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The Hunger Games
Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews
Just under a year ago, a friend introduced my wife and I to the Hunger Games. I started reading the books and in just 4 days had read all 3 books. I loved them, interesting characters (good and bad), intense situations and plenty of sentimentality So when I heard a movie was being made of the […]
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Books, Headspaces & Other Notes
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life
Books & Headspaces Sometimes it really surprises me how much my enjoyment of a book is linked to my current headspace. For example, I read The Magicians a year or so ago and I recall really liking it. But this time around, I hated it. Well in truth the book was ok; what really I […]
Tags: Books, Headspace, health, Shoes
Do Not Buy!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews
A while back I wrote about this headset I’d won in a contest over at iLounge and sponsored by Mobile Line Communications. For the first couple of weeks, I was pretty happy with the headset. Then it developed a short or something that caused the left ear-piece to only work randomly. Annoying. Very annoying. So I looked […]
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Wii + Netflix = Bad Movie Marathon Madness
Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews
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!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Dining Out, Food, Reviews
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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