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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   September 2025

01: Neville's fondness for Little Feat - Dining with friends again in Bearville after driving home from the Adirondacks.
02: milestone on the road to the grave - A cashier suspects I might qualify for a senior discount.
03: fancy new mailbox - Replacing our old dented Home Depot special.
04: lumber hauling in a downpour - We go through Amsterdam so I could get big pieces of wood from Lowes.
05: how terrible Christian pop actually is - But it's all I can get on the radio in the cabin's basement.
06: a rare refactor - Changing the data format sent by my ESP8266s.
07: spicy vindaloo - We stop at an Amsterdam Indian restaurant on the way home from the Adirondacks.
08: both knowledge and rapport - Things happening at work to build my relationship with it.
09: portobello & poblano - A workplace barbecue lunch event.
10: tree of heaven, catalpa, and sugar maple - Cutting down little saplings at the Downs Street rental.
11: Duolingo-enabled conversation - Gretchen asks the tenant of another landlord for the landlord's number in Spanish. Then we drive to the Adirondack cabin and visitors arrive.
12: bandwidth Nazi - Why updating the OS on your Macbook Pro probably won't work at an offgrid cabin.
13: hardware watchdog needs petting - I get a hardware watchdog working on my SolArk Copilot.
14: a little late to Superchunk - Our dogs' mysterious adventures push our cabin departure to around sunset, affecting when we arrived at a show in Bearsville.
15: wintergreen forest hike - For that all-natural fresh feeling.
16: downrange meadow - I look at the place where idiots used to shoot guns several years after they stopped.
17: a Spinal Tap sequel - We eat purple pie and see a not-great movie satirizing old rockstars
18: 9Eleven for the first amendment - About what happened to Jimmy Kimmel in the land of the free.
19: dehydrated dogs - Realizing the dogs have no water while on cannabis and about to be paranoid about the political situation in this country.
20: dogs on the upstairs dock - They come out to help me do carpentry, although I frighten Charlotte away.
21: terrifying lake creature - Something huge swims under the dock.
22: south deck falling apart - The railing of its south end detaches from the rest.
23: geologic time in a bottle - Noticing changes that have happened to the landscape under the south deck.
24: Gretchen saves me from Peter - Talking to just a few people at Alana's birthday party.
25: fraught times and risky driving - I need to drive more carefully, not just when I see Amish buggies.
26: the curse of Crystal Reports - I have ChatGPT list my complaints while working in the Adirondacks.
27: terrifying lake creature - Something huge swims under the dock.
28: pizza on the dock - Gretchen arrives in the Adirondacks from Rochester with pizza.
29: unexpected hangover - I didn't even drink that much last night.
30: big pot of snoop - Listening to country music on the drive home to make some soup for me and the wife.