Daniel Earl MacKay's Stuff
2007-04-26
If you're thinking of visiting, here's a map of Nova Scotia.
New Stuff
2024
Sep 2024: Trip to Maine & New Hampshire for Joshua Rozovsky & Derek Lee's wedding! Here's the program and here's the Facebook album.
Jun 14 2024: After... 25 years? more? the Solar Nova Scotia website is moving off my server.
There's an archive of the site on the last day here.
Jan 25 2024: New car! a 2018 Kia Rio.
2023
Oct 23 2023: Google Doc interview by Meghan Daine-Richard about gay me and activism here (pdf, 5 pages)
Aug 17 2023: Attended the auction of the contents of Earl & Eileen's house - now belonging to Albert Suto. Here's a snapshot of the auction house catalog for it.
Jul 2023: A rather overwhelming letter of thanks from D'Arcy Morris-Poultney
Jun 2023: A history of Solar Nova Scotia for The Solar PVcast
May 2023: Nonprofit Website Dialog
May 2023: I found a new poem that really spoke to me: On Relationships And Lovers
May 2023: BIRD FACTS!!
Mar 2023: Story on me in the Dalhousie Computer Science alumni magazine
Feb 15 2023: An archive of Norval's Costa Rica home's former [Air]BnB site, "Condominium Mana"
Jan 4 2023: CBC Radio Information Morning interview with Dan
Jan 1 2023: The 2023 TCP/IP Birthday Levee! And the CBC print edition.
2022
2021
2020
- Nov '20: Attended -- via Zoom -- Sherri & Jael's wedding
- Oct '20: Norval sells his beautiful 1998 Volvo S70
- Hallowe'en '20: Benjamin Joseph Gower
- Jul '20: Photos of Eel River Bar by Nevin Williams for Lloyd Wilmot
- Jun '20: Pano of a picnic with Paul on the Shannon Park Trail
- Apr '20: An index into the Online Vigil on April 24th - performers, pieces, links etc
- Mar '20: Sourdough Blog and Techniques
- Mar '20: Selling the Norval Morrisseau Art Box, Lithos & Book that Norval and I bought many years ago.
- Feb '20: 1940s? Cocktail Recipe Wheel published by New Progress Printing, Toronto. You move the pointer to display a tiny recipe for about fifty drinks. I would guess that it's from the 1940s and was a promotional piece to show off the precision and versatility of that print shop; it's just 6" across; the recipe titles are in 5-point, and the rest of the text is in four-point. The phone number is the WAlnut exchange - the Annex. That style of phone numbers disappeared in 1951. The detail is so fine that I scanned it at 300dpi. Here it is showing the recipe for a Clover Club: 1½oz gin, a drop of grenadine, white of an egg, ½oz lemon juice, and ½tsp sugar
- Jan '20: Goodbye Paul Brunelle, genius graphic designer Here are a couple of his typically funky party invitations. The one is scanned at 300dpi because the print is so tiny. It folds up into a 3½x3½ card.
2019
2018
2017
- Nov '17: New to me car - 2009 Pontiac G5
- Oct '17: Foot bolted back together after Lisfranc Fracture while hiking
- Mar '17: Costa Rica (fb album) Managua Nicarauga, Perez' grave, Ojo de Agua, Alajuela feria, Alajuela -> SJ train, hardware store, Multiplaza mall, painting at Victor's, Fireman Mark, VIP cinemas, Alajuela feria
- Jun '17: Smoky The Yorkie enters my life
- Feb '17: My vacuum coffee pots
2016
- Mar '16: Costa Rica (fb album) feria, Victor, La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Jaco Beach, Bizet's Carmen, Easter procession in Cartago, soccer.
2015
2014
- Oct '14: Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance Gathering in Madawaska, NB near Edmundston, with Kenny Prosper, Jeremy Dutcher, Tuma Young, Gabe of course, and many more. Here's the main photo album.
- Aug '14: My new instrument - a Moog Etherwave theremin
- Jun '14: Gabe's first horrific car crash, near Red Bank or Eel Ground
- May '14: Me and big handsome Halifax cop Cst. Shaun Carvery at the International Day Against Homophobia Rally
- Apr '14: We see a beautiful painting by Ben Kynock at a show at Alteregos, the Halifax Backpacker's Hostel café, he lends it to us, we're in love with it.
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
- Dec '01: Norval's Christmas Letter '01
- Dec '01: Colin Pye with foot in cast
- Sep '01: GNG Camping Weekend Album (also see the pics about MAC Leather IX which was there.)
