Adaptive Curmudgeon, or “Benevolent Dictator Of This Blog”, lives somewhere, does something, and remains vaguely anonymous for no particular reason. As we all know, blogs are commonly used only to help restrain an author’s illogical desire to stand curbside spouting unrequested opinion. Thus, if this blog doesn’t meet your standards. You should lower your damned standards.
Mr. Curmudgeon refers to himself in the third person. Unless I don’t.
Feel free to contact me. Use ac -AT- adaptivecurmudgeon.com. Keep in mind, I’m generally willing to be bribed. Have fun.
Privacy Policy
Preamble (Written by a Human Being)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…
Wait a minute, that’s a preamble from some other document. Go figure.
OK here’s the scoop. I’m just a dude who cogitates about the metaphysics of stacking firewood. I use a cheap basic hosting service to make my WordPress blog available to the cruel emptiness of the universe… because I care. I use as many default settings as possible. If I’m too damn lazy to noodle with backgrounds I sure as hell am unmotivated to master the intricacies of the networked structure behind my essays. And that includes dinking around with cookies and shit.
If there’s a setting where I can select “more privacy” or “bite me Facebook” I’ve probably set it that way. If I come to know something about you… it’s by accident and I’ll surely forget it. I personally have no intention of violating anyone’s privacy. Beyond that, all I’ve got is the gobbledygook generated by my service’s software. Theoretically, it’s specifically reflective of the settings I’ve chosen. It’s posted below in its entirety. Any comments added by your’s truly will be highlighted in italics, to differentiate it from canned verbiage.
As always, your mileage may vary, past returns are no guarantee of future performance, and you really have no assurance of anything that you read on the internet. I promise I’m not a multidimensional being from Jupiter and that I’m not desperately trying to figure out the details of your fifth grade report card from my bot farm in Estonia; but you can’t really know that can you?
Watch your six, stay away from crowds, don’t friend people in unmarked white vans trolling Twitter and all will probably be well. If y’all see anything in the crap below that’s ominous, please contact me at ac@adaptivecurmudgeon.com. I’ll see what I can do.
Sincerely,
A.C.
The Rest (Written by a Bot)
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