News

It turns out that the IKEA warehouse on PEI is located in the Rush Transfer warehouse, on the Mason Road in Stratford. If the number of parcels in the warehouse when I went to pick up our bookcases, ...
A week later, Buttondown suffered a technical meltdown, something that resulted in some of my 94 subscribers receiving 8 copies of that day’s email, and some—like me—not receiving it at all.
A repeating pattern in my life: one day every year, during the last few weeks of the spring semester at The Culinary ...
While our crocuses emerge tentatively in mid-March, it’s not until mid-April that they achieve full brilliance. This is that time. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. I have been writing here ...
Modify the script so that it doesn’t need to pass the “Title” parameter to the Readwise API — the API will calculate this on ...
The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.
Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops you. The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to The West Wing —another fictional universe—where Leo McGarry was President Bartlett ’s Chief ...
One of Charlottetown’s oldest businesses is set to close shortly. Taylor’s Jewellers, in Confederation Court Mall, has this sign up in its windows: It is with a heavy heart that we announce our store ...
The Logical Song was the lead single on Supertramp’s 1979 album Breakfast in America. The only large-scale stadium rock show I’ve ever been to was Supertramp’s 1979 appearance at Exhibition Stadium in ...
Earlier this month Harry Holman posted A Whale of a Tale, an account of the 1857 discovery of a whale carcass in Tracadie Harbour, first published in The Islander: At the present time a novel ...
Earlier this year I added an “imported” column to the pei.consuming.ca web app. I was pulling this figure from the New Brunswick System Operator System Information page. I’ve since learned that this ...