Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

“Pics or it didn’t happen.” Fine. Witness the discarded fruits of several hundred dollars of Scandinavian materials science. This, folks, is what a non-catalytic reburn chamber looks like.

Finally he broke it free and slid it out. It was a cube with all sorts of pathways for flammable gas… my non-catalytic reburn chamber was a work of technological prowess! Who knew? I wouldn’t have been more surprised if he’d extracted… say, a penguin. I was in awe. Continue reading →

Failed wood stoves matter. Few other issues are so immediate. Politics, economic decline, Santa’s eminent arrival, thermonuclear war, and the amount of toilet paper in the pantry become irrelevant. One might fret if Congress hyperinflates the dollar to supply Federally mandated sex change operations for Communist illegal alien chipmunks with a criminal record but none of that truly matters; when the fire is out heat is the only thing on your mind. Continue reading →

Back in the stone age, when Carter and his cardigan held office, OPEC raised the price of oil and Americans got a serious case of “balls in a vice syndrome”. Carter, showing the problem solving abilities of a chipmunk, orated … Continue reading →

A few days ago I said this: “We bought ALL the bacon! OK not ALL the bacon but a whole pig. Everyone knows that joy and bacon are basically the same thing, so imagine the stratospheric high of having well … Continue reading →

It was -22 degrees out. The driveway was half plowed; passable but just barely. My snowblower was broken. I needed to load the snowblower on the truck and haul it to the shop. Then buy a freezer, load it in … Continue reading →