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


Like asecular.com
(nobody does!)

Like my brownhouse:
   August 2009

01: steampunk scissors - I fix a cheap pair of scissors with a stick welder. Also, unexpected guest-hosting aided by a frying pan of beans.
02: gin to rum - The cheap liquor I drink.
03: hypertext stupor - Not stepping on red efts and a Wikipedia safari from the Cambrian explosion to the Arthropod head problem.
04: army surplus greenhouse - Painting everything olive drab.
05: gin to rum - The cheap liquor I drink.
06: the Baby and the laboratory - Also, more pictures of the greenhouse.
07: unnecessary drive to Bearsville - Though I do get some salvaged lumber and a dirty look.
08: smoke test - I build a smoke machine and then look for leaks from the foundation fill around my greenhouse.
09: thwarted by a thunderstorm - Also, seeing Funny People with Penny and David.
10: yurting again - We return to the Adirondack yurts
11: Falls Brook caves - I discover a long, horizontal cave running through granite.
12: not around Lake George - Driving home from a summer yurt-based vacation.
13: cats and hard drives - Worried about Clarence and I install a new hard drive.
14: Snoop and the rodents - Tech naming conventions and closing off rodent access to the house.
15: stung at the Secret Spot - A hot summer day punctuated by a moment of acute pain.
16: stray bullets at the Secret Spot - But mosquitoes are what drive us away. And Gretchen loses her grandmother's wedding ring.
17: actually a cistern - I've changed my mind on what the greenhouse well will actually be.
18: problems bigger than lawns - In the East, at least, vegetation abhors a vacuum.
19: movie malaise - In this seasons it's easiest to just be passively entertained.
20: common sense appeal to the Dorito - Fresh summer salad and cranky deniers of Einstein.
21: tending a record player - It's easier to just have an iPod provide your party tunes.
22: in the car until it starts - Sally shows confidence that eventually I'll get the Subaru revived despite its dead battery.
23: Chanterelle Valley - Fresh summer salad and cranky deniers of Einstein.
24: mold, sun, and other catastrophes - A laundry jihad and learning that the Earth's future is shorter than I'd thought.
25: visualized subqueries - I add some new capabilities to my MySQL freeform query tool.
26: glowing mushroom - I find a Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom in the ravine.
27: podcasts and weed whacking - Watching the wolf spiders scatter.
28: non-sidewalks of Edison - Beginning a trip to Philadelphia.
29: Queen Village - Visiting a friend in center-city Philadelphia.
30: the Barnes - A visit to an overwhelming display of Post-Impressionist masterpieces.
31: muffler spring hole - I fix a muffler by welding on a large patch of Cor-Ten steel.