A Friendly Reminder

Adam sent this to me today and I wanted to re-share it.

It's a friendly reminder in the form of a very powerful ad.

Spanish Doesn't Come Naturally, That's For Sure

Learning a new language is not natural.

In the category of *language*, I would include HTML, Spanish, business language, and geometry.

This is about my efforts at learning the language of Spanish.

I was super frustrated in Spanish class this past Wednesday. It felt like high school pre-calculus all over again.

I just don't get Spanish yet...

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Profitable Soda: "I Am A Money Magnet"

Last night, Carrie offered to make us (her sister Michelle and I) rum and coke.

This was to finish up the last of our rum (before we move out of our apartment.)

But we left last night's soda (from the party) at my parent's house.

So, Carrie went down to the soda machine to get a coke.

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Some of Us Have to Work

Be forewarned that much of this is a bit of a rant.

As Carrie and I get ready to embark on this world travel, and tell people about what we're going to be doing for the next 3 months (the only portion of our travels we've planned so far), there is a phrase I hear voiced over and over that drives me a little nuts.

The phrase is this:

"Some of us have to work."

That's usually preceded by the phrase "Wow, that sounds rough."

And then is followed by the equivalent of "Some of us have to work."

It's usually said with jealousy in mind, and most people say something along with it like, "One of these days you'll get serious and actually start earning some real money in a real job."

(I've heard variations of this in the past week from people I know well.)

I'm not here to compare how hard we work with other people.

I'm also willing to admit that some of our success has been that we've been in the right places at the right times.

Some call this luck. And there's some truth to that.

But I've also heard it said that luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

I also appreciate that Carrie and I have had a head start over other people in that we have strong, supportive families who have set us up for success in life.

Our families haven't always understood what we've been doing, but they've been supportive.

But we have struggles too, which we've learned from and which we apply as lessons in our business and life.

Carrie's dad died when she was 12.

At 20, I was $10,000 in credit card debt, lying to everyone I cared about at the time, and had a really nice car... which I was in debt for, and oh yah... it didn't have a heater and frequently (like every day) died on the side of the road. I got good at fixing that car with plastic grocery bags and plastic newspaper bags, because even though they melted easily, at least they were free.

And we still have what most people would consider to be some significant debt today.

We've just learned how to manage it, direct it, and ultimately, we are using debt to our advantage.

Anyway, I'm digressing a bit.

We have struggles like everyone else.

We work hard like everyone else (well, maybe not everyone else, but I won't go there at the moment either).

1% of what we've built up to this point has been having good ideas.

99% of what we're able to do now has been simple hard work that's allowed us to get here.

ALL of what we're able to do now has been because we've each spent the past 10 years (6 ½ years of it together), changing our thinking about:
- what "work" is
- what travel means
- how to set and achieve goals
- how to be of service to others
- what we want to do in the world
- how to generate income passively and residually
- what's important to us as individuals and as a couple
- how to have open discussions about difficult topics like finances
- etc. etc. etc.

Just to set the record straight, I'm working harder now than I ever have.

I'm spending more time on the computer, more time on the phone, and more time just getting things done than I can remember doing in my work life at any point in the past.

I easily work 60-70 hours/week, especially right now.

And, as long as we have an Internet connection, regardless of where we are in the world, I will continue to work hard.

I think I can safely say that Carrie will too.

Our businesses that we've built allow us to do that, because we've designed them so that we can work on them from anywhere in the world.

But it's been difficult, and continues to have it's challenges on a daily basis.

We work to learn what we need to, so that we can overcome those challenges and become everything we can for ourselves and for the world.

A friend, Patrick Shaw, said recently "The greatest reward in life is living up to the expectations you have of yourself."

We continue to have higher and higher expectations of ourselves, and that's what's allowing us to embark on this journey which many people have told us would be "impossible" for them.

(They also said the same thing three years ago when we told them we were going to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro - a 6 week travel which, when we came home, we were nearly $20,000 in debt from. We went "too soon", and did what many people think of as "impossible".)

And so there are some people who use this phrase "some of us have to work" as a way to vent frustration in a socially acceptable way.

