Olle Goes to Mediamatic
My friend Olle doesn’t blog very much, but when he does it is, as a result, doubly special.Yesterday he wrote about a trip to Amsterdam and, in particular, to Mediamatic, which is a Dutch institution...
View ArticleThe Interview
If you can overlook that York University Libraries appears to refer to itself as YUL, also the IATA airport code for Trudeau Airport in Montreal, I believe you will find Interviewing at York University...
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Bind, Iterate, Bind
Today’s project was to take the hardbound book I made last week and make another one, improving some of the parts that went sideways in that first iteration. UpHere’s what I ended up with:The paper is...
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Gareth Southgate Station
This YouTube video combines my love of public transit with my love of renaming things and my love of institutions having a bit of fun. It also involves football, but that’s an unimportant...
View ArticleI Made a Wikipedia Page for the Charlottetown Boulder Park
As the son of a geologist, and as someone with a soft spot for underdog monuments, the Charlottetown Boulder Park has always been an object of fascination for me. It was born the same year I was, in...
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Bicycle Cargo Trailer Conversion
I stripped down the child-carrying bicycle trailer we inherited from Erin Bateman and Dave Atkinson, added three six foot lengths of pine 1x3, four carriage bolts, and some #12 wood screws: presto, a...
View ArticleA&W Beyond Meat Burger
I’m no great fan of the fast food industry, but A&W deserves a hat-tip for its Beyond Meat Burger and the way they’ve presented it.I remember, many years ago, going through the drivethru at the...
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Foundation
Our house at 100 Prince Street has a sandstone foundation that has kept it standing for 191 years. It is not a museum piece, but it is mighty.On top of the sandstone along the driveway, supporting the...
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Last Strawberries
There is a story that I tell myself that in my childhood we had fresh strawberries in April. This is clearly apocryphal: even though the growing season is expanding and contracting, Ontario has never...
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First Voyage of the Cargo Trailer
The final pieces of the homebrew bicycle cargo trailer came together today: I bought a large rectangular tote and a bag of bungee cords from Home Depot and, fortuitously, found that one 30 inch bungee...
View ArticleSurprisingly Minimal Venn
From Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves:“I couldn’t disagree more!” exclaimed Pete Starling, with a nervous chuckle. “Doob, you’re going to be so useful up there, I’m afraid you’ll never get a moment’s rest!...
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Waffles with a side of Tim Chaisson
My friend Valerie spends the summer on Prince Edward Island, or at least a part thereof, and in past summers we often find ourselves at summer’s end realizing that we didn’t get to see each other at...
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Province House Hoarding
Being neighbour to the multi-year restoration of Province House means we have a unique opportunity to see the job site evolve over time.With the transition from Phase 1, Erect the Exoskeleton to Phase...
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It's not the heat, it's the electricity
It’s been a hot summer week here in Prince Edward Island: it’s 28ºC as I type this, and the temperature isn’t forecast to go lower than 18ºC for the next week, with daytime highs in the upper 20s:This...
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Visualizing PEI Street Orientation
You have likely by now seen the buzz about Geoff Boeing’s work to visualize city street orientations.There’s nothing more frustrating than coming across something interesting like this and not finding...
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Street Orientation in the 500 Lot Area
Following on from yesterday’s experiments with visualizing street orientations, I set out to visualize just the streets of Charlottetown’s 500 Lot Area, the historic area at the core of the city, south...
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Artist Trading Card Sneak Peak
The upside of owning the means of production is that you can create just-in-time. In this case I still have a week today until the Artist Trading Cards event at Confederation Centre of the Arts.Here is...
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