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Digital vs. Analog
All of the components needed to set my Prince Street School raffle tickets were in place today, so I was able to set all the type and lock everything in place. Here’s a comparison of my original sketch...
View ArticleSunday Shopping (Again)
The issue of shopping on Sundays has reared its head here on Prince Edward Island again, with the introduction of a private member’s bill by Hon. Olive Crane, An Act to Amend the Retail Business...
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My Local Almanac: My Favourite Project
Of all the projects I’ve had a hand in over the years, my absolute favourite is My Local Almanac, a “make your own Old Farmer’s Almanac” application that’s available for sale on Almanac.com. My Local...
View ArticleOff to the Continent
We’re off at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning, Catherine, Oliver and I, to fly to Munich by way of Halifax and Philadelphia. It’s a late fall vacation; maybe too late for crisp fall weather, but a...
View ArticleOur Trip So Far
Networking on borrowed time, and with no apostrophes, so here is the prose poetry version of our trip to Europe so far: sunny drive to Halifax, painless pre-clear of US customs, US Airways to...
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Acqua Alta
What greeted us at the end of the street here in Venice this moring, high tide time in Venice: Our street itself was dry, and the worst of it for our walk to the train station was hoisting Oliver into...
View ArticleThe Road Home
Caught a bus in a dark alley in Mestre — the land-side of Venice — and 4 hours later we were in Ljubljana with 4 inched of snow on the ground. Overnight at the crazily modern City Hotel and then picked...
View ArticleHome from Travels
We landed back in Charlottetown late of Friday afternoon after an arduous but uneventful trip from Munich (9 hour flight to Philadelphia, 5 hour layover, 2 hour flight to Halifax, overnight in Halifax,...
View ArticleTelestial Passport SIM Review
Regular readers will know that I’m something of a “making sure my cell phone works when I’m traveling” fanatic. This is partly a very real concern, so I can be reached to help address any technical...
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A Visit to Tipoteca
While our trip to Europe over the last few weeks had many purposes – vacation, education, family history research – the real reason for the trip, at least for me, was an excuse to visit Tipoteca...
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My Delicious
The writing is on the wall for del.icio.us, so, as a preemptive move, I grabbed the 2,193 bookmarks I’ve put there since June 23, 2005. I’m reluctant to join the rush to Pinboard as a replacement, as...
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A Visit to Vitra
If you are a regular everyday person, Vitra is a company you’ve probably never heard of. Based in Weil am Rhein, Germany, it is a manufacturer of furniture for the office and home. Its products,...
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15 Small Things
I’ve been in “so, how was your trip!” answering mode for the last week or so since we returned from our trip to Europe, and I realized that lots of the tiny details, the details that really shape a...
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Oliver’s Dramatic Hair Cut
I’ve a feeling that Catherine’s going to think we went too far with this hair cut. Please note that Oliver’s head did not get bigger as the result of the haircut: it’s an optical illusion.
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January 2011 Calendar
After supper tonight I had an idea come to me for a calendar I could set to fit on thin strips of beige card stock that I purchased at the October 2010 Wayzgoose at Gaspereau Press in Kentville. The...
View ArticleThe State Within
If you’ve got a streaming Netflix subscription, or other access to the BBC Television back-catalogue, I recommend The State Within, a 7-part series set in Washington, DC made in 2006 starring Jason...
View ArticleThe Big C
While I’m making shows-on-Netflix recommendations, let me suggest you watch The Big C, a half-hour dramedy starring Laura Linney. See the review in The New Yorker for a quick setting of the scene....
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Making of Neptune Card
Sometime last month I came across a factoid while surfing the web: on July 12, 2011 Neptune will have completed its first orbit of the sun since it was first discovered in 1846. This stuck in my head,...
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Circus Roncalli
When I’m singing the virtues of travel to people who haven’t traveled that much, inevitably the question of language barriers comes up, and my stock line is as follows: in any given situation in a...
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