Archive for June, 2010

I’ve used this 16GB SDHC card as extra storage for my HP Mini, which has a 16GB SSD instead of a large regular hard drive. Effectively, this doubles my storage for cheap, and the card is plenty fast enough for accessing documents and music. I’ve had it for about 6 months, have it full of music, keep it in my Mini all of the time, and haven’t had any problems yet.

Amazon’s frustration-free packaging is nice too.
Pampers Overnight Extra Protection

Never had so much fun making a fool of myself (you find out how un-coordinated you really are), but laughed and enjoyed it anyway while getting some of that hated EXERCISE. Highly reccomend everyone to give it a try.
Nikon CoolPix S220 S225

This is a great scale. It is very easy to read. The first one that was sent to me was defective. I called the company and had the new scale within 48 hours. Plus they were very pleasant on the phone. I love great customer service!
Petsafe HoundHunter SD 3200

Absolutely the best pedometer on the market…I use it personally daily…never go anywhere without it and I recommend it for all my patients who I am healthcoaching. I have found that myself and my patients come more consisitently close or exceed my recommendations of 10000 steps a day when they use this.
Dr Pletcher
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Match Head Design Protective

Please don’t get me wrong. I am all for preserving our diminishing environment but is it really worth the hassle of cleaning leaked diapers?

While gDiapers will surely depend on the baby, every time my boy poops (especially between 1-4 months), 90% of the time, his poop leaks out. I’m not a diaper newbie, either – I’ve been using Pampers Swaddlers when he was 0-1 months old with almost 0% failure/leakage rates. Perhaps it may be due to my boy’s powerful pooping abilities or the amount of sheer poop that comes out of the little guy (or a combination of both!), but I wouldn’t be surprised if other potential buyers suffer the same malady as I did because I just don’t think the diapers are well constructed.

First and foremost, typical (and environmentally not as good) diapers, such as Pampers, have elastic edges that conform to your baby’s butt to ensure the lowest chances of any leakage. These gDiapers have inner absorbent liners that have NO such edges. The plastic liner that you put the absorbent liners on does have an elastic band that makes a snug fit on your baby, but when poop gets into this plastic liner, you have to clean it! Most of the time, when poop makes its way to the plastic liner, it most likely already got to the cloth exterior, too. So what’s worse – a little diaper that ends up in the landfill, or using 10-20 gallons of water trying to clean the poop from the plastic and cloth liners each time they get sullied? Oh, and how about the half hour spent cleaning these things?

Stay away from gDiapers and stick with the commercial diapers. I love the gDiapers concept, but I think they have a little ways to go in terms of construction. The funny thing is that you probably WILL use those commercial diapers because if your child dirties the 2 or 4 gDiaper cloth exteriors you have, yet you didn’t have time to watch them yet, you’re going to go back to the big-name diapers!
gDiapers Flushable Refills Small

You all heard the saying. You all said the saying: ‘If I had a nickel….’ Well let’s try it on Miss Meyer’s vocabulary skills. I gave Twilight a chance and after halfway through the third book I couldn’t read anymore. Stephenie Meyer has the vocabulary skills of a thrid grader at best. Now before you hassle me on her skills, let’s take a look. It’s not the same word here or there. It’s everywhere. Let’s start with the most used word: ‘Slowly’.

I used Amazon’s SEARCH INSIDE page on all four books of Twilight. Can any of you guess what the grand total was? Not 100. Not 200. It was 244 times. 244 times she used the word ’slowly’. Now let’s use that old saying. 244 nickels is twenty-four dollars and forty cents. I can fill my gas tank almost all the way with that kind of money. Still not convinced? Okay, ’slowly’ can be used alot by some authors. Let’s let at some more.

‘Perfect’ is the second highest. Edward’s perfect face is said so many times with the word ‘perfect’. The total? 162 times. That’s sixteen dollars and twenty cents.

let’s add together ‘grimace’ and ‘grimaced’. Total? 49 times.

And finally, Edward’s ‘crooked’ smile. Total? 19 times.

When you add up the grand total of all these excess words, you get a whopping 474 over used words. Nearly fifty dollars in nickels. I can not only fill up my gas tank all the way but I can enjoy myself with a coffee and pastry at Starbucks and a mass-market book to read while I’m there with more to spare in my pocket.

Stephanie Myeyer, please for the love of God, get yourself a thesaurus! For all our sakes, please stop!

Fun Shaped Bandz Zoo

I really enjoyed reading this book! I was surprised how many times I laughed out loud as I read the story of a man who found himself working in the circus. I highly suggest this book to those that just want to be told a story. No mystery, some romance and lots of laughs and thrills. I will read other books from this author!
500VA Low Profile Tower

Amazon had a great price on Windows 7. I think it’s best to keep current with the latest operating systems. So far I haven’t discovered all the neat things it does, but it seems to be efficient and working well.
Progressivism and the New

The vacuum cleaner is a joke. It does not work at all.
We have got a carpet and even the most obvious dirt is not cleaned up.
I cannot understand how this product got so good reviews. It makes a hell of a noise but does not pick up anything from the carpet. I was never that disappointed with a product.
Danaher Tool Group KDS3377

Water For Elephants follows Jacob Jankowski who is either 90 or 93, he can’t remember, as he reminisces about his days during the most trying time in his life. He was about to graduate from Cornell with his degree in veterinary medicine when he gets word that both of his parents have died. Not only that, but he finds out that because of the economy (during the great depression) his father’s veterinary business was so far under that their house is taken and the business is gone. He has nothing left but to take his final exam and somehow start a new life completely on his own. In the middle of his exam he breaks down, runs away and hops a train out of town… but it’s not just any train, it ends up being a circus train for the Benzini Bros circus and they don’t like stowaways. This begins a roller coaster ride that will last 3 1/2 months with a crash course in taking care of large animals, understanding business, befriending a grouchy midget and learning what love truly is.

Passion, hatred, murder and even a wild animal stampede add to the delight I found in this book. We see glimpses of the 93 yr old Jacob living in a nursing home feeling helpless followed by wonderful tales of his life on the circus train with Rosie, Walter and the lovely Marlena. I found it to be extremely well written and it flowed nicely always making you want to read on and see what will happen. Sara Gruen did a great job of switching back and forth between young and old Jacob and keeping the story just as interesting while in either time. I was just as attached to and invested in 93 yr old Jacob as I was in the young handsome veterinarian with morals and principles from Benzini Bros Circus of 1931.

I definitely recommend this book and will probably read it again once I make it through my summer TBR list.
BTM 11 Compact Optical