Archive for April, 2010

I have been purchasing books from Amazon.com since they first opened for business. It has been fun watching them grow and prosper. They couldn’t have done that if they didn’t provide good service and products. I will continue to purchase from them.

The book I purchased was Conversations With God #1. I have already read this book and the others in the series over and over. I purchase it again from time to time to give to someone else. It is an important book.
Hensel Ultra Softbox IV

I have went through a dozen pedometers and have not been happy with any of them until now. I have finally found one that I love and one that hasn’t torn up after only a few days. I walk a lot and often wondered exactly how many steps I took. This little gadget tells that. It does a lot of stuff and that memory button is great! It has a very sturdy clip if you want to hang on your belt or you can just put in your pocket. I mention this because most clips break after a very short time and a lot of times when you stick a pedometer in your pocket, you erase it by touching the button pulling it out. Not with this one. It’s great!
Green Bay Packers Lunch

I enjoyed the book and its women who reveal – at least on a supeficial level – the relationships between the races in the South in the 60’s. The characters take you by the hand and lead you through their lives, which are more closely entwined then even they might realize.
Vanguard ESPOD 203AB 3

This book was a favorite of mine in my early childhood, and still holds together now. A truly fantastic world is created where magic and technology are blended together, and where both can be triumphed over by brainpower. Enjoyable by more than just children, Artemis Fowl is a truly excellent work of fiction.
Casio General Men s

At first I was wary of buying this vacuum due to its less than stellar reviews. I think peoples’ expectations were too high for this price point. After living with the vacuum for months I can confidently recommend this as a solid product. It is heavy, but that is because it has a powerful motor. I never had the attachments fall off – they seem secure. The foot tilt lever doesn’t seem that flimsy as long as you don’t stomp on it or force it. It’s ugly, but it is a utilitarian object. I can care less what it looks like as long as it gets the job done. For ~$75 you can go wrong.
Deluxe Digital SLR Camera

Microsoft Office Home and Student is perfect for the tasks on my pc. It included 3 licenses which was one of the positive features due to my son also using if for his Engineering class pc. The ordering was easy; the shipping was fast. One could not expect better!
Tony from the WHODAT Nation….
Esquire

Talk about going back in time! I remember reading this in school over 50 years ago…and what memories it brings back. Good stuff…I feel like a kid again!
UBUNTU Linux Spanish Edition

Why iScale? Because it embodies the thoughtful attention to detail and high quality that is the hallmark of Apple products. But it is even better because of two key points:
1. it’s much more fairly priced than Apple stuff;
2. superlative customer service

After reading the overwhelmingly positive customer feedback (and viewing the photos–it is beautiful), I ordered this scale from Amazon.com. When it arrived in the mail, I was not disappointed. Seriously, it’s even better in real life. This scale is everything people are saying here and MORE. I never imagined I could be so excited about a scale –but I am. First off, this scale is visually stunning. A lot of thought went into the design of this product, down to the placement of the batteries (embedded in the styrofoam packaging). The clear digital readout is a beautiful blue color (the PERFECT shade, I might add). This is a stunning product and does not need to be stowed away, like typical bathroom scales. It is a very simple design (an engineering feat in itself) which can be left out in the open, like your iPod. It is also very practical. It is easy to clean and it is designed in such a way that dust does not collect and get embedded). I appreciate this attention to detail, not just in its visual design, but in its functionality as well.

You guys are rock stars. The Apple of scales. Only BETTER. Well done.
Gates of Heaven

I lost my original when I was boarding a submarine in Maui. This one looks and works just like the original.
Nikon HB 35 Replacement

Unfortunately, I bought this book based on the rave reviews I was hearing from friends and associates. I couldn’t make it through the first chapter before I was forced to stop torturing myself. While I am an avid reader and will usually finish anything once I start reading, good or bad, the ’so called’ dialect used in The Help was painful. It was so far off the mark that it became the focal point of my experience and the story was lost. I know there may have been a struggle with Southern ‘black’ dialect but asking for help is not a crime. I am sure someone should have caught these errors before it went to the printing stage so the fault is not entirely the authors but she is surely at fault. Without reading the book I would question how accurate and ‘on-the-mark’ she would be on the maids perspective. After all if she chose not to research the dialect or use of language from southern blacks in the 60s it’s possible she was lazy in other areas as well. Again, I will never know and if anyone wants a slightly ‘used’ copy of The Help let me know before it becomes an altered book of art.
Violin Playtime Book 1