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2000: On this day in 2000, Chen Shui-bian, a leader of the pro-independence movement that sought statehood for the Republic of China (Taiwan), was elected president of Taiwan, breaking the Nationalist Party’s 55-year rule.

1990: In what was considered the world’s biggest art heist, two men pretending to be police officers stole 13 works, including paintings by Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; the stolen art was never recovered.

late to the party as usual but


20 albums that greatly influenced me and my taste in music. One album per day in no particular order. No reviews, no explanations (but there's a little one in the alt)
Day 1:

Passing on another cafe :

How does rain come up with ideas?
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It brainstorms! ☔🌦️

Cafe of the day:

Why should you never tell a secret on a farm?
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Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn has ears! 🥔🌽

In honor of the colder temperatures around here, a :

What's a weatherman's favorite winter food?
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A brrr-ito! 🌯

Last week's café :

70% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, but very little of it is carbonated. So the Earth is, in fact, flat.

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This is the only time you'll ever hear me talk about a flat Earth, so enjoy, I guess?

Now that it's finally feeling like fall around here, an appropriate cafe :

How should you speak in the apple library?
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With your incider voice. 🍏

I did not even realize it's . Thanks, work café, for making your joke topical! ☕☕

Cafe for today:

What do you call it when someone steals your coffee?
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A mugging!

13 books/series to get to know me:

✨The Lighthouse Duet
✨The Name of the Wind
✨The Codex Alera
✨The Forever King
✨Strands of Starlight
✨The Lady Astronaut books
✨The Disappearing Spoon
✨The Farseer Trilogy
✨Symphony of Ages trilogy
✨Stardust
✨Timeline
✨The Lightbringer quintet
✨Stormlight Archives

I decided I had to limit myself to one title/one series per author, or this would be mostly Carol Berg and Jim Butcher. Also, no particular order. Got any favorite fantasy novels I should look into?

Today's cafe :

What happens to garlic during a heat wave?
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It takes off all its cloves.

(Since quite a lot of us are going through a heat wave right now, I feel like this garlic. Though I will be socially conscious and not take off my clothes in public.):

Today's café :

What do you call an angry carrot?

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A steamed veggie.

TFW the monitor for the demo piece of equipment in another lab space is bigger than your work AND home desktop screens put together.

Courtesy of the shirt I'm wearing this morning, I had that thought that in the 80s we purposefully bought extra-large clothing because that was the style then, whereas today I have to buy XL in clothing so my shirts are long enough to cover my belly button (because no one wants to see that at work, and it's a safety thing).

The huge 80s clothes thing is also funny because I can still wear those shirts--and they're still huge on me now.

Finished playing the main story for Jedi Survivor over the weekend and I can't stop thinking about the events that happened in the endgame. That and seeing Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 on the same day, and I'm still a little emotionally wobbly.

Friend to all children, even kids from Malta? ✔️
Really neat? ✔️
Filled with turtle meat? ✔️
Love Gamera? ✔️

If all of these sum up your opinion of flying turtles, then you've found the right place at the MFG Drive-In Theater Show when this Wednesday at 6PM CT/7PM ET we present "Gamera vs. Gyaos", one of the most important giant monster court cases in history!

Join us, won't you?

twitch.tv/misterfoxguy

Seriously, how did I live without knowing boba tea was a thing?

Colleague started a project late and needs shepherding, so I might have to stay at work late (sigh). I was thinking I might take off early, so I guess that's out. More waiting until I can play again..

youtube.com/watch?v=dvsZoAUNtJ

A work café dad joke from last week:

I tried using beef stew as my password for that one website, but it wasn't stroganoff.

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