Dragons of Autumn Twilight was one that set me on quite the Dragonlance collection and reading journey
tiredofsametab
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of those. I'm fine with licorice.
Peeps. I've never like marshmallow anything, really, and definitely not those abominations. Most cinnamon-flavored things. Edit: forgot one: chocolate-covered cherries. I don't know why. I have a cherry tree and will eat the cherries off it and don't even mind most artificially-cheery-flavored things. I also eat other fruits covered in chocolate (even durian).
Taiwan is just barely visible on a good day from Yonaguni (it didn't even really show up in the picture I took as anything). I don't think the reverse is true; nothing on Yonaguni is all that tall whereas Taiwan has mountains in the east. Those ancient navigators were amazing at their trade.
Mosquitos: jackpot!
I live in rural Japan where it's 04:30-05:00 instead (it's quite light out already in east Japan by then). Trying to work past like 11am in the heat and humidity is miserable and dangerous
This has nothing to do with speaking. This is just the government deciding which system to use (or at least favor) for transliterating things into English when writing (street signs for example). If you want to speak/learn Japanese, skip romaji altogether.
Dajiro did a decent video on this (in Japanese) going over the changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEYo0Sf9kAI
I'm mostly a fan of the changes since things like sya never sound like sha in my mind and ti doesn't look like chi AND conflicts with ティ
I care much more about things being clean and orderly than my wife, like, by quite a lot. I do a lot of cleaning.
I've accidentally read until like 3am before, so I imagine the content/interestingness is important.
I did find that site last night, but assumed it was not the original. Now, actually at a PC, I see this:
If you are thinking, "I've seen charts like these before," you probably have and they were probably mine! The original version of spurious correlations was published on the web in 2014, and in book form in 2015. I am that same guy. These charts are also frequently used in class materials, textbooks, and elsewhere because they are not copywritten.
In January 2024, I released a big update to the project based on user feedback. I added 25,000 new variables, improved and expanded the discover feature, and added a sprinkle of GenAI (including spurious scholar). Thank you to all the teachers, students, and other nerds who provided input on this version!
Disappointing.
I've said that, if I had it to do over again, I might choose to move to Norway or Finland instead of Japan, but birth? I don't know that's possible to answer. Even if my family were the same people, they'd probably be culturally different having been born and raised somewhere. Even if we assume my parents were just plonked down there, I probably still wouldn't be the same person due to my environment. Some of that almost certainly for better, but I wouldn't be me.