Kid-Friendly Robot Jokes

A robot didn’t want to have his photo taken.
When he was asked why, he replied: Because I’m a photo-resistor!

A robot gets arrested.
He’s charged with battery.

A robot man walks into a robot restaurant.
A robot waiter approaches and asks him for his robot order.

I love using cartoon images as my wallpapers. However, it can sometimes be awkward to show them in front of your audience during an academic presentation. Therefore, I made this little tool to save the day. It can help you quickly switch the wallpaper and switch back later.

Here are some interesting English words!

Picture Host

A host server used to store pictures. In Chinese, it is called "图床", which means the "bed of the images. The word has such a vivid meaning that at first I thought "image bed" is just its correct English version.

Here I will record how some of the features in this blog is realized, or is failed.

Image host

Github repo is now used as my image host. It is not a good choice since the size of a repo is limited, as a result of which, I may need to create many repos. The truth is, I have tried a professional OSS service called Qiniu Cloud and used it as my image host. However, it cost a lot for showing pictures with HTTPS protocol, while many browsers automatically convert the HTTP url to HTTPS. By storing all blog relevant things to github, I find the life will truely become esaier. A well designed GUI is a life save mo matter how programming language improves!

很早以前就喜欢做点3D打印，搞点小发明啥的，大学里也为此特地选了3D建模的课。可惜上完课后就没什么机会碰3D打印机了。之前好朋友自己搭过3D打印机，但我的那台因为资金快递等等原因一直拖延到现在。最近芯片涨价，下位机开发板又涨价了，再观望一段时间吧。趁此机会，先把之前学的三脚猫建模功夫再完善一下。

The Vuepress framework supports the internationalization, and provide a convenient entry of multiple language version of articles, but I have no plan to translate all my articles. It cost too much time, and to be honest, I am the almost only one who will read my blog. The prupose is first build my own knowledge system, then share it to someone interests. Therefore, to keep me passionate in writting blog, I will leave those heavy work and only enjoy my recording.

Vuepress, the blog currently build with, is the third blog framework I used. In the past five years, I have tried Gridea, Hexo and Vuepress, and spend so much time in configuring the theme and the structure. However, the number of posts doesn't increase correspondingly.

A test engineer walks into a bar