Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Wii + Netflix = Bad Movie Marathon Madness

I’ve been a fan and owner of Nintendo’s Wii con­sole for some time. When I heard a while back that Net­flix was going to start allow­ing peo­ple to stream movies to the Wii; I got very excited. I signed up for the ser­vice the first chance I got and waited eagerly for the disc to […]

Al’s Back!

The floods which dev­as­tated Iowa in 2008 wiped out many busi­ness around Cedar Rapids, but one in par­tic­u­lar which has been missed was Zindrick’s. It was a fine din­ing restau­rant spe­cial­iz­ing in Czech food and which made the most won­der­ful cherry strudel ever con­ceived by man. This past Tues­day Zindrick’s at long last re-opened (under […]

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Review: Bag of Holding

My employer for my day job pro­vides me with a 17″ screen lap­top and has pro­vided a back­pack style bag to haul it around in. Unfor­tu­nately my first bag shred­ded itself over the course of a year. The replace­ment bag I got was hold­ing up bet­ter… until our cat had an unfor­tu­nate acci­dent near it. […]

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Dannon Coffee Yogurt, Take 2

As I find it amaz­ing that peo­ple are still com­ment­ing on this post, over 3 years after it was writ­ten, I decided to buy another cup of the yogurt to see if it had improved since I last tried it. Appear­ance: No change. This yogurt still looks like some­thing very, very nasty rather than food. Scent: N/A. […]

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Review: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Note: This review is based upon an uncor­rected proof which I received via a give­way on GoodReads. I don’t, as a rule, read True Crime; I do enjoy a good mys­tery. So when I saw this book being offered in a give­away over at GoodReads.com; I felt I just had to enter.  Then when I […]

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