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Saturday is not only my branch's kindy graduation but also my last day at HESS. I'm not going to miss HESS at all but I am going to miss my Taiwanese co-workers quite a bit. They were all pretty great when I got to know them. Wish I could say the same about some of my fellow NST co-workers.
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Apparently the HESS and Uncle Sam's guys in my town have started getting drunk enough in front of the 7-11 together that the police have had to come break them up. Seriously, we have a bar that doesn't give a poo poo if you get a bit rowdy within reason. No less than two goons have vomited all over themselves there!
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Jul 11, 2013 16:15
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Hey could someone post the government school work closure typhoon thingy website?
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quadrophrenic posted:Hey could someone post the government school work closure typhoon thingy website? http://typhoon.dgpa.gov.tw/ndse.html English one I found posted on forumosa.
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Jul 11, 2013 16:43
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I may be reading this wrong, but CWB says there's a 78% chance that this thing will be in Keelung between 6am and 12pm tomorrow morning, so why exactly aren't they closing schools down?
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Jul 11, 2013 16:57
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My wife just called me from her work and told me that everything after 2pm was canceled today. The official site isn't reporting that yet, nor have I gotten a call from my school. Anyone else hear anything? (For Taipei) Edit: Yep! http://tw.news.yahoo.com/7%E6%9C%88...-221634362.html Ravendas fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 02:19
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Yeah, I'm canceled for after 2.
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Jul 12, 2013 02:44
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I'm cancelled for all day in Zhongli.
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Jul 12, 2013 04:19
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Taoyuan is off after noon. Welp, this typhoon is gonna end up costing me a lot of money. One of the bad sides of my awesome work schedule is that if any of my few work days are off, it's a huge hit.
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Jul 12, 2013 04:27
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POCKET CHOMP posted:Taoyuan is off after noon. Welp, this typhoon is gonna end up costing me a lot of money. One of the bad sides of my awesome work schedule is that if any of my few work days are off, it's a huge hit. The true cost of damage of a typhoon.
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Jul 12, 2013 05:14
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Exactly! drat, I hope I don't end up on any sensationalist news sites as "Foreigner doesn't care about the human suffering created by typhoon, also here's his dick size."
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Jul 12, 2013 05:16
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POCKET CHOMP posted:Exactly! drat, I hope I don't end up on any sensationalist news sites as "Foreigner doesn't care about the human suffering created by typhoon, also here's his dick size." Just make sure you don't give birth to any live pandas and you should be fine. Typhoon Checklist: 1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2) A tallboy of Taiwan Gold 3) A mostly full fifth of Jaeger 4) Half a fifth of several year old gaoliang (does this stuff go bad?) 5) 3DS I should be good.
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Jul 12, 2013 05:27
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POCKET CHOMP posted:Taoyuan is off after noon. Welp, this typhoon is gonna end up costing me a lot of money. One of the bad sides of my awesome work schedule is that if any of my few work days are off, it's a huge hit. Hess has us make up the day on the next Saturday. Not losing a penny here, just trading one lovely weekend of weather for one lovely weekend of a single day off.
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Jul 12, 2013 05:31
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I got off early today, it's the weekend tomorrow, I just put together a new gaming PC, and Steam started its summer sale today. 
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Jul 12, 2013 06:18
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Atlas Hugged posted:5) 3DS Oz_Bonus posted:I got off early today, it's the weekend tomorrow, I just put together a new gaming PC, and Steam started its summer sale today.
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Jul 12, 2013 06:30
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duckfarts posted:Smart man; use something that can run off of battery power. Yeah, definitely. That's what I do, you can often times get the special edition of a game for less than the basic game's retail price. Just use the Steam code and it works just like normal on your account.
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Jul 12, 2013 06:38
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duckfarts posted:Smart man; use something that can run off of battery power. That's how I was able to get Skyrim on release day at some ridiculous low price. Something like 30% cheaper than normal.
