The Peter and Oliver Podcast: Bluegrass Edition
Play / pauseJavaScript is required.0:000:00volumemenuThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: Bluegrass Edition< previous> nextRecorded yesterday at the PEI Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival. For kicks,...
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The Premier & The Reinventorium
Did you know that Premier MacLauchlan has his own YouTube channel of interviews with Prince Edward Island entrepreneurs?A few weeks ago I got the call from his special assistant: the Premier wanted to...
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The Lion The Bear The Fox
You were not in Victoria by the Sea on Monday night for the performance by The Lion The Bear The Fox.I say this because I was there. And I didn’t see you. The theatre was sparsely filled;...
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Premier arrived. We chatted. He left.
So the Premier dropped by for a chat this afternoon as planned.My furious scrubbing of the office of copies of The Anarchist Cookbook and the Communist Manifesto was all for naught, as the consensus of...
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Strandarkirkja in #IslandSongs
Eight years ago we had the pleasure of touring southeastern Iceland. One of our first stops was at Strandarkirkja, a wooden church on the seashore. It was an inspiring place, and a good introduction to...
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Go Buy Some Stamps Today
With Canada Post on the verge of locking out its workers, maybe the best thing we lovers of the mails can do is to show our support through stamp purchasing.I picked up $30 work this morning: a packet...
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Meeting Hon. David MacDonald
I am not generally the kind of person who will approach strangers and strike up a conversation; I’m simply too shy for that kind of thing (despite having parents who, evidence last week suggests, are...
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I picked up the 1958 book Sopranino at Toadstool Books last month. It’s a sailing book, part of The Mariners Library from London publisher Rupert Hart-Davis. I’m a sucker for heroic-sounding...
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All My Mobile Phones. Or "I've never owned an iPhone."
I’ve been carrying a mobile phone of one description or another for about 15 years. Originally this was almost entirely so that various servers for which I’m responsible (or clients to whom I’m...
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This Canadian Life
Now that I can blog by email, posting sounds here is as simple as hitting record and sending an email. Which means I’m posting more sounds.Recalling that what we know as a “podcast” is simply RSS...
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Why Can't We Be Friends?
Casual is a television sitcom directed by Jason Reitman.A Hologram for the King is a film starring Tom Hanks and directed by Tom Tykwer.Neither will find a large audience, both because of distribution...
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Sublime Text Git Key Bindings
In recent years I’ve ended up using Sublime Text as my coding editor of choice. From time to time I go back to BBEdit, where my heart lives, or to TextMate, but something or another ends up driving me...
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Does Michael Spencer Exist?
Every year around this time I receive a letter from The New Yorker subscription department informing me that my subscription is to be automatically renewed in the fall.And every year that letter is...
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Working in the theatre has its benefits...
Current temperature in Charlottetown: 26°C.Current temperature in my air conditioned bunker deep inside The Guild, as Anne & Gilbert plays in the next room: 15.8°C.My tenancy comes with some...
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The 25 New Yorker Subscribers on PEI
Back in 2003 I had occasion, due my work in publishing, to meet with a mailing list broker.Mailing list brokers are companies that work for magazine publishers. When you check the box to decline “from...
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Designing in the Wrong Direction
My walk to and from the office everyday takes me along the pedestrian mall known as Victoria Row, a stretch of Richmond Street that’s closed to vehicles in the summer months.I have more than a passing...
View ArticleThirty Years Ago this Summer
Summer thirty years ago, 1986.I was 20 years old.I’d just completed my first year at Trent University.I’d moved from Champlain College residence into John Muir’s house at 640 Reid Street in...
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