everybody's got a sky cam

August 15, 2003 by Eric Richardson

The end of the 6pm episode of The Simpsons got interrupted today by "breaking news" of a car chase. These are pretty boring... Just long shots of a suspect driving down a freeway usually. A portion of today's chase happened to head down the 10 west, which I can see from my apartment. I walked out to the balcony and counted eight helicoptors over the freeway. KCAL9 (or CBS2) looked to be in the lead, followed by ABC7. Most of the others were less bold in their coloring, so I couldn't tell who was who. Right now I just want this to clear so I can take that freeway to get over to Venice Beach for dinner.

mod_perl

August 11, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Today I switched my server over to mod_perl. The change has been a while coming, I finally just got around to finally doing it. eThreads still isn't the happiest, and leaks a little memory, but I've got things set up to clean up every while and keep control. In return I get a 250+% speed increase, so it all works out.

reading the newsgroups

August 11, 2003 by Eric Richardson

I've always been fascinated by urban planning and transit systems. Growing up I loved SimCity. Now that I'm actually living in an urban area, and even making an attempt to be a transit commuter, I've started to read newsgroups related to the subject. The ones I hit daily: la.transportation, alt.planning.urban, and misc.transport.urban-transit. Cool stuff if you're interested in the subject.

matrix: reloaded on IMAX

August 11, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Last night we went out to the rip-off known as Universal CityWalk and saw Matrix: Reloaded on IMAX. I enjoy the movie, so it was cool, but I couldn't help but think about how that IMAX screen really isn't a lot bigger than the screen at the Chinese, which was where I saw it on opening night.

I call CityWalk a rip-off, and it really is. $8 for parking. $12 for IMAX. Resturants that are expensive shadows of their real selves (much smaller menus than their original counterparts). And it gets really crowded. For what? What's cool about it? I really don't plan to be back.

butterfly boucher

August 06, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Many people have been searching google for butterfly boucher and ending up at my site (319 in July, in fact), and there's really not much information to be had online. To try and act as a clearinghouse where people can aggregate the bits they do know, I've set up a Butterfly Boucher forum. It'll be interesting to see if people actually use it.