The utility of the pact isn’t statistical, though (output, rather than outcome): it’s been a nudge toward building a habit, and that nudge has become linked to being thirsty, and feeling the positive ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this ...

Ten years ago I installed an Ikea Digniet wire in our dining room to provide a place to “hang my collection of ephemera.” When we got the dining room painted a few years ago, it got taken down, the ...

Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to ...

One of the magazines I remember being around my parents’ living room when I was a kid was Toronto Life. We lived about 90 minutes from Toronto, and because we were up high on the Niagara Escarpment, ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

I’m forever looking for ways to make finding library books easier, and recently I found something that I use almost every day, a “shortcut” for iOS and macOS that let’s me easily search the PEI Public ...

A repeating pattern in my life: one day every year, during the last few weeks of the spring semester at The Culinary Institute of Canada, I remember it offers both a great deal on lunch every weekday, ...

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 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 ...

Ten years ago, at pei.consuming.ca, I released a web app that displayed the current Prince Edward Island electricity load, and the proportion of that load being met by wind energy generation. Ten ...

Here’s the Apple Maps view of the corner of Kent and Great George from the summertime: And here’s a photo that Lisa took while walking by the same corner earlier this week: It’s a remarkable change to ...