"Some of us have to work" comes across to me as an excuse for not taking action on creating the life of your dreams.

In our case, we want to travel the world.

Travel takes money.

Money that comes in while you're doing something else i.e. travel (in our case) is called passive cash flow.

Money that comes in from something you've done in the past but are still being paid for is called residual cash flow.

We've worked very hard to learn everything we can about passive and residual cash flow.

We've built and supported multiple streams of cash flow since 2003.

Many of them still pay us, and we continue to build them, especially focusing on PPL in the last month and a half.

However, there have been many projects which have cost more than they've paid back.
(That's another topic for another day as well.)

I'm not here to judge anyone's way of living their life.

I'm also not going to tell anyone how they should be earning income.

I personally believe that passive income allows you more freedom and flexibility to pursue whatever you want in life.

And I would believe that, because that has been my experience in life.

There is (without a doubt) value in physical labor, and value in taking part in a larger project, larger product, and in contributing to someone else's vision.

All I'm saying is that "some of us have to work" sounds like a judgment being passed on the way I've chosen to live my life, and the way Carrie and I have chosen to live our lives together.

If you see something that someone else has, it is possible that the reason you don't have it is because you either don't believe that you have the skills or knowledge to accomplish it, or simply haven't taken action on the skills and knowledge you do have.

If you don't have what you want, you're either not doing the right things to get you there, or not doing the right things enough. (Okay, that will also lead to a different topic for a different time.)

I frequently (like several times a day) feel like I need to be taking more action on what I know, in order to be of service to more people and in order to get our income to the level I want it to be at.

(There are lots of different thoughts here in this mini-rant.)

For now, I'll just say this.

Yes, our business allows us to work from anywhere.

Yes, that's infinitely cool.

Yes, I consider myself very fortunate to have learned a lot of these lessons at a young age.

But learning these lessons has meant getting past a lot of obstacles.

One of those obstacles has been people (some of them close) who tell us things like:

"You're just a kid! What do you know?" (When I was trying to share an Internet marketing concept with someone *for free* a couple of years ago.)

"Well, I'm going to go back to my REAL job now." (Someone told me that after I shared PPL with them)

"What's it like to be on permanent vacation?" (From a close relative - directed at Carrie)

"Why don't you go get a REAL job" (From someone whose opinion I actually respected before this comment.)

"Wow. You aren't teaching any more? And you're building a business? That's a HUGE risk. I mean, really, really, really risky." (3 really's, from a close relative.)

"You sure your business things aren't going to fall apart while you're traveling?" (From a close relative)

There are hundreds of comments we've received like this while attempting to share good information with people and/or attempting to include them in what we're doing.

These comments may be well intentioned, but on the receiving end, they are obstacles.

Look, if you want to have passive/residual income, you will have to work at it daily like anything else.

(You decide what you want to do: travel the world, stay home with your kids, give more to your church, etc., and then you work at it daily.)

Initially you can start with 30 minutes/day.

Our vehicles for passive cash flow have been, and will continue to be, Internet Marketing and PPL.

If you want to learn Internet Marketing, I teach what I know through www.ThreeMoneyMethods.com

If you want to work with us with PPL, go here to learn what we do.

If those aren't your vehicles, go find vehicles that will work for you.

Just make sure that your vehicle has the ability to put you in the right place at the right time.

And if you see people who have what you want in life, chances are very good that you should be including them as "us" in your "some of us have to work" statement.

As for me, that little voice in the back of my head which tells me I should be accomplishing something is telling me I need to be doing something productive now.

After all, some of us do have to work...

Google Voice: I Got My Google Voice Account.

The World is changing. It's changing in such a rapidly and unbelievably expanding way that within a few short years, all of today's changes will appear as normal as turning a key to start a car, or walking to a grocery store to buy a gallon of milk. (These are both amazing systems that we take for granted in our day to day lives.)

So what prompted this realization? Lots of things. But here's the big one right now.

I got my Google Voice account today (free).
(See the video below if you're not already familiar with Google Voice.)

And I wanted to test out my new account.

