Sunday, March 12, 2006

Nortenos With Crips Get Along

We're going!

Dear Readers:

When CPI began work on August 11, 2004 , there was no expiration date or a long term project. It was a project to hang out and share some things that I thought they should be shared. A year later, nearly seven months ago, Patxi joined the ICC project, which since then has gotten better (in visits, in good mood and quality of the comments. And hopefully, ahem, who as entries, but we are not targets).

But everything in life has a catch. And we are faced with one. ICC ends as you know it. Why? Because the circumstances so require.

Surely, more than a regular reader has choked on coffee, or in the office speechless (yes, in the office, that these peaks of visits at 9 AM we love:))

Making a long story short, the case is:












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Nostalgia: Mahna Mahna

quite a journey for children, or mine, at least:


Menudo flashback! And it seems that I'm stuck in the week of nostalgia ...

Before reading further. Critical question: with whom you feel identified? "With creatures with pink or orange hair?

Why ask? Because it is interesting to reinterpret concerning children. In this class, was trying to convey to children the concept of social pressure. If you look, the orange-haired creature not only wants to sing "Mahna Mahna", but has expressed an interest beyond that repertoire, to leave all his soul, his improvisation. But the two pink creatures ("cows?), Representing the rest of society, quierene only express a part that rhymes with his speech. First the cows are behaving in a very formal, just dancing and singing to the rhythm and everything it touches. When the bug out of the script, I suppressed to express their improvisations and impulses. Shake their heads and socially isolated, do not listen. They work quietly, as who knows the power of the flock is with them. And only you do chorus (give recognition) when you sing "Mahna Mahna."

For its part, the individual is anxious orange from the beginning, and we see that it moves a lot, suddenly enters the scene. In addition we represent it slightly feral (beard and short hair care). The individual tries to express his impulses and improvisation once spontaneously and the cows will shake their heads. Up to squint when given negative feedback. Sing what is expected of the "Mahna Mahna" and disappears into the bottom of the screen, depressed. Begins to act strangely: Sing what you want, but leave him where least expected. In a second attempt, reaffirmed their improvisational singing with strength, energy, between the two cows. But he realizes that he is isolated, squint hard and resigned sings what they ask of him, "Mahna Mahna." Now behaves even more strangely and appears to defy the law of gravity (as David H, but better).

The monster, wild, back to cobble together a third time, but it comes at a secondary level, behind the cows. Is rejected, depressed, squints and goes to the rear of the stage. While removing the background, singing "Mahna Mahna" when appropriate, but each time with less strength. In contrast, social cows maintain their power in front the image and do what is expected of them. Throughout the video, it is impossible to guess whether the cows had at some time wishes than what is expected of them. Fourth

improvisation. From the margins of society, or the stage and almost no voice, the monster your party is mounted. Even in the distance is none for the cows. Faced with such pressure, the monster accept the rules, runs back to the forefront of the stage to sing "Mahna Mahna." In the rest of the video and after four attempts, it will not try to improvise. But the urge is within you and moves ever more chaotic, leaving the fixed plane, shouts to Kermit, the study will, yes, and only singing "Mahna Mahna." And even in the distance, is forced by pressure to sing "Mahna Mahna" by telephone.

Within 3 minutes, the monster has been socialized and acts in accordance with the standards and against their impulses. So we all remember so well the video! So so funny! I wondered why you felt he identified at the start!

And the old men's final? No idea, but I bet they are the ones who tamed the cows at first.

A simple video for kids? I think not. I think a powerful lesson that we have all internalized. Should never underestimate the power of symbols and visual metaphors!

Finally, if you need the letter to analyze the song, here it is.

Mahna Mahna Do doo be-do-do Mahna Mahna

Do do-do do Mahna Mahna

Do doo be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do be-do-do-doodle do do do-doo do!

Categoríass: Nostalgia

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Average Heating Bill Calgary

A meme

An introductory cartoon: Do you remember, dear readers, the meme of "my 5 weird habits? So I spent a couple of colleagues bitacoreros to be happy and I read daily. But I said no, because it had rejected a previous person meme (which I did not know) and did not want make it less. Big mistake.
Personally, I do not send memes. Not for anything special, but because I feel uncomfortable forcing people to write about something. Which is not to say that I really bother to send me a meme, of course. Each enjoys its own contradictions.

I think it's useless to try to escape the memes. So taking advantage of Tellagorri Mike sends us the meme of four, I will take them to school and the meme tip of my 5 weird habits. Hairanakh , Alf, thanks for sending it. Late, but here it is.

