The Graham Reaper

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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#TaipeiPride🌈 celebrates its 23rd year on Oct 25: "Only by crossing the barriers built from prejudice and fear, and by appreciating each unique life experience, can we weave a more resilient society, making #Taiwan ever more diverse, equal, and truly respectful." www.taiwanpride.lgbt/2025-theme-s...

THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY might be the first book that I adored as a child that still holds up completely to that adoration as an adult.

Academic Sustenance I hope Griffin gets his pet dog. Friends, We just finished celebrating Moon Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, here in Taiwan. I avoided overdosing on...

Wrote about food and environmentalism at NTU!

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László Krasznahorkai is the winner 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

I read SEIOBO THERE BELOW a few years ago and found it breathless to the point of tedious and wished I was reading more Calvino instead. But, hey, nothing new for TBR list.

Krasznahorkai winning after Han Kang is a big tone shift!

There's a holiday tomorrow and I've now gotten two emails from students asking if there's class today.

???

(tbh if it was the US it would be a good question, but when our classes at NTU only meet once a week, and bureaucratic differences, cancelling a class is a lot more painful)

Apparently this one isn't as bad as the Cixi or Mao books, but good to know!

TIL Sun Yat-sen went to the same school in Hawaii as Barack Obama later did!

(Reading Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister about the Soong sisters.)

A gachapon machine featuring Johnsonville sausage products

I need the oral history for how this came to be

Don't think I've ever seen the word velodrome in my life, but yesterday I saw it twice: once in William Gibson's NEUROMANCER and once in Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Museum.

Loose gray sweatpants have achieved widespread infestation of young people here

Will the course on dril be an elective or a requirement?

I think she's allowed to be good at what she does no matter her net worth, it's weird when people write her off purely because she's massively wealthy. It is also impossible to talk about her in a critical way in a public forum without navigating a mine field of scolds and obsessives on both sides

Got a nice welcome to Fukuoka

This pedestrian sign seems ai-generated. Why is it so alien!?

因為氣候變遷，我想要把中秋節搬到十一月

也是因為十一月沒有節日，十月有太多

https://goldenhorse.org.tw/news/detail/2329

This year's #GoldenHorse Lifetime #Achievement Award goes to Chen Shu-fang (陳淑芳)! Active for over six decades, the 86-year-old actress has starred in acclaimed films ranging from "A City of Sadness (1989)" to "Little Big Women (2020)." Chen has said she has no desire to retire and "wait for death."

Went with
Code by Charles Petzold
and
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

我想念讀書會，有人應該請我參加

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

And 3 of my photos are from the same dish I cooked!

I didn't take many photos in September!

I'm with you! That's why I'm in the @aaup.org

我素食烤肉的建議是：糯米椒在豆皮包裡面，很合適

One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.

Cooking is the only thing I prefer videos for. Everything else articles!

Looks like I'm not picking anything up in the Steam fall sale. The main thing I wanted was Elden Ring DLC + Nightreign, but neither went on sale. Grabbed Dishonored 2 for US$3 off Humble, but backlog is too long to get anything else.

Fiction or nonfiction! I'm thinking something approachable about trends in software design / programming would be good.