So I chose a phone number (using a really cool search feature Google Voice offers you for choosing your phone number) and I called Carrie to have her leave a message for me.. (I really wanted to test out Google Voice's transcription to see it in action.)

After calling Carrie (on her cell) and giving her my Google Voice # to call me Carrie calls my new Google Voice # from her cell phone.

Google rings the call through to my cell phone (which is how I have set it up in Google Voice.)

The caller ID on my cell phone briefly shows "Forwarded Call" and then Carrie's number.

And when I answer, I hear the following:

"Call From Carrie Kraft."

"To accept, press 1. To send to voice mail, press 2. To send to voice mail and listen in on the voice mail, press 3."

To listen in on the voice mail? I can do that? This is something I gotta' try!

So I press 3.

"Sending to voicemail. To join the call at any time, press * ."

To join the call? You mean I can join in if I'm immediately interested in what she's saying and want to talk about it? Otherwise it can just go to voice mail (which I can log in and check online and delete it as easily as deleting an email)?

A few seconds later, I'm listening to Carrie leaving her voice mail, the very first message on my Google Voice Mail (other than Larry Page and Sergey Brin's default welcome message) at the EXACT SAME TIME as she's leaving it. Whoa!

She can't hear me, but I can hear her.

Just before she's about to end the message, I press star and cut in.

"Do you know what's crazy?"

"... ... Uh... what?"

"CRAZY!" I exclaim and probably break Carrie's eardrum from the loudness of my exclamation. She's not only surprised (because she thought she was leaving a message just on a voice mail service... not that I was listening in AS she was leaving it). She is equally impressed by the technology.

So after that shock wears off, I ask her if she will call back to leave a message and see how well the Google Voice transcription works.

Carrie calls back, and I get the same three options.

"Call From Carrie Kraft."

"To accept, press 1. To send to voice mail, press 2. To send to voice mail and listen in on the voice mail, press 3. "

But I wait, thinking there may be more. I'm not amazed that there's an option 4, but I am amazed what the option is.

"To accept and record the call, press 4."

I can accept and record the call?

And the caller won't know they are being recorded?

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Harmonica Heals?

This story was just so inspirational that we wanted to share it here.

Every time 70-year-old Andy Mackie draws a breath, it's music to his ears - whether there's a harmonica there or not. As CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports, Mackie's just glad to be alive.

Mackie jokes, "I guess they don't need a harmonica player in heaven yet."

Mackie, a Scottish-born retired horse trainer, lives in a camper in northwest Washington state - he lives there, even though technically -- medically -- he should have died long ago.

After his ninth heart surgery, Mackie's doctors had him on 15 different medicines. But the side effects made life miserable. So one day he quit taking all 15 and decided to spend his final days doing something he always wanted to do.

He used the money he would have spent on the prescriptions to give away 300 harmonicas, with lessons included. "I really thought it was the last thing I could ever do," he says.

And when he didn't die the next month, he bought a few hundred more.

Harmonicas in hand, he explains, "I just started going from school to school."

It's now 11 years and 13,000 harmonicas later.

"I'll see a pregnant lady on the sidewalk and I'll give her a harmonica for the baby," he says as an example.

Today there's nary a kid in the county who hasn't gotten a free harmonica from Mackie, or played one of his strum sticks.

To keep the kids interested in music as they get older, Mackie now spends the bulk of his Social Security check making them beginner string instruments. He also buys store-made instruments for kids that show a special interest. He provides free lessons to everyone by getting the older kids to teach the younger kids.

Mackie says, "I tell them music is a gift, you give it away - you give it away and you get to keep it forever."

The end result is something truly unique to his corner of Washington. It seems everywhere you look, everyplace you go, every kid you meet has the same genuine passion for fiddle music.

"I can't explain the joy, Mackie says. "I don't think Bill Gates feels any richer inside than I do. He believes he's still living today because of the kids and the music.

And he doesn't expect any harmonica openings in heaven any time soon.

"I don't think the lord wants me yet, I still got something to do here -- lots more kids out there."

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Where Is All That Money Going?

A little while back, I wrote a post called "How much is 700 Billion Really?"

