Category Archives: For Your Education

Farming: Part 1

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

I have a homestead. Because it’s a verb that applies precisely in this context, it seemed logical to engage in homesteading. Don’t judge me. What people do on the privacy of their own property is their business. Continue reading →

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Farm Equipment Zen: Part 1

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

I was an intermittent college student but unlike modern herds of overeducated meatheads, it never occurred to me to wonder whether I was “overqualified”. Time for a Curmudgeonly Gem of Insight: “There’s no such thing as overqualified, only ‘I can find a job I prefer more’.” Continue reading →

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A Bad Choice

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

Nothing good comes from Chinese food cooked to the sounds of Lenard Skinner. Continue reading →

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Angry Clown I

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

If you’ve got a shit job, do it well. I was excellent at my shit job because being excellent feels good. Continue reading →

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Dog Logic And Firewood Levers: Part III

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

I was cold, stuck in the snow, and on a fools errand. I was in a Jack London story. You know what ties together all those guys who died in Jack London’s books? None were holding a long handled round pointed shovel. Losers! Continue reading →

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On Levers

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

In a different life I was into 4×4 “rockcrawling”. Rockcrawling is to driving on dirt as gulping tequila is to sipping wine. Continue reading →

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Word For The Day: Negative Knowledge

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

Negative Knowledge (Noun) – Information so trivial that it passes the event horizon of information and actually makes a person dumber for having learned it. Continue reading →

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Corporal Klinger and Phil Robertson

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

To protest against a person due to his religious views, and to do it in the the name of ‘tolerance’ makes no sense. It’s like eating steak in the name of vegetarianism. Continue reading →

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A Christmas Movie Recommendation You’re Invited To Ignore

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

I refrain from recommending movies. Partly because most movies are shit. Partly because my taste in cinema, so I’ve been told, is… appalling. That said I’d like to recommend a “Christmas Horror” movie. It’s a Finnish “independent” movie called Rare Exports. Continue reading →

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Word For The Day: Level Up

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Adaptive Curmudgeon

It’s basically a tautology; a person who gets off on controlling others is the exact opposite of one who wants only to improve himself. Continue reading →

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