Archive for December, 2009
My Friends Love This Game. On the heels of the successful Wits & Wagers comes the 3rd offereing from Northstar Games: Say Anything !
Say Anything comes packed with a ton of random questions that players select to read to their friends. After eveyone writes down an opinion on their little wipeboard, the reader secretly decides the answer they like best. Everyone then bets on the answer(s) they think the reader will select. Once the reader’s choice is revealed, points are scored.
This game plays a lot like Apples to Apples but is better on a few counts.
- The questions and anwers make sense. Since everyone writes tehir own, it is always applicable tot he question. There is no forcing of two unrelated cards.
- The game is more personal. It’s all about you and your friends and what they like and think.
- There is a maximum 3 points that can be awarded to each player, each round. So it keeps the game tight until the end and balances a windfall of points on “obvious” answers.
- Though it is subjective, there is a chance to be consistent in answering if you know a little about the reader.
My friends have all enjoyed this game. This is another game where they play it and want to go out and buy it the next day. This is a great game that should be added to every party gamer’s collection!
Blokus is good for the whole family. I bought this game for Christmas. I have 3 kids age 9,7 and 5. All three of them are able to play! It is a good strategy game for the whole family. I even like to play it, as an adult. It is worth the money!
No regrets!!. This bike trainer is no cheap piece of equipment. It is well built and looks like Bell Motivator Mag Indoor Bicycle Trainer will last. It is very noisy on knobby tires. I changed my tires to some slicks and the noise was down drastically. Set up was very easy. Just unfold and you are done. This is my first bike trainer so I cannot really compare to other expensive trainers out there. No regrets on this purchase.
Just Great !. i use this chain cleaner yesterday to clean my chain in mountain bike and after finishing i said : WAW !
the chain become new like first time i bought the bike !
the cleaner is very good quality also
buy one of this !
Realy you will need Park Tool CG-2 Chain Gang Chain Cleaning System
Great while CycleOps Fluid 2 Indoor Bicycle Trainer lasted. So my fluid trainer is a couple of years old now. For the first couple of “off-seasons”, I really enjoyed it. But it slowly grew noisier. Finally, just a couple of days ago, I burned out the chrome cylinder that the rear wheel rides on. Come to find out, that I know of one other person that had this identical problem! Like I said, mine is a couple of years old (so was my friend’s) so maybe the problem has been identified. Another friend has one that is less than a year old but he’s gonna sell it to me cause he never uses it…hopefully it lasts longer than mine did! For the time that it worked, my trainer was really great…just expect more that a couple years from a trainer that cost me $300.
Good luck!
You get what you pay for…don’t go cheap on this!. We were all set for our bike ride…we made WeeRide Co-Pilot Bike Trailer about 1 mile, if that, and the WeeRide wheel froze up—wouldn’t budge….we were stranded unless my daughter and I wanted to walk and drag the tire all the way home which would have ruined the tire and at that point I didn’t know what was wrong so I decided against that. Fortunately a police man happened to be driving by and had to give us a ride home…so much for the bikeride and picnic my daughter was soo excited about.
Turned out, per our local bike repair shop, that there was a factory defect with the wheel. The sprocket on the wheel was cross threaded– which relative to the cost of the bike, was a costly repair.
Had to return the bike. My recommendation: Don’t go cheap- you get poor quality!
Okay lens, good value for money, but…. I bought this lens last year and used Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS for a while. The pictures I got were pretty decent, and the Image Stabilization works well, but after a few months I found I was favoring other lenses. This one is currently resting in a lens bag in a drawer and isn’t likely to come out anytime soon.
The reasons for this are basically as follows:
1. Not fast enough (f/4). Granted, we all probably take many pictures at f/4 to f/8 or more, but you can’t really do decent indoor photography without a flash or studio lighting at f/4, and the inability to create very shallow depth of field at the shorter focal lengths is a problem. When possible, I try to buy lenses that can do f/2.8 or better, especially at focal lengths of 100mm or less (f/5.6 at 250mm is tolerable, but f/4 at 55mm, no).
2. Not sharp enough. Sharpness isn’t bad on this lens, but it’s not great either.
3. If a lens can do 250mm, I keep finding I want a bit more than that. But once I bought another lens that could go farther, I found I didn’t need this one anymore because that lens covers most of this one’s range and is a lot sharper. (It’s also more than double the price, though.)
So, overall, this is a pretty decent but not spectacular image-stabilized telephoto zoom lens for Canon APS-C cameras. If it’s all you can afford, then you may find it satisfactory, and it’s a nice companion to the EF-S 18-55mm IS lens that comes in the Rebel kits these days. But if your budget will allow you to get a better lens (or two better lenses for wider coverage), I think you’ll probably be happier in the long run if you do that.
Rainforest sounds and lights are a winner. Good product, arrived on time and relatively easy to asemble. Baby loves the rainforest sounds and lights.
Returned and got a Didj instead. My 5 year old had a leapster 1 but I wanted to get something with the same connectivity as the Tag reader we also have, and the Leapster 2 does that, as well as lets you also download other games to it. The L2 worked fine with game cartridges, but between my five computers here at home with operating sytsems ranging from windows xp through windows 7 beta, the unit would not be recognized by their software. Every computer saw the unit, even saw the SD card inside of it, but their own software just could not connect to it. And the Tag reader worked fine on every one as well. Was just too much time wasted trying to get LeapFrog Leapster 2 Learning Game System – Green to work, so returned and figured I’d try a Didj. Glad I did. The screen is so much better, resolution, clarity, it’s just a much better platform from a techie standpoint. I’ll miss his having the touch screen, but the Didj just worked when I plugged it into his computer, leap frog’s connect software saw it right away, updated it, and everything went as it should. Complete opposite of the Leapster 2… So we’ll just stick with the Leapster 1 for the existing games, and use the Didj moving forward.
It was fun. It was fun to play with my little 10 year old sister, even had our mother join in.