When it comes down to it, the United States government will be putting more like 1.5 trillion additional into play in the next few years (which I believe will lead to excessive inflation - but that's a different topic).

An interesting link you may want to check out is http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state (Sent to us by Renee Fields)

You may find it interesting to see where your state's funding from the stimulus package is going.

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Find projects by state or territory...

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Stingray Migration Pictures

Stingray migration

I supposed it's possible that this is a hoax email, but just the thought of being around to see something this magnificent made it necessary to post anyway.

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico . The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves, they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

She said: 'It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.

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We Are All SO Rich. Don't Believe Me?

Maybe it's been prompted by the news I've heard lately that we're in some sort of global economic crisis, but I've been thinking a lot about how much wealth the average person has.

And not just in America or in the Western world, but all around the world, we have so much wealth.

If you don't believe me, try this one on for size.

Assuming you are a sighted person...

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Top 10: Unique Churches of the World

This came to us in the form of an email from our Texas friend Renee.

And it reminded us, there's so much more to see in the world.

With as much traveling as we've already done, we've really only just begun. Many of these have now been added to our list of places still to see.

Here they are, the top 10 most unique churches in the world.

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What's The Value of Honking Loudly?

In high school, I had a head football coach, Coach Peterson, who created a theme for each year's team.

In 1997, that theme was Geese.

He chose this because there are lots of lessons that can be learned from geese.

As dirty and mean as they can be up close (ask Carrie sometime about the foul-mouthed goose at Nymphemburg Castle that hissed and stuck out it's tongue at her), they still have a lot to teach us humans.

Two Sundays ago, we were at my parents' house, helping them take down the Christmas decorations.

Sunday was a really beautiful day.

It was one of those January days that people like to call "unseasonally warm", which is odd to me because people have been calling beautiful days like that "unseasonally warm" for as long as I can remember.

(If we get them every winter, aren't they just part of the season's weather? It's not a complaint, because the day was beautiful... just an observation really.)

Anyway, all that to say that it was a good day for carrying stuff from inside to outside and enjoying the fresh air.

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TV Transition: You Have Just 50 Days To Go From Analog To Digital

And now for something completely different.

(Different from the holidays, that is...)

It's just 50 days until America's switchover from analog to digital television.

Carrie and I don't watch TV (just DVD's/movies), and we don't even have our TV connected to the cable or an antenna. But we figure we better get one of these things for our house so that whoever buys our house (and inherits the big screen that came with the house when we bought it), will be able to watch TV when they hook up an antenna to it.

If you're wondering how this conversion thing works, take a look at this approach.
(It ought to make things a little more clear.)

No? Not more clear?

Hmmm...

Special thanks to Brian for sending this video.

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Baby Giraffe Born On Video

Ever since seeing giraffes in the wild in Africa, Carrie and I have been rather averse to giraffes (or any animal really) in the zoo.

While zoos are great for being exposed to lots of different kinds of animals, there are lots of things about keeping animals in captivity which just don't allow people to see the animals for how and what they really are.

One good thing about the zoo though is that because the animals are watched regularly, some pretty amazing moments can be caught on video.

Kevin Fanter showed this video to Carrie and me of a baby giraffe being born in a zoo. We really enjoyed it, and wanted to share it with you.

The Solar Cooker Oven Project

Some of you know this already, but Carrie and I are working on a book to teach everyday people (like us) how to green in their daily lives (without growing a beard and becoming a granola-eating, tree-hugging, no-deodorant-wearing, beard-growing hippie), and one of the things we are doing in that community is building a web site called GreenJoyment.com.

The past two weeks, for that site, we've been building and testing out solar cookers, so we wanted to share some of that experience here on our site, to see if anyone here might have an interest in solar cooking (and if not, just to share what we've been up to.

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$29 for water?

This year (hard as it is for me to believe), I'll be turning 29 on September 27.

(For future reference (and so that no one has to ask how old I am) every year after this year I'll ALSO be turning 29. )

Some of you don't normally buy me a gift for my birthday, but this year I am doing something special.

I'm asking friends and family of ours to consider participating in charity:water's September birthday project to build wells in Ethiopia and give the people there clean water.

