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Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) (Photo credit: David Cook Wildlife Photography (kookr))

I don’t know how he trained these budgies. They are very clever and cute. Our budgie rules the household not the other way around. :) Australian native birds that have been successfully exported and bred all over the world. In the wild they are green and yellow and out west you see flocks of thousands. They are beautiful to watch and very noisy you can hear them coming from a long way away and they look like a huge wave in the sky.

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From Wikipedia:

The budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) (pron.: /ˈbʌərɨɡɑr/), also known as common pet parakeet or shell parakeet and informally nicknamed the budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot. Budgerigars are the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus, and are found wild throughout the drier parts of Australia where the species has survived harsh inland conditions for the last five million years.[2] Budgerigars are naturally green and yellow with black, scalloped markings on the nape, back, and wings, but have been bred in captivity with colouring in blues, whites, yellows, greys, and even with small crests. Budgerigars are popular pets around the world due to their small size, low cost, and ability to mimic human speech. The origin of the budgerigar’s name is unclear. The species was first recorded in 1805, and today is the most popular pet in the world after the domesticated dog and cat.[3]

The budgerigar is closely related to the lories and the fig parrots.[4][5][6][7] They are one of the parakeet species, a non-taxonomical term that refers to any of a number of small parrots with long, flat and tapered tails. In both captivity and the wild, budgerigars breed opportunistically and in pairs.

 

 

 

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Big Brother Is Watching

English: Big brother IS watching

English: Big brother IS watching (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Meet ARGUS. It’s a new technology made for government spy planes that uses a 1.8 giga pixel sensor! It’s so detailed it could see what smartphone you have in your hand from 20,000 feet away - ( well perhaps not quite ! )
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=QGxNyaXfJsA&feature=player_embedded

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What Happens When You Are Forced To Work After 70

English: Saturday morning shoppers The check-o...

English: Saturday morning shoppers The check-outs at Morrison’s Ross-on-Wye at 10am on an ordinary Saturday in March 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This video is quite cute, but on a serious side many elderly people are now being forced to go back to work because of the current economic situation. They can’t live on the pension as electricity, water, medical costs etc all keep going up. I don’t think governments do enough for the people who have worked hard all their lives, paid taxes, helped build the country, and a lot of them also fought for their countries. Not much gratitude there is there?

 

http://au.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmnVkS5RUj8ASK8L5gt.?p=dog%20using%20toilet%20%20video&fr2=sb-top&fr=mcafee&rd=r1

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New Washing Machine

Brown Bear in Spring

Brown Bear in Spring (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a  new ad for a Samsung washing machine. It’s clever and they think outside of the box for a change. Nice to see a bit of thought and imagination going into an ad. A bit like the John West ads where the bears are the stars.

http://gizmodo.com/5977994/bravo-samsung-your-ad-actually-makes-me-want-to-buy-a-washing-machine

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Movie Magic

Capilano University making (movie) magic

Capilano University making (movie) magic (Photo credit: BC Gov Photos)

 

This video is just amazing with the special effects they are able to create. You can never believe anything you see in a movie. It’s also a good reason to be sceptical of anything you see online.

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The Dog Singer

Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph, ...

Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph, “His Master’s Voice”, The Original RCA Music Puppy Dog Logo Symbol for Advertising (Photo credit: Beverly & Pack)

 

Imagine, you are a singer and you accompany yourself on the piano.
You have a small dog who is your constant companion and watches as you rehearse. Got the picture? Now, imagine that you must be away for a few hours, with the video camera on, and leave the dog alone at home. Here is what happened while you away.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5we2rAggjas

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Should I really Join Facebook?

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 A friend just sent me this in an email and I couldn’t resist posting it here.
 
Subject: Should I Really Join Facebook ?
A good laugh for people in the over 50 group!!!  AND really quite true!!
When I bought my Blackberry, I thought about the 30-year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a cell phone that plays music, takes videos, pictures and communicates with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook , so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.
My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.
The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife and everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. I had to take my hearing aid out to use it, and I got a little loud.
I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside that gadget was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, “Re-calc-u-lating.”  You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then if I made a right turn instead. Well, it was not a good relationship. When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GPS lady, at least she loves me.
To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven’t figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have to run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.
The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden “Paper or Plastic?” every time I check out just knocks me for a loop. I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused, but I never remember to take them in with me.
Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, “Paper or Plastic?” I just say, “Doesn’t matter to me. I am bi-sacksual.”  Then it’s their turn to stare at me with a blank look. I was recently asked if I tweet. I answered, No, but I do toot a lot.”
We senior citizens don’t need any more gadgets.  The tv remote and the garage door remote are about all we can handle.

 

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Thanks to all my followers

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As a new blogger, I am overwhelmed by the support that you have all given me. When I started this blog I was sure no one would be interested in what I had to say.  Now it’s like Christmas everyday. I can’t wait to get online and read the comments and see who has liked my posts. It’s such a wonderful way to connect with people from different countries and read about their lives and interests. There are so many talented people, writers, poets, artists, photographers etc. The internet is an amazing thing isn’t it? It is like  a big pot boiling over with creativity, which we can all share via our blogging.

So thank you everyone. I appreciate your support and I love reading and looking at all your blogs. You have enriched my life.

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