tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:09:07 +0000Life from the other side of normal.http://www.lacabezagrande.com/noreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)Blogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-7221555519920088457Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:10:00 +00002008-06-20T00:42:19.471-05:00photozesmereldasafaritammy2008All I knew is that, this time, I was going to do it. Every time I drove across the 18th Street Bridge headed toward the grocery store, I had the same thought as I looked northward at the mammoth piece of iron, steel and stone railroad bridge. "Man, that is such a cool shot. I ought to stop and take some pictures." With my cohort and camera in tow, that is exactly what happened on this http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2008/06/where-day-takes-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-8388098938554357655Fri, 09 May 2008 20:33:00 +00002008-05-09T16:07:25.809-05:00mentalwiredarmyweirdI used to look for oddball stuff on purpose. Now, it just spills out of the cart into the aisles unbidden. Today's WTF moment came with the discovery that the US Army has taken down its non-lethal "Voice-to-Skull" weapons page on the Web. Its what? And it was the Christians Against Mental Slavery who noticed it had gone 404. Wired.com has the whole story, including an artist's conception of http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2008/05/thats-news-to-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-1803370045225323843Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:13:00 +00002008-01-15T06:41:38.562-06:00wiredweirdRead / Write Web put offered a tutorial on how to use feed sources, tags and pipes to create a constantly updated feed of news on any imaginable topic. Today, they chose to scour the Web for the best weird stuff and useless facts you might have ever seen. Peruse, but be warned: it's a huge time suck! Weird blogs, powered by Feedburner.http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2008/01/downright-lazy-is-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-8832763527112309408Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:12:00 +00002007-08-29T15:29:23.843-05:00lifeWhile producers resume their search for the winning combination of script treatments and character motivation, the status of "My Regularly Scheduled Life" remains up in the air. When asked for a comment after consulting with a very handsome specialist earlier today, the elusive star of the show simply waved dismissively (with her one good hand), then hopped into a cab headed down Michigan Avenuehttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/08/life-remains-on-hold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-2318472298590199159Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:14:00 +00002007-08-28T14:34:51.174-05:00lifeWhether I sit, stand, bend at the waist or lay down, some part of my body hurts. Lately, I've felt so full of frustration...rage...impotence at the whole situation that's dragged on for the better part of the past year since the spinal fusion surgery. I find myself ready to tell total strangers how broken I am just so they can be angry on my behalf. Madness! Then I laugh as I step outside of myhttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/08/my-regularly-scheduled-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-8482547977396569327Tue, 29 May 2007 15:29:00 +00002007-05-29T10:40:28.500-05:00birthdayI decided to give myself something for my birthday: the gift of a few minutes more of living. After (mumble-mumble) years of inhaling tar and nicotine, I decided that today was as good a day as any to call it quits. Wish me luck. Just in case, I picked up some assistance in the form of Nicorette Fruit Chill :-phttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/05/done.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-4926912777593006523Tue, 01 May 2007 23:41:00 +00002007-05-01T18:55:49.335-05:00malaiseGoogle randomly posts little quips and quotes in the space right above your gmail inbox. Sometimes I pay attention but mostly I've developed a rather bad case of banner blindness. Not today, though, as I may have found the source of all my problems in the "Quote of the Day," courtesy of Sigmund Freud: "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."Since I have neither love nor work (orhttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/05/oh-humanity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-381252352052968862Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:04:00 +00002007-04-30T18:19:05.328-05:00musicAnd damn funny satire, too. I came across the Doyle and Debbie Show via the fabulous Ann and Kay at Mason-Dixon Knitting. Doyle and Debbie offer such classics as "Whine Whine, Twang Twang", "Stock Car Love", "Barefoot and Pregnant", and "I Ain't No Homo". Just click on Music and let the fun begin. You can even read the lyrics as you listen to the down home jukebox. Just a word of warning: http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/04/now-thats-country.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-1713997587095608465Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:04:00 +00002007-04-19T05:11:42.809-05:00Chicagohttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/04/somewhere-along-devon-ave.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-858370475377769259Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:20:00 +00002007-04-06T13:27:16.444-05:00wiredWhat are you looking at me for? I don't have all the answers, just a personal opinion. I digg my geekish brethren. Apparently, so does Regina Lynn per her Wired Commentary.* * Be warned that this is probably not suitable for work viewing as the Net Nanny may be watching you.http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/04/do-geeks-make-better-lovers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-5859624436781510501Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:17:00 +00002007-02-02T09:45:59.075-06:00jabberwockyToday, February 2nd we honor St. Brigid (or Groundhog Day) with a silent poetry reading. One of my all-time favorites because of the fabulous visual language and neologisms is, "Jabberwocky," by Lewis Carroll: `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2007/02/in-honor-of-st-brigid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116489001575926786Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:16:00 +00002006-11-30T06:33:35.996-06:00It was the size of a school bus. Or that's what Polk County, Florida deputies reported as the size of the alligator noshing on the arm of a naked man who'd wandered into the creature's muddy swamp. Forty-five-year-old Adrian J. Apgar was taken to the hospital in critical condition with leg injuries and his left arm hanging by a tendon after 4 deputies rescued him from the massive jaws of the 12http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/11/naked-lunch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116480954963032121Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:06:00 +00002006-11-29T08:12:29.646-06:00As I neared the end of an article in Wired about the "World's Worst Superhero Names", I saw this curt, descriptive bio of the author. It made me laugh. "Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become self-actualized, self-interested and self-cleaning." Ha!http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/11/quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116450264494786903Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:56:00 +00002006-11-25T18:57:24.963-06:00 You are the Hanged Man Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound. With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of loss from a situation, rather than gain. The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/11/so-how-did-they-know.