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May Calendar
I finally took the calendar type I purchased in 2016 from The Printing Museum in New Zealand out of its box and used it to create a May 2018 calendar.My “29” has a dimple in it; I’ve written to see if...
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The Queen's Printer's Coat Rack
I purchased this coat rack in 2012 when the Queen’s Printer held an auction upon getting out of the business of printing.When I purchased it, the legs were held together with duct tape and thus my...
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Montreal + Charlottetown
From our eagle-eyed brother on the ground in Montreal, a pointer to Improbable Habitat — Montréal vs, an exhibition on display in a park in Mont-Royal. The Google-translated description:Begun in the...
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Replacing Elastics with Alfred for Mac OS SSH to EC2 Instances
I’ve been a longtime user of the excellent Elastics utility for the Mac for managing connections to Amazon Web Services EC2 instances: it provides a handy menu bar item with a drop-down list of running...
View ArticleThe Golden Boy
A friend recommended Grant Matheson’s book The Golden Boy to me a few weeks ago. All of the copies at the public library were on hold, so I purchased a copy from Amazon for the Kindle, and read it, in...
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In Case of Emergency Break into Song!
I conjured these up today, inspired by memories of life inside The Guild at this time of year, with Anne and Gilbert entering rehearsal and song filling the halls. My new office is near-silent, at...
View ArticlePrince Edward Island Midwifery
To learn more about midwifery on Prince Edward Island, watch this excellent video produced by BORN which makes the case clearly.BORN has been advocating for the re-introduction of midwifery to the...
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Real Time Data on Charlottetown Bus Locations
Charlottetown’s buses are now equipped with GPS devices that send real time location data to a server where it can be used by the ReadyPass transit app for iOS and Android.There’s also a web version of...
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New Kaweco
Kaweco make a lovely fountain pen. Thank you to The Bookmark for keeping a good selection in stock.
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Robin Sloan's Sentence Gradients
Voyages in sentence space: prose, demo and code from Robin Sloan. I understand only a sliver, but the notion is fascinating.Here’s my sentence gradient (I wrote the first and the last; the machines...
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The Important of Creative Community
Danny Gregory on the value of embedding yourself in a creative community:You may think you are not a Van Gogh. But have you gone to Paris? Have you taken advantage of the impact a creative community...
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This is Only a Test
Exactly at the appointed minute of 1:55 Atlantic today my Android mobile phone went into emergency alert mode, emitting an annoying klaxon-like sound and popping up an “Emergency Alert” notification...
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Prince Edward Island Postcards
Of all the things I’ve designed, set and printed for letterpress, this might be my favourite: a Prince Edward Island postcard.The outline of the Island comes from the collection of letterpress cuts...
View Article"I thought she was too stupid and too weak to hate..."
The story of how Anne Marie Hagan forgave the man who killed her father, told to the CBC’s Piya Chattopadhyay on the May 6 episode of Out in the Open, is one of the most powerful pieces of radio I’ve...
View ArticleDan Invented Google Duplex
Many years ago, my friend Dan made a robot to answer telemarketers, an effort that presaged Google Duplex, but without the pesky need for the AI.Google Duplex | Dan James
View ArticleGDPR and Personal Weblogs
Frank Meeuwsen writes about the upcoming European GDPR and how its provisions might apply to personal websites (in Dutch). While he concludes that the GDPR does not apply to sites like his, he suggests...
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The Sorry State of Prince Edward Island Postmarks
By way of beta testing the ability of my newly-printed postcards to withstand the travails of the postal system, I mailed one to myself on Tuesday afternoon; it arrived in this morning’s mail, two days...
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Pizza Pasta
There’s no doubt that Thursday Pizza Pasta at Receiver Coffee Brass Shop is, in large part, how we survived the winter. Every Thursday until the end of May. Come while you can.
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New York 25th
By virtue of my dual US-Canadian nationality, I’ve been voting in U.S. elections for as long as I’ve known I’ve had that right (that I voted for Ralph Nader means that, essentially, it’s my fault that...
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