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Deepdene
Back in August I changed the body type here to Goudy’s University of California Old Style typeface, a digital version from P22.My love for the face was tempered by the lack of a bold variant, which...
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The Levees of 2016
Oliver and Ethan and I headed out early this morning on our annual visit to New Year’s Day levees.It was a beautiful, sunny, morning; warm enough so we didn’t need to wear hats:Our timing was almost...
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The first day of the year is a good time to ruminate on life changing.Peter Bevan-Baker, writing about his first months as a Member of the Legislative Assembly:For over 30 years I went to work as a...
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2006 at the Levees
For contrast to this year’s levee report, see also the 2006 rundown. Plus ça change.Back then Oliver was this tall (and not going to the levees):And I had a camera phone that took photos that big.A...
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Oliver's Painting
Last night at Catherine Hennessey’s New Year’s Eve party someone pointed out a painting that Oliver painted in 2008 and gave Catherine for Christmas.I’d never seen it before; I love it.
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Down is Up, Up is Down
We arrived at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market this morning to find the smoked salmon booth and the cheese booth had swapped places.At the same time, the price of a smoked salmon bagel has risen to...
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Imaginary Expatriates
Scott David Herman is a American living in Hamilton. He has blogged at erasing.org since 1999.I moved to Canada in 2005 in order to more frequently go out to dinner with Laura. At the time she was my...
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Last Day of the Holland Map
The Samuel Holland map of Prince Edward Island has been at the Confederation Centre of the Arts since midsummer; today is its last day on public display before it returns to the National Archives in...
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Of Oz the Wizard
From my friend Oliver comes a pointer to Of Oz the Wizard, an “alphabetized version of the entire film.” Watch it to understand what that means.It brings to mind my Hacking Stuart McLean experiment...
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The One Where Flickr Thinks Ethan is a Bird
Flickr has a “magic view” on its Camera Roll tab that auto-tags images.Generally it really is quite magic-seeming.It can find bicycles, for example:But sometimes it misfires. Like when it thought Ethan...
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Starbucks Pro Tip: For Here
I don’t spend a lot of time at Starbucks, for all the reasons you might imagine.But sometimes it’s unavoidable — airports, desolate suburbia, need for anonymity — and something I’ve found that makes it...
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Our Water Usage is Down 35%
We’ve now had a water meter at our house at 100 Prince Street for more than two years.We started monitoring our daily water usage, as part of the Social Consumption Project, in late October 2014; in...
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Charlottetown Transit in OpenStreetMap
I’m volunteering with the City of Charlottetown to create a General Transit Feed for public transit in the city.This is an extension of work I started 10 years ago when the city first got a public...
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At the Premier's Levee
In previous years photos, from the Premier’s levee have come in the mail well into the new year. This year our photo simply showed up on the Government’s Flickr.So here’s me, Oliver, Premier...
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