I'm asking for my age in dollars (which would be, in this case, $29), or whatever you can give (even if it's just a couple of dollars/pounds/euros/etc. it makes a big difference).

100% of everything raised goes directly to build wells, and is MATCHED by another organization (founded by actor/director Matt Damon)

This matching means that $20 donated = $40 going towards building wells.

You can complete the process in less than 3 minutes.

Please take a moment and visit my page by clicking the graphic below:

To see why I'm supporting the campaign, watch the 3-minute trailer above (If you haven't already).

Thanks everyone!

Jonathan

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Cool Stuff: Where The Hell Is Matt?

My brother Adam "introduced" us to Matt about two years ago (sometime right around our Kilimanjaro climb) when he sent us Matt's first video (below)

We already had plans of course for being world travelers in our life together, and had both done a fair amount of travel (with the time we each spent in Germany, my travel to Italy and France and China, our trip to Mexico together, etc.)...

Other than the fact that this is just cool, our interest in travel was the other reason Adam sent the video.

I say all that, to say that Matt's first video was interesting, encouraging, and quite inspiring to us.

Well, Matt's just completed a 2008 video of his world travels.

At this point, you may be asking "Who in the hell is this Matt? Do Carrie and Jonathan know him?"

Nope. Not yet.

But he's a guy who went on a world trip, and everywhere he went, he did this goofy dance.

He videoed the whole experience, spliced it together into one clip of him dancing at various world locations, sent it out to some people, and the video went viral, getting millions of views.

Stride Gum contacted him and said "How would you like to travel the world on our dime?"

He said "Okay!" (Who wouldn't?) And took another big trip around the world, doing the goofy dance everywhere he went, and posted the video up on YouTube and a bunch of other places online.

That's when we "met" Matt (back in 2006).

Maybe someday we'll actually get to meet him, but for now his story is awesome to us... that he took the trip, that he made the video, that Stride is a smart marketing company (see how many times I've mentioned Stride Gum in this post - maybe you had never heard of them before, but now you have)... just the whole thing is really fun and neat.

We hope it's inspirational and motivational for you too.

Alright. Without further ado, here are Matt's "Dancing" videos.

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The History of the Star-Spangled Banner

Adam sent this to me back at the beginning of December. It ends up being a plug for presidential candidate Ron Paul, but most of it is the history of the Star Spangled Banner which I found really interesting:

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Head Tracking For Watching TV And Playing Video Games

Okay, I'll admint to being a total geek.

And there are probably some people who are going to watch this video and think, "So what."

Having prefaced it with that, I think this is super-cool, and offers a neat explanation of how 3D Games and Television may develop in the future.

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Amazing Swing Dance Routine by 23 Skidoo

Jonathan and I were actually at the Mercury Cafe the night 23 Skidoo performed this dance. (In fact, the guy in the white shirt a little to the left with his back to the camera - that's Jonathan.) This recording is of their practice before the largest swing dance competition in the world. They competed and WON with this routine. Check it out; it's amazing how fast they move!

Sleep - That's Where I'm a Viking!

Carrie and I have this little joke from a Simpson's episode.

Ralph... Mrs. Cra-Bappel?

Ms. Cra-bappel... Yes Raplh

Ralph... I stuck my pencil in my ear and the lead tip broke off so now I can't write.

Ms. Cra-bappel... That's nice Raplh. Why don't you take a nap.

Ralph... Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!

Peculiar facts about shut-eye.
By PsychologyToday.com

What really happens when your head hits the pillow? Sure, sleep fulfills some very basic needs--like maintaining your physical and mental health, not to mention preparing you for those crucial daytime hours. But a lot more happens after the lights go out. Did you know that sleep affects your memory, your heart, and even the health of your teeth? Here, we unveil some of sleep's strangest facts.

Flexing Memory
From a special vacation to a holiday gathering, long-term memories are predominantly formed during sleep when the brain replays recent experiences. But how do you remember what happens when? According to researchers at the University of Lubeck in Germany, shut-eye not only strengthens a memory's content but also the sequence in which they are experienced. Students were presented sets of words in a particular order. One group of these students was allowed to sleep and another was not. Those who were allowed to sleep could more often recall the order of words than those who were not allowed to sleep.

