Your leaking thatched hut during the restoration of a pre-Enlightenment state.

 

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



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decay & ruin
Biosphere II
Chernobyl
dead malls
Detroit
Irving housing

got that wrong
Paleofuture.com

appropriate tech
Arduino μcontrollers
Backwoods Home
Fractal antenna

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   May 2025

01: no more prison work for Gretchen - One of her secret letters to an inmate is discovered.
02: our printers are all crap - It's technology designed to infuriate.
03: overflowing signed four byte integer - Saving a count of milliseconds causes trouble in about 25 days.
04: the nesting loons on Lake Edward - And a sweaty hike back east in the drizzling rain.
05: Cinco de Mayo at the Bear Cantina - Gretchen tells our friends about her now-ended prison career while I drink free shots of tequila.
06: like a poorly-detailed Uber - Picking up friends from Scotland from the bus station in the time of Donald Trump 2.0.
07: purple pie and auto checkout - Doing local commerce with our Scottish visitors.
08: excellent African ground nut stew - I eat that but do not drink any wine offered by one of our Scottish guests.
09: Lez Zeppelin at the Colony Cafe - We even bring our Scottish guests.
10: I'm good at multiple choice trivia - On the dock and playing card games with our Scottish friends.
11: a quick drive past North Korea - By which I mean downtown Albany. We show it to Scottish friends.
12: six person dinner date inertia - Sometimes you have to get up and leave your restaurant meal, preferably before dessert.
13: wrong sandwich while injecting my story about oil tanks - Trying to contribute in the court of the lunchroom king.
14: fast-reading large language models - They can be counted on to read and comprehend everything, but they still fuck up eventually.
15: even more alienated from my species - Quince de Mayo and pickup up seedlings, among other things.
16: a porcupine for Gretchen and a beaver for me - Encountering large rodents 100 miles apart in New York State.
17: OBD2 ideas - Brainstorming about how to gather data from a Chevy Bolt with ChatGPT.
18: Halfway Brook - A big loop in the Adirondack woods involving a tributary of Virginia Creek and a ditch near the cabin.
19: Neville digging amid the boulder jumble - It delays our return to Hurley.
20: improvised landlording - Doing two chores that required improvisational skills.
21: soup weather in late May - I make another improvised soup.
22: surprisingly big electrical and beer sections - The options for buying these things along US 209 are better than you might expect.
23: even Australian tourists - Australian friends arrive on a surprisingly full plane to the newly-unwelcoming United States.
24: borrowing from 3D printing techniques - Our Australian friends see the westward extension of the Chamomile Wall.
25: flavor scream - Biting into French lentils in a vegan lasagna with our Australian visitors.
26: Charlotte and I drive to Woodstock - The first time I drive anywhere with just her. Later I get pulled over while drinking a road beer without any consequences.
27: like a crazed banshee - Charlotte didn't want to go for a walk but did want to do a lot of barking.
28: free https - I get a free SSL certificate but it kills data from the cabin for seven hours.
29: compelling pickled papaya - The best part of some filipino take-out.
30: tech meltdown in the Adirondacks - Gretchen fights with a slow connection and profile creation on a couple laptops.
31: as if being hit by a baseball bat - Sliding down the front steps at the cabin and ending up with an injured back.