What's that, you say? The Return of Comments!
One of the side-effects of suspending the cross-posting to Facebook that I announced yesterday was that you readers were again left without any way of leaving comments on posts here, something that,...
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Where's my summer been?
For the last 90 days I’ve been running an app called Backtitude on my Android phone that sends my geolocation to a server where it gets stored away in a database.Backtitude updates my location every 5...
View Article“The goal is to have curious and creative students who can function in life...”
From the article Wrong Answer, published in The New Yorker edition dated July 21, 2014, concerning organized cheating, by teachers and administrators, on standardized tests in Atlanta schools:John...
View ArticleEpic Solo Journeys by Indefatigable Australians
The Australian film Tracks is playing at City Cinema until Sunday night. It’s an interesting film, especially if you are a fan of the “epic solo journeys by indefatigable Australians” genre as I am...
View ArticleThe State of Comment Spam
Here are some statistics that might interest you about how things have gone since I turned the comments back on here a week ago.Over the last 7 days there have been 10 comments from real people...
View ArticlePete's Guide to Bethel, Maine
We’ve spent the last week here in Bethel, Maine with the gathered Rukavinas: 14 people and one service dog housed in a palatial mansion that far exceeds our station in life (but which, split 5 ways, is...
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Campobello Island and Two Thirds of the Quoddy Loop
Eighteen years ago I headed down to Dublin, New Hampshire for the first time to visit my new colleagues at Yankee Publishing. I made a brief pit-stop at the tourist information centre in St. Stephen,...
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Annals of Bad Design
We stopped for coffee at Second Cup in Saint John yesterday. They were promoting their new flat white heavily in the shop, both on the menu, on posters and with a glossy brochure. The brochure goes...
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Resist Confederation
I’ve been turning this idea over in my head all summer long while the maelstrom of Confederation boosterism plays out on every street corner. Someone, I rationed, needs to memorialize the...
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The Birch Tree is Still There (The First Day of Grade Eight)
Oliver headed off to grade 8 at Birchwood this morning; Ethan’s not ready to stay in school with him during the day, but he walks to school with us every morning. Off they go! (My archive isn’t...
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Added the Island
My work-in-progress gets another element: Prince Edward Island itself, which I will print in red.Letterpress | Prince Edward Island | Confederation
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Confederation Country Cabinet Installed in the Coles Building
Regular readers may recall that I spent a good chunk of my spring working on a commission to create six panels for Brenda Whiteway’s Confederation Country Cabinet. I was happy to receive this photo...
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In the Tai Chi Gardens
My favourite place to eat in the summer is in the back garden at Tai Chi Gardens: it signals the start of summer when it becomes warm enough for Kenny and Winnie to put out the tables in the back. But...
View ArticleBirchwood in Minecraft
The Minecraft Club at Oliver’s school, Birchwood Intermediate, set out last year to recreate the school in Minecraft. With a PDF of the floor plan of the school in-hand (courtesy of the 2011 Mould...
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My Own Cloud
In my continuing drive to decouple my life from Google and Dropbox et al – both to afford me more practical control and more spiritual control of my data – and spurred on by the example of my friend...
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We have reached peak all caps, sans serif...
From yesterday’s Apple event introductory video:From today’s visit to the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market:It’s a challenging time for those of us who believe strongly in the value of the lower case....
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It Takes 8 Minutes to Bicycle from My House to the PEI Brewing Company
A few days ago I spotted an intriguing photo on Instagram, taken by the inimitable Tristan Gray (who, among other things, might be PEI’s most attentive restaurant worker), of a new PEI Brewing Company...
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Tides for September 14, 1914
Here’s a snippet from The Guardian, September 14, 1914, showing the September 1914 tide predictions for Charlottetown and highlighting the high tide times for this day, 100 years ago:Here’s a snippet...
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Sunflower
Spotted at the Trinity-Clifton United Church manse fence yesterday around dusk.Sunflowers | Photos
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What's my Lot?
If you visit WhatsMyLot.com and you happen to be on Prince Edward Island with a device – a desktop, a laptop, a mobile phone, a tablet – that knows its own location, the little app you find there will...
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