Sleep to a Better Beat
A good night's sleep is essential for a healthy ticker. Lack of sleep can lead to hypertension, a condition in which blood pressure is chronically elevated. Of course, with it comes a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. Even normal, healthy people, who are persistently deprived of proper sleep, suffer increased risk of hypertension, say researchers at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Ongoing sleep deprivation can set up chemical and hormonal changes in the body, including the release of stress hormones like adrenaline.

Snooze and Smile
Tossing and turning can affect your smile. A Journal of Periodontology study shows that the amount of sleep you get can significantly affect your teeth. While smoking negatively impacted oral health the most, hours of sleep closely followed. The study tracked 219 Japanese factory workers from 1999 through 2003. Participants who slept seven to eight hours a night had less periodontal disease than those who slept six hours or less a night. Researchers speculate that sleep shortage impairs the body's immune system, something that can lead to bad teeth.

Sleep to Your Own Rhythm
If you find yourself awake and energetic late at night, you may have a genetic mutation. The altered gene may explain why some people prefer late nights. This gene affects the body's circadian cycle-the clock that keeps our metabolism, digestion, and sleep patterns in sync. Researchers discovered abnormally long circadian rhythms in some mice-lasting about 27 hours instead of the normal cycle of 24 hours. These mice had the mutated gene. Also, night owls who compensate by staying in bed longer still experience more insomnia than the rest of us. Also, night owls report feeling less in control of their sleep, which may also fuel insomnia.

Getting by with Less
Some people can survive on very little sleep, while others require many hours to function normally. If you still perform relatively well when sleep deprived, the reason could be your genes. In one study from the University of Surrey, some people struggled to stay awake after two days of no sleep while others had no problem whatsoever. The researchers looked into this further and gave the participants the opportunity to sleep normally; they found that some participants spend more time in slow-wave sleep, the deepest form of shut-eye. And for them carrying a sleep debt makes it that much harder to stay alert and function.

What a Wonderful World: Shadow Puppets

Hey everyone!

My friend Renee sent this video to me today with shadow puppets performing "What a Wonderful World."

I thought it was great, so sharing it here.

Enjoy!

(What a great idea to set What a Wonderful World to Shadow Puppets.)

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Mysteries of the brain...

I was reading this article about the "mysteries of the brain" and decided to share one small part of it here.

Hundred-yard dashes begin with a gunshot rather than a strobe light because your brain can react more quickly to a bang than to a flash. Yet as soon as we get outside the realm of motor reactions and into the realm of perception (what you report that you saw and heard), the story changes. When it comes to awareness, the brain goes through a good deal of trouble to synchronize incoming signals that are processed at very different speeds.

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Regenerative medicine.

I recently lost a filling with part of a tooth, which is probably what ultimately led me to watch this video.

Wouldn't it be so cool to be able to have the body grow back part of itself? I mean, we should be able to do this anyway. Imagine going to the dentist and instead of drilling to put a hole in your tooth, so that they can fill it with whatever a filling is made out of, they drill and put in a gel. They seal over the top of that with a material to protect it, and they tell you to be careful about chewing on that side for a couple of weeks.

Within weeks, the hole is filled, and within a month or two, you basically have a new tooth.

How cool will it be when that is available?

Watch below.

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Oystein Baadsvik

Beatboxing on a tuba

The whole video is worth it, but it really gets cool about 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

Might have to turn up the volume slider in YouTube's player to hear it.

So cool what creative people come up with.

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Water power production

I found this idea really neat.

You know how if you put a hole at the bottom of a bucket, the water will naturally create a whirlpool to drain out of the hole at the bottom of the bucket?

Somebody came up with an idea to use the same concept for generating electricity. Fascinating!

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/06/water_vortex_drives_power_plan.html

I'm good, but not this good

Most of you know that I play the flute, and have for years. Some of you know that I love the original Ninendo Super Mario Brothers game. What would happen if you put the two together?

Unbelievable

This is absolutely amazing.

May 04, 2007