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116440367951034773Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:22:00 +00002006-11-24T15:28:43.433-06:00I started watching a "Without a Trace" marathon after physical therapy this afternoon. I was so moved by a quote the kidnapped character had framed in her home that I felt compelled to google it post haste! It is from a book by Dawna Markova entitled, "I Will Not Die An Unlived Life." I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire I choose to inhabit my dayshttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/11/unlived-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116422206140720830Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:58:00 +00002006-11-22T13:01:01.436-06:00This one requires a bit of thought because You. Can. Only. Type. One. Word. No. Explanations. 1. Yourself: quodlibetical 2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (spouse): nonexistent 3. Your hair: braided 4. Your mother: busy 5. Your father: dead 6. Your favorite item: yarn 7. Your dream last night: unreal 8. Your favorite drink: margarita 9. Your dream car: BMW 10. The room you are in: office 11. Your exhttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/11/one-word-meme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-116128787354100678Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:56:00 +00002006-10-19T14:57:53.560-05:00 La Cabeza has sucessfully bred the first chuman Chimps and humans, finally together again 'What will your Headline be?' at QuizGalaxy.com http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/10/alert-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-115427670959117527Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:14:00 +00002006-07-30T11:30:09.706-05:00(If I've already done it, it's bolded) 01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink 02. Swam with wild dolphins 03. Climbed a mountain 04. Been driven around in a Ferrari 05. Been inside the Great Pyramid 06. Held a tarantula - does touching it count? 07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone 08. Said 'I love you' and meant it 09. Hugged a tree 10. Bungee jumped 11. Visited Paris 12. Watched a lightninghttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/07/not-usual-to-do-list.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-114954406844409637Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:27:00 +00002006-06-05T16:50:48.050-05:00Once upon a time, the Internet belonged to no one. Then Big Bad Business decided that, like the early American settlers, life without the concept of ownership was unthinkable. And just like those colonials who snatched the land away from indigenous people, the Big Bad wants to co-opt your little slice of Web and squelch the free exchange that exists across it. MoveOn.org is urging American http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/06/blog-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-114342440351841060Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:29:00 +00002006-03-26T19:53:23.586-06:00There has been a long-held belief that the size of a man's one-eyed appendage is somehow related to the size of hands, nose, or feet. The Shoe Size to Penis Size Conversion Charts offer fuel to the fire of that rumor. I'm sure some enterprising soul with shrink it down to a wallet sized card for easy reference during those critical minutes a suitable mate evaluation. After all that field http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/03/odd-shit-collection-volume-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-113985455663676525Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:15:00 +00002006-02-13T12:15:56.653-06:00Ten Top Trivia Tips about Karen! In the Great Seal of the United States the eagle grasps 13 arrows and Karen.Never store Karen at room temperature.Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in Karen.Fifty-two percent of Americans drink Karen.The first domain name ever registered was Karen.com.Karen is actually a mammal, not a fish.Karen can give birth ten days after being born, and is born http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/02/mechanical-contrivium-says.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-113891832606180389Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:58:00 +00002006-02-02T16:12:06.106-06:00 I got my shoes shined. Sat back. Read the paper. Chilled. A real spit-shine trance.http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2006/02/rest-stop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-113585685932480667Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:39:00 +00002005-12-29T05:47:39.336-06:00My virtual pals over at the Media Matters have come up with a list of what they believe to be the most outrageous statements of 2005. While there are some particularly egregious examples of foot (or hoof) in mouth disease, for my money, nothing tops the Bush / Cheney Administration's assertion that warrantless wiretaps and electronic spying on US citizens are clearly within the Emperor's perviewhttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2005/12/whats-that-you-say.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-113278114399488787Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:20:00 +00002005-11-23T15:27:10.460-06:00From a feline point of view, at least. Like her Russian Blue buddy, Igor, Madame Sylvia knows what's good for her - especially where food is concerned! Happy Thanksgiving to all.http://www.lacabezagrande.com/2005/11/i-know-what-thanksgiving-means.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5689649.post-113182477760900166Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:40:00 +00002005-11-12T21:39:29.716-06:00Or so says today's Blogthings quiz, "What Does Your Birth Date Mean?" Your Birthdate: May 29 You have the mind of an artist, even if you haven't developed the talent yet. Expressive and aware, you enjoy finding new ways to share your feelings. You often feel like you don't fit in - especially in traditional environments. You have big dreams. The problem is putting those dreams into action. Yourhttp://www.lacabezagrande.com/2005/11/im-artist-at-heart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (La Cabeza Grande)