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Mark put your order in the oven at 6:22
I have no idea whether Domino’s has the best pizza in town — I’m pretty sure it doesn’t — but there’s no doubting it has the best mobile app. And that wins me over 9 times out of 10.
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DIY Dog Washing at Pet Valu
My friend Carol turned me on to the fact that Pet Valu, in the Smitty’s Plaza in Charlottetown, has a do-it-yourself dog washing station. For $10, you get access to a tub (at chest height), shampoo,...
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PEI Autism Resource Libraries
Last month I had occasion to learn that the Department of Education, Early Learning and Culture maintains an autism resource library in the Arsenault Building here in Charlottetown.I’ve been the father...
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Wired Internet on Prince Edward Island
Here’s a map, using data extracted from the federal Connecting Canadians lookup tool, showing the areas of Prince Edward Island that are served either by Bell Aliant fibre or Eastlink cable...
View ArticleHelp, I'm locked out of the apartment!
Catherine is spending the week in an apartment in the hills of San Sebastián, Spain with our friend Cindy Hanson.They have one set of keys to the apartment.This afternoon Catherine found herself,...
View ArticleThey're Closing the Scranton Branch?! (Or, Reflections on Electoral Reform)
The plot that runs through the first season of the U.S. version of The Office is that the Scranton Branch of Dunder Mifflin is under threat of closure; much of what ensued over that short 6-episode...
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"PEI Welcomes The Royal Couple"
Sixty-five years ago this month Prince Edward Island played host to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, a visit celebrated on the front page of The Guardian:The route they followed in...
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How to stream the PEI Legislative Assembly to your TV with a Raspberry Pi and...
It turns out to be remarkable simply to set up the live video from the PEI Legislative Assembly to stream to a television with an inexpensive Raspberry Pi running the open source Kodi media...
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Translucent Newspaper
An interesting copy of The Guardian from 100 years ago today, with significant bleed-through of page two’s contents onto the front page. This continues throughout the issue. I wonder if it was thin...
View Articlein/ex troversion
If you don’t understand introversion, watch this. That’s what it’s like. Almost exactly.Animation | Video | Introversion
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Leon's Furniture Robocalled Me
We bought a couch at Leon’s last year. And beds and appliances before that, stretching back over 20 years. Today they rewarded me by robocalling my mobile phone in the middle of the day.
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Presto Change-o!
There’s nothing I like more than a good old before-and-after haircut photo series. Cut by Zack Squires at The Humble Barber.Haircut
View ArticlePoignant Tweeting on Electoral Reform
Like many people on Prince Edward Island, I’ve been glued to my TV set this week watching the live broadcast of the Legislative Assembly as members debated two contrasting motions related to the recent...
View ArticleA Diverse Table is a Better Table (Or, Why I Will Rally Tonight)
I have participated in two protest rallies in my life.The first was at the gates of the Warkworth Institution in Ontario in the late 1980s, a silent protest against the possible reintroduction of...
View ArticleHolland College Human Services Program
Did you know that Holland College offers a 2-year Human Services program here in Charlottetown?I did not.The program describes its program like this:You will acquire basic knowledge of a variety of...
View ArticleThe Sound of Victory
the_sound_of_victory_1.mp3Politics | Prince Edward Island | Green Party | Hannah Bell
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Berlin's "I Like Paper"
Longtime readers may recall that last May I happened upon a storefront in Berlin called I Like Paper that specialises in custom-printed items made of Tyvek.This fall, with some sketches in-hand, I...
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Renaming Great George Street
A “proclamation” by businessman D.H. MacKinnon, ran in the December 14, 1870 edition of The Herald, proclaiming a change in the name of Great George Street to Broadway.“Considering that all the Great...
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Solo Traveler Lid
I had not noticed, until this morning, that the “Solo” logo uses coffee cups inside the Os.Design | Coffee Cups
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