If you’ve been visiting the ol’ haikufactory lately, you’ve probably been seeing a lot of “500 Internal Server Error” messages popping up. This is being caused by PHP processes hanging. I’ve had no luck at all tracing the problem, but my suspicion is that a WordPress plugin is the cause, so I’ve turned them all…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
time travel geekery
Stumbled on this awesome diagram of the history of time travel in the movies. I just wish they had used a logarithmic scale for travel so that everything before 1850 didn’t get lumped together. They also left out my very favourite time travel movie, Primer, but that’s okay, somebody else made a diagram of the…
Funny People (2009), The Hurt Locker (2009)
So far this year, a lot of my most anticipated films have been a little underwhelming. I liked Coraline, Watchmen, Public Enemies, Star Trek and Bruno to various degrees, but I didn’t fall in film-geek love with any of them. I did have an intense fling with Crank 2 — and oh, man, it was…
random update on what I did in July
do not touch them they will bite, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Well, it’s been a fun few weeks, but I’m back. The lovely Janelle journied across the Pacific for a visit, and while I still had to work a bit, we did find time to visit Salt Spring Island, where we stayed in…
so long, Richard’s on Richards
Richard’s on Richards, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. I’m currently on Salt Spring Island attempting to eat my body weight in goat cheese, but I wanted to acknowledge the passing of Vancouver’s answer to CBGB, Richard’s on Richards, which is gone as of today. Ever since I moved to Vancouver, I heard rumours Richard’s…