Posted on June 10, 2010, 3:40 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
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If you are a soccer fan, you must be pumped. The World Cup is so close. I do not follow the sport closely, but I recently met a young man who does, and he has a blog that he is using to comment on all the action. Visit Bret’s Blog to read lots of detailed [...]
Posted on April 16, 2010, 5:26 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
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Here is a Taiwanese Whitney Houston Sing-a-Like as discovered in a talent contest. Lin sings the Dolly Parton classic, I Will Always Love You, on a Taiwanese TV talent show competition. (Parton wrote and first recorded the song, which Whitney Houston later recorded.) When I watched this video on April 16th, 2010 at 6:24 am [...]
Posted on March 6, 2010, 11:31 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
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I seem to be in a love song mood lately. Here is another favourite. Whitney Houston’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You”. What really surprised me is that the original is by another favourite of mine – Dolly Parton. I loved Dolly and crew in the movie “9 to 5″. Just used that song [...]
Posted on February 18, 2010, 11:06 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
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I have a variety of songs that I keep on a “favourites” list. Mostly ballad style; not much rock, even classic. Tonight I was reminded of one of my favourite motivational songs, Hero, written and performed by Mariah Carey in 1993, when Mariah was 23 years old. I am always very impressed when I learn [...]
Posted on October 1, 2009, 9:35 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
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500 That is the number of this post. As of this post I have typed 500 unique posts into this blog. It has taken me over 3-1/2 years to do it, but then I never planned on getting to this level in the first place. I am now going to share some of my favourite [...]
“Hyundai has put Toyota and Honda in the crosshairs as it vows to become the world’s top maker of fuel-efficient vehicles.” A quote from a Globe and Mail online article. I have owned 4 vehicles. My first was a used Honda Civic 1300, with 5 speed manual transmission. Got over 50 miles to the gallon [...]
A cute Honda ad for one of their Hybrid vehicles, the Insight. http://vimeo.com/4281939
Posted on April 29, 2009, 6:33 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
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This video of the classic tune “Stand by Me” is so cool. The video producer started by taping a street musician in Santa Monica, California. He then had other musicians around the world add their piece as they listened to the original on headphones. Watch it by clicking here.
Posted on February 18, 2009, 5:55 am, by GrandpaRichard, under
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but if you want to learn more about how people make money on the internet you need to see the video mentioned at this page and then consider taking their $1 – 1 week trial offer. Quality of training is great.
Posted on December 31, 2008, 6:05 pm, by GrandpaRichard, under
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Breastfeeding mothers are protesting a photo ban on Facebook, by changing their profile pictures to show themselves breastfeeding their babies. The group that has been set up ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2517126532 ) is almost 100,000 strong as I type this.