If you’ve been visiting the site in the past few weeks, you may have noticed it’s not been working so well. You might even be getting weird, not-at-all-helpful server errors. According to Dreamhost, my site has been spawning too many processes for the server to handle. I haven’t changed any of the code, and my…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
splashed!
I haven’t had a chance to play with it much myself, but my good friend and former roommate Hendrik Kueck has an iPhone app, ColorSplash, which is tearing up the charts, reaching #4 (or higher?) on the overall paid apps list! Frankly, I think this is awesome, not only because I like seeing my friends…
San Fran w/ Jan
SF cable car, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. (More photos on Flickr.) Janelle’s flight back to Australia departed from San Francisco in the early morning hours of Wednesday, so I went down there with her for a few days beforehand. Aside from a single day in 2001, and an airport transfer or two since…
Coraline (2009)
Janelle and I saw Coraline on Friday, but my reaction was conflicted enough that I needed a couple of days to process my thoughts. One of my biggest cinematic pet peeves is that Tim Burton gets so much of the credit for Nightmare Before Christmas, which was written by other people and directed by Coraline…
thigh-high fishnet stockings and rubber chickens
thigh-high fishnet stockings and rubber chickens, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. The iPhone camera is kind of crappy, but it’s nice to always have it when I come across boxes of leather bullwhips and lace petticoats. In a fabric store.