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I Put on My Robe and Wizard Hat [photo]

  • June 6, 2017
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Is the piece of headgear depicted in these stickers a wizard hat or a sleeping cap? With no way of knowing with any certainty, I’m nevertheless rooting for the former. These stickers featuring Doraemon wearing a star-studded sleeping cap or wizard hat called to me when I saw ’em on Taobao. Related: Does Doraemon really […]

I don’t always rack up 10k steps a day, but when I do…

  • June 6, 2017
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Yes, the wording of this post is a hat tip to a meme: The Most Interesting Man in the World. I don’t always rack up 10k steps a day, but when I do… I remember that the ten-thousand-step goal is an arbitrary number and a relic of 1964 Tokyo Olympics hoopla.

The dishwasher-safe mug that wasn’t

  • May 8, 2017
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For a cup or dish, a trip through the dishwasher probably represents an inanimate household object’s version of medieval trial by ordeal. A couple of years back, we bought a bunch of mugs and all but one have passed the dishwasher test with flying colors. The mug shown above, however, has been found wanting.

Having a roam

  • April 23, 2017
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The Diary of Lupin Pooter We'll go much more a roving
We went on a brief wander this afternoon, before looping back to do a bit of grocery shopping ahead of lunch.

Another interesting pattern

  • April 22, 2017
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The Diary of Lupin Pooter To see a world in a grain of sand
That’s a photo of the stainless steel panel on the inside of the lid of our water boiler/warmer.

Nope. Not an image taken of another world from orbit.

  • April 20, 2017
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The Diary of Lupin Pooter To see a world in a grain of sand
So what is it?

“Infinite LIGO Dreams”

  • February 23, 2017
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Yesterday, we finally got our print of Penelope Rose Crowley’s phenomenal Infinite LIGO Dreams (Artwork inspired by gravitational wave discovery) back from the framing shop. This work and many others (including many original works in addition to prints) are available at Crowley’s site.

Purikura with props; Or, getting the hang of using a Canon SELPHY printer.

  • February 3, 2017
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Mucking About With Things Personal Firsts Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
We recently ventured out and acquired a Canon SELPHY CP1200 printer and the specialized paper and paper cartridge necessary for printing pages of photo stickers, eight identical stickers to a page, similar to the photo stickers produced by Japanese photo-sticker (purikura) booths. No small amount of fiddling with camera settings and a few sticker sheets […]

Let’s Talk About Money!

  • February 2, 2017
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Lately, I’ve been spending chunks of my free time futzing with cheap microwave doppler radar sensors and soda-can antennas. Last night, it was all about hooking up teensy all-in-one MP3-players and itsy bitsy little OLED screens to Arduino boards. I’ll write more on that soon. Right now, let’s talk about money. Or, rather, the latest […]

My soldering skillz still leave much to be desired

  • February 2, 2017
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Mucking About With Things Personal Firsts Sodding soldering The Diary of Lupin Pooter
A new (minor) personal first: connecting and driving a display, from Arduino. Thanks to Adafruit for the tutorial (Monochrome OLED Breakouts) and open-source libraries I’m using to drive this little 128×64 OLED display. Note: I am a repeat Adafruit customer but purchased these particular displays from a Taobao merchant for a fraction of the Adafruit […]

A golden treasure box that glows from the inside out!

  • December 30, 2016
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Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks! The Diary of Lupin Pooter
It’s getting to be that time of year again. Hong Kongers and others in this part of the world must buy cheap (but not too cheap!) premium foreign chocolate products to give as gifts. S. and I recently bought a box of Cadbury Glow chocolates, for our own consumption. Verdict: perfectly alright, but neither of […]

I don’t even know what’s in here

  • December 21, 2016
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Recently, the onset of Hong Kong’s version of winter presented us with another chance to savor the intersection of the city’s near-total lack of residential climate control and its hilariously dysfunctional retail culture. Weather forecasts are calling for lows in the mid-to-low 50s℉ (10-13 or so ℃) in Hong Kong within the next ten days […]