THE MEME OF FOUR

Four jobs I've had (in addition the current, which is a research fellow)
1. Translator and proofreader
2. Violin teacher, computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, technical drawing and English. It's a hard life of the research scholar.
3. Journalism in a digital newspaper.
4. Writer of computer manuals (basic, one has its limits)

Four movies I can watch again and again
1. Groundhog Day.
2. Top Secret
3. Memento
4. Heck to the butler, how long has the Maroma (just kidding:))

Four places I've lived (in addition to current, which is Madrid)
1. Rome (3 years)
2. Mexico City (3 years)
3. San Jose, California (1 year)
4. Ceuta (3 years)

Four TV shows I like to see
1. House
2.
information 3. And YaST. Do not watch much TV.
4.

Four places I've gone on vacation
1. Australia
2. New Zealand
3. Tunisia
4. Azores, Puerto Rico, Aruba, Curaçao (Dutch Antilles), Cape Canaveral (Florida), Jacksonville (Florida), Plymouth (England) and Lisbon (were not a holiday, it was my military service in a frigate, but I enjoyed it so much that I state here . That was milis and not now!)

Four of my meals Preferred
1. Pasta
2. Grilled meat
3. Padrón peppers with Galician octopus (or vice versa)
4. Calamari sandwich (Yes, I am of Madriz, what happens?)

Four websites I visit daily
1. Elmundo.es digital newspapers and other
2. CPI (of course)
3. Hispalibertas (of course)
4. And a few more blogs found between Tempus Fugit, Hairanakh's, Malaciencia, Microserfs ...

Four places I'd rather be right now Right now I'm super
. But there are things that I have left to do:

1. Swimming with sharks in South Africa.
2. See the aurora borealis in Hammerfest (Norway)
3. Stepping
Antarctica 4. Browse the Indonesian and Pacific islands

Four jobs I would like
1. Professional Bitacorero
2. Popularizer of science in Radio and TV
3. Physical working on space projects for the European Space Agency (Oh, no! That's not:))
4. Literary critic. Four famous

I met
1. Ana Torroja. Hitchhiking took me many years ago. It's really short and wear shoes on the pedals of the car to arrive. Lovely.
2. Itzhak Perlman. The world's best violinist. While in California I was invited to a concert you and chatted with him in the clubhouse. I had only a year studying violin and trembled at its presence. Before going to the concert I had heard eight hours of recordings I had of him. A great person, too.
3. ... Hmmm ... I do not come any closer to the head
4. Four dishes

hate
1. The cream that floats in the milk. Yuck!
2. Liver.
3. Kidneys.
4. Brains and other offal (I fully agree with Mike). Four appliances

I have unusual
1. A potato peeler in one movement
2. A starter of spaghetti in only two pieces
3. A kicker soda cans not to leave the foam
4. A hyperbolic paraboloid tester for Pringles potato

Four possible first impressions that I
1. NPI

Four favorite drinks
1. Beer
2. Dark rum with lemon
3. Tequila Sunrise (Tequila, orange juice, a drizzling of Granada)
4. San Francisco, non-alcoholic cocktail parties with further capable of driving back home

Four victims / perpetrators of this chain:
1. Whoever
2. Who point
3. Persons who consider
4.

whom enjoy MEME "MIS 5 STRANGE BEHAVIOR" I was invited by

Hairanakh and Alf

Regulation

Each player must post a message with the title "my 5 weird habits."

All persons are invited to play, also clearly indicate the regulation.

Finally, each participant will choose 5 others (adding the link to their blogs) to join the game.

Do not forget to leave a comment to the 5 people saying, 'You have been chosen' and asking them to read your blog and agree! Put the link

who invited you.


1 .- I can not go to bed without reading. Even when I was lad and came borrachísimo (to say) at home, had to get the book and read a few pages.

2 .- When I travel I love to stop in towns that are on the side of the road. This habit is inherited from my mother. We are Galicia Madrid record in 13 hours and Madrid-Valencia at 8.

3 .- A book is not mine to frame it with my name, date and place of purchase (and name of who gave it to me, if applicable). I hate reading books that are not mine.

4 .- Before leaving home I run the ritual: phone, keys, notebook, wallet, PDA, while I'm feeling the pockets in order. I always wear the same things in the same pocket. I always carry a notebook to write down up to things that come to mind. CPI can be ideas or the thesis. For a while recording voice memos on the PDA, but the notebook feel more like it. 5 .- I feel

semipatológica fixation by the color orange. I love small objects and oranges. The burner, the computer mouse switches on the light in my library, my mobile phone housing, CPI, my shirts ... are orange. I love it. I'm not going orange dress and my last car is no longer orange, though. Should be small things. There

people who pass the meme. If someone is targeted, welcome!


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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Famous Soccer Players

CPI Music & Role models of the 80

Warning: This post may hurt your sensibility, partly through my mental vagary but especially by the final video.

Dear readers, a drag traumas of all kinds. And in my case drags the trauma of having been a child in the 80's. As a child, the cultural references were on TV three and were very clear.

