This Chinese mother’s ability to block out her son is nothing short of jaw-dropping.

Related Post: You Can’t Touch this English!

Hackers may have taken it down for a while, but the Taiwan Blog Feed is redesigned and up again!
I have no idea why it was under such a brutal attack. I added any sites which met the criteria of being about Taiwan, teaching English or learning Chinese, and promptly removed anyone who [...]

One of the really great teachers I’ve worked with before has put up what appear to be training videos for new teachers at his school. Ross’s school could be the best 1st and 2nd grade English program in Taiwan.

What a day. I rolled out of bed at 10am, brushed my teeth, and sleepwalked over to Starbucks for a business meeting. It went pretty well.
Then, it was to the school, where I had to so some last minute editing for my Tuesday/Friday class’s first semester exam. For some reason or [...]

For the last several days, I’ve been woken up by an obnoxious blaring sound coming from just outside my window. A “colorful feature” of Taiwanese life is to blame– trucks with loudspeakers that drive around just to get their message out. Back when I lived in Guishan, these trucks were around all the [...]

One of the weirdest things I found myself enjoying on my trip back to the states was Taco Bell. I’ve never liked their food. I still don’t. But it reminds me of high school.

Too bad Jason wasn’t there, too.

I thought I’d seen everything in Taiwan’s English cram school market. Recently, I’ve had an experience that shows how naive I (still) am. I can’t really get into any details online, but here’s the gist: A school owner offered to sell her school’s students.
A school’s financial valuation
In general, when an English [...]

While getting dressed for work today, I noticed a new house guest! Right by my wardrobe, there was a gecko!

Geckos aren’t very big, but they’re great. They clean houses of pests, they don’t bite people like spiders do, and they aren’t nasty like cockroaches.

Something was wrong with Geckers, though. l stepped towards [...]

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. And to think, I used to consider Reddit a place for enlightened, rational discussion.

I’ve replaced Reddit’s former position on my blogroll with Y-combinator’s Hacker News.
Related Post: Good God are There a Lot of Morons on Digg

Suntech shares have become compelling enough that I’ve decided to sell my United Fire&Casualty position. When I have more time, I’ll update this post with why.
03/03/2008 Sold 50 UFCS @ 34.6006
03/03/2008 Bought 47 STP @ 36.9