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.