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May 3, 1922
Here’s what page 3 of The Charlottetown Guardian looked like on May 3, 1922:In amongst the ads for “barefoot sandals” and an 8-year old Clyde Mare and Navy Cut Cigarettes was the end of the report from...
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Confederation Country Cabinet: The Book
Remember the Confederation Country Cabinet project that I made a small contribution to this spring?Well I was delighted to receive a copy of the book that Brenda Whiteway arranged to have produced by...
View ArticleHaythorneapalooza
Remember Robert P. Haythorne, the most interesting Prince Edward Island premier you’ve never heard of? Well a bunch of modern-day Islanders from Haythorne’s stomping grounds in Marshfield are seeking...
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How I used my geolocation archive to show AVIS that I couldn't possibly have...
A couple of days ago I received an email from AVIS car rental that pointed me to a website where they informed me that they had billed me $23.00 for passing through a Massachusetts Turnpike toll plaza...
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Off to Calgary for a Week
A curious set of circumstances will see me spending the next week in Calgary wearing two overlapping hats – Hacker in Residence and Reinvented – to engage in a rollicking good time amongst academics...
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How I got from Calgary Airport to my hotel for free...
In Rukavina family lore my paternal grandmother Nettie is famous for the distance she would walk to save money. From her house on Mary Street in Brantford she would walk to a Callbeck’s grocery store...
View ArticleStrands
Here is a strand.Eleven years ago I attended a public meeting at the Delta Prince Edward hotel where Maritime Electric, Prince Edward Island’s electric utility, made its case for a dramatic increase in...
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The One Where I Accidentally Discover the Cache of Polish Geological Maps
On the list of things that can happen to someone like me, coming across an unexpected cache of paper maps – beautiful, richly colourful, paper maps on subjects ranging from the Northwest Passage to...
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Stephen Fearing in Sackville
The first time I saw Stephen Fearing perform live was in the Market Hall in Peterborough, Ontario in the late 1980s as part of Mike Barker’s excellent Folk Under the Clock series (still going on all...
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Spreading Printcraft
Back in July, in Enschede, Oliver and I gave a walk-through of Printcraft, the intriguing “make 3D models in Minecraft, then print them on a 3D printer” experiment, to a group at the Make Stuff that...
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Life Lessons from Bembo
In the spring of 2005 we spent a month in the small village of Aniane in the south of France. The trip was the first test of my “I can work from anywhere” hypothesis, and the results of the experiment...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin and My Sugarless Life
Two years ago next week I found myself trying to get to sleep in a Halifax hotel and so, as I often do, I listened to a podcast, the episode of Alec Baldwin’s Here’s the Thing where he interviewed Dr....
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Ethan Gets a Hair Cut
We generally keep Ethan’s hair clipped short: he’s a working dog, not an ornamental poodle, after all.But we’ve been busy over the last month, and let his hair get a little on the long side, to the...
View ArticleAnd Am I Born to Die
I just absolutely love this duet, shot cliff-side near Cannon Beach, Oregon and featuring couple-in-banjo-and-life Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn. For more on the Washburn-Fleck union, watch this PBS...
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What's using electricity in our empty house?
As part of my Social Consumption Project, I’ve had an electricity meter reader logging our household usage to a database since late September.The week of October 5 our house was empty – I was in the...
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Couples never kiss in Aaron Sorkin television dramas.The argue.They argue epically, eloquently, passionately.In Aaron Sorkin’s made-up world, argument is the currency of love.Lt. Daniel Kaffee argues...
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Using Skype Group Video Chat for Meetings
It’s been a stormy day here in Prince Edward Island, most especially on the western end. We had a PEI Home and School Federation board meeting scheduled for this evening, but the bad weather put having...
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Metered Water vs. All You Can Eat
We’ve now had a water meter in our house at 100 Prince Street for almost a year, so it’s a good time to look at what it’s costing us for water with a meter vs. what it was costing us under the old “all...
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Mystery Virus Destroys Capitalism
In the fall of 1992 I was living in Peterborough, Ontario doing freelance design work after almost 2 years spent in the composing room of the Peterborough Examiner newspaper. Catherine and I were...
View ArticleSupport Everything Gary Schneider
I have a general policy of donating to any project that Gary Schneider, coordinator of the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project, is behind; the latest is the Restore An Acre initiative. It’s a...
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