Magnitude 7.0 strong quake rocks #Taiwan

Earthquake big enough to wake me up! I demand a refund

This year I learned a ton of people eat cinnamon rolls at Christmas

Finished taping then went back to his role as a Dark Souls trash mob

DISCO:ELYSIUM is free today on Epic Games. It's one of the weirdest, best gaming experiences of all time. Highly recommend.

One of the choices for the final assignment of the semester was for the students to write a profile of someone who hasn't had a profile written about them. Got such lovely portrayals of friends/parents/siblings/teachers. Definitely doing this again.

I've been sick this week so I've been playing a lot of FF12 (and not focusing on grading). I honestly think this had the potential to be one of my favorites in the series if they had just removed Vaan. He is so terrible and so easily excised from the plot.

I'm going through every article I've ever published to back them up in case websites go offline, and a) holy crap there's so many and b) I had totally forgotten some of the most fun ones.

Muppets' Christmas Carol > Charlie Brown Christmas > The Family Stone > Home Alone. I won't be taking questions at this time

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

I regret to inform you the second season of Sakamoto Days is disappointing.

When I'm president I'll ban Spelling Bee from having e+d or i+n+g in a set. It's obnoxious

PARADISE KILLER is free on Epic Games today. Highly recommend. It's a short murder mystery set in a sci-fi+demons world. There's not much player agency, but I loved the story, the characters, and the aesthetic.

Throat is killing me this morning after being outside a lot yesterday. All the 金紙 being burned definitely didn't help.

these are really cool

冬至快樂 薑汁大花生湯圓

this weird little guy is all over Taipei and something about his vibe makes me assume he's a product of the unholy union of a Shy Guy + a Tonberry

Found a coffee shop with Vietnamese coffee, oat milk option, and a vegetarian banh mi, and it opens at 9am!!!!!! Too bad it's not closer to my house. Awake til Sleep, by 忠孝復興

Just finished up CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA. I loved the first half, but the second half made me think of Ursula K Le Guin: "the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain." First half the trauma is omnipresent but always lurking and implicit. The characters are dealing with aftermath.

Oh no I'm thinking of resubbing to FFXIV

trying to start dishonored 2 but it's running like crap relatedly its graphics look worse than my memory of dishonored 1's graphics

my favorite moment in baldur's gate 3 act 3 is when conor oberst turns to the camera and says "and that's why they call it baldur's gate"

White men—30% of US population!!—are CEOs at 72% of Fortune 500 companies, direct 83% of the movies made in the US, serve as 70% of US Senators, & on & on. Their representation in key industries is at least double what their share of the pop predicts but it’s still not enough for them!

Today my student didn't know what 冬至/Winter Solstice is, so I told them it was the shortest day of the year. They paused for a minute then asked "Isn't it still 24 hours?"

今天我試了在不同家的餅店買韭菜盒，老闆想要加熱所以我們聊天，我告訴她我當老師，馬上她問我薪水是多少，跟美國非常不一樣～

Taipei International Book Exhibition is in February, and the guest of honor is Thailand. I am realizing I have not read a single Thai work in translation. Give me a recommendation, if you have one? www.tibe.org.tw

Is it good for me or is it just painful, foot massage edition

Qobuz isn't available in Taiwan, so guess I need to choose between Apple or Tidal

the biggest tech issue of our time is that copying and pasting gifs doesn't work

The non-profit second hand shop in our neighborhood has cases of Oatly for only $300 per box (6 cartons per box). I should get into oat milk arbitrage.

Now that I'm in my 40s I'm thinking about respeccing my default sins from sloth and gluttony to wrath and pride Thinking about trying on some vanity too

最近台北有很好夏天的天氣。 可惜應該是冬天。

love for the course management system to be down on my least busy day of the last week of class. definitely didn't want to get a lot of grading done today and now am completely unable to. thanks

haha so.. I did some works! i guess u can look upon them? no worries if not!

Wrote about a guzheng concert, cooking 滷味, the indirect communication stereotype versus my very direct neighbor, and more. Hope you like it, hope you subscribe. buttondown.com/telegraham/a...

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Last real class of the semester today!

I only have a few close friends who have cars in Taiwan, but man most of them want to drive everywhere even when it's horrifically inconvenient to find parking then they complain about the parking cost. Some kind of vehicle-borne illness.

BLUE PRINCE is on sale on Steam - this is the best puzzle game I've ever played. Highly highly recommend. If you haven't seen my posts on it, my wife and I worked on it together, filling up half a notebook in the process, and had an absolute blast.

Took a wonderful little hike up 福州山 today with NTU students and scholars. This continues my year of being a ball of rage at how good exercise makes me feel after.

Now playing

It was the year of 珂拉琪

How long until the longitudinal studies on long term cognitive effects of playing word games on the phone daily

How do I make sure AI stays out of my lofi Christmas playlists

Do you consider ginger to be a spice or a vegetable

two master's degrees in English and I've never in my life heard the word "malversation," Google is making some shit up

Apple slices with peanut butter are an s-tier snack. Reclaim them from children's lunchboxes.

I guess KNIVES OUT: WAKE UP DEAD MAN isn't getting a Taiwan theatrical release? 太可惜了