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 →
Category: Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks!
August 16, 2018
That Beckett quote is defeatist.
Yes, it pleases me to believe that these four 2N3638A transistors are NOS.
This evening's tinkering session is going to involve yours truly double-checking →
January 23, 2017
It’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it?
What do you see when you look at the photo above?
If we wanted or needed to take a simply descriptive route, we could say it's an image of an accumulation →
December 30, 2016
A golden treasure box that glows from the inside out!
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 →
November 16, 2016
Can’t have these sunsets without that smog?
As you know, Bob, Hong Kong, which has next to nil industry in this day and age, is plagued by smog resulting primarily from manufacturing and manufacturing-related →
October 23, 2016
Pepe the Frog aka “Sad Frog” [悲伤青蛙] merch on Taobao
There's tons of Pepe the Frog merchandise on Taobao. I stumbled across a listing for a Pepe-themed tissue dispenser, showed it to my wife, and she lobbed →
May 23, 2016
The ship is always off course.
I swiped the title of this post from a longer quote:
The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. →