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Sounds like the definition of "good" to me! 😁

Congratulations! That has to feel good.

Typhoon day tomorrow!

#TyphoonFungWong #Taiwan

The Philippines just can't catch a break. They were just hammered by Typhoon Kalmaegi, and now Fung-wong is barreling down on them.

#TyphoonFungWong #ThePhilippines

I guess I really need to read A Pale View of Hills.

Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen Dallas 2019

And here's Queen + Adam Lambert with their rendition of Fat-Bottomed Girls where the girls outnumber the boys:

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#Music #Queen

Fat Bottomed Girls (Music Video)

An all-female band singing Fat-Bottomed Girls? Yes, please!

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#Music #Queen

I hope everything goes well with your surgery. And enjoy your turkey broth and pumpkin pie for this year.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

That's a nice little score!

I read Pompeii. I thought the research was interesting, but the story and characters were rather lackluster. I've considered trying The Ghost, but don't know if it'd just be more of the same. Even the movie for Conclave started out intriguing enough, but fizzled at the end (I haven't read the book).

However, looking at your shelf, I think Red Gold and Kingdom of Shadows should be flipped around.

He's good, isn't he? If I had children, I'd gladly give the firstborn to find another writer like him, John le Carré, Graham Greene, or Martin Cruz Smith. 😁

Thanks! She's getting better, and her range of motion has improved a lot. However, she still has to eat my cooking. 😁

She's doing much better, thanks. Her range of motion is greater now, so she can do a lot more things for herself. However, she still has to eat my cooking. 😁

Two x-rays of the same shoulder. The top one shows a compound fracture where the collarbone is completely broken through into two parts, with the outer piece noticeably lower. The second one shows a metal plate and 9 screws joining the broken collarbone together. Everything is at the same level. For those wondering, she lost her balance while kneeling and moving around on the bed. She spent two nights in the hospital and was discharged on the third day. She has to wear a sling everywhere for two weeks except when lying on the bed. She can't lift her hand above her head tor 8 weeks, and no vigorous activity for 3 months.

Two recent pictures of my wife. (Details in the alt text.)

I'll be busy for the next little while, so I'll be less active online. It's not that I'm ignoring anyone.

I checked out the other merch in that link. I'm curious about that fountain pen, but I was somehow under the impression your father had a Parker Duofold. Do you happen to know what fountain pens and inks he used?

I shaved off my mustache earlier this morning. It took my wife two hours to notice, even though we had a couple of face-to-face conversations. 😐

Gym bros, monks, retirees: thousands descend on Taiwan town to clean up after devastating flood | Taiwan | The Guardian Trains packed with volunteers arrive at tourist town of Guangfu, days after typhoon sent millions of tonnes of mud and water crashing through its streets

So that village of Guangfu in Hualien that had the massive flood a few days ago has seen an influx of volunteers to help with the cleanup. That's one very noteworthy aspect of Taiwanese society that always impresses foreigners here.

#Taiwan #Hualien #Guangfu

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

For what it's worth, I didn't think his books faltered post-Cold War. While I did enjoy his former plots, I also really enjoyed his later narrative style.

Plotwise, he was at his peak from the mid '70s to the end of the Cold War.

Stylistically, he was at his peak from the very late '80s on into the '00s.

I finished #reading Red Gold by Alan Furst, one of his excellent novels about spies in #WW2.

Wonderful atmosphere. Spare, near-poetic prose. And the lingering question of what we would do in a similar situation. A novel that transcends the genre the way le Carré did.

#Books #AlanFurst #JohnLeCarre

A slice of burnt-sugar Basque cheesecake and a brown-sugar steamed milk on a wooden tray in a coffee shop.

A layered cookie with caramel filling and a iced coffee on a tray in a coffee shop.

What are a couple of teachers going to do on a Teacher's Day long weekend?

#Coffee

The gov't has introduced three new national holidays this year, and two of them are in Sep/Oct. But we already had two holidays during that time. That means 4 out of 5 weekends in a row this year will be long weekends.

#Taiwan

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Interesting read. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the internet, proposes a new privacy-centric way of storing data, as well as thoughts on AI regulation.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#Tech #AI #Internet #SocialMedia

A Chinese-style gate leading to the Confucius temple.

The Confucius temple in Taichung, Taiwan.

A closer picture of the Confucius temple

A side arcade of the temple with columns on the outside.

And what better place for a teacher to visit on Teacher's Day than the Confucius temple.



#Taiwan

Today is Teacher's Day in Taiwan, chosen because it's also Confucius' birthday.

#Taiwan

I just saw a video of my 102-year-old grandmother dancing with my sister.

Congratulations!

Yeah, and Hualien is still recovering from last year's earthquake.