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About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Kindle Technical Question

Warning: This post is a “first world problem”. If you’re currently fighting hyenas for food, in a gun battle with Al-Qaeda, enduring Ebola, or living in a mud hut… don’t even think about reading my silly American whining because you’ll … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing A Shortwave Question

I haven’t had a decent shortwave receiver in forever but I once enjoyed listening more or less randomly to whatever popped up. I never paid attention, I just pretended SW was AM and turned dials. That was a long time … Continue reading

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Shot Heard Around The World

Hat tip to “Shall Not Be Questioned“.

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Dispair Is Unbecoming To Americans

…we just don’t do it well. So, quit it. Despair is for Euroweenies, the free shit army, and college students. The rest of us can tough it out and most of us will. Even if it looks like the world … Continue reading

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Firewood Machinery

As long as I’m on the topic of firewood, Neanderpundit, has a post with videos of some questionable firewood equipment.  Some of them are reasonable but a few of the contraptions are just aching to remove a limb. In comparison … Continue reading

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Flawless Firewood Stacker

A video that resonates with folks up north. (It’s a commercial but it’s still a good caricature.)

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Firewood Saga: Part 7: Mission Accomplished / Math Works

I’d started out with the intention of spending money to save time. Did I save time? Maybe, some. Not a lot. I wound up making eleventy zillion phone calls to various dipshits who, inexplicably, seem to be in the firewood … Continue reading

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Firewood Saga: Part 6: Frank Tries To Screw Me

So there I was, standing next to my hefty truck and my ridiculously out of scale little utility trailer (the pony trailer) amid mountainous piles of used bridge mats. This is what happens when I try to save time by … Continue reading

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Firewood Saga: Part 5: Bridge Mats

Jake’s scribbled notes were excellent. Ten miles later I was inching along a new dirt road cut into the forest. At the end of the road I found a construction site with a couple industrial pole barns in mid-assembly. Workmen … Continue reading

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Firewood Saga: Part 4: Jake and Julie

It was a big construction company. There were several excavators, dump trucks, and the like in a large muddy parking area in front of an industrial building. They were obviously in the business of building roads and such. No sign … Continue reading

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