John Flood gifted me a case of 14 pt. Weiss Italic last week, type he’d originally been given by Thaddeus Holownia.

It’s a typeface unlike any other I own: precious, delicate, with a need to be very frugal with inking to avoid plugging up the loops in letters like e and g.

Once I figured that out, I was very pleased with what resulted.

Aided by a grant from the City of Charlottetown Heritage Incentive Program, we’re on a multi-year program of replacing the windows here at 100 Prince Street. Two years ago it was the bottom four facing the street; this week it was the top five. Here’s the finished job:

The windows are Marvin Elevate ones, and they were installed by Ultimate Windows (excellent service all-round).

Beyond any benefit to the streetscape, and sound and heat insulation, and being able to see outside clearly in the winter, having windows that can open and close is such a wonderful novelty.

For comparison, here’s the house after the bottom windows were replaced, but before the replacement of the top ones.

Here’s a photo of the house before any windows were replaced:

And, finally, here’s a photo of the house as we purchased it in 2000, before painting and new windows:

Reflecting Light from KINLEY—our neighbour here in the C1A 4R4 for a time—was released today:

Reflecting Light is a five-song release built on strong pop instincts, lyrics that turn small moments into whole stories, and production that moves easily between dreamy, synth-bright and infectious.

Across the record, KINLEY writes in scenes. A relationship can feel like a natural disaster or a happily ever after. A stranger can become a love interest and a big break before the conversation is even over. Certainty can turn into doubt and back again. The songs live in those in-between moments where attraction, intuition, history and possibility all collide.

At its heart, Reflecting Light is about love, instinct, contradiction and finding your footing, but never in a way that feels too polished or precious.

I’ve had it on repeat today. I love it.

From The Jump? by Rob Paterson:

In the summer of 1993, I was on track to end up at the top of the Canadian banking system. This had been my dream since I left school. But instead of being happy, I was utterly depressed. Something was wrong and I did not know what it was. I felt like a donkey on a treadmill going around in circles. Ultimately I realized that I was a prisoner. I was trapped by my income and my debt. For a year, I was just miserable. For how could I have ever escape this trap? Then one summer day, I woke up and realized that I could escape. All I had to do was to walk away from this life. 

This was my jump. The moment when I knew for certain that I had to leave the traditional work life forever.

On the one-year anniversary of the death of my friend Rob comes an unexpected gift: an entire website that Rob created, which I’ve never seen, where he dives deep into the dramatic transformation he took his life through.

Thanks to his daughter Hope for passing this along today.

The Copernicus Browser can be used to browser through current and historical satellite imagery: think of it like the Google Maps “Satellite” layer, more up to date, but with less resolution.

I zoom in to St. Peters Harbour, on Prince Edward Island’s north short, and grabbed images from every August from 2017 to 2026, and chained them together in a movie:

The movie shows the rather dramatic changes the channel into St. Peters Harbour has gone through over the last decade, more more dramatic than the different between last year and this year.

In recent memory you’ve been able to walk right up to the old wharf/breakwater at the mouth from the adjoining beach; now the navigation channel runs between.

For more on this, read The Disappearing Harbour: Navigating the Environmental History of St. Peters Harbour, Prince Edward Island by Barbara Palmer Rousseau.

From Presentation of the Gutenberg Prize 2026 by Internationale Gutenberg-Gesellschaft:

Behind this playful gesture, however, lay a serious mission. Through “Hacking Gutenberg,” Spiekermann is seeking support for p98a.berlin, a unique workshop and living museum that combines traditional printing techniques with contemporary digital technologies. Located in the former Girls’ School of Drawing on Potsdamer Straße in Berlin, it houses one of Germany’s most important private collections of historic printing presses and type. As a space for workshops, masterclasses, experimentation and creative exchange, p98a.berlin brings together designers, students, companies and cultural practitioners to explore the material foundations of communication. To secure its future, the project relies on financial support and entrepreneurial partnerships. By bringing “Hacking Gutenberg” to Mainz, the 2026 Gutenberg Prize laureate demonstrated that preserving and reimagining Gutenberg’s legacy remains a shared responsibility in the digital age.