- Sep '01: Bob and Dave's Farm
- Aug '01: Camp It Up 2001
- Aug '01: Clam Harbour Sand Sculpture Competition
- Jul '01: Vermont / New Hampshire with Mike and Phil
- Jun '01: Dan's new coffee mug, a Dewar Flask, that is, a Thermos, but nonsilvered, a piece of art made by the Dalhousie glassblower, Jurgen. Scotch and soda, not coffee, is its offering in this pic. :-)
- Apr '01: Dan collects another Featherweight!
- Apr '01: St Margaret of Scotland Church, Robie St
- Mar '01: Brother Gary gives me a beautiful Sony DSC P1 digital camera!!
- Mar '01: Brother Gary ca. '74
- Jan '01: On Dec 31 we made party hats!
- Jan '01: Norval's Christmas Letter '00
- Jan '01: Mike blowing out candles on his birthday "cake"
- Jun '01: Dan & Mike's chainsaw
- Jun '01: Dan's Pride Upholstery Job
- Jun '01: Mike, Dan & Norval in PEI
- Apr '01: Mike on Dan's bike, taken
2000
1999
1998
- Oct '98: Norval & Dan & the cycles.
- Oct '98: Me on my "new" 1996 Honda Pacific Coast.
- Oct '98: Zara the polydactylous calico, a new addition to the family.
- Sep '98: Dan, Joe, Norval
- Jaws, a Norval Morrisseau serigraph, No. 33/54, ca. 1974, beautiful birthday gift from my Norval.
- Aug '98: Norval, Wolf & Dan @ Clam Harbour Beach
- Summer '98: Norval, Joe & Dan in the Daily News
- Feb '98: Joe at N's office party, Feb '98
Earlier
- 1996: Norval's office - Norval, Joanne Cook, and Shawn Martin
- Jun '95: (ca) My Dad with the strip-and-fibreglas canoe he made for me
- Jul '93: A big surprise birthday party organized by Norval - photos
- Feb '93: Norval and I are featured in the Valentine's Day edition of the North End News
- Dec '93: Montréal Metro motor controller sounds from Lionel Groulx station
- 1990s some time: I buy a 1989 Honda Pacific Coast. Here's a video of the same year on the highway.
- Jul '92: ... at the reunion.
- Jul '92: On my Honda Helix, dressed to kill (by Astrid Brunner) for a high school reunion
- Apr '87: Norval and I in matching seersucker suits and kinda matching Volvo 240s
- ca. '85: Beard on the left side of my face
- 1981: My first terminal: used CDC with a ... 1200 baud modem I think.
- 1981: Brad and I in the library at Parkview Education Centre.. There are more pics of Brad there too.
- 1981: When I was working in the Christmas tree lot, my boss was Barri Meisner. -- sorry for the double exposure, I was excited :-)
- Dec 5th, 1980: Norval gets his baby grand piano
- 1980: Dan & Dave Lane in a first aid course at Parkview
- 1979: Selfie at 19 taken with a new beautiful Olympus OM-1, a Christmas gift from my brother Gary. Taken on Kodachrome, and "scanned" by pointing the Sony DSC-P1 digital camera at the slide projector screen.
- 1979: I get an electronic fuel injection 1969 VW Notchback.
This is it, this is
the dash,
the receipt, and I have
one of the injectors (r) as a keepsake.
- 1978 (ca) Bought Morgan-Greer Tarot Cards at Sagor's Bookstore in Bridgewater
- Dan & Gary's big motorcycle trip, July-August 1977
- 1977 New Germany Rural High School NGRHS newspaper and debating
- 1976 Christmas gifts - as of 2022 I still have the screwdriver set and oscilloscope
- 1974: 1974 Grade 5 Barrington Passage Elementary school pic
- 1968: Gary's Hughes-Owens slide rule and case.
- 1960s, late: Earl and I in Meadow campground, Keji Park probably about Site 100 - you can see the playground at the back. Notice the orignal giant fireplace.
- 1960s: My name cast in hot type metal at the Shelburne Coast Guard
- 1960s: pics taken at my "Aunts'" Mamie Harmon and Tessa Theresa Brackley's cottage
- 1963: I was born during a total eclipse of the sun - see the path here, and that the eclipse sweeps over the very southern tip of NS where I was born.
Projects
Local Internet History
Some poetry that found me
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