MUSIC, HUMOR & OTHER INTERESTING STUFF

~An Unusual Hidden Pool~

2012-01-26T16:31:00.000-05:00

This is really an unusual pool. It's patio area retracts to become a pool and visa vera. This would be very practical if you are limited to a small back yard. Pretty Cool!

~Steve Bridges as Obama~

2012-01-24T16:23:00.000-05:00

You may remember Steve Bridges as the guy who imitated George Bush on the Jay Leno Show. He has now started imitating Obama and REALLY does it well.

The Administration has tried to put a stop to Bridges' act, because Obama has made it known that he is deeply offended.

~Drive Safely This Winter~

2012-01-20T13:01:00.001-05:00

A really good reminder of what winters were like up north. It's funny to watch knowing that I don't have to drive in it anymore. I'll trade the snow and ice for sunny Florida any day.

~Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga~

2012-01-20T12:26:00.000-05:00

This underwater footage was shot while scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific. Beautiful and amazing.

~Who Said Church Can't Be Funny~

2012-01-19T13:15:00.003-05:00

Who ever said church couldn’t be funny? You just never know what to expect when you load a stage with little children and have them to sing to the congregation. Watch this adorable little boy steal the show! You'll know who he is!

~How Things Have Changed~

2012-01-19T12:33:00.000-05:00

~A Day Made Of Glass-You Gotta See This.~

2012-01-19T11:29:00.000-05:00

If you're wondering why so many computer manufacturers are dropping desktops etc.

Well, It's called GLASS. The future is almost here with Corning glass, and the ideas are mind boggling!

~Hand Shadow-Raymond Crowe~

2012-01-18T11:53:00.000-05:00

It is very clever and fascinating what some people do with their time. One must admire the dedication to a craft that can produce a wonder like this. Enjoy!

~Coconut Oil Touted as Alzheimer's Remedy~

2012-01-17T15:37:00.000-05:00

Over 5 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. That is expected to increase uncontrollably as baby the boomer generation enters their retirement years. For some people, coconut oil has proven to slow the progression of Alzheimer's and in some cases may have even prevented it.

This video is about Steve Newport, whose Doctor wife started him on coconut oil products. His Alzheimer's has slowed considerably. Watch the Video.

~Two Year Old Deaf Child Signing With Her Mom~

2012-01-17T11:22:00.002-05:00

(The white print is Ava and the Yellow her Mom)

This is so beautiful to watch. What an inspiration... ♥

There is something that is so inspirational and adorable about this video. You see, Ava was born deaf. You can tell that doesn't stop little 24 month old Ava from being just as happy as other kids. How amazing is this?

~A dog and man dancing up a storm~

2012-01-16T20:27:00.002-05:00

Just when you think you've seen everything. This is amazing. This dog is almost human.

~The Human Planet Takes us on an awesome journey~

2012-01-15T13:17:00.001-05:00

Human Planet is a wow-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-throbbing landmark series that looks at mankind's awesome relationship with nature all around the world today.

~Catchy 33~

2012-01-13T20:09:00.001-05:00

A group of numerals from 1 to 33 will appear in red boxes in the play area. You don't even need to click on the numbers, just move your cursor over them in numerical order going from 1 to 33 and as you correctly do so that numeral will disappear. See how fast you can get the task completed. This is a good practice to keep your brain sharp and your eye hand co-ordination crisp, or it could drive you mad ! Enjoy!!

~In the Arms of an Angel Duet by Josh Groban and Sarah McLachlan~

2012-01-13T12:45:00.000-05:00

Wow. To say this is a beautiful duet is an understatement. Josh and Sarah use their amazing, God-given talents to sing one of the most moving and meaningful songs out there.

BEAUTIFUL. There is no other way to describe this duet...just watch. ♥

~Generation "Y" Explained~

2012-01-12T11:35:00.004-05:00

People born before 1946 were called The Silent and powerful generation.

People born between 1946 and 1964 are called The Baby Boomers!

People born between 1965 and 1979 are called Generation X!

And people born between 1980 and 2010 are called Generation Y!

Why do we call the last group Generation Y?
Y should I get a job?
Y should I leave home and find my own place?
Y should I get a car when I can borrow yours?
Y should I clean my room?
Y should I wash and iron my own clothes?
Y should I buy any food?

But a cartoonist explained it very eloquently below...

~The Real Story of the Car Radio~

2012-01-11T11:30:00.001-05:00

Radios are so much a part of the driving experience, it seems like cars have always had them. But they didn't. Here's the story.

SUNDOWN

Elmer Waveringly

William Lear

One evening in 1929 two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy , Illinois , to watch the sunset. It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the girls observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car. Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios - Lear had served as a radio operator in the U. S. Navy during World War I - and it wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car. But it wasn't as easy as it sounds: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running .

SIGNING ON
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago . There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery eliminator" a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard. Good idea, but it didn't work - half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.) Galvin didn't give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked - he got enough orders to put the radio into production .

