“Season your work with the physical,” that’s what Sloan has been doing lately, and it’s at the heart of what I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember.

Allan was witty, creative, contrarian, and wickedly smart. While he was a political candidate–he ran for the NDP against then-Premier Alex Campbell in 1974 –Allan excelled at being just out of view.

Distant friends of the blog, Jeremy Cherfas and Edward Hasbrouck, chatted about food in American prisons on the latest episode of of Eat This Podcast. To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my ...

Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was that we typed out JavaScript syntax with ...

One is for the freezer filled with frozen soup: The vinyl for this sign was Oracal 631 Cyan. It cut beautifully on the Charlottetown Library Makerspace Cricut, and was very easy to “weed” and mount.

For the last while I’ve felt like our monthly electricity bill has been creeping up significantly. I generally pay the bills in a rush of paperwork, so can’t claim to have been paying careful ...

I so very much want everyone who subscribes to this newsletter to watch this one-hour video because it communicates the best expression that I’ve come across that explains why solar power is both ...

The greatest appearance of cognitive debt was back in the days when I was trying my hand as a mobile app developer for both iOS and Android, developing apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, then wrapping ...

In Safari, login to Vimeo, and note your username. Then, from the command line: (substitute your own Vimeo for USERNAME ). If it works, you’ll see each of your videos downloading, as two separate ...

There was a promo in regular rotation on CTV many years ago for the morning show Canada AM that featured Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies responding to a question about whether the band regretted ...

For the past few weeks I have been picking away (well, carving away) a linoleum block to help a red fox emerge from it. And emerge he has, in a varied edition of ten prints. He’s unmistakably a fox, ...