My Lobotomy

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I just finished listening to an NPR Podcast narrated by Howard Dully.  At the age of 12, Howard was the youngest person to receive an “icepick lobotomy”.  He never spoke about his surgery with his father, or his step-mother who forced it onto him.   Now, as an adult, he tries to understand what happened to him and why.

How could anyone ever think this is a good idea?  How do you come to terms with knowing that part of you who you were was scrambled in your own skull?

It’s not easy to listen to, but riveting.

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Goin’ Tom Cruise Crazy!

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If I ever go so nuts I’m fully Tom Cruise Crazy, I hope someone puts me out of my misery and sends me back to Xenu.¬† Fortunately, Jonathan Coulton (of Portal theme fame) has boldly gone where I hope never to go… and wrote a song about being Tom Cruise Crazy.¬† It’s a year + old, but still sadly relevant.

I wish I had some semblance of musical skill so I could even attempt stuff like this.  This guy really has a knack for the absurdly fantastic.

Found via WWdN.

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Man with no legs takes pictures of those who stare

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ABC has an amazing article about Kevin Connolly, who was born with no legs.  He gets himself around on a modified skateboard, and with a Silver Medal in the 2007 X Games he seems more active than most people I know.

He’s also started his own photography exhibit by taking pictures of people who stare at him. ¬† Many of his pictures are posted at therollingexhibition.com¬† and make for some interesting viewing.¬† I’m not sure where the line is between rude starting and just being curious about something different, but as much as Kevin gets stared at I wonder if the difference matters anymore.

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Counting bouncing sheep

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I’m an unabashed fan of Cute Overload, but for some reason I can’t stop watching this baby sheep bouncing on the bed. He comes to the same end I did when engaging in this same activity…


I’d want to get our own baby bed bouncing sheep, but I think it would put our already neurotic Border Collie right over the edge.

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’tis the season for self-pleasin’!

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I’m thinking this guy who is dropping trou in local shopping malls to pleasure himself here in Arizona has some holiday-based issues far worse than the Grinch.¬† I mean, I had my share of not getting the present I wanted at Christmas, but it never even entered my mind that this might be a good way to make up for it.

Considering many stores have policies forbidding employees from detaining lawbreakers of any kind, this idiot could be at it until the official mall security captures him (or maybe ID’s him from his videos).¬†¬† I just hope they catch the sick-o before he decides to permanently alter the holiday decorations…

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Yes, yes he is…

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The truth about the turkey vulture.¬† If reincarnation is the way things work out, I’m totally submitting a request to come back as one of these guys.

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Get your tasty experimental chips!

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Kettle Chips, which makes some tasty potato action, has a thing they do every year where they sell a sneak preview sample pack of five new flavors they are thinking about offering.  You get a box of usually tasty, always interesting, chips, and a bunch of review/voting cards.  We usually have some friends over, do a sampling, compare notes, and make a silly evening of it.  The theme this year is Fire and Spice.

Last year they had some Atzec Chocolate potato chips which were just the nasty.  But their Thai Spice one just disappeared out of the bag.  Nummy!  Highly recommended if you have an adventurous tongue.

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In Perpetuity

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Gah! Not sure I’m going to get to the cleanup on this site again this weekend. Amazing how an open weekend can fill so damned quickly. I have a small pile of items like that, that seem to just retreat into the horizon as I get closer. Will they ever be completed? Who knows.

In the meantime I think I am going to put this video up in the corner of my desktop at work on infinite loop. It’s actually very similar to the way I dance, just without the “coolness”. Puzzle out what THAT looks like at your own peril.

How odd.

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Pulsing Panjabi Pandorizing

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I’ve been a fan of Pandora for a long time, and have it piped through our home stereo system via our Squeezebox. I don’t make a lot of adds to our stations anymore. We settled into a nice group of mood-suiting selections and they work pretty good for us. Last night thought I found one that I am just having a boatload of fun with: Panjabi MC.

Give the shared station a listen if you wish. Not for every situation or mood, but good stuff.

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Unexpected delight

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Having a stupid amount of trouble getting WordPress here to upload an image, so I’ll just do this the old fashioned way.

People treat bathrooms as such strange places. Something totally acceptable right out in the hallway is unthinkable after the people have entered the Hallowed Tiled Space of the bathroom. I’m not even talking about The Unmentionable Things that people go into bathrooms to do, just plain old average stuff gets weird in the bathroom.

For Exhibit A I submit this sign from the men’s room at my Place Of Employment. No simple “report any problems”, or “everything should be clean”, but a wording that I find rather disturbing and far from comforting. I can only imagine how much debate went into this particular sign before it was finally printed and hung.

I have often left the room far from the state of being this sign wishes me to acheive, but I have never visited the URL in question. Their… remedy… is best left to the imagination.

Define this for me...

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