Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

My Vision Of An Excellent User Interface

We’ve all had dreams where we imagine we’re doing work tasks. Doesn’t that suck? All night long your subconscious pretends you’re working like a dog. Then you get up and do it for real. Ugh… Continue reading

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Lifesized Rubik’s Cube

I recently acquired a slightly used office desk. Like most furniture I own it’s made of slabs of pressboard with the bare minimum woodgrain surfacing. Like most furniture I own it’s been disassembled roughly five hundred times and it’s broken … Continue reading

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Another Golden Pravda Winner

The Golden Pravda is a coveted award issued to recognize excellence in obfuscation wherever and whenever it is found. Continue reading

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Symmetry

This post was made at 11:11 am on 11/11/11 Ponder the cosmic significance of this numerical moment. Cool eh? Now, get back to work.

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Happy Veteran’s Day

A hearty thank you to all Veterans; living and dead. Continue reading

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My Award For Crack Investigative Journalism

I wanted to quantify the lag time between “public knowledge for freaks like me that pay attention” and “public knowledge for the terminally uninformed” (regardless of whether it’s low brow Wal-Mart cluelessness or Ivy League self delusion).

Therefore I declare that it takes eleven months and eight days for a whistleblower’s call to become something that even National Public Radio can’t ignore. Continue reading

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Dance Break

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Bread Is Not Oak

Homemade bread stored in the freezer is as solid as a block of wood. Continue reading

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Math Is Hard

Coyote Blog presents us with this:

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The World’s Most Predictable Milestone; Passed

If you have a pulse you know Social Security is a Ponzi sheme. Continue reading

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