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All's Fair
When I was 10 years old, in 1976, I had a radio in my bedroom that, in addition to receiving on the regular AM and FM bands, also picked up the audio of TV broadcasts. And so, perhaps unbeknownst to my...
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I love watching TV. I love talking about TV. Somehow I’ve ended up with a group of friends who, mostly, have interest in neither watching TV nor talking about TV. I need to find a way of fixing that.In...
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Red & Yellow Buntbox
Last week in Halifax we stopped in at DeSerres on Barrington Street and I bought a Buntbox, a two-piece (bottom and lid) cardboard box. Because they’re sold flat-pack, I’m thinking that I could print...
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Samantha is Hiding in my Computer
We’re a family that uses the built-in Text-to-Speech capabilities of Mac OS X more than most: Catherine, Oliver and I all have different uses for it, but we all have our Macs reading to us every once...
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Chaissons 3.0
It gives me no end of joy that what The Guardian describes as the “younger wing of the talented fiddling family,” the Chaissons, have stepped up to keep the Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival going. If you’ve...
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Zaha Hadid
I was sad to learn this morning that architect Zaha Hadid has died.My first experience of her work was when, in 2010, Oliver and I visited the Phaeno science museum in Wolfsburg that she designed. It’s...
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Eye. Glasses.
Here’s a selfie I took yesterday, retouched by my father; it’s becoming my new avatar, replacing the one that stood me in good stead for a year:I’m wearing my new eyeglasses, just arrived Friday from...
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A Map of My Macula
While we’re on the topic of my eyes, here’s a snazzy scan of my left eye that Charlottetown Vision Care sent me after my last eye exam:My optometrist Dr. Judson helpfully took me on a tour of what...
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Print your own Charlottetown Fire Insurance Maps
Among the maps in the Island Imagined collection at the University of Prince Edward Island, my favourite are the Charlottetown Fire Insurance maps from the turn of the last century.One of the great...
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Beyond TYPO
Via Alphabettes, a link to Beyond TYPO, a whimsical new font that’s free to download:The Beyond TYPO Font is a hybrid creature, mixing hand-made letters and amœba. A high saturation of OpenType makes...
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50
I turn 50 today (see also turning 48, 47, 45, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, and 36; before age 36 apparently I was young enough not to comment).The day started with Oliver secretly passing a note to his...
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50
I turn 50 today (see also turning 48, 47, 45, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, and 36; before age 36, apparently, I was young enough not to notice my age).The day started with Oliver secretly passing a note to...
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I love watching TV. I love talking about TV. Somehow I’ve ended up with a group of friends who, mostly, have interest in neither watching TV nor talking about TV. I need to find a way of fixing that.In...
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"Be part of the superpower"
One of the duties of the President of PEI Home and School Federation is penning a monthly columns for The Guardian newspaper; as I hand over the position to someone new this Saturday at the...
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Success Story Speed Dating
Here’s a photo of delegates at our PEI Home and School Federation Annual Meeting yesterday engaged in what we called “Success Story Speed Dating.”The idea was that rather than focusing on “I wish they...
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Dog Relaxing
In a way that would be anathema to more sedate dogs-off-the-furniture families, Ethan has the run of the couches and chairs in our house – how else could he cozy up to Oliver, after all. Sometimes he...
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Public Accounts of Prince Edward Island, 1915 vs. 2015
The front page of the April 12, 1915 edition of The Guardian contained, in addition to news of the war, a breakdown of Prince Edward Island’s provincial spending and revenue for the previous year:The...
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Here’s how wrong numbers go down on Prince Edward Island:Caller:“Oh, shoot, I dialed the wrong number; sorry about that.”Me:“No problem. Have a good day.”Caller:“You too; take care.”We are a gentle,...
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Behold, The Lost City of New London
I’ve been sitting on the Publications Committee of Island Studies Press for the last six months, and in that capacity I had occasion to read an early version of the manuscript for John Cousins’s book...
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How M&M Furniture Won Our Business
We have been promiscuous in our appliances purchases over the last 20 years on Prince Edward Island, having purchased from a variety of sources, and never being completely satisfied. And so I dreaded...
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