Peter had been designing and printing bags for us back in the PRE -ceiver days. So when we made the move down the street to open our very first Receiver Coffee location on Victoria Row, he marked the ...

Ligatures in typography are when two letters are combined into a single character so as to improve spacing. One frequent candidate for “ligaturing” is the lower-case f. For example, here’s the word ...

Charlottetown’s own Nancy White released her album Stickers on Fruit in 2002. From the title track: Stickers on the berries, the red and the blue And of course they put stickers on the vegetables too ...

The bookbinding was a little rough around the edges, but, boy oh boy, was it good to be back.

City of Charlottetown Tree #9301, the sugar maple in front of our house, is nine years old this year. And, this autumn season, it is in fine form: For comparison, here’s the tree on the day it was ...

Fish tacos are $6 at Fin Folk Food in Tracadie every Tuesday. They are very good. Not only are the tacos very good, but the view is even better: Lord knows I’ve had my disagreements with Mr. Banks, ...

I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The venue has a ramp entrance. Gender-neutral washrooms are available on site. The space is air-conditioned and an air purifier will be in use. Attendees are welcome to move around, step outside, or ...

“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 ...