WHAT'S IN A NAME
That first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names - Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola. But even with the name change, the radio still had problems:

EXPENSIVE
When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.) In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car radio - the dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna. These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions.

HIT THE ROAD
Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression - Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorolas pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B. F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947.) In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts. In 1940 he developed with the first handheld two-way radio - the Handie-Talkie - for the U. S. Army. A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II. In 1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 it supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone. Today Motorola is one of the second-largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. And it all started with the car radio.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THEM
The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car, Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.

Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually, air-conditioning. Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players?

Lear invented that. But what he's really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, And in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)

~THE CHARLES SCHULZ PHILOSOPHY~

2012-01-09T12:49:00.002-05:00

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.

You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.

Just read this straight through, and you'll get the point.

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4 Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.

How did you do?

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies..Awards tarnish..Achievements are forgotten.

Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.

Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Think of the people who sends you e-mail.

A lot Easier, Right!

The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money or the most awards.

They simply are the ones who care the most.

~Serial Killer Warning-No Joke-Please Read & Pass On~

2012-01-06T11:19:00.002-05:00

Take a couple minutes and read this...then pass it on... When I think about it...I probably would have believed him and opened the door...

Know what money you are carrying. You will see why as you read.

Be sure every woman is aware of this M.O. Share it with your wife and daughters. Know what money you are carrying...This was the first I have heard of a scheme like this...I wanted to pass it along. Be safe! Something very serious to pay attention to.

Criminals are coming up with craftier, less threatening methods of attack, so we have to be extra cautious.

Read on...

I stopped at the Exxon/Blimpie Pie station to get gas. I got $10 gas and a Diet Coke. I took into the store two $5 bills and one $1 bill (just enough to get my stuff). As I pulled away from the store, a man approached my truck from the back side of the store (an unlit area). He was an 'approachable-looking' man (clean cut, clean shaven, dressed well, etc.). He walked up to my window and knocked. Since I'm very paranoid and 'always looking for the rapist or killer,' I didn't open the window.

I just asked what he wanted. He raised a $5 bill to my window and said, 'You dropped this.' Since I knew I had gone into the store with a certain amount of money, I knew I didn't drop it.

When I told him it wasn't mine, he began hitting the window and door, screaming at me to open my door, and insisting that I had dropped the money! At that point, I just drove away as fast as I could...

After talking to the Internal Affairs Department and describing the man I saw, and the way he escalated from calm and polite to angry and volatile...it was determined that I could have possibly encountered the serial killer myself.

Up to this point, it had been unclear as to how he had gained access to his victims, since there has been no evidence of forced entry into victim's homes, cars, etc. And the fact that he has been attacking in the daytime, when women are less likely to have their guard up, means he is pretty BOLD.

So think about it...what gesture is nicer than returning money to someone that dropped it?????

How many times would you have opened your window (or door) to get your money and say thank you... Because if the person is kind enough to return something to you, then he can't really be a threat...can he????

P.S... Ladies, really DO forward this to EVERYONE you know...Even if this man wasn't a serial killer, he looked nice, he seemed polite, he was apparently doing an act of kindness, but HE WAS NOT A NICE PERSON!!!

Men, send it to all the women in your life...What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. Make it a good one!

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"Bob Welch-My Christmas Eve"

2012-01-05T16:39:00.001-05:00

I'm not sure if this really happened one Christmas Eve but what a beautiful story. Let me take this time to thank all those who serve and protect. It's not an easy job. God Bless.

~Dyson Ad~

2012-01-03T17:43:00.002-05:00

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This would be nice if you really could do this. They would sell a lot of these. Check it out.

~Crazy Gramma~

2012-01-02T10:44:00.002-05:00

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This is a skit where an elderly lady is having lunch with what appears to be an imaginary mate. She asks to have their picture taken. Funny to watch the reactions as the photos contain the imaginary person.

~Clever Commercial~

2011-12-29T15:23:00.000-05:00

This is one of the cleverest commercials that I've ever seen. I not sure if this could really happen, unless they both had dementia, but their point was cleverly made.

~Something To Be Aware Of~

2011-12-29T12:55:00.004-05:00

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WATCH THIS, it's only 52 seconds in length - as caught on video camera. No sound, just watch. Something to be aware of. This could have happened to anyone of us.

If you notice he got away with her car, purse and keys without touching her. Worst of all, she couldn't even provide a description of the person to the police. (Thankfully there wasn't a child in the car.)

~Simon's Cat in Santa Claws~

2011-12-23T10:56:00.003-05:00

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This is a holiday favorite and reminds me how I used to tie my tree to a hook in the ceiling so my cat wouldn't pull it over. Christmas is just as exiting to a cat as it is to a child and even some adults.

Simon's Cat "Double Trouble"

2011-12-23T00:27:00.001-05:00

A new arrival causes chaos. Simon gets a new kitty and his old cat just don't want any part of him. Funny video.