Curmudgeon


I'm a genuine, bona fide curmudgeon. I even love the word. On my

machine, "dict curmudgeon" gives the following output:

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

 curmudgeon

 n 1: a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn

      ideas

That's me to a tee. Funny thing is, I've been something of a

curmudgeon for longer than I've been old. I've recently begun to

realise that it's my my curmudgeonly personality is the fire that

powers many of my most intense creative efforts. I am highly

opinionated and extremely stubborn. I'm also very

non-confrontational. An interesting mix that leads to some serious

passive aggression. Some of my most productive and weirdly enjoyable

programming sessions are prolonged instances of my Angry Programming

flow state: listening to metal and reprogramming the whole fucking

system if that's what it takes to get my way. I've lost days. It's

also strongly related to the oddly-tuned fight-or-flight reflex that

caused me to whole-heartedly dive into emacs rather than submit to the

evils of my macos work environment and to frequently entertain

fantasies of fucking off to a shack in the wilderness (which in

reality would no-doubt end with me starving to death because I'm a

serial plant killer) because modern society annoys the piss out of me

on almost every level.

Like I said, me to a tee.

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