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“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln Continue reading →

Tea Party folks really are Hobbits. They really do want to destroy Mordor and then go home. Continue reading →

Someone told me that McCain was getting flak for comparing Tea Partiers to Hobbits. “You mean the little dudes from Tolkien?” I said. I didn’t believe it. Nothing is too silly for politics but who’s got a beef with Hobbits? Did McCain read the books? Continue reading →

A post in which uses Kirk to postulate the inevitability of digital fiction but failed in it’s attempt to use Jules Verne to demonstrate why DRM will endlessly hamper the kindle. Somehow it’s all related to 1970’s big hair. Continue reading →

My blog hasn’t quite gone viral. Nor has it gone feral. But something happened! I decided to arbitrarily declare that it has gone trapezoidal. Continue reading →

Plumbum et Circenses posts this: Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like.  A warning printed on plywood that sawdust causes cancer in California.  Sawdust = death!?! Actually this shouldn’t surprise me.  California exists to give the rest of us something … Continue reading →

“You want me to put my wallet back in my pocket and go home?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re serious?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re doomed.” Continue reading →

I’m used to obscurity. I expected a few people would read my post, nobody would comment, and my dog would pee on my shoe.

Instead, something unusual happened. I got a bunch of hits. Continue reading →

The lovely and talented Mrs. Curmudgeon has given me a gift. This is my mug.  You can’t have it.  If you want one get your own.

There’s no obvious word for what I do. I have a homestead and aim for self reliance…but I still have a day job. Is that “homesteading”? Who knows? Homesteading is a spectrum between Grizzly Adams and the banker’s deluded trophy … Continue reading →