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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   April 2002

01: cloaking batcave details - I hide some of the batcave's supply lines from prying eyes.
02: brother can you spare some matzos? - Gretchen manages to find more matzos - at a local synagogue.
03: key hostage situation - The psychotic neighbor Jane is holding Gretchen's keys hostage after finding them in the lobby.
04: key hostage situation and Passover both end - We get the keys back with a rambling psychotic note and we go to Tutta Pasta to break Passover.
05: shameless, noshless wooing - Ernie has us over for wine so he can shamelessly get us onboard his plan to be paid as co-op treasurer.
06: reeking of Vindaloo - Mouth sores and spicy food.
07: penmanship in prison - Eulalia discusses the letters she gets from prisoners at her new job.
08: following up on a clue - Fixing the core polling routines of my Flash chat after reading an interesting article in Salon.
09: Sally's sixth birthday - Fixing the core polling routines of my Flash chat after reading an interesting article in Salon.
10: looking down for a moment - I miss the turning off of the World Trade Center memorial spotlights.
11: repugnant wisdom - A strange governing principle for one of George W. Bush's appointed moralists.
12: wonderful to be a deer - The tender leaves of spring.
13: John and his New York boys - My old housemate blows through town and we get drunk and such.
14: made to be pop superstars - Watching VH1 and recovering from a hangover.
15: marvels of the information age - Yeah, you can download tax forms for free.
16: wonderful to be a deer - The tender leaves of spring.
17: air like bathwater - We do it in Prospect Park.
18: moved from a polling model - The way I find web news.
19: dub Brooklyn the Promised Land - An easy way out of the Middle Eastern quagmire.
20: moved from a polling model - The way I find web news.
21: pædophilia: the way to sell sugar water - Pepsi ads continue to revolt me.
22: vertical component - I see midtown from the 22nd floor of a 5th Avenue luxury condominium building.
23: green-tiled tunnels - Also, a little about my AI work.
24: armies instead - What I think about Israel's right to exist.
25: mysterious orange substance - Also - more arguments with the Jewish girlfriend about Isræli policy.
26: musings of an unemployed programmer - Being unemployed has made me into something of an open source zealot.
27: candle simile - Double date with an extra aspiring actress at the Park Avalon.
28: off to Iceland - The day is compressed as we head east to Iceland in a jet plane.
29: hot water culture - We fly into Reykjavik, Iceland and try to have an authentic experience.
30: Þingvellir - We tour east of Reykjavik with a couple natives.