Number 8 Wellington
An excellent story from JP Arsenault, whose blog I just connected with (thank you to James Randall at the Institute of Island Studies, where JP has just joined the Advisory Committee for that...
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Smoked Salmon Bagels Mark III
We arrived at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market this morning to find Ross Munro’s bagel countercleaned out and ready for a new vendor.We had a brief moment of panic. And then saw the sign next door at...
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One More Artist Trading Cards Preview
I’m prototyping in the shop this afternoon, figuring out imposition, how to maximize the number of sheets of 5 inch by 7 inch paper I can cut out of a larger sheet, and how to sew a binding.You've Made...
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A Definitive Solution to Drive-in + Heat + Bugs
Window screen plus magnets plus Jetta. The magnets are in aisle 10 at Canadian Tire in Charlottetown, where the nuts and bolts are displayed; personally I would have put them with the Velcro or the...
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The Ice Cream Postal Truck
Our neighbourhood has been graced by a new high-end ice cream truck called Truckin’ Roll. It’s parked on Church Street, on the edge of the (suddenly-burgeoning hipster hangout) Charlottetown Boulder...
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The Dark Ages of Share on Ovi
Ten years ago I was an active and enthusiastic Nokia fan: I’d purchased a Nokia N95 in April (at the time, the cat’s pajamas of a mobile device), Plazes, which I was doing some contract work for, had...
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Artist Trading Cards: Tommorrow!
A reminder that the Artist Trading Cards evening is tomorrow night, August 2, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.Although the “trader” deadline has long since passed (there are...
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Make More Books
An Artist Trading Cards spin-off project.Letterpress | Bookmarks | Make More Books | Artist Trading Cards
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Bookmaking Instructions
My artist trading card is actually an artist trading book. That traders assemble themselves. Which requires them to have instructions. My friend Jennifer loaned me a book about bookbinding a few weeks...
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We may not be married...
… but our names are forever joined in our new concrete driveway.
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Being a longtime member of the congregation of Stewart Brand, I have been following the Long Now Foundation and its tentacles in recent years; one of these is The Interval at Long Now, the coffee shop...
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Do you think we have time to go to the beach today?
The text came in just before 12 noon yesterday: “do you think we have time to go to the beach today?”, asked Catherine.It was a rainy Sunday, not beach weather. But when the call comes, small details...
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Bite Size Command Line
I’ve been using the Unix command line for 34 years, but there are still a lot of things I don’t know. Fortunately, there is Julia Evans, comic zine maker of all topics technology, newly out with Bite...
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Charlottetown Boulder Park Brochure
I was reading a blog post about a pigeon named Athena on my friend Dave’s blog this morning and thought “wow, that Dave’s a weirdo.”Then I returned to put the finishing touches on a brochure I’ve...
View ArticleBerlin as a Sustainable City
Niti Bhan on Berlin as a sustainable city:Berlin is to an environmentally conscious, renewable energy, sustainable ecologically friendly lifestyle what Tokyo’s Harajuku Girls used to be to fast...
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Hello, Oliver, can you hear me?
Now that my office is directly across the street from my house I’m well-positioned to intercept delivery people that need signatures: I can be at home in less than 30 seconds.But how to know they are...
View ArticleHe Plays Guitar
heplaysguitar.mp3You may recall my report that Archdeacon John Clarke, who leads the parish here at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, took a sabbatical this summer to learn to play the guitar.Well, his...
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Was there a tunnel connecting 124-126 Sydney to the Basilica?
Last summer, on a warm Sunday afternoon, I was sitting on a bench on Queen Street eating my lunch of Indian food when two older men came along and asked if I minded if they shared the bench. Of course...
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"Less likely to be able to match a musical pitch"
Many years ago I sent a sample of my DNA to 23andMe for testing and, as a result, every now and then I get emails alerting me that some new genetic trait, or some long-lost 7th cousin, has been...
View ArticleCBC Island Morning on the Charlottetown Boulder Park
islandmorning-boulderpark-2018-08-10.mp3Matt Rainnie produced this spot for CBC Prince Edward Island’s Island Morning that aired on Friday, August 10, 2018 after the 8:00 a.m. news. He interviewed me...
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