It’s funny how some inventions just come along: take spring plungers? You might wonder what on earth these are, and why would anyone need one. But spring plungers come in a variety of sizes for a variety of purposes and for a variety of situations. They provide controlled accurate force with the spring. And a…
I was down in the garbage room a few months ago in our community. The Hinet engineers were there at the same tuning up the building’s network . and I was astonished to find so many boards on a rackmount setup. I had no idea that our Fiber to the Building set up so complicated….
A couple of days ago, I was looking at one of the sinks in the bathroom at school, and wondering if it would fall off the wall. You may laugh, but there have been dozens of reports in Taiwan of kitchen sinks falling off the wall for a variety of reasons. Of course, when the…
P1030027, originally uploaded by obblogatory. We spent the last few weekends tidying up our bedroom, and creating a pleasant environment for reading and music and discussion. It’s still unfinished but we painted the walls in ‘Starbucks’ colors, reused the flooring from many years ago, and built a wonderful little ‘study’! It took a while, a…
When we were living in Tienmou, we rented our apartment because we couldn’t afford to buy one there. It was just too expensive for us. One of the advantages of renting is that the landlord will come and fix things for us. And she did. Except one: Our kitchen faucet. It started to drip slowly…