Michael Fan

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Train museum in Fenqihu near Alishan in Taiwan. It's a long wooden building with a locomotive and 2 other train vehicles. It's open on an end and has stalls for food and their famous wasabi ice cream.
Screen capture of flavors of ice cream at the Mount Desert Island Ice Cream Store in Matsumoto Japan カルーア&クリームリキュール THE DUDE 宇治山政玄米茶 UJI YAMAMASA GENMAI CHA ヌテラ NUTELLA 信州アップルクリスプ SHINSHU APPLE STREUSEL 石井味噌バタースコッチ ISHII MISO BUTTERSCOTCH カレボーチョコレート CALLEBAUT CHOCOLATE クッキー&クリーム COOKIES & CREAM ロンドンフォッグ LONDON FOG 信州ナイアガラワインレーズン SHINSHU NIAGARA WINE RAISIN 干し柿 DRIED PERSIMMON サイゴンシナモン SAIGON CINNAMON 新生姜 FRESH GINGER タイ茶 Thai Tea マル井ワサビ MARUI WASABI カレボーチョコレート CALLEBAUT CHOCOLATE キャッスルスタウトファッジ CASTLE STOUT FUDGE ジムビーム JIM BEAM 信州スウィートクリーム SHINSHU SWEET CREAM
Camina Drummer from the Expanse. She's on-board the bridge of the Behemoth (née Navoo) giving an impassioned speech about Belter pride.
Poster of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. It features all 5 planeteers with Captain Planet flying overhead with the tagline "The Power is Yours"
Movie Poster for the Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves movie. It features 6 of the main characters all around in a circle.
Promo picture for the TV series Dark Matter (not the Apple TV version, but the Canadian TV series) It has the tagline of "Bad Guys Have Way More Fun" and have Characters 2-6 and the Android.
A woman dressed in academic regalia holding the University of Maryland ceremonial mace aloft. Screenshot from the 2025 University Commencement Ceremony.
A picture of the head of the University of Maryland ceremonial mace. It has a golden medallion on the top that says "University of Maryland".
Snippet from the WSJ interview with Jet Li (Jet Li Loves Buying in Bulk at Costco) Why do you love shopping at Costco so much? I first went there in the ’90s. It’s cheap and you can buy things in bulk that you can use for two years. Toilet paper, instant coffee, toothpaste. In the Chinese zodiac I am a rabbit, and during your zodiac year you need to wear red for good luck, so I had my daughter buy 30 red cotton T-shirts from Costco. My wife and I have been wearing the same comfortable red T-shirts at home for five years.
Ad for Wawa Hoagiefest (est 2008). It's a technicolor + teal background with $5 Shortis (meatball sub, hoagie?) and $6 Classics (cold cut hoagie)
Tweet from Stevie Johnson after a game when he dropped a lot of passes, where it seems like he's blaming God or Jesus about his bad game. "I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!! AND THIS HOW YOU DO ME!!!!! YOU EXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS??? HOW???!!! ILL NEVER FORGET THIS!! EVER!!! THX THO...
A picture of the Costco Wholesale in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It's a 2 story tall building with a giant entrance with "Entrance" and 入口 over it.
A cat laser turret firing a red laser at an orange kitten. The laser turret is a silver round head on top of a stand, with a black mirrored face and cat ears.
An image of a Magic the Gathering Card called "Sokka's Haiku", from Avatar the Last Airbender set. The card costs 3 colorless and 2 blue mana. The art features Sokka doing a funny wave with his hand, while a woman dressed in formal Asian-style clothing looks on. The card text reads "Instant - Lesson" Counter target spell. Draw a card, then mill three cards. Untap target land. (The card text is also a Haiku)
Anping Tree House in Tainan, Taiwan. This is an old brick warehouse that has been completely taken over by trees. The brick floor is flooded in a couple inches of water, the roof is completely gone and open to the sky, and the entire wall is completely overgrown with tree roots.
A sketch of a squirrel holding a martini glass with a toothpick with an acorn as the garnish. This image was printed as the Planet Money t-shirt and is a pun on the Keynes term "animal spirits"
Cover of the novel "Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery" by Deborah and James Howe. Tag line: "Today vegetables... tomorrow the world!" It features a white rabbit, with red eyes, vampire fangs, and black markings on its coat that have the shape of a cloak. The bunny also has casts a disproportionately large shadow of a bunny.
Screenshot of a Google query where the search query was "st. louis late march". The AI Summary says "In late March, St. Louis has increasingly warm weather, with average daily highs rising from the low $50s to the low $60s (\(F\)), and lows from the low \(30s\) to the low \(40s\) (\(F\)). This period is also considered one of the wettest times of the year for the city, so visitors should be prepared for rain. Despite the rain, late March is still a good time to visit as hotel prices may be lower. Weather Temperatures: Daily highs are expected to range from approximately \(51^{\circ }F\) to \(62^{\circ }F\), and daily lows will typically be between \(33^{\circ }F\) and \(43^{\circ }F\).
Farside Comic panel. It shows a dorky kid with glasses trying in vain to open a closed door by pushing on it, despite it having a very large "Pull" sign on it and pull handle. In the foreground, the school is named "Midvale School for the Gifted".
A section titled "An apology" from Money Stuff written by Matt Levine. It reads "Sorry, I just want to flag that everything below this point is extremely stupid and you should probably stop reading."
Screenshot of my Bluesky timeline. A post from John Scalzi showing off his tomatoes from his garden. A post from Tasting History showing off Italian Stuffed Tomatoes from 1773.
