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January’s Funniest Video 2012

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httpv://youtu.be/h3bWsanTsps

When I run out of things to write, I search the internet for something that is funny and fun to watch. This video has had about 4,200,000 views.

I’m always looking for contributors to this website.  If you have something to share that’s not controversial, just drop me a line.

 

Thanks

John J. O’Dell
Real Estate Broker
O’Dell Realty
(530) 263-1091
Email jodell@nevadacounty.com

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Canadian Geese Having Breakfast In Loomis, CA

httpv://youtu.be/AI9Ql_6Dl8Y

Here’s my latest video that I just made in Loomis, CA.  I just bought a new Sony DSC Hx100v camera and this is the first video with it. It’s a great camera that not only takes pictures but also takes video in high definition.

The geese comes to my girlfriend’s backyard every morning this time of the year. She has two and one-half acres, most of it in grass, which geese love to eat. Plus there are fruit trees and when the fruit falls off the trees they are right there to clean up.

More on the camera, it has 30x optical zoom, gps, Carl Zeiss lens and much more. If you are interested in the camera and it’s powerful abilities , you can read the review and specs at: Sony Cyber-shot HX100V

 

 

 

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In Memory of Steve Jobs Words of Wisdom – Commencement Speech – Stanford University

(First blogged August 26, 2011)

httpv://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

It’s so sad to see such a great man pass away at such a youthful age. He changed the way we think about computers, telephones, the way we carry music and information with us in ways that only he could create and seemly in a way no one else thought of.

Here’s Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

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Erik Zetterberg, Humanitarian, Needs Your Help to Help Others

Eric Zetterberg
Eric Zetterberg

By John J. O’Dell

Erik  Zetterberg is getting ready for his 26th annual trip to Mexico where he gives away artificial legs, wheelchairs, crutches and other aides for people who have no access to this equipment. Over the years, he has financed much of this on his own, although from time to time he has had aide from individuals and the Rotary Club of Nevada County South.

Zetterberg, who’s had a prosthetic leg since the age of 7, has collected used and rejected prostheses from local prosthetic companies and distributed them for free among the disabled poor in Mexico. Over the years he has received a larger variety of donations – clothes, toys, eye glasses, mainly from friends.

In September 2007, the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation recognized Zetterberg as the Humanitarian of the Year for his decades of social service. “I couldn’t see usable goods going to waste when people needed them” said 70 year old Zetterberg. “There was a need for these things in Mexico.  I couldn’t see them being thrown away in the garbage can”

One of his joys is to know that from the multiple artificial legs he donated to organization in Mexico last year, they were able to somehow take parts of some of the artificial legs and create multiple more legs to help more people.

If you have any wheel chairs, crutches, canes or even artificial legs,  you would like to donate to Zetterberg, you may contact him by calling him (530) 273-0789 or (916) 955-7711 and he will come by and pick up whatever you care to donate.

ohn J. O’Dell Realtor® GRI
O’Dell Realty
(530) 263-1091
jodell@nevadacounty.com