7 Million Dump Trucks
Wikipedia tells us that the surface area of Prince Edward Island is 5,660 km2.The square root of 5,660 is 75.23, meaning that, if reconfigured to be a square, PEI would be 75.23 km by 75.23 km.NASA...
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Dog, Ethan Dog
Section 2.1 of the City of Charlottetown Dog Control Bylaw says:Any dog owner residing in the City who does not register a dog with the Clerk on or before the 31st day of March in each year, and does...
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Damn Ice Dams: A Weekend Spent
It snowed. And snowed. And snowed. Over a metre of snow over a couple of weeks. So that by last weekend our back yard looked like this:That’s a 5 foot fence, to give you a sense of the how deep the...
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Over the course of my weekend spent obsessed with snow and ice removal, I made several trips to Sherwood Home Hardware.On my first trip, to buy an extension ladder, I paid with my MasterCard.I...
View ArticlePaul Williams is Still Alive
Last night on Netflix I came upon a movie called Paul Williams: Still Alive and, more intrigued, I must say, by the typeface on the poster than by any strong memory of Paul Williams, I started to...
View Article"This is where the DJ talks, don't say anything..."
Back in 1992 I saw a film called Feed at the Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival), a film that IMDB succinctly describes like this:This is a documentary about the 1992...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Cyberneticists: The Return of Systems Thinking to Prince...
In his book The Human Use of Human Beings, first published in 1950, author Norbert Weiner describes his coining of the term cybernetics:Until recently, there was no existing word for this complex of...
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The Guardian goes #FF5900
The Charlottetown Guardian unveiled its new design this morning, part of a redesign of all of parent company TC Media’s local newspapers called “Project Orange” internally. On the left is Saturday’s...
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Detecting Aircraft in Charlottetown
Longtime readers may recall that, starting three years ago, I’ve been running an AIS receiving station here in the Reinventorium in downtown Charlottetown, listening to the automated ships location...
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Prince Edward Island School Calendar, 2015-2016
I’ve again taken the official Prince Edward Island School Calendar and updated a set of public calendar files to make it easier for parents and others to shunt the information around their digital...
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How planes fly over the Atlantic Ocean
If you’re interested in how it is that, without radar available to air traffic control, airplanes can fly over the Atlantic Ocean without flying into each other, this video from NATS about the Shanwick...
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A Good Day for Wind Energy on PEI
When I talk to people about wind energy generation on Prince Edward Island, they are often under the impression that the wind is a relatively small part of the energy mix on the Island.And there’s no...
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18 Hours of Overflights
I’ve been detecting and archiving ADS-B position reports from airplanes flying over Prince Edward Island for the last 18 hours; here’s a map of what my little Raspberry Pi has picked up:That’s a simple...
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ALLEX ELSIR
So I’ve become slightly obsessed with with the world of flight planning and trans-oceanic air travel: it’s a new puzzle to solve, and it involves things flying over my house on the way to far-off...
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Retirement of the Fish Points
Hidden away in an obscure circular that appears to have been released in early 2014 by Gander Control is notice that a group of waypoints know as the “fish points” are to be deleted:I’ve been puzzling...
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It Snowed Again
My friend Ray took this photo of 100 Prince Street this morning. As you can see, it snowed again. For almost 24 hours.The key thing to notice in the photo, though, is that the first 2 or 3 feet of the...
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5 Days of Airplanes over PEI
I took the overflights of PEI data that I visualized earlier for an 18 hour period and extended the visualization to include the last 5 days of overflights. Here’s what it looks like:Here’s the same...
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ICAO, ICARD and 5LNC: How those 5-letter aeronautical waypoint codes get...
Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week?Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak...
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Nettie Turns 100
My brother Johnny pointed out that today would have been the 100th birthday of my grandmother Nettie – born Наталка Потягайло, or Nataltka Potjahailo, on March 19, 1915.Nettie died 16 years ago, but...
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