It’s not called the wheel, it’s not called the carousel, it’s called the donut.
Mister Donut [Japanese relict version] in Hong Kong.

  • December 1, 2024
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Grubbin' HerpDerp Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Part of the LED sign outside the recently-opened ‘Mister Donut’ shop in the K11 mall in Tsim Sha Tsui. Starting in young adulthood, my once robust sweet tooth and my propensity for consuming junk food in general (bagged snacks, carbonated sugary drinks, etc.) gradually faded away. A slice of cheesecake or a pint of ice […]

Knock, knock. Winter is coming has come to Hong Kong

  • November 22, 2024
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All My Friends Are Insects HerpDerp Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter
For the majority of the year, Hong Kong weather is sweltering. But there are a couple of months where it gets cool enough that you’d do well to wear a light jacket or a hoodie while out and about. Not very long ago, I was celebrating the arrival of cooler weather. Thirty-ish days later, I’m pleased to report another seasonal step-change. We’re seeing low-60s °F (high-ish teens in °C). Hong Kong’s version of winter has begun.

Messing around with Tapcons and a concrete brick

  • November 12, 2024
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This is a followup to my recent post on concrete fasteners. A large-scale furniture assembly project has been polished off and it’s about time to give anchoring our bookshelves to the walls a go.

Twitter (aka “X” aka “Xitter”) individual tweet (aka “xeet”) page re-title-er (userscript workaround for Twitter broken-ness)

  • November 1, 2024
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To those amongst you who are active on Twitter (now known as X and colloquially to some as Xitter), even if you’re simply browsing and not actively posting/tweeting/xeeting, and who use browser bookmarks: today’s post ought to be right up your alley! First, some background. Note: I don’t use smartphone social media apps, so we’re […]

Taladrado Rápido! Mayor Duración! (Faster Drilling! Longer Life!): Concrete Fasteners, Drills

  • October 27, 2024
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Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Mucking About With Things The Diary of Lupin Pooter TØØLS
Side-by-side comparison of the stainless steel concrete fasteners I’ve got right now. L-to-R: Tapcon 410 SS washer-head 1/4-inch screw, 304 SS M8 wedge anchor, and two 304 SS sleeve anchors (M6 and M8). The high floor-to-near-ceiling metal book shelves have been assembled, but all of our books (except for ones we’ve needed since the relocation) […]

Rejoicing at the surcease of boiling + some slapdash snapshottery (Saturday Nattering)

  • October 12, 2024
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What I’ve got for you here is a haphazard assortment of photos and observations. First up, an orange inside an orange. Navel oranges (including the Cara Cara ‘varietal’ aka Cara Cara Navel, mentioned here back in May, often have a second miniature peel-less orange inside their peel, but blood oranges aren’t navels and the peeled and halved blood orange shown in the photo above contained a second, much smaller (a thumbnail’s width in diameter or, to put it another way, slightly smaller than an olive) orange which boasted (and this was the novel aspect for yours truly) a peel of its own.

Free Advice #003: Use a magnet, inside a plastic bag or beneath multiple layers of plastic wrap, to clean up shrapnel from drilling, cutting, or tapping metal

  • September 26, 2024
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Free Advice HerpDerp Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Swarf + Copeaux + Scobs TØØLS
Earlier this month, I wanted to replace the bolt-feet on the bottoms of some filing cabinets with wheels, so I flipped one of them on its side, unscrewed one of the foot-bolts, and tried it in the closest-looking (size-wise) pieces of my bolt size-and-thread-check set, and found that it went smoothly into the female end […]

The Case of the Slumping Polystyrene Foam (Question for the Experts)

  • September 16, 2024
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HerpDerp Is that the way it is? Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Mucking About With Things Questions for the Experts The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Recently, I mounted a few pairs of metal chests of drawers piggyback-style, which entailed drilling some holes. To keep the point of my drill from skittering away, I used a center punch to create a tiny dimple at each of the intended hole locations. Intending to clean the drill and the deburring tool that I’d used on the holes (a hex-shank deburring blade in a hex-shank handle as you can see in the photos below) once I had unpacked the tool-cleaning stuff (WD-40, Fluid Film, etc.), I laid them both — along with the center punch — on a fragment of one of the polystyrene foam sheets in which the metal drawers had been packed for shipment.

First nattering of September (cat footage, Alien: Romulus, Hodgson’s The Night Land, and metal drawer assembly observations)

  • September 5, 2024
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HerpDerp In the Track of the Bookworm Swarf + Copeaux + Scobs The Diary of Lupin Pooter Tygers, Tygers!
Much unpacking, assembling, and moving stuff around has been done. Regrettably, much more unpacking, assembling, and moving stuff around yet remains to be done. There’s an excellent chance, for example, that tonight I will be marking and drilling holes into the square-tube-steel legs of a computer desk to attach u-shaped brackets to hold a computer […]

Rainy Season Thoughts

  • August 20, 2024
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Hong Kong is enjoying its summer monsoon season and so rains are frequent, though often tightly-bound geographically. In other words, precipitation can be bucketing down in one spot whilst just a few minutes’ drive away the pavements are as dry as a bone. Snippet of video taken through a passenger-side window of a moving vehicle […]

The Intermission is Over. We’re back

  • August 7, 2024
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We really own and use a heck of a lot of binder clips. That’s one of my biggest takeaways from the packing phase of our current, still-ongoing relocation. Also, I probably ought to use wingnuts as much as feasible for cobbling stuff together if there’s even a tiny chance that I’ll have to disassemble my Merzbau-style fabrications at a later date.

I watch the ripples change their size but never leave the stream

  • July 21, 2024
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HerpDerp The Diary of Lupin Pooter We'll go much more a roving
Two short video clips taken from a balcony on a stormy day last week. This post’s title is a quote from the lyrics of the Bowie song Changes. Balcony view (downwards, floorwards) during a thunderstorm. Balcony view (downwards, floorwords) during a thunderstorm. Balcony view (outwards, seawards) during a thunderstorm. Balcony view (outwards, seawards) during a […]