This is from last week. We went to have lunch at a restaurant that we often go to but it was closed so we ended up in this place. Great decorations but sadly the food was pretty awful.
I loved the tabletops which were glass cases containing real seashells and other littoral bits and bobs.
Probabilistic Uncertainty
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[image: "One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that
be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in
emotio...
REBROADCAST: Talking politics, talking science
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*This series was originally broadcast in 2020.*
*Science and politics are not easy bedfellows - "Stick to the science" is a
three part series which aims ...
The Skeptics Guide #1008 - Nov 2 2024
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Quickie with Bob: Predicting Earthquakes; News Items: Cell Phones and Brain
Cancer, Gold from Earthquakes, Plastic in the Brain, Quantum Neural
Network, Ma...
A typhoon for Halloween
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A powerful typhoon crept covered all Taiwan on the evening of Halloween.
Usually, the New Taipei city municipality organizes a street event where
kids and...
Deep Water
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The oceans cover most of the surface of the earth, but they still remain
largely unexplored, particularly in their deepest regions. On this episode,
James ...
More Pants than Pant
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So I had a great time on my trip to Naples, Italy (I’ll have to write more
about that soon), and after returning to Shanghai I have continued to study
It...
Constance Collier, Osoyoos, B.C.
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I looked up Constance Collier (1878-1955). Born in Windsor, England,
Collier was "known to be very tall with a big personality." She was a
dancer and ...
40 Years On and more on Substack
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Join me on Substack for my first post and many more. Parted are those who
are with us today When you look back and forgetfully wonder What you were
like ...
Former Travel Writer Fried Rice Recipe
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[image: Former Travel Writer Fried Rice Recipe]
*(Above - ingredients used in Former Travel Writer Fried Rice Recipe with
meat and vegetables: Not show...
Carissa Véliz on Digital Ethics
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Digital Ethics is a new field. What is its main focus? Carissa Véliz
discusses digital ethics with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the
Philosophy Bites ...
Ransomware, cybercrimes and how to stay safe
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n 2022, the Optus data breach, along with the Medibank hack, saw the theft
of the personal information of millions of Australians. In the last decade,
ther...
Mastodon Verification
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Mastodon
* * *
*Taiwan is not a province of China. The PRC flag has never flown over
Taiwan.*
Stick that in your clipboards and paste it, you so-called "laz...
MJ With JTS JS-1P Plus Microphone, In Pink
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JTS presented me with this cool microphone for helping out with their
recent YouTube presentation of a new speaker product,
The post MJ With JTS JS-1P Plu...
30 Books for Nonfiction November
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My Several Worlds - Advocating for Chronic Illness Awareness in Asia
A Bookstagram challenge made me do it! I posted a nonfiction read for each
day of No...
Sapiens By Yuval Noah Harari
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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari was absolutely one of the coolest and most
fascinating books I’ve ever read. While I was reading it, I wanted to buy
and giv...
NBA Finals Illusion
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The NBA finals are well on its way between the Toronto Raptors and Golden
State Warriors. A very odd place to spot optical illusions if…
The post NBA Fi...
"What? More words?"
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*" ...But we have crossed millions of miles of nothingness. We have
visited another world. And our Locar had said `Why bother? What is the
wo...
Golden Shower Trees – Cassia fistula [阿勃勒]
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Here is a small collection of images of the unfortunately named Golden
Shower Trees [Cassia fistula (阿勃勒)] taken in Jhongsing Village [中興新村] in
early June....
Dreame on
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The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's
Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsummer Night's
Dream - i...
The Novel Writing Seminar Begins
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Want to be a more effective novelist? Many writers find it stressful to
work on a full-length book project. People struggle with plotting, and with
not k...
Escape Pod 620: Promise (Artemis Rising)
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Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Tina Connolly Host : S. Kay Nash Audio
Producer : Adam Pracht Artist : Geneva Benton Discuss on Forums Escape Pod
620: ...
Thanks everyone!
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Friends, it’s been a while. Aurgasm launched in 2004 and soon after was one
of the top 50 music blogs online, with thousands of music lovers visiting
daily...
Learning from my own book
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The most popular piece I’ve written on this site over the past few was
about Teaching English Online. I wrote it while I was hanging out with a
bunch of di...
A Beginner’s Guide to Taiwanese Opera (Les Isles)
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No interpreter is needed to enjoy Taiwan’s gorgeous mountain scenery, and
the island’s culinary delights excite the palate even if you can’t speak a
word o...
Adjust contrast of a pdf free
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Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite
literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are
saving. the proce...
Collings and Herrin - RHLSTP reunion
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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast 140. It's the first time
Andrew Collins and Richard Herring have spoken in over 60 months and it
would b...
Measuring exhibition 2121 Design : Songshan Taipei
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Taipei’s got a blooming cultural scene, with new cultural districts
offering lots of cultural events, exhibitions, and art displays. In 2014 I
made a cul...
