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").



links

decay & ruin
Biosphere II
Chernobyl
dead malls
Detroit
Irving housing

got that wrong
Paleofuture.com

appropriate tech
Arduino μcontrollers
Backwoods Home
Fractal antenna

fun social media stuff


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Like my brownhouse:
   June 2017

01: bowler-figure hooks - Good for holding a compound bow and a metal detector or perhaps other survivalist gear.
02: inside Sylvia's mouth - A life-saving explanation for all the blood. And a performance of the Mentalist.
03: two different podcasts joined together - Dog sitting, digging a hole around tree of heaven roots and meeting a co-worker for the first time outside of a computer.
04: hoarding affliction so gratuitously satisfied - A co-worker downsizing before couch-surfing the country gives me a bunch of old computer equipment.
05: forest as Schrödingers's Box - Another encounter between bears and dogs after a successful washing machine repair.
06: Gretchen's bad back and poison ivy rash - I run errands to get her medication and reading material.
07: like coffee for snakes - The sun finally comes out again.
08: at least simulate concern - James Comey testifies before the Senate.
09: thrift store gold - After repeatedly striking out, I find something worth getting at the Tibetan Center thrift store.
10: Cockroach for Midge - A new open-source wireless router outside the greenhouse.
11: peewees not phoebes - Eva and Sandor have different flycatchers than we do.
12: dipshit woodpecker hole - How a circular hole screwed-up my brand new message teeshirt.
13: without any warnings or complaints - Listening to Army recruits spoil plot points from the movie Get Out while waiting for our plane to Columbia to take off.
14: a microcosm of what I've been saying - Working all day on a project with ground rules I don't agree with proves a point.
15: eating cheese with my vegan colleagues - A vegan burrito I'd ordered turns out to have cheese, but I quietly eat it instead of rasing a fuss.
16: not the old guy in da club - At the last day of the IT retreat in Columbia, SC.
17: no sense that GPS is turned off in airplane mode - That's the reason I don't put my phone in airplane mode when on a plane.
18: tired and with hands that needed scrubbing - Revisiting my the hack I'd made to an oxygen sensor.
19: bundling my trips - Yet another router in the pod above the greenhouse after the weeks-old one suffers an Otto-Warmbier-like fate. Also: why one shouldn't necessarily feel the need to say something to your host every time you see him or her, especially if you've already seen him or her today.
20: deplorable to replace a deplorable - Milquetoast suburban Atlantans really want those tax cuts I guess.
21: Ramona falls from a tree - How did she get up there? Riding a bear!
22: make comedy great again - Gretchen attends a Bob Stanhope show in West Nyack.
23: Sylvia's last trip to the vet - After over 12 years, it was Sylvia's time to go.
24: fuck with the algorithm - How a wacky new friend ended up with her gorgeous wife.
25: outsourced basement cleaning jihad - Our houseguest helps whip our house into shape before the arrival of other houseguests.
26: intuitions about the material world - My hands find the right pressure points on an automotive CD player.
27: expected human behavior - Neville the Dog is amazed that human behavior extends to singing and dancing.
28: communicate with severed heads after a guillotining - The new headless IT and how it will function.
29: Janet, not Diane - Securing a replacement for Sylvia, though she doesn't come home yet. Also, a first full day under the new remote-workplace regime.
30: feel free to go nuts if that's your vision - A second day under the new leaderless IT regime.