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Canada Post Stamp Ordering Debacle
Last Thursday I read that my friend and former client Anne MacKay had one of her photographs chosen to appear in a new series of Canadian stamps by Canada Post:It’s a lovely photo, I am a passionate...
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I Paid $166 for Data about Parked Cars
In October of 2016 the Board of Governors of the University of Prince Edward Island approved an updated Access to Information and Protection of Personal Information and Privacy policy, to take effect...
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Changing Android Font Size
Here’s the single best settings change I’ve ever made on my Android phone: under Settings > Display > Font Size I changed the setting from “Default” to “Large.”The result is like a whole new...
View ArticleLavish Cabbage Dinner
Coming up in February at Mediamatic Biotoop in Amsterdam, an Abundance Dinner, prompted by a good year for cabbage:It was a good year for white cabbage. In fact, the affluent cabbage harvest was too...
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More on Canada Post Stamps Order
When we last talked, I was wondering when my Canada Post online order for stamps might arrive.Well, yesterday, a full week after I placed the order, I received my first update from Canada Post, in an...
View ArticleAmazon Echo as 3D Printer Monitor
amazon_echo_as_3d_printer_monitor_1.mp3I have an Amazon Echo at home, and one at the office. Both are set to allow “drop in” calls: I can just say “Alexa, drop in on the Reinventorium” and I get a live...
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Garry Kasparov on Chess
I have never had the least bit of interest in chess. But this video from The New Yorker featuring Garry Kasparov talking about memorable matches gave me insight into what I’m missing.The New Yorker
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Our Local Food Trail
You wouldn’t think that one-way streets would be a spanner in the works of shopping for locally-produced food, but in my case overcoming a one-way street made a huge difference.Here was the problem:...
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"A Map is the Greatest of All Epic Poems"
A year ago brother Johnny gave me a gift of a 2017 calendar of historic maps of the world; when the year came to an end it seemed like a shame to have the map plates go to waste, so I trimmed them out...
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Canada Post: Just Slightly Slower than Walking!
On January 11, 2018 I ordered two books of “From Far and Wide” stamps from Canada Post using its online store.As detailed here, Canada Post’s delivery standard for online orders, which should serve as...
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Ressurecting Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets from 30 years ago
My first job as a coder, when I was 14 years old, was for Skycraft Hobbies, a small hobby shop that used a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III to manage its inventory using a Radio Shack program called...
View ArticleBeing Anna’s boyfriend...
Steve Martin’s blurb on the back of Tom Hanks’s new book, Uncommon Type: Some Stories, reads:It turns out that Tom Hanks is also a wise and hilarious writer with an endlessly surprising mind. Damn...
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Eat & Enjoy
The venerable space at 35 Prince Street, at the corner of Prince and King, has played home to a variety of restaurants over the years, and Eat & Enjoy is the latest and, arguably, the most...
View ArticleGerhard Steidl
Rebecca Mead wrote a profile of publisher Gerhard Steidl for The New Yorker in May, and it’s a compelling read, especially if you’re interested in any or all of printing, publishing, and...
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Vernacular Economics and the Capitol Theatre
Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture is an interesting treatise, from 99% Invisible, on how tax policy can shape the built environment.Reading the article...
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EDC 2.0: The Bolstr Bag
Back in 2011 I wrote about how the Marimekko Cash & Carry bag, I’d found the perfect bag for carrying around all my stuff.In the intervening years this sort of bag has come to be known, by both...
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Veggie Toast and Memory
Oliver’s 18th birthday is still 7 months away, but he’s decided that he needs to start planning his birthday party now. As part of this effort he’s developing a guest list for the party that includes...
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Come On Eileen
Oliver was experimenting with a Spotify-playlist-generating website called Momixa last night: you enter two songs and Momixa generates a Spotify playlist from your choices (there’s a rich ecosystem of...
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