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Hello, my name is Judas Gutenberg and this is my blaag (pronounced as you would the vomit noise "hyroop-bleuach").



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   January 2017

01: not for her palate - Gretchen doesn't like straw mushrooms, though I did find an episode of Black Mirror she enjoyed.
02: two meals in New Paltz - One vegan, and one slightly less so.
03: server Sorcerer's Apprentice - Feeling terrible stress as I clean up after a botched code deployment.
04: failed picket hunt - Evidently replacement pickets are not much of a thing.
05: shopping while depressed - My relationship to retail therapy.
06: acts to bend reality a certain way - Explanations for needlessly-ritualistic behavior. And an off-hour ambien fugue state in the workplace communication environment.
07: another stage of Kübler-Rossian grief - At the new vegan-friendly Latin-American restaurant in Kingston. And replacing fence pickets with in the cold.
08: way to poison the well, Facebook - Uninstalling the Facebook app gives me the clearest picture yet of why I should be wary of the Facebook brand.
09: farfalle & pasta - How can combining two of the best foods from completely different cultures be wrong?
10: Chinese food suitable for trick-or-treaters - Gretchen brings me home some cloyingly-sweet takeaway after dining with our friend Michæl. Also, another Trump bombshell and struggling with a cheap Windows 10 tablet.
11: fuck it, we'll do it live - The limits of debugging code by reading it.
12: urges to pound my fist through that fucking tablet - After it eats up hours of my life, a tablet computer decided to become a brick.
13: actually interactive data-hunting wizards - Making more great stuff while procrastinating.
14: relative vs absolute dates - In a reporting system, you don't usually want to pick through a calendar to find a specific date. Also, Gretchen and I see Hidden Figures in Saugerties.
15: part of vegan legend - Gretchen includes a pro-vegan message as part of her allotted time at the local Writers Resist event (resistance being against Donald Trump).
16: Neville's cauliflower - Also, Gretchen and I look at a foreclosed house in that charming neighborhood on Brewster Street.
17: rainy day in January - And a big remote-workplace success.
18: sounded like rock - What Latino painters listen to.
19: wee hours at the Watergate - Gretchen and I arrive at her parents' new residence after driving directly from a party.
20: strolls in a Trumpian Washington - Even in the Trump years, we take excruciating walks through business districts.
21: Women's March - A sea of pussy hats unhinges the Trump administration on its first full day of making America great again.
22: across the Bay Bridge - Perhaps my first glimpse of eastern Maryland.
23: zombie tablet - Due to the cheapness of its motherboards, the RCA Cambio W101 V2 lives on.
24: what's wrong with an uninhabited house - At the Brewster Street house with a manic Kingston building safety guy.
25: machining precise grooves in tiles - I find a way to limit my waste when installing faux wooden tiles.
26: incredible jolt of whatever - A whole day spent debugging an email-queueing program.
27: finishing two big tasks - One in the remote workplace, and one on my honeydo list.
28: big door delivery - A theoretical plan to bring home a massive door on the roof of the Subaru runs into the buzzsaw of reality.
29: what I found in the wall - Removing drywall to get a sense of how to replace a window with a pair of french doors.
30: the wonders of an oscillating tool - The tool makes the impossible possible, but it still has its quirks.
31: momentary terror from a fact in the data - Comparing a live measurement with one from the data and realizing something is very broken.