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The Taichung City Government's website reports here that a Hong Kong investor, Richard Li, is interested in developing the old Shuinan ...

(Don't ask me what that title's supposed to mean--I have no idea!) My colleague and fellow disser-commiserator John just sent me a c...

Had a nice time in Oberlin, despite all the warnings we got prior to going about the terrible weather in the Cleveland area. (Saw this igloo...

Here's one reason why...

Our home has been without Internet service for the past few days (lousy phone company), but we haven't had time to call them to find out...

Dunkin' Donuts has arrived in Taiwan . (And I just went to Mr. Mister Donut for the first time last Sunday. I'm so out of style.)...

We had some time off yesterday, so we took the High-Speed Rail (HSR) to Taipei yesterday. We could only get a one-way trip, and we could onl...

To finish my dissertation before my fortieth birthday. (Let's see, that gives me about 31,449,600 seconds, give or take.)

It was almost like a birthday present (except that I paid for them...). This afternoon I got a box from Labyrinth Books, containing the four...

It's the week that all the first-year students take their English oral final exams here. Walking around the building, you can see studen...

(I gotta work on writing better titles...) I just read Christopher Phelps 's (or is it Christopher Phelps'?) column in the Chronicle...

My colleague Douglas informed us about an organization he's involved with called Taichung People Animals Welfare Society (Taichung PAWS)...

During an online search this past weekend for materials related to Vern Sneider's A Pail of Oysters , I came across a reference to some ...

BBC News reports that Momofuku Ando, the Taiwan-born Japanese inventor of instant noodles and founder of Nissin Food Products, has died at ...

It's windy this evening, so I wore my favorite baseball cap when I went out for a quick walk: I get a strange feeling of power whenever ...

We've been going to a certain restaurant in Taichung for a couple of years, and I always found amusing a sign that is stuck on the door ...

One way that the former native speaker family likes to spend its wedding anniversary is by randomly driving around and looking at historical...

[ Updated, 11:10 p.m ] Not in relation to James Brown (r.i.p.). Just had a 'little' earthquake. About 3 or 4 tremors, actually. [As ...

We just got our schedules for the spring semester. Because this semester everyone so enjoyed the long weekend of Oct. 6-10 and the Saturday...