First, Team A: Four guys who, though illegal, were good right and left. And was a very human, and that each of them had great virtues (the leading planner, handyman, the negotiator, the fun and pilot) and large defects. Hannibal was a megalomaniac, addicted to cigars and had a fetish for costumes. MA was prone to anger (especially with Murdock) in sídrome of King Midas (obsessed with gold) and phobic aircraft. Phoenix (called Face, or face, in English) was a narcissist incapable of entering into intimate relationships and very likely to mislead people. And Murdock was crazy and was less reliable than a Yugo . But the team A contained a valuable lesson: Thanks to the collaborative team is getting great results individually would never have achieved. Secondarily also regularly learned: Always had a plan, always rode a armatroste with the torch, there was always a lot of shots, a car he was always flying, always escaping from Colonel Decker, nobody ever died by shots and plans always work out well . But the main lesson was about teamwork.

Then there was the unique MacGyver. The lesson was also very obvious: If you master the technique and are creative, you're ready for the world. And it contained a veiled warning: If you are a geek obsessed with technical toys and perhaps knowledge will be a good guy and save the world ... But will end the series without knowing woman! Reflect for a moment: not linking MacGyver ever. Although there were girls around him, TV was the most sexless character of 80, sexual intercourse had less than an amoeba. Not that it was misogynistic but it was too good boy. What do you think the girls in the audience? Finally

and completing the trio, the Lone Ranger of 80: The rate of Knight Rider. Michael! It was much better than the plains, and that he had a much more interactive companion Silver. Kitt in the desert with him, gave him and even made jokes conversation, which leads only and save a thousand times. The moral was also clear: With a good gadget and a good car (all in one), you'll be a champion! And amoebic're not a geek but you will be an action guy (wilt punches and kicks), in each episode you can flirt with pretty girls. The other side of the coin is that your continuous movement (car required) end up alone and elect a permanent tacky for a while ... But what Who cares if the end of the 60min leagues?

Thus grew one, and at least the system was clear who was who in the 80's. But everything changed in the 90's: The A-Team Crazy, came flying in Star Trek a few times, always causing problems for Jean-Luc Picard. Of the other three the team was never heard. What happened to the support they gave each other? For its part, MacGyver became the leader of an intergalactic command, traveling through the Stargate, and I did not use the Swiss Army knife, but superdestructivos plasma rifles. As I did not see the show do not know if it was more successful ligand for the Milky Way. What about Michael? Was fed sedentary life in the car and began to do triathlons until he burned his flab and moved to California as Baywatch. Once arrived at the beach, was cut permanent and set to work surrounded by girls who, after a career in modeling, saved people from drowning. The amazing thing is that his team arrived in time to save people, although they spent half the episode running in slow motion on the beach!

So in the late 90's, missing 3 of the A-Team and MacGyver jumping from galaxy to galaxy, I only have the Michael / Mitch as a reference model television. Living in the Californian beach surrounded by beautiful girls? That is the future! Where do I sign?

why I moved to California with a pretty girl, but I went too far north. In San Francisco the water is frozen (see Escape from Alcatraz ...). But here he was, according to my model Michael / Mitch, when I hear that has a parallel career that he knew nothing. In the Wikipedia entry on David Hasselhoff explain that, though little known outside of Germany! has a lot of records. 17 LPs since 1985, to be exact. ( if you are younger segment of the audience, know that this post be bored a lot and also do not know what a LP, asks in the comments ... ). The thing not

would be particularly serious if it were not for David / Michael / Mitch is responsible for the worst music video ever. No exaggeration, it even has its own website , which analyzes the images will spawn. How do I describe? Take a classic (Hooked on a feeling, the song "Chaka ouga Ouga .." which became popular in 1995 slightly to be on the soundtrack to Reservoir Dogs) and in 1997 planted David / Michael / Mitch in front of a blue, take a bag of hallucinogenic drugs, stolen many brothers costumes butcher knife and burn like crazy, that life is two days.

video is the worst I've ever seen! It may hurt your sensitivity because of the awful fact that is the subject of "blue screen" or the multiple overlays Eskimo David, David, Indiana Jones, David, Zulu, David-James Bond, David, and two girls angelitas, David-Eskimo hunting a fish on the fly and bite, David-Flying on a bike and David-flying to Neo in Matrix. It's almost as lysergic as IP video CPI. To give some historical perspective, in 1997 released this video and Men In Black. We are not talking about 1982 when it would begin to use the chroma. 1997! At that time, perhaps because they were shooting The Matrix (1999). It is incredibly bad! My note: Essential in your video library!



link to the video on Youtube


course, if in the 80 spoke with the 90 car and were surrounded by Baywatch, perhaps it is normal that you end up crazy like , right? And now that no longer exists Team, MacGyver is back but only for an ad and David makes these videos, I'm out concerning television! Where do I focus the rest of my life?

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