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Oliver's Last Supper as a Child
Eighteen years ago tonight Catherine and I were having supper at the Town & County the night before Oliver was born. Tonight we celebrated his impending adulthood at Papa Joe’s. With him.Oliver |...
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Happy Birthday, Oliver
We have had so many adventures over these 18 years. You have taught me so much about about so much. You have grown into an interesting, curious, compassionate, funny young man. I’m looking forward to...
View ArticleTwo Portraits
The fifth episode of The First, titled Two Portraits, is as good an episode of television as you’re ever likely to see. Love, sex, death, illness, drugs, anger, redemption, Mars. Sean Penn and Anna...
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All Maturity Levels
The first thing Oliver did this morning was to update his Netflix profile to give himself access to shows of “all maturity levels.”(He put on the previous restrictions himself, and could have removed...
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Life is Big and Our Heads are Small
We are all happy and exhausted after a birthday party for Oliver made possible by so many wonderful friends, new and old, from this Island we call home.I told Oliver, while he was getting ready for bed...
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How to Livestream Your Birthday Party
Inspired by my friends Elmine and Ton’s documentation of their birthday unconference format, here’s my guide for livestreaming your birthday party.We livestreamed Oliver’s birthday party last night to...
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The Mysterious Case of why Photos and Preview couldn't see the GPS data...
This is a tale of two photos, both, in theory, with location data embedded in their EXIF metadata, but with the manifestation of that EXIF data to the Apple Photos and Preview apps only available from...
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Charlottetown Airport Ground Transportation by Bus and Bicycle
Earlier this year I ran into my neighbour Christina on Prince Street and she told me that she’d just walked home from Charlottetown Airport; it only took 90 minutes, she reported, and had been a lovely...
View ArticleEdward Hasbrouck Reviews the Gemini PDA
Edward Hasbrouck has written a delightfully exhaustive review of the Gemini PDA:A year after my initial review, and six months after I received my Gemini, here’s a detailed update on what works, what...
View ArticleLeiderschap in de nieuwe netwerksamenleving
In Leiderschap in de nieuwe netwerksamenleving, Marco Derksen writes (machine-translated from Dutch to English):In an era of uncertainty and rapid technological change there is a great need for leaders...
View Article"Me and my cousin were walking one day by the Dairy Queen drive-in thru down...
Gloria is a new song from Henry Jamison. From The Fader, Jamison writes:I realized that I was writing a parallel story about the ways in which boys in our culture are “recruited” into a toxic...
View ArticleGrowing Up at the Charlottetown Farmers' Market
Although I’ve described myself as “printer, developer, writer” for many years, I haven’t written professionally since my days as the restaurant reviewer for The Buzz, many years ago.Until this week,...
View ArticleRamp With a Side of House
Ooti Billeaud built himself a BMX ramp. City regulations required him to build a house in front of it.New Orleans | BMX | Design
View ArticleKeep Growing. Keep Moving Forward.
Warren Ellis at Thought Bubble:From time to time, some of us will give up our seats and go hang out with the ghosts for a while. If you take our seats, then you know the deal – find new seats for new...
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The Premier Helps Oliver Turn 18
Oliver and I rendezvoused with Premier MacLauchlan yesterday morning at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market and he kindly presented Oliver with a certificate recognizing his 18th birthday. A passing...
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Thanksgiving Supper at Gallant's General Store
It’s a busy weekend for Catherine: she’s working hard to finish up an important art piece. And so Oliver and I were left to our own devices tonight for Thanksgiving supper.Fortunately this also...
View Article"Austin Kleon is a writer who draws"
My favourite blog-find of late is that of Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist.Not only do I appreciate Austin’s sensibilities, but I appreciate that he takes what others might toss off as...
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City Day on the Farm
In the shadow of last week’s Farm Day in the City, I had this idea that we should organize City Day on the Farm. Avocado toast and Boosted Boards go to Central Queens.I set out to try to illustrate the...
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How to download all of your Flickr photos (and metadata)
If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your...
View ArticleThe importance of less than 100% reliability
From How to Build a Low-tech Website:In contrast, this website runs on an off-the-grid solar power system with its own energy storage, and will go off-line during longer periods of cloudy weather. Less...
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