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[Forgive the light posting lately. Shit happens.] I mentioned earlier that I was playing around with PredictIt. (Don’t get excited, I’m risking money amounts that would barely buy a pizza.) In a market, any market, the devil is in the … Continue reading →

The future documentary Idiocracy has a scene where an average person tries to solve a problem in a room full of idiots. It’s one of the best scenes in modern cinema! We’ve all experienced this. One side is trying to … Continue reading →

Some time ago I was getting pissed off with politics. (Ha ha ha… getting…  like it’s a new thing.) Everything seems so predictable. Everyone plays their assigned part like friggin’ marionettes. Why? I find it inexplicable they’d subvert their own … Continue reading →

At Curmudgeon Compound all hell has broken loose. Well actually it’s done breaking loose. Phase 1 has come and gone. Now I’m busily establishing what euphemizers call a “new normal”. It might be a better normal than once was, so … Continue reading →

Some shit just went down. I won’t elaborate at the moment but I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end. In the meantime, I’m busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. In lieu of content, … Continue reading →

No shit, there I was… I was contemplating the possibility that my homemade mouse trap* was catching rodents in a series that mimics the Fibonacci sequence when I got an e-mail.  “Would you like to win free…” Trashed it. I’m … Continue reading →

[This post may not be up to my normal standards but what the hell, who has standards these days? I dashed it out in one draft as a moment of non-politics.] When I was a teenager I had a very … Continue reading →

A month ago I wrote three uncreatively named posts. (Uncreative is a word if I say it is!). In part 0 I discussed that there is such a thing as mass hysteria.  I wrote up a fun little time travel … Continue reading →

I had a story in mind. One that really happened. (I don’t have to be creative, I just have to be observant in a mad world.) It had a simple punchline. But what I thought was obvious (and funny) wasn’t. … Continue reading →

I’m out of contact with most everyone. I’m traveling alone, my phone isn’t hitting any antennas, and my laptop is barely catching a thread of sketchy intermittent wifi. Generally that would suck but today it’s a blessing. I humbly think … Continue reading →