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About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Light Posting

I haven’t posted much lately. Mother Nature is trying to kick my ass. I will post more when nature is less focused on reducing me and everyone in my house to a series of ice sculptures surrounded by a collapsed … Continue reading

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This Song Will Never leave Your Head

I’ve always liked The Oatmeal but I had no idea they’d branched out into music videos. (Apparently I live under a rock or something.) My Muse shanked me tipped me off to what I was missing. Warning: It’s entirely unsafe for … Continue reading

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So I’m Not The Only Person Who’s Felt Like This

Dead Man Dance put words on a mental state which heretofore has remained ill defined. “Tired but not sleepy, hungry but vaguely nauseous. What is it that hippies talk about? Chi? Biorythm? I think mine is gone.” It’s a feeling … Continue reading

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Do Not Go Quietly Into The Suck

I fly. Not in the good way, with dragons wings, LSD, or my own bushplane. I fly in the bad way, on commercial airlines. Continue reading

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Eleven Dollars

An open letter to an airport; you know who you are. I can forgive the TSA’s attempt to rape me. I hope you enjoyed it, you damn perverts. I can forgive the airline that canceled my flight in anticipation of … Continue reading

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Winter Of Doom: Part 3

From Theo Spark:

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Winter of Doom: Part 2

Every blizzard has a name. That name is ‘winter’. Continue reading

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Winter Of Doom: Part I

Wind chill numbers are for sissies. If you are in my presence and repeat the “wind chill factor” because it’s an extreme number I reserve the right to hit you with a shovel. Continue reading

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Post 2013: Materialism

It’s the turning of the yearly cycle. I (like many folks) use this time for post-game mental debriefings. If I don’t learn what lessons the prior year granted me I might get the same lesson again; good and hard. Is … Continue reading

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Corporal Klinger and Phil Robertson

To protest against a person due to his religious views, and to do it in the the name of ‘tolerance’ makes no sense. It’s like eating steak in the name of vegetarianism. Continue reading

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