Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Survivor Chicken

Chickens are like people in that some are brighter than others. Mine are free range chickens which puts them in the Mensa/Survivalist chicken league. Continue reading

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Black Friday?

It’s 12:05 am. Officially it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Time for the first turkey sandwich. (My favorite part of the feast!) Apparently some people associate this day with shopping. I have no idea why.

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Happy Thanksgiving

We have a great deal for which we should give thanks. Here are a couple of images to put you in the Thanksgiving mood. (I’ve always liked Norman Rockwell’s paintings because they’re the absolute polar opposite of trendy and ironic.) … Continue reading

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Starting The Week Off Right

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Lit Candles II

Yesterday I posted a list of small freedoms that make life better and are the canary in our National coal mine.

I noticed that virtually everything on my list, harmless or not, is opposed by somebody somewhere. Continue reading

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Lit Candles

Since Thanksgiving will soon be upon us I thought I’d make a little list of freedoms. Not the big freedoms like guns, religion, and speech. Smaller ones. Things just make life better. The canaries in the coal mine. Continue reading

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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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