Lots of portable electronic gadgets use Li-ion batteries, so I can understand why an Li-ion battery warning sticker would arouse the interest of thieves somewhere in the logistics chain between Amazon.co.uk and me. Fortunately, they weren’t interested in hot-glue guns and the holes which they poked in the box, including one through the Li-ion battery […]
Why is the tissue-dispensing version of Genki Sushi’s new(ish) hip-hop/gangsta-themed bear mascot sweating? Does it want customers to use more tissues, faster? Or is it worried that restaurant patrons will exhaust its supply of tissues quickly and a staff member will thrust more into its maw? Other depictions of the bear bro are just as, […]
Better late than never is the principle at work here. I processed these images weeks ago but didn’t get around to posting them. Though I haven’t actually nailed down the identity of any of them, in some cases, I have a guess or two. There’s a lot going on here on this rock. The finger-shaped […]
A typhoon passed through Hong Kong recently. Afterwards, at low-tide time, I donned a pair of low-rise duck boots and headed down to the small beach nearby to see whether any interesting sea life had been washed closer to shore or, less-fortunately for the creatures concerned, ashore. I did see some interesting living and once-living […]
Recently, I bought a sound-playing children’s book and another with grating-based animations and dissected both of them to see precisely how they worked and what materials had been used.
Little Fly Thy summer’s play, My thoughtless hand Has brush’d away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing; Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath; And the want Of thought is […]
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. That gives a sense of what life is about. Michael Meade It gives a bit of the flavor of what I think is a useful approach […]