Category: HerpDerp

Scanning… Scanning… Deep Scanning… Results may reveal names and aliases!

  • August 22, 2025
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HerpDerp Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Have you ever seen a photo of a public figure in the news or somewhere else online and wondered about someone else, apparently an associate or a member of their entourage, also shown in the same image? In the same way that, for example, when you re-watched Pulp Fiction for the first time in years, […]

Howdy! It’s midsummer already, huh?

  • July 22, 2025
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HerpDerp Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter TØØLS
That’s quite a bit of condensation inside the polymer flex sections of this gel knee pad, eh? The days are long but the years weeks and months are short. Trite but true. So what happened was… I blinked in May and, when I opened my eyes, July was almost over. Busy as I’ve been, though, […]

SMILES now just $11/L!

  • May 13, 2025
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HerpDerp The Diary of Lupin Pooter
The video clip embedded here was cropped and tweaked from video recorded using a handheld mobile phone, aimed outwards through a vehicle windshield during refueling at an Esso station in Hong Kong and subsequently fixed up with a video stabilization tool called vidstab.

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Meeting Garlic Dracula

  • March 24, 2025
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HerpDerp Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
During a recent meander around Tsuen Wan, I snapped some photos. One of the first things that caught my eye was a poster informing the public that two new classes of appliance, dehumidifiers and tumble-style clothes dryers, have been added to the list of REE covered by the WEEE scheme. Imperfect summary: Appliance-makers and retailers […]

Crumpling cabinet feet/wheel mounts: jerry-riggin’ a solution

  • February 27, 2025
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Contrivances HerpDerp Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Mucking About With Things The Diary of Lupin Pooter TØØLS
Back in September, I mentioned modding some vintage metal filing cabinets by replacing #3/8-16 screw-on foot pads with M10-bolt stainless steel wheels. That project entailed re-doing the threads in the holes on the footpad mounts by tapping the screw holes. It seemed to work perfectly and, at the time, I was quite pleased with myself.

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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HerpDerp Makin' stuff and breakin' stuff Mucking About With Things Personal Firsts Swarf + Copeaux + Scobs The Diary of Lupin Pooter To see a world in a grain of sand TØØLS
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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Contrivances HerpDerp JavaScript
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 […]

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

  • October 12, 2024
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Grubbin' HerpDerp The Diary of Lupin Pooter
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.