(Squeezed out that long blog post just as the call for boarding happened! Enjoy the Taiwan photos. I will be posting lots of Germany photos next)

Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei

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🚌🚃🚋🛫 Heading to YVR and then to Frankfurt! See you all in Germany 🇩🇪

Causal Islands next week!!🎉🎊🪩

Chad gives the peace sign from inside the SkyTrain

Nice lively discussion about different communities of women and power throughout Japanese history booksonasia.net/podcast/b…

Wow 😳 Canada’s first ever tsunami tower is being built in BC

canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/…

Hanging out with the monthly tech coffee crew this morning at Trees Cafe. Made a bunch more connections!

group photo of 24 people. Chad is in the back row

Went to Katsuya for… Korean Pizza 🍕

Seafood pizza with kamaboko on it! In the background is spicy Korean chicken

Got #DnD 🎲🐉⚔️🧛🏻‍♂️ tonight so did my #craigsgymclass early.

2 min planks are killing me bruv! 😩 How am I gonna get to 5🖐️⁉️

Okay, more Germany trip recommendation requests: what’s good in Mannheim? Also, thinking aboutut popping over to Strasbourg for a day. Any reccos for there?

Some very interesting speakers lined up for #CIGF2024 on November 27th:

canadianigf.ca/event-det…

#InternetGovernance​ #Canada #IGF

Dusky downtown #Vancouver. Clear blue sky with a little chill signifying Fall. 🍂

Vancouver Public Library with windows lighting up orange in the evening BC Place against a clear blue sky darkening with evening

A nice #Bluesky from downtown #Vancouver. Congrats on 10 million users! 🥳

Gorgeous day here. Fall is just around the corner!

Vancouver Art Gallery against a blue sky with wispy clouds. Staircase is lit up by light reflected from across the street.

Tonight I did days 13+14+15 of #craigsgymclass. Now I am all caught up:

0+1m40s+1m50s plank 🪵 55+55+60 squats 🏋️‍♀️ 4x7+5x5+3x4 pushups 🙇

Finished it off with a run too! 🏃‍♂️

Amazing 👏 👏 👏 (via @molly.wiki)

modem.io/blog/blog…

Planning my trip to Germany at the end of the month. Who do I know that is there? Any recommendations for things I should see? I will be in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, and then Berlin for #CausalIslands

berlin.causalislands.com

I am riding out the side effects of this Covid booster 💉 💉💉 💉 💉 💉 by watching tons of UK drill videos 🩸🔪🥷🤫🎵

Started reading The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor 📚

Comparing ambiguous apples and polysemous pigs

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Started reading Babel by RF Kuang 📚

I did my undergrad in Linguistics, but only speak 2 languages. People always ask: “What is the easiest/hardest language to learn?” The answer can be captured in a concept from Xerox PARC: Tesler’s Law. All languages are complex in their own way, it’s just about where they hide their complexity.