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Summer is Almost Over (in Berlin)
What a feeling it is, going to the fridge of an overseas friend to retrieve the morning yogurt, to find a piece of your own craft work affixed thereto. Such a feeling washed over me this morning in the...
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A Book of Klischees
Five years ago I spent each Tuesday in August here in Berlin – just up the street from where I type this, in fact – conceiving, designing, setting and printing a letterpress broadside. It was...
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Mission from the Home World: Eat
My friend Christina, upon learning that I am in Berlin this week, assigned me a special mission:I was just reading about Berlin in a Bon Appétit magazine this morning, apparently there is a street food...
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The Diarizing Acclimation
In 2009 when Oliver and I landed in Kosice, Slovakia, we spent a good amount of time seeking out the components of a diarizing system with which we could, in analog form, document our trip. We sought a...
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Goodbye, Berlin
I’ve spent a very pleasant week here in Berlin. It’s been sunny and warm, but not too much so. I’ve had many enlivening conversations with friends new and old. My soul is fed. Off to London for the...
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T.P. O'Connor
A plaque on Fleet Street dedicated to T.P.O’Connor:His pen could lay bare the bones of a book or the soul of a statesman in a few vivid lines.What a way to be remembered.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
On my opening night here in London, last Friday, I saw a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre.It was my first experience of the London theatre, and I...
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Elvis Costello at London Palladium
When on missions from the home world such as this, special rules apply.One of those rules is “if interesting experiences present that would otherwise, in the course of regular everyday Island life, be...
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St Bride Foundation Wayzgoose
A wayzgoose is the delightful term applied to a gathering of printers for merriment, display and exchange of wares, education and discussion. Regular readers may recall that I made the trip to...
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My Maps to Your Places
Back in April I pointed out on Twitter that Google’s possessive adjective forms in the navigation of Google Maps was confusing, inasmuch as it used either “My” or “Your” depending on the feature:That...
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Bypassing Facebook Wifi Login
Something I noticed several times in London this weekend is coffee shops and hotels offering customer wifi through a Facebook authentication layer: the idea is that you can free wifi if you login to...
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Recent Acquistions
On my customs declaration yesterday on arrival in Halifax, submitted after landing from London, I declared $323 in purchases made overseas. I’m not a great acquirer of stuff while traveling, at least...
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Buildings Diagramed and Real
In London on the weekend I had two occasions to see buildings in diagram form within hours, by coincidence, of seeing the same buildings in physical form.First, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this...
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A Party for the 90 Year Olds
Three weeks ago I received an intriguing proposal from my friend Kevin Lewis. Kevin was helping to organize an event at Government House to commemorate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...
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The Medical Hall
Workers were peeling off the signage on 137 Queen Street in downtown Charlottetown this morning, revealing evidence of signs past:My guess, based on Catherine Hennessey’s Heritage Database, is that...
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