So, for the past few weeks, I’ve been devoting my hours to work at Worio, a Yaletown start-up I’ve been associated with essentially from its inception (though other people have done much more work than me). I enjoy the work, and it’s a nice break from grad school. Not only is the pay better, but…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
I been frauded!
Somebody used my credit card number to rack up thousands of Euros worth of charges in a few days. The nice lady at disputes department kept saying “oh, God!” as she went through my statement. Never a good sign. But I’m insured and it looks like a clear-cut case of fraud, so hopefully I will…
Vancouver’s Grey Days
Grey Days #1, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. I’m tired of pretty pictures of colourful falling leaves. This is what fall in Vancouver looks like to me. Dark and wet and cold and kind of beautiful. Grey Days photoset (on flickr)
Singapore to Istabul 3: routes
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going to end up someplace else. — Yogi Berra My ambition is to travel over land from Singapore to Istanbul. I don’t really mind ending up somewhere else, but I’ve selected that as a reasonable goal — far beyond anything I’ve done before, but doable. As I’ve…
seriously, Rules of the Game?
Edward Copeland has compiled his internet-surveyed list of the top-voted non-English-language films (you can see how I voted here). Kudos to him for doing it — it was no small feat, and a list like this is useful and interesting to a whole lot of people, including myself. But the list itself left me unsatisfied….