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Never waste a mistake. The lessons we learn from them are quite valuable.

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“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.”
     —Pauline Phillips

If someone ever tells you they have never made a mistake, you can rest assured that they are either incredibly naive or incredibly dishonest.

Truth be told, each and every one of us will make a mistake every now and then. Luckily, most of those mistakes will be minor, but one or two could well be life-changing.

Regardless of how minor or how serious our mistakes may be turn out to be, they will always give us a very valuable gift… [Read more…]

Video: The man of a thousand voices

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Mel Blanc

Living (and loving) Life

Are you old enough to have grown up watching the old Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Porky the Pig, Daffy Duck, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzalez, Yosemite Sam and the dozens of other cartoon characters that graced our TV and movie screens?

If so, you surely noticed how distinctive all those characters’ voices were.

Well here’s something you might not know about those voices…  [Read more…]

Video: How to quickly and safely ‘parallel park’ your vehicle

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Parallel parking is one of the most dreaded tasks that many drivers have to perform.

Truth be told, even experienced drivers with thousands of miles under their belts often find it difficult, if not impossible to safely parallel park their vehicles in curb-side parking spots.

Well, today I’m featuring a short video that shows how to quickly and safely perform this important driving task. And it really is easy once you understand the steps you need to take.  [Read more…]

Video: Spectacular drone’s-eye view of Germany

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Our wonderful planet is graced with so many beautiful places and so much gorgeous scenery that it’s unlikely that we will ever have the opportunity to travel and see it all.

But thanks to the advent of digital cameras and drones, we can now enjoy much of the beauty the world has to offer right from the comfort of our own homes.

Today I’ll be sharing a fantastic video that showcases the awesome scenery of Germany via some of the finest drone-captured video I have ever seen.  [Read more…]

The incredibly massive scale of our solar system

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To us humans living on the surface of the Earth, our planet seems quite huge. And it really is in relation to the distances most of us travel during the terrestrial trips we make on foot, by bike, by car, by boat, by train, by plane…

But truth be told, the Earth is but a speck amongst the stars and all of the other countless creations in the universe.

Have you ever pondered just how large the universe must be?  [Read more…]