Category: From the Mind of Brian

  • Tile-Pei

    I expected the rain on this trip to Taiwan. I wasn’t expecting to slide all the way across the sidewalk.

  • Warning from Taipei

    If you take the gondola ride, watch for flying strollers 😮 Part of the “Taipei Oct 2011” set on Flickr.

  • Repeat Offender

    This post comes to you from Delta Flight 276 from Tokyo-Narita to Detroit. I didn’t start my day in Tokyo, and I’m not ending it in Detroit. This is just part of my path home from a week in Taipei … … but after week I’m heading back to the airport to do it all…

  • Dora the Workout Explorer

    If I were a homebound parent I would probably use this space to complain about the drivel that passes for children’s programming. Brightly colored nonsense masquerading as toy commercials, talking sponges and educational characters with televisions embedded in their digestive tracts.

  • It’s that time again

    It’s that time again

    This blog is just over ten years old. That means it’s time once again to think about September 11, 2011. It’s easy to remember how I felt watching everything from my hotel room in Tokyo, because I wrote about it.

  • Thinking on my feet

    Thinking on my feet

    Working from home is a good excuse to change many of my daily habits. The ones I’m tackling first apply to not only when I work, but what posture I’m using during work. In short, I’m trying to stand up most of the day.