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Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon
Phenology Update: Spring 2012
If somebody sinks a truck and I don’t know about it…is it still spring? Continue reading
The Future Is Now…And Its Weird
Being semi-off grid I occasionally stumble onto a rift in the iDevice/Google/Microsoft continuum. The technological equivalent of a society which is simultaneously bitchin’ cool and too clueless to survive. Today was such a day. Continue reading
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In Honor Of Our Friends In The U.K.
…my computer has decided that I’m British. The reason I know this is that my spell check keeps telling me that “color” is “colour”. I’ve been living without spell check for a couple of months and that’s fine. However I’m getting sick of it yelling at me for using redneck America spelling; which is perfectly cromulent for an American redneck like myself. Continue reading
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Springtime Miracle
When you tinker with homesteading you soon realize that mother nature is a steamroller and you are a worm on the road of life. That’s not to say that mother nature hates you; only that there is no definition of “no mercy” quite like the elements. Continue reading
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Modern Miracles
An optimist thinks we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that it’s true. Adaptive Curmudgeons like to focus on the little things that make life better. The following things are modern miracles which we should … Continue reading
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Livin’ The Dream
Homesteading is a mysteriously complex activity; beset with obscure and improbably strange challenges. There comes a time when your hands are half frozen and you’ve used your last match and you think to yourself that any activity involving a propane … Continue reading
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The Volt (As Was Always Its Fate) Swirls The Drain
Its an economic reality two-fer. The invisible hand of the market is delivering a predictable and unavoidable dope slap to yahoos who keep spending my taxes on bullshit. Continue reading
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Bread: Misinformation Alert!
You have been denied mission critical, need to know, information. The recipe post had a flaw! I screwed up royally Some idiot (who is totally not me) typed the wrong temperature for the oven. The mistake has been rectified and … Continue reading
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Curmudgeonly Cooking: Bread VIII: Tips
Some tips about cooking: A grain mill to grind wheat into flour seems weird but if you can hack the price it’ll make your food taste better. It takes X minutes to prepare a four loaf / four pound dough … Continue reading
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Curmudgeonly Cooking: Bread VII: Paydirt
The title of the book that is my bread bible is called “Bread In Five Minutes A Day”. This is because you can (in theory) use the goop you’ve stored in your fridge to form a bread loaf in under … Continue reading
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