Annals of Typography
Two items of note on the typography trail this morning:Maria Montes (you’ll remember her from Scared Shitless) posted a comprehensive list of typography events in 2018 on the Alphabettes site (itself a...
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000d1878.mp3When Matt Rainnie was host of Mainstreet on CBC Radio we produced a couple of summer’s worth of eclectic radio pieces, like Everything You Wanted to Know About Ice Tea in 2004.Matt is...
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Sunrise over Dublin
Every morning The Old Farmer’s Almanac sends a tweet with a photo of the sunrise over its Dublin, New Hampshire headquarters. This morning’s photo was simply spectacular:Webcam | The Old Farmer's...
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Friday Afternoon Tea
While I feel guilty for patronizing Big Tea, on a cold winter afternoon there’s no better place for a break than the front counter at David’s Tea.
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If it's Friday, that must be ice...
This photo, taken early this morning, sums up the winter of 2018 perfectly. Yesterday was warm, today is cold. The cycle repeats week after week after week. As a result, our backyard is, alternatively,...
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free | equal | dignity | rights
Oliver is taking Global Issues this semester at Colonel Gray, and to start things off the class talked a lot about the United Nations.This prompted me to read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
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2018 Eyeglasses Prescription
Posting my eyeglasses prescription here has got me out of a jam more than once since I started doing it, so I’ll continue the tradition: here’s the updated prescription for progressive bifocals I...
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New Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
My keyboard of choice for the last 10 years or so has been the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard, which I switched to after many years of the Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro.I don’t love the Sculpt:...
View Article811 and the Heel of my Hand
Catherine and I had a meeting at Colonel Gray High School this morning with Oliver’s teachers, and when the meeting was over we headed back to the car. Snow had started to fall in the interim, and it...
View ArticleEyeglasses Lens Swapping
With new prescriptions for two pairs of eyeglasses in-hand, and two relatively new sets of frames in daily use, I set out to have new lenses put in the current frames.I was worried, though, that this...
View ArticlePayroll Deductions Mystery Solved
Ever since we’ve been paying the people who work with Oliver after school and on weekends, and making Canada Revenue Agency payroll remittances for them, I’ve been confused about one thing: what pay...
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Peak Pomposity
Our hearty band of Prince Edward Island subscribers to The New Yorker–about a dozen of us–gathered in conclave last night in the lounge of The Haviland Club.As it happened, the annual meeting of the...
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100 + 1 = 101
Six years ago I moved my office from 84 Fitzroy Street into the second floor of The Guild, 3 blocks south, leaving my mates at silverorange behind, and placing myself inside the rollicksome heart of...
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OMG, Zone 2
In all the years I’ve been flying since Air Canada introduced its “we decided there needs to be even more classicism when flying” zoned boarding system, I’ve universally been assigned to Zone 6, the...
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Electric Taxi Acid Test
I’d planned to take public transit from Trudeau Airport to my brother and sister-in-law’s house in Montreal, but when I emerged from the arrivals area, however, I was immediately greeted by a banner...
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Parliament Hill
After breakfast this morning I had some free time, and, as my hotel is only blocks from Parliament Hill, I walked up Metcalfe and found an excellent perch, inside a bus shelter, from which to make a...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Resonance
Many years ago, on the shore of Lake Simcoe, with an early paramour.We were squirreled away at her parents’ cottage for a weekend of assignations. We rented The Big Chill on VHS, shopped for groceries,...
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Kinetic Energy and Velocity Squared
You gotta love a day when the National Post runs a correction that touches on math and physics. I found this video in helping to understand this.National Post | Physics | Mathematics
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Ottawa to Montreal in VIA Rail Business Class
When I was booking my trip to Ottawa for this weekend, several factors conspired to make it sensible to fly to Montreal first: the barrier between the Aeroplan 15,000 and 25,000 mile reward levels, the...
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