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Oliver is Entering The Real World
Oliver and Derrick are spending the night in New Glasgow camping. Oliver’s leaving his laptop at home; he’s very, very rarely without it. And so this dramatic announcement of his Entering The Real...
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The Arms of Canada
I finished printing the pages of my book of klischees today. And on the last page is this gem, the Arms of Canada. What a lost art it is, that of rendering texture in black and white. Next step:...
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Bootleg Island Fringe Calendar
The millennials of Prince Edward Island excel at conjuring interesting events. One of these is The Island Fringe Festival, which runs this week. I’m a sponsor, both because I’m a fan and because of...
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It's times like these you need the Terms of Union in your pocket...
The CBC is reporting P.E.I. premier wants 2nd ferry for Caribou-Wood Islands run. This is precisely the moment for which I equipped the Premier, upon his assuming office last year, with a pocket-sized...
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Kayaking Charlottetown Harbour
I’ve lived in Charlottetown for 23 years, but I’ve never seen Charlottetown Harbour in a kayak. Until this morning.With a free morning today, a morning pleasantly cool and free of wind, Oliver and I...
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Three New Things, № 1
Perhaps an homage to my friend Ann’s long-running One Good Thing column in The Buzz, and certainly influenced by the excellent weekly Cool Tools newsletter, here are three new things I’ve discovered in...
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Next in the series (with torrential rain mixed with the plaintive sounds of Anne and Gilbert in the background):Royal Pita Bakery in West Royalty (in behind Kent Building Supplies) has an...
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Why CBC News Shouldn't Use Stock Photography
Last Saturday I tweeted out a couple of screen shots showing the photo used in a CBC Prince Edward Island news story about a new Youth Advisory Council. The first showed the photo as it was used in the...
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Enjoy the Summer
Your midsummer reminder of what’s coming up in six months. Enjoy the summer. Go to the beach. Eat outside. Go for a walk. Breath deeply.
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Skipping one day makes it easier to skip the next day...
From Warren Ellis, Finding the System that Works for You; in part:I’m aiming for an unbroken two-month stint on MORNING COMPUTER. I have a hand-drawn grid for it on the wall, above the whiteboard, that...
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Wardens vs. Security Guards: Optimize for Help not Hinder
As my father, a nearshore sedimentologist, conducted field work on the Great Lakes over the 1970s, our family spent part of each summer in one provincial park or another.Some of my strongest childhood...
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Saturday Night with Commas
As soon as Comma Queen coming to Victoria Literary Festival appeared in my river of news, I knew this was a place I had to be.The “Comma Queen” is Mary Norris, a query proofreader at The New Yorker....
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"Further Evidence in Rogers Automobile Case"
From The Guardian, 100 years ago today in 1916, reporting on the “Rogers Case,” wherein W.K. Rogers was charged with “illegally operating an automobile on July 9th.”Prince Edward Island | History
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How to Make a Book
Here’s a photographic journey through the process I took to set, print and bind a book of klischees. Making books, it turns out, is well within the realm of the possible for everyday people: all you...
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You may recall that a year ago, Nadja, the eldest daughter of my dear old friends Yvonne and Bob, landed on Prince Edward Island with friends, a leg on their post-graduation east coast...
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As summer fades out of focus, here are three new things to take you into autumn:Cucumber-Mint Soda from Upstreet Craft Brewing. Sometimes you want to go up the street and play Apples to Apples, but you...
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Pulsing Floating Tents
Two photos I took last night of Fleet, by artist Alexis Bulman, mounted in the waters of Charlottetown Harbour off Beaconsfield last night as part of Art in the Open. My camera, of its own volition,...
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