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The Cheapest Thing You Can Buy at Canadian Tire?
Spotted in the water filtering section of the Charlottetown Canadian Tire: a home water test kit selling for 5¢.Somewhat confusingly, that is the price for both the test kit and the water test...
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Jeb!
Found in a paperback book I brought back from New Hampshire. I’d forgotten where I’d tucked them. A fortuitous rediscovery given the events of yesterday.
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John Dale and the Small Island
I got a call on Thursday afternoon from Dave Stewart, a reporter at The Guardian. He was writing a story for the business section about John Dale’s Breadworks and, knowing I was a satisfied customer,...
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Step One: All students get their own dry erase marker
If only the professor can write on the whiteboard, how can you have a true dialogue?As a bonus, I discovered that there’s a 20% “staff discount” at the UPEI bookstore!I also bought a bottle of dry...
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Megalomaniacs & Magic Circles: The University as a Technology
Today was lecture number one of the four that I’m teaching this winter in Philosophy 105: Technology, Values and Science at the University of Prince Edward Island. Here’s how it played out.I spent the...
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Directed by Tessa Blake
I told a friend, at lunch the other day, of my sudden realization that it is my peers who are running the world now.As if to reinforce this, our friend Tessa Blake directed this week’s episode of NCIS...
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Watching Summerhill
To start off the second of my Philosophy 105 lectures today, we’re watching Summerhill.
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The One Where My Weaknesses as a Teacher Emerge
As the terrain we covered in Monday’s Philosophy 105 class was teaching, learning, and the “university as a technology,” I started today’s class by showing the students the 1967 National Film Board...
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Seeing Yourself Differently with a Wide Angle Webcam
I bought myself a Logitech C930EUSB webcam yesterday at Best Buy; my friend and colleague Ton Zijlstra is joining my Philosophy 105 class tomorrow via Skype, and I needed a way for him to be able to...
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22 Degrees of Separation
Thursday is shaping up to be an interesting weather day.A low of temperature of -11°C and a high temperature of 11°C (it doesn’t get much better than that if you like things like that).And every single...
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Aubergine
I came across an ad in The New Yorker for a book called spark joy, an extended rumination on tidying. In the introduction the author summarizes her philosophy:If you are confident that something brings...
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Casa Mia After Dark
My friends Noosh and Gina, owners of Casa Mia Café, having been planning a nighttime dessert offering for more than a year now, slowly and deliberately.They’ve worked hard to come up with an array of...
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Transit Pass
To help me help them, the folks at T3 Transit generously gave me a monthly pass for March. So I’m living the transit high life for the month.Among other things, it’s an opportunity for me study a la...
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Island Morning Resolutions
On the way to work this morning I called into CBC Island Morning’s post-show-on-Tuesday community call-in to encourage PEI Home and School Federationmember associations to use their March meetings to...
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How to Use Skype in the Classroom
For yesterday’s session of Philosophy 105– the third of four I’m facilitating this winter– I wanted to bring my longtime friend and colleague Ton Zijlstra into the classroom to broaden our discussion...
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Avis and Budget Car Rental in Downtown Charlottetown
As our 2000VW Jetta enters its later years, it’s become our habit, when driving off the Island, to rent a car. In the off-season this is always surprisingly inexpensive, a certainly much less expensive...
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I'm the Map: Mapping and Agency in a Digital World
Today was my final lecture of four in the Philosophy 105 course I’ve been guest-teaching this winter (see reports from lectures one, two and three). I’ve taken the students on a diversion from the...
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Voting in the New York State Primary
I received an email from the Monroe County Board of Elections earlier this week that my ballot for the April 19, 2016 Presidential Primary was available for download. I logged in – using credentials...
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