Looptail g. Just down the street from our temporary house in Mexico City. Books about food. What’s not to love about Librería ...
It’s not that I didn’t know that Lisa spoke Spanish, but it’s another thing entirely to listen to her speak Spanish to a taxi driver for an hour, wending through Mexico City traffic: like waking up ...
Stephen died on Saturday. I hadn’t talked to Stephen in more than a year. Our last conversation was prompted by a one sentence email from him: I need to talk to you.
If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...
Our Dutch friends, printers Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten, have launched a fundraising campaign for a book about printing with LEGO, The Hilversum Method: In 2023 we made our first book, ...
We are lucky to have one of the city’s designated food truck parking spots just a block from our house. A few weeks ago, the spot got taken over by Curry Up & Eat, serving Indian food. The menu—posted ...
Earlier this year, we prepared a guide for our Home Exchange guests that, among other things, points them to shops and restaurants in the area that we like. When I looked the new address up, and found ...
Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week? Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak ...
While Apple Wallet doesn’t offer a native way to add a PEI library card—nor, indeed, anything other that credit, debit, and transit cards—the brilliant little free Pass4Wallet app can do it.
There was a time when the idea of receiving household bills electronically was anathema: what if the email didn’t arrive and my electricity or water got cut off!? I got over that, and I’ve been ...
A year ago brother Johnny gave me a gift of a 2017 calendar of historic maps of the world; when the year came to an end it seemed like a shame to have the map plates go to waste, so I trimmed them out ...
“Do you need coffee in the morning?”, he asked. “Yes,” I replied, with some urgency. “Do you take anything in it?”, he asked. “No,” I answered. “Ok. Get up at 6:00 and have a cup of coffee, but don’t ...