Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

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Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Tractor Yoga

Posted on May 28, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

It’s time to practice homesteading Yoga. Step one is to start your tractor. Continue reading →

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I Didn’t See That Coming

Posted on May 13, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

I’m in a coffee shop in enemy territory a college town.  College towns make me nervous.  Is socialism contagious?  Will I forget my science background and be found years later smoking dope in a cult of global warming fans who … Continue reading →

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The Possibility Of Ridiculous Outcomes: Part II

Posted on May 8, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Once something has been done once, it can be done again.  This time in Valley Springs California. “A region of oak-studded hills in California, where big-city dwellers come to get away from crime, was on lockdown Monday, two days after … Continue reading →

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The Possibility Of Ridiculous Outcomes

Posted on May 8, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-six days. That’s how long it took. “Lockdown” had drifted from “prisoners“, to “minors“, to “everyone in Boston“. Comparing Columbine to Boston shows it expanded from “a school building” to “a metropolitan area” and from “a few hours” to “a full day“. Continue reading →

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The Shafted: Paul Kevin Curtis (2013) and Richard Jewell (1996)

Posted on April 29, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

If forget my shopping list there’s no chance I’ll remember its contents. However, I tend to remember the shafted. Today I want to mention two of their number. Continue reading →

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The Best ISP / Cable Ad Ever

Posted on April 24, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

This video is hilarious (NSFW language): It reminded me of a post I wrote a couple of years ago: The Unbelievable Lightness Of Kicking Jackasses To The Curb.  It was about telephones because I won’t pay for cable, ever.  (Since … Continue reading →

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There Is No Monopoly On Stupid: Part III

Posted on April 21, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Ok, I’ve been dithering through two posts to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that: The Chevy Volt sucks so bad that even the craptacular Edsel (formerly considered the wheeled definition of unmitigated total automotive/financial disaster) was a resounding … Continue reading →

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There Is No Monopoly On Stupid; Part II

Posted on April 20, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

In my last post I referred to the Edsel.  The reason I brought up the Edsel is because the Edsel was a world class failure in car marketing the likes of which modern man has seldom seen.  Also a reader … Continue reading →

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There Is No Monopoly On Stupid; Part I

Posted on April 19, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

In about a thousand words I’m going to explain how I, the Curmudgeon, failed to be Adaptive and had a stupid thought.  Really.  I mean it! It all starts in 1958. In 1958 Ford Motor Company put all its weight … Continue reading →

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Word For The Day: Ingalls

Posted on April 18, 2013 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Ingalls – (Noun) A unit of measure by which all winter blizzards can be compared. Continue reading →

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