July 19, 2019
Bigfoot in Hong Kong
Nike doesn't sell very many non-hideous sneakers in [CURRENT YEAR], so I caved and got a "recrafted" version of a 1992 sneaker (the Air Skylon) and a reissued →
Category: The Diary of Lupin Pooter
July 10, 2019
A quarter as much at just shy of double the price: Hong Kong retail in a nutshell
USA
HK
1000g
250g
$32.99
$56.50
Purchasing anything aside from the →
May 1, 2019
Chrome Vanadium Chinesium: Finest quality. Superior workmanship.
A recent haphazard domestic DIY escapade furnished me with the above photo: replacing the shredded sisal twine and fabric on our cats' scratching posts. →
March 26, 2019
The scourge of planned obsolescence, in Magic 8-Balls
There are innumerable how-to videos and static, step-by-step online guides to replenishing the water inside the fluid reservoir of a Magic 8-Ball, but →
March 21, 2019
And idle sat the cordless rotary multitool in its case a few feet away
I would have saved some time and gotten a much cleaner result if, to begin with, I had used my Bocsh Dremel-alike, but the result was acceptable.
Tonight, →
March 19, 2019
How heat-shrink tubing reacts when exposed to the arc of an electric-arc lighter
LEFT: tubing shrunk by exposure to a flame. RIGHT: tubing shrunk via placement very near the arc of an electric-arc lighter.
If you've ever wondered →
February 1, 2019
Knocked together several different cheap Chinese PCB-plus-through-hole-parts electronics kits
Knocked together several different cheap Chinese PCB-plus-through-hole-parts electronics kits as a means of trying out a couple of different soldering →
January 31, 2019
恭喜發財! And the cargo tricycles sit idle.
恭喜發財! That phrase has a literal meaning but, in practice, it's used as a verbal cue to either fork over one or more envelopes of banknotes or to →
January 30, 2019
When batteries splooge, electronics are the first to suffer
You go a week or so without looking at your TV, only to pick up the remote control and find it stone dead. Then, when you pry off the battery cover to →
January 29, 2019
Another chakra unblocked: first use of J-B Weld
A new bit of hardware needs to be bolted down to the benchtop during use but I'd like to be able to stow it away the rest of the time. The base of the →
January 22, 2019
Seems Legit: Mitutoyo 500-196-30 AOS Digimatic Calipers
A skim of various Google results (e.g. How to tell if my mitutoyo calipers are fake? and Is it an original mitutoyo vernier caliper?) followed by a quick →
December 12, 2018
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift + GOOP really has CHAINGED!
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift. In Traditional Chinese, it's 贈品.
The same reasoning that comes into play in trying to reason out →