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Jul 12, 2013 07:23
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Pretty happy I don't have a typhoon day today. Otherwise would be stuck working a Saturday which always blows.
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Jul 12, 2013 07:58
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Down here in the south there will be no day off. I enjoy teaching but always enjoy a day off. Maybe I work too much. The loss of money on a day off doesn't seem to bother me.
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Jul 12, 2013 09:51
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I got to teach my class today, but all later classes are canceled. Still no word on tomorrow though.
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Jul 12, 2013 12:10
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Just got a text from my head NST that tomorrow is a typhoon day. I'm in the Taichung area.
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Jul 12, 2013 12:49
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Yeah I just got the text too, and my manager LINEd me earlier. I got a friend in Nantou and he still doesn't know.
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Jul 12, 2013 13:35
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Looks like the entire island is shutting down tomorrow, basically Which should be obvious, if you check out the satellite pictures. There's pretty much nothing the storm can do at this point other than slowly engulf the entire island over the course of the next 24 hours.
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Jul 12, 2013 13:39
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I don't live there anymore, so it's not like it matters to me now, but why is Tainan City always like the LAST place to call it a typhoon day or not?
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Jul 12, 2013 13:47
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Seems the storm has finally gotten started. Good thing the local bar is operating on a "rain or shine" policy.
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Jul 12, 2013 15:58
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Well I just heard an enormous crash and my apartment shook really hard. We still have power and internet and that's what's really important. Ed: Oh I didn't hear any screams, so I guess that's good, too.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:11
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Guess it's basically done at this point. Hooray!
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Jul 13, 2013 05:48
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Atlas Hugged posted:Guess it's basically done at this point. Hooray! Or, you know, the eye. http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp201307_sat.html#JMJb3XIhT9CSRDPx.01
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Atlas Hugged posted:Guess it's basically done at this point. Hooray! It totally fell apart. Though if you check the satellite views, there is another something brewing out there. http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/observe/satellite/Sat_EA.htm
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Jul 13, 2013 06:54
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Still raining pretty hard here. I poked my head out onto my balcony earlier and the underpass that goes under the train tracks near my building is completely filled with water.
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Jul 13, 2013 11:01
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Ravendas posted:It totally fell apart. huh - looking at the 48 hour projection, the mainland are brewing then gonna throw a typhoon at us.... soft power indeed! 
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Jul 14, 2013 09:56
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It's not a projection, it's the past 48 hours 
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POCKET CHOMP posted:It's not a projection, it's the past 48 hours :picard:
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Family Mart now sells Vietnamese spring rolls! 
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USDA Choice posted:Family Mart now sells Vietnamese spring rolls! Haha, I'll have to bring some home for my Vietnamese wife tomorrow, see what she thinks.
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Ravendas posted:Haha, I'll have to bring some home for my Vietnamese wife tomorrow, see what she thinks. Even as a token white dude tourist in Vietnam, they aren't even close to authentic. And the lettuce/greens are a little too plentiful. But they're still tasty, and $42 so neither cheap nor highway robbery.
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USDA Choice posted:Even as a token white dude tourist in Vietnam, they aren't even close to authentic. And the lettuce/greens are a little too plentiful. But they're still tasty, and $42 so neither cheap nor highway robbery. You don't have a Vietnamese place close to you? The one near me sells big ones for around 80.
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My parents are coming to Taiwan and they've asked for me to arrange airport transportation for them. Everyone's suggested just putting them on a bus but I'm not sure they'll find their hotel and I'm not sure they'll be able to deal well if the taxi drivers there have limited English. My current plan is to go to the airport and put them in a taxi. I'm in Zhongli so it's not too out of my way but does anyone know of any better ways?
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Jul 21, 2013 06:36
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One possible solution is hiring a car service for your parents.
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gret posted:One possible solution is hiring a car service for your parents. I googled for something like this and got a bunch of car rental hits.
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