Erik Spiekermann has an experimental letterpress shop in Berlin? This ticks all of my boxes. Every. Single. One.

Our This Box is for Good project has been less active over the last year, but murmering away in the background there are printers around the world creating brand new editions.

This week it was Calgary printmaker Hannah Sanford, who created a stunning box with a wrap-around scene of nuthatches. Read more about it here.

Recent versions the Maps application on iOS and macOS can automate, at your opt-in, the gathering of “Visited Places,” which Apple describes like this:

The Visited Places feature helps you keep track of places you’ve been, so you can easily revisit or share them later. Use it to find past locations—like restaurants from a recent trip—and organize them into guides or share them with others. Visited Places are end-to-end encrypted, can’t be read by Apple, and appear on all your synced devices.

I’ve had an interest, for more than 20 years, in this sort of “personal geolocation archive,” so I’m interested in this feature. 

There’s no built-in way to export the details of these places; a little bit of research reveals, however, that the data is there for the exporting, as it’s simply an SQLite database sitting on my Mac. Here’s how I exported it:

sqlite3 -readonly -header -csv \
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Maps/Data/Maps/MapsSync_0.0.1 \
"
SELECT
 datetime(v.ZSTARTDATE + 978307200, 'unixepoch', 'localtime') AS visited_at,
 l.ZMAPITEMNAME AS place,
 l.ZMAPITEMADDRESS AS address,
 l.ZMAPITEMCITY AS city,
 l.ZLATITUDE AS latitude,
 l.ZLONGITUDE AS longitude,
 v.ZVISITCLASSIFICATION AS classification
FROM ZVISIT v
LEFT JOIN ZVISITEDLOCATION l
 ON v.ZLOCATION = l.Z_PK
ORDER BY v.ZSTARTDATE;
" > ~/Desktop/apple-maps-visits.csv

This exported 349 places, harvested starting October 9, 2025 (Mucho Burrito) and continuing to last night (Sobeys).

I’m not clear on what the threshold for “visited” is, but clearly there’s a relatively high bar, as I’ve certainly visited many more places than those 349.

For each place I get:

• Date and time: 2026-08-15 16:02:00
• Place name: Sobeys
• Street Address: 400 University Ave, Charlottetown PE C1A 4N6, Canada
• City: Charlottetown
• Latitude: 46.246187
• Longitude: -63.133117
• Classification: 7

I haven’t figure out what the “classifications” map to — my values are limited to 1, 4, 5, and 7, and there’s no rhyme nor reason as to what they represent.

Back in March, Lisa and I were in Annapolis Royal and stopped in at the Elephant Grass Printmakers Society, where we met Lorna Mulligan.

Through Lorna we were virtually introduced to printmaker and textile artist Julie Rosvall and printer Katie Prescott, both living and working in the Annapolis Valley.

This summer we visited Katie’s print shop, and Julie drove up to join us. We had much fun talking printing, printmaking, printers, printmakers, ink, paper, and more. 

A month later we got to give Julie a tour of our print shop when she was in Charlottetown on vacation.

Yesterday, on our way out of Wolfville, we stopped in at Harvest Gallery downtown to see Otherwise, a group show of work by Julie, Bonnie Baker, Sydney Lancaster, and Sheri Hancock.

The exhibition is a must-see if you are in the Valley this summer—it runs until September 13, 2025. 

My favourite piece is Julie’s Remnants, a textile relief print:

Julie’s current practice centres on making relief prints from textiles: she creates the textiles, then inks them and runs them through a press as a matrix. It’s quite affecting.

We stayed at the Old Orchard Inn in Wolfville on Friday night, and on Saturday morning we took a walk around the area, which took us in a loop around Horton High School, where I spotted this in the window.

We were booked into cabin 413, which was directly across the lane from cabin 412, where Olivia and I stayed in 2018 when we were in town for a recording of Pondercast.