What’s gud, peasants?

CURRENT STATUS: Baroque

Low angle Chad selfie flipping the reverse peace sign, the ceilings above adorned with baroque early 18th C paintings of angels and civilizing Roman figures

Feeling terribly jet lagged? Some Classic Quebec Poutine will help right? Right?

Paper plate of poutine with a wooden disposable fork stuck in it. A glass bottle of coke in the background

I missed sending out my personal newsletter last month so this is a double, but I kept it short.

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Had a nice time walking around Mannheim taking selfies in front of old/impressive things

Mannheim

Mannheim Gallery on Flickr

Now that I’ve been in Germany for more than 24 hours, some impressions:

🚗 fast driving 🎨 graffiti ✝️ churches ⛪️ more churches ◼️squat square buildings 🗼lotta round towers…? 🍞 bread 🥖

Took the train from Frankfurt to Mannheim. Really enjoyed seeing some of the countryside. Inter-city train travel is so civilized… reminds me of Japan

Inside Frankfurt main station with signs indicating trains headed to different destinations across Germany

Wandering around some European plazas recently myself, I am so glad for this! Amazing that they turned these lovely spaces into car parks!

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Started listening to Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie on the plane to Germany. Loved his First Law series and looking forward to getting back into the universe! 📚

Made it to Frankfurt 🇩🇪

A river in the foreground. Tall buildings of a city in the distance. To the right is an old cathedral bell tower Chad poses with camera in front of Frankfurt CathedralChad poses with camera in front of the classic German buildings of Römerberg

(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

This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → Despite being the beginning of May Taipei was very warm. The sun was out as we walked the wide sidewalks around Taipei Station downtown, cars and scooters zooming by. Even when it was cloudy, crossing the Keelung River through the tech area of town (I spotted the Foxconn tower), the lush green mountains of the north were a tropical reminder.

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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

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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:

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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