Ravens nose tackle Michael Pierce intercepting a pass last year against the Browns.
Display of RC scale size model to demonstrate a 747 could carry the Space Shuttle from Space Center Houston.
Circular cake with green matcha whipped cream and strawberries
Picture of the anime girl meme when something is mentioned. It has many different items from Maryland. The top text says Maryland Mentioned with a picture of an anime girl in front of the Inner Harbor of Maryland. She is wearing a Baltimore Ravens baseball cap, an Orioles t-shirt. She is holding a bottle of National Bohemian beer (Natty Boh) in one hand and a can of Old Bay seasoning in the other. There is the Ledo's Pizza logo in the bottom right (Maryland style pizza) and a blue crab in the lower left. There is a Maryland flag in the upper left.
Picture of a red betta fish.
Screenshot from the Good Place, showing Chidi, Eleanor, Jason, and Tahani. The Good Place was an amazing show and I highly recommend you watch it.
A cream donut from Tous Les Jour in a plastic carrying case.
Two croissants filled with cream with strawberries.
Two birds sitting on Christmas lights, in a corner formed by a column and a roof. This would be a great place to build a nest if a crow didn't come by every month to eat whatever was put there.
A poor quality image of Bloomberg columnist and newsletter writer Matt Levine wearing a Planet Money "Animal Spirits" t-shirt and holding a martini glass. The t-shirt is gray and has a drawing of a squirrel holding up a martini glass, which is a visual pun of Keynes' term "animal spirits".
Box art for Jade Empire (only on XBox)
Karaoke Revolution for PS2 box art and back
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Box Art
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers screenshot with the Zord vs. a boss.
Screenshot of TMNT game for NES with chompers.
Screen capture of SNES version of Bubble Bobble.
Super Mario Kart Box art: "Where racing becomes an Adventure!" for the SNES.
Dawn of War 2 screenshot with a Juggernaut vs. Orks.
Screenshot of X-COM where the soldier has a gun right in front of the alien and the hit percentage is shown as only 65%.
Screenshot of iPad Ticket to Ride game.
Gameplay image of ChuChu Rocket! It's a grid, with arrows, little cute robotic mice and rockets.
Drug Wars screenshot showing what's in the stash, trench coat, and what the prices are.
Shadow of the Colossus cover art. There is a boy on a horse with a sword facing off a giant titan.
Box art for Dynasty Warriors 3
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings box art.
Before picture of an absolute clutter of a coat room. Pots, pans, cardboard boxes on the floor. There's one shelf above head height with a blender, a wok, more boxes, and a food processor.
Picture of a Mad Cat / Timber Wolf mech from Battletech in battle. The Mad Cat is a bipedal mech with a 2 arms with lasers and 2 shoulder mounted missile batteries.
A woman holding Target price tags that say "Black Friday Deals" and "Sale!" that are the same price, showing there was no actual Black Friday discount.
Result from the Washington Post Interactive "Do you know more civics than an eighth grader. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2024/do-you-know-more-civics-than-an-eighth-grader/ It shows my score is 10/10: "Congratulations, you are a civics star!"
Screenshot of the intro for the short-lived TV show Black Sash, starring Russell Wong. It shows the words Black Sash, with an overhead shot of 4 teens (with attitude!) doing martial arts over a Ying-Yang symbol.
A player score card that shows Alexander Ovechkin as a Tier 5 - Support. It reads: "Why he's here" "Figuring out Ovechkin's placement is a yearly challenge. This time, it was tough to find someone in the game who thought he belonged on the list at all. We thought his season-ending binge (23 goals in 35 games) might've been enough to put some folks more squarely back in his corner, but... nope. For him (and the Caps), it's a two-part problem. 1) He's either disinterested or unable to do much beyond chasing the goal record, and 2) his ability to shoot the puck frequently and effectively took a serious tumble. We included him out of respect and the possibility he can put together one final push as an elite scorer.
Promotion image for the TV show "Wonderfalls"
Top portion is a legend for seasons White square = Winter Red square = Autumn Black square = Summer Yellow square = Spring Bottom is 3 graphs for seasons. The first is a graph labeled "Alaska" with the top part white, a narrow band of red, and bottom part white with a vertical axis of January to December, denoting Alaska is majority winter with a minor part for autumn somewhere around May to August. Middle graph is labeled "Florida", with a minor red part near January / December, a small part labeled Spring around Feb-March, and rest is black, meaning Florida is mostly Summer. The last graph is labeled "Maryland", which has the Maryland flag (a heraldic checkerboard of white, red, yellow, and black), which shows that Maryland's weather is absolute chaos throughout the year.
Meme image of a size dial reading "Small", "Medium", "Large", and "OOF SIZE", with Mina Kimes making an "Oof" face.
Picture of Brooke Havok from AEW. This is not Mina Kimes.
Picture of NFL QB Bryce Young and NFL analyst Mina Kimes standing next to each other from the waist up. They are roughly the same height. We cannot see that Mina Kimes is supposedly wearing tall heels.
Panda lying on a rock
I voted circular sticker from Maryland. Top says "I voted". Bottom says, "Yo voté". Center has symbols of Maryland, black eyed Susan, blue crab, Baltimore oriole, a racing horse and the Maryland flag.
Snippet from Washington Post article about a house having a lot of bats in it: "Riecken did what millennials often do when faced with an insurmountable problem: He turned to Reddit. He sought advice in several forums: one for legal advice, one for DIYers, one for the local town. No one had seen anything like it."