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Happy it ain't Denver Hayes
One of the things you don’t hear a lot of talk about in Charlottetown is how the men’s clothing marketplace has been almost completely hollowed out.All the traditional downtown haberdashers but Dow’s...
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Learning to Set Type
Eight years ago, I developed a sudden and unexpected interest in traditional printing, resulting from exposure, in Berlin museums, to evidence of the trade.The interest may have stayed strictly...
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Stopover
Airline schedules conspired to create a stopover for me in Boston tonight, en route home from New Hampshire.I’m staying at Yotel, in the Seaport, a hip purple outpost hotel that thrums. There’s a...
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The Next Morning
It truly is spring here in Boston: 14°C and sunny. So I could eat my chia pudding, drink my cappuccino, and read my New York Times out on the patio of the coffee shop around the corner.
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What does ITD OSS mean on my boarding pass?
I noticed that my electronic boarding pass for my flight from Montreal to Charlottetown this afternoon had ITD OSS above the QR code, which I’d never seen before.Some poking around revealed this this...
View ArticleBB Gabor's Big Yellow Taxi
bb_gabor_-_big_yellow_taxi.mp3For my old friend John Muir, who introduced me to BB Gabor 33 years ago, this lovely rendition of Big Yellow Taxi.Big Yellow Taxi | BB Gabor | John Muir
View ArticleThe Okotoks Perforator
A perforator being for sale in Okotoks is the start of a great short story.Alberta | Letterpress
View ArticleSustainability in the Novitiate
Libby Osgood on learning how to learn about sustainability in the novitiate:Learning how to learn about sustainability is not something I expected to learn in the novitiate. Ever in the process of...
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Amazon and #vanlife
Spotted in Rova magazine, which caters to the #vanlife crowd, an ad for Amazon CamperForce, a recruiting program for people who live in their campers to come and work for Amazon from August to...
View ArticleJohnstons River
I made this spontaneous declaration to a friend this afternoonJohnstons River is the new Brooklyn.Mark my words.Brooklyn | Johnstons River
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Mac Automator Script for Transcoding Video from MP4 to Webm using Amazon...
Last year I posted some instructions–mostly for my own use–for transcoding video I’d recorded and uploading the results to Amazon S3 so that I could embed video in an HTML5 video element here on the...
View ArticleYotel Boston Room Tour
Nine years ago Oliver presented a delightful video tour of our Yotel room at Heathrow Airport; it may be the best review of anything, ever (of course I am somewhat biased in this regard).In this...
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Putting the Inter Back in Internet
My friend Ton has been blogging up a storm on the blogging-about-blogging front of late:From Semi Freddo to Full Cold Turkey with FBAlgorithms That Work For Me, Not Commodotise MeRevisiting the...
View ArticleResuscitating Pingbacks
My friend Ton’s WordPress blog supports Pingbacks, which the WordPress documentation describes like this:A pingback is a special type of comment that’s created when you link to another blog post, as...
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I stopped reading here
Today’s letterpress experiment: a tiny bookmark.Letterpress | Bookmarks
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Can I learn to skateboard?
I’ve been on a skateboard only once in my life. My friend Timmy, who lived up on the 13th Concession, made his own skateboard out of a piece of wood and some casters, and he let me try it out one...
View ArticleProductivity Breeds Productivity
So far today I have:Taken Ethan to be groomed (they shaved great gobs of hair from him; he looks like a naked mole-rat now).Inspired by Ethan, gone to get my own hair cut at Ray’s Place. I do not look...
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Freedom to Iterate
The CBC reports that a Nova Scotia teenager has been charged with programmatically accessing public information from a public Government of Nova Scotia website. This is an issue near and dear to my...
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