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I see that the Weather Channel "magnet" says it's 45 F right now, with winds at 15 mph (that must be in the city--up here on D...

It's quite possible you've seen this blog already, but if you haven't, The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami weblog provid...

Had dialogue presentations in class today. (For the blissfully uninformed, this is where students write a dialogue, have me correct the gram...

The Christmas parties and dialogue presentations that are going on downstairs are competing with the Scholars Baroque Ensemble recording of...

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We were awakened this morning to a horrendous crashing sound. At first we thought our enemies were finally attacking us directly. (Yes, the ...

My brother, referring to his breakfast in Tainan this morning: I liked one of the intestines better than the other.

Just in case you weren't watching, the pan-blues (the KMT, New Party, and PFP) retained their majority in the Legislative Yuan yesterday...

Tomorrow's election day. Today the parades have been following us wherever we go, shooting off firecrackers and generally just snarling ...

Today's Taipei Times reports (and editorializes) on several reactions to Chen's proposals to change the names of de facto embassies...

(also the title of a paper I'm working on for a conference in April...) In Chen Shui-bian's 2004 inaugural address ( English versio...

Taiwan just got hit by typhoon Nanmadol, which is (according to the Taipei Times ) the first December typhoon for Taiwan "in recorded h...

I've added a couple of goodies to the blog, including the Blogrolling -managed list of blogs and the Weather Channel weather magnet. For...

You've probably seen this "trailer" for "Dubya the Movie", but I've got to make a link to it. It's just too...

I received a response from Weather Underground about my complaint! "They" wrote: Thank you for the bug report! We're aware ...

Syracuse University will be hosting a conference on public memories next year. Here's part of the call for proposals : The "Contes...

Well, the edible amaranth (a.k.a. "Chinese spinach") that we planted a couple of weeks ago started sprouting last wek, and then a ...

You might have noticed that I've taken the "Taichung" (or "Taizhong") weather sticker off of this site. The other da...

Eric Gardner, my long-time friend, fellow OU alumnus, and man of a thousand beard styles, sends this from Cleveland (I'm quoting with hi...

E. J. Dionne, Jr. has made some important points about the language of faith in his recent Washington Post column (registration required): ...