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Christmas Eve Star Wars, Episode VIII
A tradition we started in 2015 with Episode VII. I’ve nowhere near the Star Wars affiliation that my little brothers do, but I’m a sucker for secular tradition, and the movie was the best one in a long...
View ArticleThe 2018 Clyde River Lectures
Show me a rural community that maintains an annual lecture series, and I’ll show you a community where hearts beat a little stronger.Clyde River is such a place, and the schedule for its 2018 lectures...
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Peak Electricity Load for PEI Yesterday
Prince Edward Island hit a new peak electricity load of 280 megawatts yesterday at 5:00 p.m.: Islanders were collectively using more electricity at that point than ever before in history. In fact the...
View ArticleThe Noisebridge Elevator
Scotty Allen has crafted a small collection of YouTube videos on his hacking adventures, the most well-known of which is How I Made My Own iPhone — in China. His latest video, however, is by far the...
View ArticleKomárno and Komárom
Ivan Reitman, prolific producer and director of films (and offilmmakers), was born in Komárno, Slovakia in 1946.Komárno has an interesting geographical history:Komárno is a town in Slovakia at the...
View ArticleToy-like vs. Finely Crafted
In his post Digital devices for world travellers, Edward Hasbrouck contrasts the appeal (or lack thereof) of tiny devices in the USA vs. the rest of the world:Most travellers in the USA go by car, not...
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Cold Snap
As much of North America has been plunged into a deep cold snap, we’ve gotten off relatively easy so far; it’s been cold, but it hasn’t (yet) been cold.Nonetheless, we’ve suffered our first bout of...
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Annals of Cold and Furnaces
The fates conspired against me for my prideful “it’s not so cold here and I’ve fixed the dishwasher” post yesterday by arranging for our furnace at 100 Prince Street to stop working.Everything was fine...
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The Rural Levee Loop Awards 2018
It being January 1, 2018, it was time to go a-leveeing, and Oliver and I decided to take a different tack altogether this year, eschewing the chichi urban levees altogether, and heading west for a loop...
View ArticleRemembering Dana Doyle
I first met Dana Doyle almost 10 years ago at a Prince Street Home & School meeting; she was one of a new wave of parents breathing new life into the group, and she emerged as someone always ready...
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How to Make Instant Pot Yogurt
Our household came into an Instant Pot over the holidays.In case you’ve missed the Canadian phenomenon that’s taking the world by storm, the Instant Pot is a new-fangled pressure cooker that, by virtue...
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La Sazón de Mexico: New Neighbour
I’ve long been a happy customer of La Sazón de Mexico at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market.So I was quite happy to learn that they’re making the jump from Saturdays-only to a full-fledged restaurant, a...
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Goodbye Sears
Oliver and I took our last run up to Sears tonight; it closes on Monday forever, so we didn’t quite make it to the end, but we were close enough. And given that we were pictured in The Guardian on...
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PEI Peak Load in January
I wrote in December about how PEI had reached a new peak electricity load on December 27, 2017; since that time the temperature has remained low, Islanders have continued to use a lot of electricity to...
View ArticleSidney vs. Goliath
Member of the Legislative Assembly for Morell-Mermaid, Sidney MacEwen, went where no member of the public had gone before: a meeting of the Health PEI board (CBC, The Guardian).And he provided a...
View ArticleLinks to PEI Electricity Data
For almost a decade, I’ve been engaging in various experiments related to monitoring and visualizing energy load and generation on Prince Edward Island.And because of the scattershot,...
View ArticleI Went to a Mental Health Walk-in Clinic (and so can you)
The last time I was on the grounds of an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium was in 2011 when Catherine, Oliver and I found ourselves in the woods outside Berlin with a ragtag group of artists and DJs on...
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Fog on the Water
It was 13°C today in Charlottetown, and that made for a foggy morning over the ice-filled harbour.
View ArticleAlexa, ask PEI Power for a Summary
pei-power-alexa-skill.mp3About a year ago, when Amazon unleashed the ability for third-party developers to create skills for its Echo speaker devices, the first one I created was a skill that allowed...
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Shrimp Taco Combo for Lunch
Today was the first day of business for our new neighbour La Sazón de Mexico, and so I was able to have a shrimp taco combo for lunch:Here’s a photo of their menu board (they don’t have their liquor...
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