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Sackville
I’m catching the train from Sackville to Halifax for a quick 24 hour jaunt into the city for a bunch of errands. I could drive, but I am no fan of the lonely highway, and trains that nobody takes don’t...
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Public Optima
The Centennial Swimming Pool in downtown Halifax is a beautiful building that features a bold use of Optima. It’s a typeface that’s generally too precious for my taste, but carved in stone here, it...
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Coffee and Gloves
When you live on a remote planet at the edge of the galaxy as we do, it’s important to maximize time when on resupply missions.So coffee at Smiling Goat and a new pair of Icelandic wool gloves — 25%...
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Self-Healing Building
I was mesmerized by this building, on Lorne Street in Sackville near the Legion. Its doors and windows have been covered over in such an odd way, and shingled to match (but not). It’s like the building...
View ArticleNo More Cruise Ships
For the past four summers, starting in 2012, I’ve been operating a website that provides structured data – iCal, XML, JSON, RSS– about cruise ship visits to the Port of Charlottetown, a reaction to the...
View ArticleThe Island EGOT
It may not be an EGOT, but in Island terms surely it’s the closest one might come: I achieved tri-party recognition in the gallery of Legislative Assembly during a visit on April 8, 2016.It started...
View ArticleOn not bumming a ride from the Premier
One of my favourite passages in the biography of former Prince Edward Island Premier Alex B. Campbell written Hon. Wade MacLauchlan just before he became Premier himself:Campbell went on to build good...
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Gross Fixed Capital Formation
So remember yesterday when I was chickening out of asking Premier MacLauchlan for a ride up to Summerside? Well my chickening out was genuine, but what I didn’t factor in, somewhat naively, is that the...
View ArticleShotgun
As reported earlier, Premier MacLauchlan generously offered me a ride to Summerside last night for the Learning Partners Advisory Council meeting.While I don’t believe there are any formal rules...
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What a Little HTML Can Do for Open Data
My favourite part of the legislative calendar in Prince Edward Island is the “consideration of the estimates,” a line-by-line review by Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Estimates of...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Video
Although I was deeply involved in the original project to broadcast audio of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island online (to the point where I was working with Island Tel technicians to run...
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Humble Home Hunters
My eagle-eyed sister-in-law spotted this shot of our house on season one, episode three of the HGTV series Humble Home Hunters.
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OCR of Legislative Assembly Video to Identify Member Speaking
A couple of days ago I wrote about my reverse engineering of the video archives of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, and I suggested, at the end, that additional hijinks could now...
View ArticleAn Hon. Member: Hear, hear!
Some days your heart just sings. Thanks to members of the Legislative Assembly, this is one of those days. From Hansard from last Thursday evening, a mention of my quick hack to demonstrate the utility...
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Keep This Coupon
I can’t remember why this is in my pocket.“Keep this coupon for guaranteed immortality?”“Keep this coupon if you ever want to see you son again?”“Keep this coupon to claim your coat?”I can never throw...
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Questioning My Dogma
While tracking down a copy of Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario (known popularly as the “Hall-Dennis Report”)...
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"In An All Night Sitting..."
As the consideration of the estimates in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Islandcontinues today, it’s useful to take a look back 100 years to the day when our MLA ancestors were engaged in...
View ArticleLive From the Formosa Tea House: The Complete Series
Twelve years ago, in the late summer of 2004, Steven Garrity, Dan James and I started a podcast called Live from the Formosa Tea House, recorded very occasionally over lunch at the eponymous Formosa...
View ArticleRepatriating my Sounds
I posted my first sound to SoundCloud in October 2007, about a month after the service launched. That first track — a bootleg recording of a Garnet Rogers concert at the Trailside in Mount Stewart, has...
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