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I stumbled onto this video of a kid using the family washing machine to pound out a mean beat.  This kid is good and it leaves me begging for more.  What incredible rhythm.

People have gone from having real talent and becoming famous by hard work to becoming famous because they're seen on YouTube.  The videos on the viral site can send someone directly to the top if they're seen by enough people.  This is a list of the videos that were seen the most on YouTube this year:

All that food, all that work. Thanksgiving dinner has been prepared, enjoyed and the leftovers have been put in the fridge. But what to do with the "remains of the day"?

I have seen far too many of these videos.  The ones where people take their feelings and write them out on cards.  They’re called “Notecard Confessional” videos.  They sometimes tell stories just one sentence at a time.  More often than not, the stories do not end happily.

Bleaching, white strips and other procedures to whiten your teeth can get costly.Try a strawberry!

This incredible young man has been in the spotlight a lot this past week. On the news, in the paper and on YouTube. He's an amputee who plays on crutches!

WOW! This is so neat....table tennis like you've never seen.

Ah, Taylor Swift and her relationship songs.  Have you heard the latest??  “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” -- nice, short, catchy title!

Today is August 9th, my wife's birthday. However the balloon that is hanging from our mailbox today is not for Maribeth, but to remember a special little girl whose tragic death touched us all.

Please forgive me, I am a day late with this. How could I have forgotten? July 5, 1946 marks the day when a certain fashion item made it's debut at a Paris fashion show.

Thanks for the great response to Sunday's posting about a "redneck pool heater." It was so good, I decided to investigate further to see how folks heat their pools in the not-so-conventional way.

Earlier this year my wife said we need to get a pool heater. Though our pool gets a lot of sun and we use a solar cover, solar pills and the black solar mat, my wife would like our pool to be even warmer. Personally, I don't mind 75 degrees. She, on the other hand would like it closer to 90! So rather than spend a lot of money on a heater and of course the gas we would use I decided to check on li