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C1A 4R4
My postal code for the last 18 years has been C1A 4R4. As postal codes go, it’s a pretty good one: it has been easy to remember, and it looks sharp on an envelope.It wasn’t until I went to mail...
View ArticleResizing an EBS Volume
For the longest time, if you wanted to resize a EBS volume (aka “your disk drive”) attached to an Amazon Web Services instance (aka “your server”), you had to go through a dance that involved shutting...
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Inuksuit Prints
Oliver goes out to Crapaud every Sunday afternoon for 90 minutes with the brilliant art educator Jennifer Brown. Every week they tackle a new medium, or a new artist, or a new subject. Today it was...
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Smoothie Bowls Come to PEI
Over March Break in Halifax, Oliver and I stopped in to see our friend Nardag*, daughter of our old friends Bob and Yvonne. I’ve known Nardag all her life, and it still seems odd that she’s now a...
View ArticleComparing Ton's Electricity Usage to Ours
In an exchange that reflects blogging the way it’s supposed to happen, Ton left a comment about energy usage data in the Netherlands on my post about my postal code. And then, when I asked him a...
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Three Years Ago
With temperatures in the mid-teens and wearing Spring jackets and sneakers for our after-supper walk, it’s hard to believe that 3 years ago this week there was still a lot of snow and ice on the...
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Printing Envelopes on a Letterpress
When I bought the Golding Jobber № 8 letterpress from Bill and Gertie Campbell, Bill generously spent a couple of hours with me showing me some of the trickier bits of using it.One of the things he...
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C1A 4R4 Envelopes Completed
Once the black dried on the C1A 4R4 envelopes, I added a red layer, with my name:I love the “taking the smallest element and making it the biggest” aspect of this design: the postal code is often a...
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Download My Instagram Content
Spotted recently: Instagram now supports downloading all of the data you’ve contributed to it since you opened your account. To use this tool, login to Instagram and navigate to the “Privacy and...
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When Amazon Search Fails
When Amazon search fails, it fails spectacularly: I was looking for the book, mentioned here, Bookbinding: The Complete Guide to Folding, Sewing & Binding. Amazon thought, absent that, I might be...
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A Lifetime's Worth of Envelopes?
The ink is dry and I’m left with a pile of 75 freshly-printed envelopes, ready for use. I send more mail that the average person, so these won’t really last a lifetime. But they should take me through...
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RSS: I Never Left
Ton muses about an RSS Revival:RSS is the most important piece of internet plumbing for following new content from a wide range of sources. It allows you to download new updates from your favourite...
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Walking to Parkdale
After supper this evening we found ourselves in need of three things: numbing cream (to assist with a blood test Oliver is having in the morning), a toilet flap, and exercise.As the nearest source of...
View ArticleHere's My OPML
Earlier this month, Ton mused about whether it was time to return to the blogroll (and, yes, it may seem like recently my blog has turned into musing about Ton musing about things I’ve mused about; you...
View ArticleThere Will Be Blood
When I stepped out of the shower this morning I was overcome by a sudden realization that my only job–my only job–for the two or three hours to follow was to stay calm. This realization proved very...
View ArticleThe Archdeacon Learns Guitar
One of the unexpected benefits of taking up residence in the St. Paul’s Parish Hall basement is getting to know more about the parish that’s been our neighbour for the 17 years we’ve lived across the...
View ArticleOliver Rates Burgers
As Burger Love draws to a close, Oliver weighs in.Oliver | Burger Love
View ArticleMy One Minute Commute
Since I relocated my office, my commute to work has been cut down from a 5 minute walk up Richmond Street down to a 1 minute walk across the street. House door to office door takes 1:15. Here’s a short...
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