"Take the number of years you’ve been in the group..."
From Olle, a tip about making events that include everyone, especially newcomers:There were at least two new faces at the meetup, and I had been given a hint by Morgan about the article Breaking...
View ArticleCreative Commons Cargo Bikes
XYZ CARGO designs and manufactures bicycles in Hamburg and Copenhagen using a novel and humane business model:Fair pricing: We ask ourselves how to give access to XYZ CARGOs to as many people as...
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Perry's 3D House of Province
At the end of my “stakeholders tour” of Province House back in June, I mentioned the work that my friend Perry Williams has been doing with photographing and editing “3D tours” of places on the Island,...
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Bench Mystery
I can’t figure out whether this bus stop bench was mis-installed, got hit by something, is buckling under pressure, or was just artfully designed.
View ArticleThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: Pondercast Edition
recording-20181012-193945.mp3The final event of Oliver’s Birthday Season, a trip to Wolfville to bear witness to a live taping of Laurie Brown’s Pondercast podcast.So, of course, we recorded a podcast...
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Oscar Wilde, Laurie Brown, and the the Apotheosis of Cool
Back in the early 1990s, Laurie Brown moved from MuchMusic VJ to CBC Television’s flagship The Journal as arts correspondent and, in the process, defined a new kind of cultural journalism for the...
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Camera Obscura
We opted for a slow drive home today from Wolfville, starting with breakfast at the Wolfville Farmers’ Market and then heading east toward home around noon.Rather than a straight shot across to...
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Burnt Coat Lighthouse
My phone isn’t well-suited to taking three dimensional panoramas (or I’m not good at taking them); most of the time they end up as a jumble of disjointed images.But sometimes the jumbled result is...
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"Imagine the sight of a row of burning pianos on the streets..."
If you’re driving through Windsor, Nova Scotia on the main highway, you cannot help but notice the impressive abandoned mill building off to your side. As we had some time on our hands, on our pass by...
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Behind the Door
The thing I miss most about not having proximate day to day co-workers is office hijinks. Fortunately my colleague Alan, here in New Hampshire, stepped up this morning to fill this void for my visit.Photo
View ArticleNo
Radiolab aired an episode featuring Kaitlin Prest’s 2017 podcast miniseries No this week. Radiolab host Jad Abumrad prefaced the episode with a caution:Just as a warning, there are scenes in what you...
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View ArticleOn Accessibility
Anne Gibson writes, in To whom does the burden fall?, about accessibility:When is it the responsibility of someone with a disability to use unnamed tools to somehow make your content accessible, when...
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The Phone in the Crows Nest
On the third floor of the Sagendorph Building here at Yankee Publishing, at the end of the hall near where my temporary office sits, is a room called, internally, the “crow’s nest.” Many of my meetings...
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Helping Old Farmer's Almanac Readers Celebrate a Visit to Dublin
The Old Farmer’s Almanac webcam has been a longtime and surprisingly popular feature of Almanac.com, to the point where readers passing through rural Dublin, NH will often stop in the parking lot and...
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Pen Night at the Reinventorium
I hosted the monthly Pen Night, for fountain pen aficionados, here at the Reinventorium tonight, and provided members with a cook’s tour of my letterpress shop. This was followed by a wide-ranging...
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Supernova, Adzukiiro, Kitano Ijinkan Red, Yellow Sunset
During our visit to Malmö in August I received the generous gift of some fountain pen ink sample bottles from my friend Nene. To that point, I must admit, my knowledge of fountain pen inks was limited...
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Increasing Intensity
Friend of the blog Ray asked me to increase the intensity of the links in the daily email digest (sign up here).And so I did.And I took the opportunity to swap out the photo that appears in the head....
View ArticleMorning Tea
My friend Sandy started working with Lady Baker’s Tea this autumn and we had a chance to chat about her new job last night.Apparently the staff start each workday with a decision about what type of tea...
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