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Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you
Two years ago I purchased a 5 oz. tube of yellow letterpress ink from NA Graphics. With the exception of a tiny experiment last year, I’d been afraid to use the ink; black and red are easy and...
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Success Grapefruit Segments
I bought this can of grapefruit segments 100% because of the brand name. I wasn’t even in the market for grapefruit segments.
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The Scale of The Buzz
Oliver and I were in Catherine’s studio yesterday morning for an emergency Halloween costume alteration when I heard a commotion in the parking lot below her back window.I looked out to see the...
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Laptop Breakfast Plate
I bought this plate from Michael Stanley some years ago. It was a remnant from a set he’d created for a family with small cupboards.It wasn’t until I set it down with Oliver’s breakfast this morning,...
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All the leaves are brown...
After printing the bold headline in yellow on Wednesday, today was the day to print the explanatory body copy on my California Typewriter poster.I didn’t really want to print this in black, both...
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Portrait Mode
Brother Mike is visiting and is sporting a fancy new iPhone with “portrait mode.” Here’s a photo he took of Ethan with me in the background.Ethan | Photo | Mike Rukavina
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Soft Drinks & Ice Machine
If you only need one reason to stay at The Charlottetown Hotel, surely this sign qualifies.
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The Guardian's Election Non-Coverage
Citizens of Charlottetown woke up with a new mayor and city councillor following from yesterday’s municipal election in the city. Picking up our daily newspaper The Guardian, this morning, however,...
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Radio Shack Leaves Downtown Charlottetown
I popped up to The Source (née Radio Shack) in the Confederation Court Mall yesterday to pick up some earphones for my brother Mike, who was about to jump on a plane back to Hamilton and needed a pair...
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Evernote Replacement: Bill Payment Workflow
Along with my friend Ton, I am seeking to emancipate myself from Evernote, a very capable cross-platform organizational app that I’ve been using for many years. The emancipation is part...
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C'est le jour J!
My new Mac mini is scheduled for delivery today, and I received an SMS from Apple this morning alerting me:Because this is bilingual Canada, the alert was in both English and French, and I noticed that...
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The Voyage of my Mac mini
From UPS’s tracking information for my Mac mini package, here’s the voyage it took to get to Charlottetown from Shenzhen, China:The package started in Shenzhen, China, leaving late on Saturday,...
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No Netflix on Wii
I suppose we’ve always known that this day would eventually come, and, truth be told, I’m amazed it hasn’t come sooner, but we received an email from Netflix today telling us that our ability to stream...
View ArticleWearing a Poppy
I have never been a regular wearer of Remembrance Day poppies, for no more reason that ignorance and sloth.Archdeacon John Clarke wrote a moving argument for the poppy in a blog post last week; in...
View Article"To vote, or not to vote?"
To vote, or not to vote? by Edward Hasbrouck. Nothing has made me think more about democracy, voting, violence and war than reading this.Edward Hasbrouck
View Article"Textile artists aren’t often thought of as creating fine art..."
The Guardian ran a story today about Catherine’s piece, along with those from 18 other women, being added to the permanent collection of the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.In the article Catherine...
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bells_of_peace_1.mp3St. Paul’s Anglican Church participated in the Bells of Peace initiative today, ringing its bell 100 times to mark the centenary of the end of World War I.The church generously...
View ArticleHow YouTube Has me Pegged
Over the last year I’ve replaced a lot of my TV watching time with YouTube watching time: over the lazy holiday Monday yesterday, for example, I watched (an embarrassing) 75 minutes of YouTube (I know...
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It wasn't the coffee maker, it was the grinder...
Over the last year my morning espresso macchiato has been descending into chaos: rather than incisive wonder, it was putrid swamp. I cleaned the coffee machine. I cleaned the grinder. I experimented...
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