Chris Jones Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Enraged pedestrian. Flâneur. Hiker. Explorer. Web developer. Photographer. Daydreamer. Recluse. Road full of promise, head full of doubt. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Hello.

I’m at Kor-B-Q Korean Grill in Halifax, NS, where it’s 11° with clear skies at 9:59am.
I’m currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

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Paroisse Saint-Pierre

September 15th, 2020 at 7:28pm in Notes

Last week I went to Cape Breton to do some hiking and getting-away-from-it-all.

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Summer’s over I guess

September 11th, 2020 at 5:39pm in Notes

I’ve been up in Cape Breton hiking all week and the weather’s been great.

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Internet throwback

September 7th, 2020 at 1:16pm in Notes

Before the web was really a thing, Gopher was how you shared information.

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Film delivery Friday

August 21st, 2020 at 1:29pm in Notes

Now that I know my new-to-me camera works, I ordered up some film.

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Kitchen faucet

August 18th, 2020 at 8:37pm in Photographs

A few weeks ago I bought a new-to-me Nikon F100 camera and lens and it’s taken me this long to finally finish the test roll of Kodak 400TX.

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Using PHP and cURL to post to the Mastodon API

August 29th, 2018 at 7:31pm in Articles

As my distaste for Twitter has grown over the last while I decided to see if I could deploy my own instance of Mastodon, a federated, distributed social network.

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Hiking the Liberty Lake Loop

August 31st, 2018 at 12:56pm in Articles

Desperate for a relatively local hiking challenge this year, I decided to finally hike the Liberty Lake Loop, a 56km trail in Kejimkujik National Park.

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Three Days Around Cape Chignecto

June 1st, 2011 at 9:11pm in Articles

Since moving to the east coast, I’ve been trying my best to do as much hiking as I did when I lived in central British Columbia.

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Late summer camping at Keji's Wil-Bo-Wil cabin

September 11th, 2014 at 8:00pm in Articles

It’s been about three years or so since the Wil-Bo-Wil cabin was built in Kejimkujik’s backcountry, and even though I’ve passed it many times on hikes destined for elsewhere in the park I’ve never actually stayed there.

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Stoddard House, Barrington Street

December 4th, 2012 at 2:00am in Photographs

This is the north exterior wall of Stoddard House, located at 1359 Barrington Street on the corner of Bishop Street.

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Trail and Grass, Lawrencetown Beach

September 6th, 2009 at 10:00am in Photographs

Lawrencetown Beach can be a windy place, especially in the winter.

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Path and tree on Citadel Hill

December 13th, 2009 at 3:50pm in Photographs

I think one of the more interesting features of Citadel Hill — other than the Citadel itself — are the paths that cross the hill from corner to corner, and around the perimeter.

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Homemade Irish Cream for the holidays

December 14th, 2014 at 4:03pm in Notes

Tis the season for homemade liqueur, like my tasty Irish Cream craftily disguised here as basmati rice, just like the bootleggers used to do.

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