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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 […]

Tags: Food, Reviews

Review: Bag of Holding

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews

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. […]

Tags: bag, gear, Reviews

Dannon Coffee Yogurt, Take 2

Posted by Mark | Filed under Food, Reviews

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. I made […]

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Review: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews

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 was […]

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Zenni Optical

Posted by Mark | Filed under Reviews

I have been very near-sighted since I was in 3rd grade. After the optometrist completed my first eye exam, he called my mother in to ask “how did this child find his way to school?” As you might imagine, this makes me no stranger to wearing glasses. But during my high school/early college years I […]

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