This weekend, the highly effective* Chinese home-haircut shaver I bought in Xiamen finally gave up the ghost. It ground to slow, sad halt exactly halfway through my weekly head-shave. More accurately, the charger failed, so I had enough juice for exactly half my head.

I had to finish up with my face-razor, a Gillette Sensor Excel (or, more accurately, the Chinese knockoff version of a Gillette Sensor Excel). This delivers the (to me) inferior shaved-head experience of having a skin-bald head, which is weirdly sensitive to heat and cold. Like, for example, I can feel the warmth emitted by light bulbs at distances of up to 24 inches. More for halogen lights. Fluorescents, of course, produce very little heat so I can't detect those things at all.

So now I have to wear a stocking cap allatime like a total goob, for the next I dunno two or three days.

* No I am not being ironic. It is (was?) actually a very effective instrument for head-shaving. It was cordless, submersible, washable and cut the hell out of hair. I can't even lay the blame for its death on shoddy Chinese design. Its adapter has a Japanese-style plug (which kinda-sorta works in North American outlets), and is wired for 220v (which also kind-sorta works in 100v outlets). So that the thing would gradually die, as it did, would pretty much be expected.

“Ha ha! It’s funny because the dog is reading! Get it?”

But if it’s so cheesy, why am I smiling?

If the documentation/HOWTO/helpfile/hint uses the word “simply” (as in: “mod_proxy should simply send the raw directory list up the filter stack to mod_autoindex, which in theory should turn the raw ascii into pretty html” or “simply create a file called node-content_foo.tpl.php where content_foo is the content type name as listed on the administration page”), you can be damn sure whatever it’s telling you to do will not actually be simple.