The AI Edited My Video
I planned to edit together several video clips that Oliver and I shot to review the smart fortwo electric drive this morning, but Google Photos just alerted me that it had done this itself.The result...
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Author Photo
Luisa took this photo of me when we were in Malmö and called it my “author photo.” It’s a testament to her skills as a photographer and to the quality of the OnePlus 5 camera. It also means I need to...
View Article"The sink sounds like a didgeridoo!"
_the_sink_sounds_like_a_didgeridoo__1.mp3The first time Oliver used the sink at our Malmö Airbnb, he emerged exclaiming “The sink sounds like a didgeridoo!”I asked him to record this, and he emailed me...
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Oliver Starts Grade 12
Oliver started grade 12 at Colonel Gray High School today; while we drive to school these daysm as opposed to walking, we simulated the previous start-of-school pictures for completeness sake.Grade 12,...
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What is everything you need to travel with?
Our lodging in Amsterdam, Zoku, had an “almost everything store” in its 6th floor “living room,” a set of drawers containing a bunch of useful things one might need when traveling:The selection here is...
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A6 Notebook Pouches from Modulor
I am a big fan of the Paper-Oh Circulo A6 notebook, and my sketching over the past 18 months has largely been predicated on having one at my side almost all of the time. This, in turn, has been made...
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Die eigene Lebenspraxis zu erweitern
Heinz Wittenbrink was one of the people that Oliver and I met at Smart Stuff That Matters in Amersfoort last month; he was in our initial “get to know each other by the stories we tell” group, so we...
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"Don't Wait for the Eulogy"
From the book This Could Help by Patrick Rhone:Why wait for the eulogy to state what someone means to you? If someone’s life and accomplishments have great meaning the day after they are gone, my bet...
View ArticleRitchie vs. Fonzie
I spend an inordinate amount of my time attempting to map characters from one TV show onto characters from another (like Jerry=Kirk, Kramer=Spock, George=Bones, Elaine=Scotty).So, apparently, do the...
View Article"How is the war going along?"
The Clyde River project posting letters home from World War I continues today:Well, Jack, how is the war going along? We don’t know anything about it here. We might as well be in the woods a thousand...
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Analog Status Updates
In the window of Wright’s Shoes on Queen Street (which has uncommonly good window displays that have got me into the store more than once).Wright's Shoes | Design | Signage
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Blogging by Email with Categories
By far and away the greatest boon to my blogging practice over the past couple of years is giving myself the ability to post here by email, something I described the technical aspects of back in 2016...
View ArticleNetworked Agency and the Legislature
Ton writes about networked agency in the shadow of The Copenhagen Catalog:For me the unit of agency is the individual and a group of meaningful relationships in a specific context, a networked agency....
View ArticleThe Late Bus
Back in my early days on the executive of the PEI Home and School Federation I received a call from a parent concerned about the cancellation of the “late bus” in West Prince: they were concerned that...
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Ordering Toilet Paper from Amazon
I was ordering a watch band from Amazon last night, and before I checkout out I tried to remember if there was anything else we needed.“Toilet paper!”, I said to myself.I can’t believe it makes much...
View ArticleTravel Reminders for our Future Selves
At the tail end of our trip to Europe at the end of August, on the flight home, Oliver and I talked about the value of creating a list of what went well (so we can remember to do it again) and what...
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Shadow of Comic Hunter
Comic Hunter has consolidated down to a single storefront, leaving a subtle vestige of itself in the process.Comic Hunter | Signage | Charlottetown
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The Athens Zine Bibliotheque
The Athens Zine Bibliotheque is “a zine-library, collecting zines from around the world, focusing mainly on the field of architecture, design, photography and art.”Zines | Athens | Greece
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