There are things you do outside of yourself...
Garnet Rogers, introducing his song Small Victory:There are things you do outside of yourself, that are, they’re not initially for yourself, but they end up being that way. The act of … any kind of...
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Automated Alerts for PEI School Storm Closures
Thanks in part to the efforts of the English Language School Board, it’s now possible to receive automated alerts about winter storm school closures on Prince Edward Island, alerts that look like...
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Universe Wraps in on Itself
Remember that WKRP in Cincinnati episode where Venus explains the atom? Oliver’s grade 9 science teacher showed it to his class when they were learning about the properties of matter.So the sitcoms of...
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"If your Airbnb tenants' meth lab contaminates or burns down your neighbors'...
From a recent post, Oakland incident highlights risks for absentee landlords, by Edward Hasbrouck:Second, Airbnb’s guarantee does not cover any personal liability to third parties — only damage to the...
View ArticleRevelations on Food
Two podcast episodes over the last month have opened my eyes to things I didn’t know.First, that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, and kohlrabi are all...
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Lot 16
The table markers at Samuel’s in Summerside are named after the Island’s township lots. I scored Lot 16. I once bought a schoolhouse in Lot 16, so this is entirely appropriate.
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Instructional Development
I’m in Summerside this afternoon, wearing my Hacker in Residence hat, to talk about open data with the Instructional Development and Assessment group in the Department of Education, Early Learning and...
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J. J. at the Bat
You write J. J. Steinfeld’s name like this: J. Period. Space. J. Period.I know this because, two years ago, I set an excerpt of his Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation in metal type and I needed to...
View Article"Somehow"
The Guardian on today’s Twitter outage:The company initially confirmed the outage by, somehow, tweeting, from its @support account. We were unable to see the tweet, because Twitter was down. Twitter...
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Eleven Germans Escape from Amherst
The front page story “Eleven Germans Escape from Amherst” from the January 19, 1919 edition of The Guardian caught my eye this morning:The camp at Amherst is most famous for its most famous prisoner,...
View ArticleThe Death of Leon Trotsky
After he left Amherst, Nova Scotia, Leon Trotsky’s life – if you can believe it – got even more interesting.As told in this tale of how his personal papers came to be owned by Harvard, he ended his...
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Amherst 1.24, Moncton 3.10, St. John 6.15
Since learning of the 11 escaped German prisoners yesterday, you’ve probably been waiting with bated breath for the rest of the story.And in the following day’s paper came the answer: captured.History...
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The History of Clow’s Store
For the five years, 1995 to 2000, that Catherine and I lived on the Kingston Road, Clow’s Red & White in Hampshire was our lifeline. Bobby and Verna and Norman and their staff were a daily part of...
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(Not) Mississippi John Hurt
I’ve thrown my hat into the ring for a Bodleian Libraries project to memorialize the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by having his 154 sonnets hand-printed by printers the world over.I’ve...
View Article"PEI Liquor Control Commission: Box of wine"
Back in December, the Green Party released its Office of the Third Party expenses for the first two quarters, and asked for feedback about the format and presentation, which I was happy to provide.The...
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Ethan and Oliver Go to School
Two years ago Ethan, Oliver’s autism assistance dog, joined our family: he and Oliver met each other for the first time in March of 2014, following 10 days of training for Catherine and I at Lions...
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