Density Ornaments – Science Plus Holiday Art!
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We decorated our Christmas tree this evening. During the process, someone
found a long lost box of empty glass ball Christmas ornaments that they
sell at ...
Music from Taipei: building demolition
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When an excavator blasts a building apart in a crowded part of Taipei where
thousands of workers are straining their brains at office desks, it sends
us al...
Grow With HubSpot New York
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The marketing software company HubSpot sponsored an event at Irving Plaza
in New York, NY on Thursday February 18th to provide an overview of their
service...
Vintage Vape
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[image: vintage vape]
Whether you like baseball, chicken dinners, multilevel marketing, or *The
Price is Right*, we offer several varietals of bespoke ju...
#932 黑鵯三玩
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John&Fish posted a photo:
[image: #932 黑鵯三玩]
Dear Flickr friends, you are very welcome to hear some of my piano
composition .
紅嘴黑鵯.攝於台灣 新竹市
Black Bulbu...
4th Annual Mother of All 9/11 Posts
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If there is one thing in this life that I truly appreciate, it’s misguided
self-expression. From bad crafting to terrible singing to hideous tattoos,
I lov...
A final farewell
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Thank you for stopping by.
Today, we powered down Google Reader. We understand you may not agree with
this decision, but we hope you'll come to love thes...
An invitation to #ComedyFest (BYOB)
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This week Twitter is turning into a comedy club, and you’ve got the best
seats in the house, all for the price of free. We’re not saying that
enjoying your...
Ma the Bumbler:馬英九是笨蛋、笨拙、憨慢的三聲無奈
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且說第一天在yahoo看到媒體翻成笨蛋,我就覺得頗好笑,想說晚一些其它媒體應該有更好的翻譯吧。
結果這麼一路下來,全台媒體都把bumbler翻成笨蛋或笨拙,直到經濟學人還得出馬點出bumbler不是笨蛋的意思。
bumbler的解釋是:Someone who makes mistakes because of...
Thank you
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This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of
today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate
magazine...
So long, and thanks for all the friends
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In 2005, I was listening to the audio book of Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhikers
Guide To The Galaxy,” narrated by Stephen Fry. I loved Mr. Fry’s narration
of the...
Huben Epitaph
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Hushan's Yucing valley before it was dug out to make way for the highly
controversial Hushan Dam. Yucing valley when the earth-movers got busy.
Pleasantrie...
New address: www.bikingintaiwan.com
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I will now start to post to bikingintaiwan.com. The site is up and running,
but the design is non-existent. I've changed to WordPress and need to learn
how...
Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read
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[image: Instapaper 4 Icon]
*Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone*
The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0
v...
Know Your Own Unique pangolins
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Common pangolin (Manis javanica syn. Paramanis javanica) is the
representative of the order Pholidota are still found in Southeast Asia. These
animals ea...
Rain cannot stop the LGBT Pride Parade
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An estimated 30,000 people joined the 8th annual Taiwan LGBT Pride (台灣同志遊行)
march in the centre of Taipei yesterday. Light rain did not stop the crowds
fro...
Factories in China move inland
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-19/china-s-factories-turn-to-yangtze-river-to-escape-coastal-wage-inflation.html
Mainly looking for cheaper labor. I s...
File on 4
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This website is no longer being updated. Find out more about current
programmes, read transcripts and download the podcast on the Radio 4
website. Click on...
We've moved!
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Our blog is now located at radio.seti.org/blog. Come visit, update your
bookmarks, leave comments, listen to audio, and read the occasional
companion piece...
Wrapped Goodies
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The Taiwan food vendors make it so convenient. This one is all sun
protected as well. Mustn't get any color on that skin... John
Campbell-Couldn't Do Not...
WE ARE MOVING
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Blogger.com is ending support for self-hosted blogs. This stinks, but it
does give me an excuse to update the whole site, building instead on the
more powe...
A Sunday Stroll in Maokong (貓空)
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Here's something easy to test the blog waters again. A hike in the hills of
Maokong, the tea growing region I am looking out at from my study window
even ...
Farewell Shan Ding Lu
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After two good years at Shanding Lu our time in Taiwan is now over. Our
children are now more Taiwanese than Australian, my Perth work office have
mostly f...
Let The Sunshine In
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This is an outstanding video podcast of my favorite singer, Mike Doughty.
He, along with his band, is playing live in/at a radio station. The first
and the...
Quoted for Truth
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Please excuse the long posts - none of the following is original content,
just editorials and commentary on Obama's incredible, amazingly inspiring
electi...
New/Old Graffiti by the Wuer HSR Station
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I saw a couple walls painted up right by the Taichung HSR station from the
bus the other day and figured on getting back to see if there was anything
else ...
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