Airplane Chases Shadow
I recorded this with my phone on approach to Charlottetown Airport last Saturday morning. I was flying in an Air Canada Beechcraft 1900D, a tiny 18 seat plane that’s used on the Halifax-Charlottetown...
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Happy Birthday Catherine!
Here’s Catherine simultaneously talking on the phone to her nieces, receiving a birthday birdhouse, and blowing out the candle on her Chinese Birthday Bun.
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Family Enjoying Sunset
After a delicious meal at the Red Door in Stanley Bridge we drove home through PEI National Park and stopped at the shore to watch the sun go down.
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Whispering Sweetly to the Provincial Library Catalogue with Z39.50
I first heard people talking about Z39.50 back in 1994 when I went to my first conference of librarians, Access ‘94 in St. John’s, Newfoundland.At that conference, at at other Access conferences I...
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Book Making
Back in May, after visiting Harald the printer in Berlin, I suggested I might create a book of the collection of klischees I have on loan. Today I set out to workshop this idea, and what you see below...
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Read This in Apple News
In theory you can now read this blog in Apple News. Just visit this link from an iOS device.Unless you’re not in the USA. Because Apple News only works in the USA. Unless you fool your device into...
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St. Peters vs. St. Peter's
I developed a sudden surge of obsession this morning about whether the community I was in last night for Small Halls Songwriters’ Circle is called St. Peters or St. Peter’s. Or maybe St. Peters Bay? Or...
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The DEW Line, for Theatre
So I built myself this:It’s an early warning system for performances in The Guild theatre, which sits mere inches from my office. It uses this schedule-harvesting code to pull an iCalendar version of...
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Barrett's Privateer's Explored
With a Stan Rogers musical in rehearsal next to the Reinventorium, my days are filled with novel interpretations of Rogers’ canon. It’s equal parts enervating and thrilling; regardless, I find myself...
View Article"What happens when people have sex in the shower?"
An interesting profile of Toronto impresario Jeff Stober in Toronto Life:Later, while looking at renderings for the hotel’s new ensuite bathrooms, Stober zeroed in on a sketch of a shower with an...
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Connective Highway Tissue
When Canadian Tire decamped for the far northern reaches of Charlottetown, HomeSense and Mark’s moved into its old location on Buchanan Drive and, as part of the renovations of the area associated with...
View ArticleWhatsMyLot.com Stopped Working in Google Chrome
When Chrome 50 was released in April, my WhatsMyLot.com app stopped working because with that release Chrome would no longer allow use of the Geolocation API for non-secure sites.The reasons for this...
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Notebooks Mania
I’ve been on something of a notebook-marking tear this week. Every once in a while I remind myself that it’s possible to actually make your own notebooks – it comes as a surprise to me every time!This...
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Our Son, the Grade 9 Graduate
Oliver had his grade 9 graduation ceremony tonight. We’re very proud of him, and very thankful to the teachers, administrators and staff at Birchwood Intermediate who saw him through his three years at...
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The Last Ticket
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital stops charging for parking on July 1st. So this morning, dropping off a friend for day surgery, is likely my last time paying.
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Architecture of Peace Notebook
Today’s notebook (see also here) recycles another part of the Architecture of Peace issue of Volume magazine for its cover. It’s smaller – just 4by 2 inches – and made to slip inside my bag. The...
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Annals of Window Fans
I am a big fan of the window fan: our 189 year-old house is pretty good at keeping cool in the day if you fill it with cool air overnight, and 2 or 3 strategically-placed window fans have, for the last...
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Fields of Wavy Red and Gold
Today’s notebook has some mind-bending wavy red and gold Japanese paper endpapers and a hot green neon text block. This is the thickest notebook I’ve made so far, and I ran into some paper-wrangling...
View Article90 Seconds of Bluegrass
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenu90 Seconds of Bluegrass< previous> nextOliver and my parents and I are spending the day at the PEI Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival in...
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