October 11, 2018
Today’s pre-soldering photo
The seller included the pin headers but yours truly had to stump up the 2P screw terminals.
Today's recreational soldering: some breakouts for Si4599 →
Category: Spitting Images
August 22, 2018
“They Live”, but WeLend
A Hong Kong company is running a an ad campaign in which a loan is anthropomorphized as a cute woman in shiny knee-high boots and a really short cheerleader →
August 21, 2018
Note that the spikes point outwards and downwards
At the very least, the spikes ought to be sandblasted and repainted periodically. And stainless steel barbed wire exists.
The orientation of the spikes →
August 14, 2018
But imagine it actually worked — wouldn’t that be swell?
Racked up along a checkout line at a Hong Kong CitySuper with all of the other impulse-buy junk: "Keep Memory Gum": a Japanese chewing gum (from Lotte, →
June 1, 2018
Bedhead systems
From left: call button receptacle, call button plugged in (button itself dangling) with red reset button overhead, and a red triangular emergency-pull →
May 11, 2018
When Goop goes bad
It had been a year or more since I'd needed the cleaning power of Goop, but need it I recently did, so I dug out my mostly-full 14-ounce container of orange-scented →
April 27, 2018
You Need Cry, Dear
You Need Cry, Dear sort of, very loosely, sounds like the characters printed in Chinese beneath the nonsensical English. The Chinese translates to something →
July 22, 2017
Look closer
See anything interesting in this photo? Neither of us did at first, either, when we were having a gander at the original scene a few months back, but I →
April 17, 2017
“It’s a plastic bag,” she said. “No,” I said, “it was a big white bird.”
Returning to the bedroom and looking out towards the sea settled the matter, at least to our satisfaction. The white, bird-shaped splotch was no longer →
February 23, 2017
“Infinite LIGO Dreams”
Yesterday, we finally got our print of Penelope Rose Crowley's phenomenal Infinite LIGO Dreams (Artwork inspired by gravitational wave discovery) back →
February 3, 2017
Purikura with props; Or, getting the hang of using a Canon SELPHY printer.
We recently ventured out and acquired a Canon SELPHY CP1200 printer and the specialized paper and paper cartridge necessary for printing pages of photo →
December 9, 2016
Say, that’s a nice mask.
This post was precipitated by the necessity of testing a twitter cards Wordpress plugin and my desire to share a photo of an exceptionally charming fox →