Posts Tagged ‘video’
‘Larry King Live!’ Comes to an end
June 30th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
Today, Larry King told the world he will be ending his long-running CNN show, Larry King Live.
“It’s time to hang up the nightly suspenders,” the famous host announced.
If I should say anything, they were more than just nightly suspenders, but very, very mighty suspenders indeed. Larry King Live holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running show with the same host in the same time slot; in fact, it’s been a regular feature on the air for 25 years. It was also the first-ever worldwide phone-in TV talk show. King himself has been in professional broadcasting for 53 years, during which time he has conducted more than 40,000 interviews with celebrities, politicians, topical experts and others.
Understandably, news about King’s pulling the plug on his show created a significant hiccup in the social web. Let’s take a look at the topic as it trended on Twitter, Google and elsewhere.
First, here is a YouTube video showing King’s announcement:
Larry is a great interviewer and in his announcement, he said “I’ll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects… With this chapter closing I’m looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.”
(Video) Kid’s tooth extraction, not by door or a brother, but by a ROCKET
June 25th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
Remember as kid figuring out all sorts of creative ways to pull your teeth? The old floss on door knob trick or the tried-and-true wallop to the mouth at the hands of your big sister. Well, whatever you tried as a child likely can’t beat little Jimmy’s experience having his tooth yanked with help from a… ROCKET! (See the slow motion of the tooth being YANKED at the end of the video).
(Video) Kitten born with 2 faces… what??
June 18th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
A kitten born in West Virginia shocked local veterinarians when it entered the world with two faces—like two distinct faces, not like the Batman villain. Vets haven’t pinpointed an exact diagnosis, but say the adorable kitty is either a conjoined twin or suffering from a protein synthesis that caused the mutation.
See the short AP News video below on the story:
(Video) Choosing Thomas — Inside a family’s decision to let their son live, if only for a brief time. Would you, in this situation, choose life?
June 16th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Our Children, Video Clips
Okay, so get out the tissues, while you sit to watch a video that you have to see. Have you ever seen the video 99 balloons? (I blogged about it about a year ago). Well, this is just as good, and sad — but makes you grateful for the life and the children that you already have…
Twenty weeks into their pregnancy, T. K. and Deidrea Laux found out that their son had Trisomy 13—a rare DNA abnormality. After being counseled that “terminating the pregnancy” would be an option, they chose life. In Deidrea’s own words:
“We didn’t not terminate because we were hanging on to some sort of hope that there was a medical mistake or there was gonna be some sort of medical miracle. We didn’t terminate because he’s our son.”
The Dallas Morning News has produced this video chronicling the birth and home-going of Thomas after just 5 short days — even longer than most baby’s with his condition live. This is an amazing story of love and life, and you need to watch it.
The good news is that about one year after Thomas’ life ended, earlier this January, the Laux family were blessed with the birth of a healthy baby daughter. To the family who thought that they would never be parents, God’s grace is sufficient.
(Portions of text for this post were taken from fellow Seinfield fan, Denny’s Burk, on his blog about Choosing Thomas). Thanks Denny.
(video) OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine
May 18th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
In high school, I took a physics class where we did a Rube Goldberg experiment. Everyone in the class did this by splitting up into groups and coming up with ideas for our projects. In simple terms, a rube goldberg project is something that takes many actions, to come out with one final action. Often the many actions use simple machines/tools (such as a wheel, wedge, weight, levy, etc.) to help produce your final end result.
(Our group, by the way, made up of Wilson Wise, David Townsend, and Amanda Gibbs (maybe?) put together a rube goldberg where the final result was to open a PEZ dispenser). It was fun, I think.)
When put to music, and done all in one take — wow! – you can get a great result! See this video from the band Ok Go. (This video, at the time of the posting, out after only 2 months has received about 13 million views on youtube. That is pretty outstanding!)
To learn more about the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg and how these fun projects have come to be known as “Rube Goldberg Experiments,” see the Rube Goldberg Wikipedia page.
(VIDEO) Have you heard of Zac Smith? He lost his battle to cancer yesterday, but ‘God is still God and He is still good’
May 17th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Video Clips
I made a post back in March of this year. It was the story of Zac Smith.
Zac died yesterday.
This video is story of Zac Smith‘s battle with cancer, the love of his wife and children, and how he, despite his fervor for life and desire for living for God and his family, he knows that whether he lived or died that God would still be God, and God would still be good.
Zac’s message is an inspiration to everyone to live life, love each moment we have, and make each second count.