Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

At Curmudgeon Compound all hell has broken loose. Well actually it’s done breaking loose. Phase 1 has come and gone. Now I’m busily establishing what euphemizers call a “new normal”. It might be a better normal than once was, so … Continue reading →

Some shit just went down. I won’t elaborate at the moment but I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end. In the meantime, I’m busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. In lieu of content, … Continue reading →

No shit, there I was… I was contemplating the possibility that my homemade mouse trap* was catching rodents in a series that mimics the Fibonacci sequence when I got an e-mail.  “Would you like to win free…” Trashed it. I’m … Continue reading →

[This post may not be up to my normal standards but what the hell, who has standards these days? I dashed it out in one draft as a moment of non-politics.] When I was a teenager I had a very … Continue reading →

A month ago I wrote three uncreatively named posts. (Uncreative is a word if I say it is!). In part 0 I discussed that there is such a thing as mass hysteria.  I wrote up a fun little time travel … Continue reading →

I had a story in mind. One that really happened. (I don’t have to be creative, I just have to be observant in a mad world.) It had a simple punchline. But what I thought was obvious (and funny) wasn’t. … Continue reading →

I’m out of contact with most everyone. I’m traveling alone, my phone isn’t hitting any antennas, and my laptop is barely catching a thread of sketchy intermittent wifi. Generally that would suck but today it’s a blessing. I humbly think … Continue reading →

To distract myself from impending dentistry I watched CNN (on mute). In a drooling Novocain haze, I saw two “topics” and analyzed the “cycles” that go with each topic. Topic #1 was an image of books. That’s how the press … Continue reading →

There are times when people think I’m nuts. I’m not… or at least the thing I’ve done that freaks people out has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Not that it helps. No shit, there I was… in the dentist’s chair. Wait! … Continue reading →