Around the World in 46 Bookstores
Madeleine Morley assembled a delicious list of 46 bookshops around the world.I’ve been lucky to visit four of them so far.I could do worse in life than to send this list to my travel agent and ask them...
View ArticleMucem in Marseille
David Noel recommends a visit to Mucem when in Marseille. The museum has a better-than-usual focus on accessibility:Recognising the need to surround itself with experts in disability so as to consider...
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Young Lovers
While I was emptying the leak buckets in the attic this evening, I came across this photobooth picture of Catherine and me. It must have been taken in 1992 or 1993—25 years ago!—as neither of us is...
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Breakfast Without Sketchbook
Wednesday morning and Catherine was off early to the hospital for a scan so Oliver and I came to Receiver Coffee for breakfast out.Receiver Coffee | Sketching
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Boston to Nuremberg for $315
I was toying with the idea of going to Nuremberg in October for IndieWebCamp, as all the cool kids will be there.I’ll be in Boston on October 19, so I looked for Boston to Nuremberg flights that...
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Oliver's Turning 18
For the past year (or more), Oliver’s been focused intensely on October 1, 2018, the day he turns 18 years old and becomes an adult.A big part of this has involved organizing a birthday party that...
View Article"Chance and hope come in forms like steam and smoke"
This short film about the Irish border written by Clare Dwyer Hogg and performed by Stephen Rea, has singlehandedly convinced me that poetry can change the world.Ireland | Brexit | Stephen Rea | Clare...
View ArticleMeet my friend, the phone
From Euan Semple, Your phone doesn’t have to be your enemy. In part:Don’t let the media convince you that it is inevitable that you are a victim of technology, and make the effort to ensure that you...
View Article"I could sell all my stuff and take my fifty bucks to France..."
Lotic, interviewed on starting from scratch:A lot of artists have this fantasy of pulling up stakes, getting rid of all their stuff, and running away to a new city to reboot and recreate...
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The Letter
The impact of mailing a letter (photo taken 9 years ago at the postal museum in Copenhagen).Mail | Greenhouse Gases | Copenhagen
View ArticleThe Cadre on UPEI and FOIPP
The Cadre published a store last week on the impending application of Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) legislation to the University of Prince Edward Island, Taking Care of Our...
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Catherine Hennessey's Guestbook
I have known Catherine Hennessey for 25 years, and I’ve always delighted in the numerical twist that unites us: she was born in 1933, I was born in 1966. So when I turned 33, she turned 66; when I...
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Whole Earth Classified Ads
I’ve been going through my back issues of Whole Earth Review lately; I’d forgotten what a healthy classified section the magazine had, and that you needed to be a subscriber to place an ad, which seems...
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George's Second Career as a Woodworker
I got to know George Guimond many years ago, both through his work as an architect here in Charlottetown and by virtue of his family being neighbours, in a country sense, when we lived out on the...
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Midterm Election Ballot
Although the races for the New York 25th congressional seat and for New York Senate are not expected to be close (Kirsten Gillibrand is given a 99.9% chance of winning for the Democrats in the Senate),...
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Is it raining?
I’m still waiting for the job of making me a window here in my subterranean office to rise to the top of the to-do list, so unless there’s a hurricane going on, I have no way of knowing what the...
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Very Yellow
The Adirondack chair doesn’t quite follow physical laws, but that yellow, oh my. A recent refill of the yellow half-pan in my watercolour set from an art supply shop in Amsterdam.Sketching | Chair |...
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FreshRSS
Like many of you, perhaps, I’ve never completely forgiven Google for killing off Google Reader, its excellent standards-setting RSS reader.After flirting with commercial competition, like Feedly, for a...
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The BBC turned a summer day of its Radio 4 programming into art (via Brendan Dawes).BBC | Radio | Open Data | Art
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Leaving Flickr
I first signed up for a Flickr account in May 2004, three months after it launched, and in the intervening 14 years I uploaded 19,932 photos there.I’ve used Flickr as a combination of photo backup and...
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