thursday “betabreakfast” at Betahaus in Berlin this summer and was struck by his passion for an idea that has evolved in the interim into...
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2012 Year in Review
Oliver and I are hopping on a jet plane tomorrow and herding up to Ontario for a week, leaving Catherine with the Christmas gift of an uninterrupted week in her studio, free from fetters of family to...
View ArticleCold Landing
And we’re back. Oliver and I landed in Charlottetown on the Westjet flight from Toronto yesterday, just in time to almost entirely miss the marking of the new year. We woke up this morning to -16º C...
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The Hour Credits
The British series The Hour, a period drama set in the 1960s in and around a current affairs program at the BBC. My favourite design element of the series are the title credits:What I particularly like...
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Raspberry Pi
Twenty years after I first installed Linux (on an IBMPS/2), I booted up a tiny deck-of-cards-sized Raspberry Pi here in the lab. It was dead simple to get running. And, once running, feels like coming...
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