Archive for March, 2010
Get a screen cover for your Iphone (antiglare), put this case on it and you will have basically have a ruggized Iphone that can take a real beating. My phone has taken some hard falls (off a bicycle at 18 mph) and they have hardly damaged the case let alone the phone. One caveat: having the phone in the holder places it in a position where it may easily be knocked off by the action of your arm swinging forward (if the phone is in the vertical orientation). But by and large the phones stays in the holster. Overall, Otterbox has done an amazing job, if you buy this case with your phone, it will stay in mint condition! Simply wonderful.
A Columbus of Space
Just have to say that I finally broke down and bought a Wii. I bought one of the original XBox consoles about 9 years ago and it was great but I haven’t updated to anything new until now. I am so happy that I purchased the Wii instead of the XBox 360. The Wii is very family oriented and my 7 year old loves it. It’s a great game system for the 2 of us to play together. I love the fact that every game is so interactive. You don’t just sit on the couch and play mindlessly. You are actually involved in every game. I just love getting up and moving and being part of everything. I would definitely recommend this game system to anybody who is looking for fun and great graphics.
Chickenfoot Get Your Buzz
I was looking for a light-weight vac with easy change to attachments. My aching joints cannot push and lift my Kirby any longer. I purchased this based on customer reviews. Easy to assemble, yes it’s light-weight, great suction, so easy to switch from carpet vac to attachment use, long pliable cord. Such a relief. Thanks for specific reviews. I recommend especially for those with painful joints.
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I was really excited about the purchase of this scale with so many good reviews. So today I finally got the scale I put in the batteries..and what happened…the scale IS NOT WORKING!!!!!!!!!!! And then I went online to see that other customers had the same problem. So I am wonder if the company does any quality control on their products before they send them out?! I was really excited but it lead into disappointment very quickly. The scale is definitely RETURN!!
Black Semi Hard Digital
This watch has been great for me. I don’t currently use every feature but it is easy to use and quick to learn.
Coiled Power Hot Sync
I am writing this review after using it for 1 year, so you can count on this. I am very satisifed with this product so far. I use it on my Canon camera and it works great. we have used it exetensively and found it excellent. We stored pictures as well as videos.
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This book is generally considered a classic, and I can understand why. The plot elements are great, but the main character/narrator is not. Holden Caulfield is one of the least sympathetic characters in literary history. His voice is hard to read because it is so annoying. It is hard to imagine any real person speak or think like that, regardless of the time period. For most people, this book is very “Love it or hate it”; I think it is a must read for that reason. Everyone should make up their own mind about it.
Studentochka 1938
Like (probably) most folks who read this book, it was jammed down my throat as Required! Reading! in my Honors English class in High School (I guess they saved it for the Honors class because we were all Ivy-bound brilliants who wouldn’t be seduced into the gutter by all the naughty language and behavior depicted in the book).
Why?
Since when was rebellion for its own sake considered radical in the literary sense?
Reading this book was like getting stuck on the last commuter bus home next to a drunken, rambling teenager.
Its style may have been “radical” for its time, but it’s neither interesting nor particularly well-written. I have no idea why this is considered a “classic.”
To me, an example of a “classic” is something like Frank Herbert’s “Dune”–even though it was written back in the 60’s, before the lunar landing, it still remains an epic story in and of itself, even with the science fiction aspects removed. “Catcher” on the other hand is more of a period piece, and makes for boring reading, like most of the Bronte sisters’ works which we were also required to slog through (oooh, Edwardian social mores, and written by a WOMAN! How RADICAL and RELEVANT!! not….).
In short, this book for me sums up everything that’s wrong with the way that English-language literature is taught in school. No, we shouldn’t let kids read the funnies and the White Pages and call it literacy, but there has been enough new stuff in the past 40 years to push out some of the no-longer relevant stuff.
Having been a teacher, and seen first hand how subjects such as history and religion can be distorted and rewritten to serve an author’s prejudices and agendas, I can only advise people choosing to read this book to go to an original source for a true accounting. In this case, go to the Bible, God’s book of revelation of Himself if you want a true
‘conversation’ with Him. The audacity and sheer want of taste and intelligence of Walsch defies belief. Would you presume to write a book claiming you are speaking as God to define morality and truth? If the answer is yes, then do read conversations with god (lack of capitalization intentional) and determine how you too can advise people what is truth and make money at the same time. P.T. Barnum said it best, ‘there is a sucker born every minute’ and people will be lining up to buy your book. (But definitely make the truth palatable, and ‘prove’ that there are no consequences for immoral behavior, or as the ‘new truth’ of the seventies espoused..I’m okay, you’re okay) There will always be a ready audience for this premise. Unfortunately for you, the painful truth is that there ARE consequences for immoral choices, and you will be held accountable for misleading others, especially children. Matthew 16:26
What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Artemis Fowl is truly a book that would make you sit on your behinds and some more. If you read the book try not to blink! This book would prevent you from reading any other books at the same time. The magical adventure will blast you out of this world!!!
This story takes place in three different areas. The areas include Ho Chi Minh City, Artemis’s house, and an underground city where goblins, fairies, and other magical creatures lurk.
Young Artemis Fowl II tried to keep his family fortune by stealing a fairy LEPrecon cop (which was part of an underground magical police). He then realized that the allied LEPrecon fairies would plant a bomb that could vaporize the family and the guards. At the end, well I don’t want to spoil you with that right? But I will tell you that he gives the stolen fairy stolen gold to make a wish so he could survive the bomb. Artemis was a brilliant twelve year old and took secret classes that gave him enough intelligence to get prepared for fairy spells, goblin herds, magical bombs, and etcetera.
When I read this book it made me realize that selfishness won’t take you far in life. In the end you would regret everything you obtained. Like if you become selfish and became wealthy you would not want the money!!! Never become selfish in life your life would be meaningful.
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