Say, that’s a nice mask.

  • December 9, 2016
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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 half-face mask.

Wind Power Beast-mode and this week’s new word: sprue

  • December 8, 2016
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Mucking About With Things The Diary of Lupin Pooter
One recent weekday night, I sat down assembled the miniature Strandbeest shown above from a kit which I’d purchased a week or two earlier. Here’s a YouTube video about the same (or a very similar) kit. From what I can gather by browsing the official Strandbeest site and webstore, this beest appears to be an […]

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.

  • December 2, 2016
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The ruddy orange hue of the bellies of the clouds visible over the sea one recent evening was so striking that I had to snap a few photos. Then, I turned one of those images upside down and thought it looked even nicer. And now here it is on this site. In retrospect, I might’ve […]

Doom is just a name, but when you speak to it to become a healing product, it does.

  • November 30, 2016
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In the Track of the Bookworm Metagrobolized
Above: On this t-shirt, My Neighbor Totoro meets Bioshock and Satsuki becomes a Little Sister standing beside a Big Daddy rather than Totoro. While I have watched Totoro, I hung up my spurs after finishing Super Mario Bros. 3 and haven’t gamed on anything newer than a Super Nintendo system. That being said, never having […]

Photos: WS2812 LED ring, soldering, desoldering

  • November 29, 2016
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Mucking About With Things Sodding soldering The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Last week, I wanted to test-drive one of the 24-LED WS2812 5050 RGB LED rings I’d bought a ways back. Getting it working, controlled by an Arduino board running the Adafruit NeoPixel library, was easy peasy. Except for the soldering step. For reasons that weren’t apparent to me while I was wielding my soldering iron, […]

Photo: Clouds at sunset

  • November 26, 2016
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Evangelion/Ghostbusters crossover tee: I ain’t afraid of no Liliths

  • November 21, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Someone replaced the ghost in the Ghostbusters logo with a depiction of Lilith from Evangelion — the original 7-eyed-mask version from Neon Genesis Evangelion as opposed to the redesigned, two-eyed-bone-mask version — and printed it on a t-shirt.

The mozzarella layers resemble sheaths of adipose tissue, no?

  • November 16, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
On Monday night, we made eggplant parmesan, according to a recipe variant in which the eggplant slices got coated in finely-grated parmesan cheese instead of breadcrumbs. Viewed from the side, it looks a bit like a cross-section of some unknown animal:

Can’t have these sunsets without that smog?

  • November 16, 2016
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Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks! Spitting Images
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 activities in the greater Pearl River Delta region. What’s that? You reside in this part of the world and can afford to run HEPA-grade air purifiers, but don’t? […]

Yak Shaving: Resistors, 6500 of ’em, edition

  • November 11, 2016
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Mucking About With Things Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Above: what 6500 1/4-Watt, 1%-tolerance metal film resistors (50 each of 150 different resistance values, ranging from 1 Ω to 10 MΩ) look like if you buy them from Taobao. That cling-film/plastic-wrap-wound bundle was roughly the size of an adult’s forearm, from elbow to wrist. Total cost: $USD 10. For reference, Sparkfun’s Resistor Kit (COM-10969, […]

100-year-old people are much more common than 4-year-old mice.

  • November 2, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
The title of this post is taken from a statement made by Dr. Richard Miller, professor of pathology in the Geriatrics Center of the Medical School, as quoted in an April 2004 U. Mich. press release (World’s oldest mouse reaches milestone birthday, via this Reddit thread). One of the Reddit posters found Yoda the mouse’s […]

James looks up, a CSS animation

  • November 1, 2016
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Spitting Images Tygers, Tygers!