Aug 03
About
| cur·mud·geon | “This sucks.” |
| A curmudgeon is a miser or an ill-tempered (and frequently old) person full of stubborn ideas or opinions. | |
| i·con·o·clast | “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” |
| An iconoclast is someone who performs iconoclasm — destruction of religious symbols, or, by extension, established dogma or conventions. The term that has come to be applied figuratively to any person who breaks or disdains established dogmata or conventions. | |
| cur·mud·ge·o·clast | “This sucks, wouldn’t it be cool if…?” |
The story behind the name:
At RubyConf someone (sorry, I forget who) complimented me on my tweets… that my grumbling and bitching was entertaining. I said I tended to be a curmudgeon. He commented that he thought I was more of an iconoclast, in that I often had something interesting/useful to say. I tweeted this and Chris Hanson (@eschaton) gave the above characterizations (and wikipedia provided the definitions). And so it seems I am a curmudgeoclast.
Heh. That’s pretty fuckin cool.
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