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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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   own æsthetic cost
Friday, July 30 2004
I was at the House of Stank again tonight installing controllers for the X-10-controlled lights. The only X-10 controllers that can be bought locally are ponderous Radio Shack devices that aren't designed to be screwed into a wall, but I figured out how to screw them into a wall anyway. I took them completely apart and figure out where I could safely drill holes that would pass all the way through them. It takes a minimum of two screws to attach something solidly to a wall, and getting that second hole through meant passing through an unused section of the circuit board. When I was done I was reasonably happy with the results, although they're really not very discreet devices. They tend to make any room where they're installed come to resemble the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, and that's not really the old-house æsthetic that Larry, the house's owner, is shooting for. But stringing an abundance of wires through open framing carries its own æsthetic cost.


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