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 home in Halifax, NS, where it’s 20° with a few clouds at 3:00am.
I’m currently reading The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro.

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Mystery letter

July 29th, 2020 at 5:04pm in Notes

I didn’t get any of those mystery seeds some people are getting, but I did receive a mystery letter.

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New-to-me Nikon

July 24th, 2020 at 1:16pm in Notes

I couldn’t pass up this deal on an excellent Nikon F100, all the way from Japan.

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Ramen experiment

July 17th, 2020 at 7:49pm in Notes

I finally got around to making some ramen at home.

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Hiking the Admiral Lake Loop

July 12th, 2020 at 2:38pm in Articles

After a long pandemic and life-related hiatus from hiking I thought it was about time to get back on the trail.

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Old man in the woods

July 4th, 2020 at 2:10pm in Notes

Went out into the woods today, complete with pandemic beard.

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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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Building, Sackville Street

February 1st, 2010 at 10:00am in Photographs

I love this art-deco signage.

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Checked in: Curry Village Indian Restaurant

March 28th, 2019 at 6:12pm in Notes

It’s burger week in Halifax so it’s Lamb Madras and naan for me.

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Incan engineering

June 3rd, 2015 at 9:23pm in Notes

You read it in books and see it in documentaries but you can’t quite get the scale of these places until you’ve stood next to one of these places and taken it all in.

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