Archive for May, 2010
Crazy on Basket Gift Northwest Hospitality
The dashboard on my Acura has a lot of curves and I was skeptical about the stability of this item when I bought it, but it has enough weight and contours to the shape of my dash, so my Garmin is very stable, even over speed bumps. The GPS is easy to lock to the pad, adjusts horizontally and is easy to remove.
Northwest Hospitality Gift Basket
Cool RAM Systems RAM Mounting
It’s rare that I am surprised and astounded by the performance of a product. I’ve used a Ultimate Touch Instant Mat & Tangle Remover and it’s like for a long time on my cats. I have a fairly long haired cat that doesn’t shed excessively, but does shed. I can spend a 15 minutes working over my cat with the aforementioned and get an amount of fur equal to maybe 5 seconds with the FURminator.
I can see why they say it helps to reduce shedding. My cat enjoyed being groomed with this, for a while. Then he started nipping at me as if to say “I’ve had enough of this”. By that time (about 10 minutes) I’d gotten perhaps 2 or 3 heaping handfuls of loose fur off of him. He looks fine, and his coat feels great.
I will never use another cat brush again. There is no need to find a better product, and every product I’ve tried thus far has been vastly inferior to this one. The small size is just fine for a cat-sized animal.
Highest rating; best of breed.
RAM Mounting Systems RAM
Wanna Island Coney Print Canvas
Very happy to receive this item sooner than promised. No problems at all with this card. It is very quick with my Panasonic Lumix and I look forward to taking as many pictures as I want without having to swap out smaller memory cards.
Also, love your frustration free packaging. Less trash to spread on the earth. Keep up the good work Amazon.
Canvas Print Coney Island
Honey for a Teen details
I bought this book because I have previously seen “Honey For A Child’s Heart” at a Christian book fair. I was disappointed to see so many books mentioned that I wouldn’t want my teen to read. Save your money.
++Added later:
I found my notebook that I took notes in for this book. One example of a really poor suggestion on the author’s part is a book written by Madeleine L’Engle – “House Like a Lotus.” At one point, the auther of “Honey…” writes about how the book is not good and compares it with Judy Bloom’s infamous “Forever” (a book which was banned at my school library going up). In the back of the book, “House Like a Lotus” is in her recommended reading section. I was confused.
She also recommends Pear S. Buck’s “The Good Earth.” I read “The Good Earth” in college. Because of the heavy subject matter I would not recommend it for a teen. The author also recommends the Harry Potter series. Yes, I read these books because I am an adult who is strong in her faith. I did read them so that I wouldn’t be considered (to paraphrase author of “Honey…”) an ignorant Christian that won’t read a book just because of a misunderstood email. I read the “Potter” books and felt as though they glamourized witchcraft. The author says it is the classic good -vs- evil. However, I would argue that it is evil -vs- really evil. The author compares the “Potter” books to those written by Tolkein or C.S. Lewis. The caveat is: Tolkein and C.S. Lewis were men of faith. J.K Rowling stated in an interview that she thought of Dumbledore as a homosexual while writing the books.
These are just a few of the reasons not to trust this book. I am saddened as I really wanted to like “Honey For A Teen’s Heart.” I have yet to find a book as thorough as this, but that has a higher moral compass. Instead I will rely on word of mouth from trusted friends with a stronger core values.
Honey for a Teen
Mad about Volume Ramayan 1 Stories
I LOVE my new Hoover Tempo! It’s a great little vacuum. For many years I’ve been using ‘better’ models, but no more. I’ve had problems with them all over the almost 30 years I’ve been a wife and mother, and after buying this model for my son and daughter-in-law a few months ago (and they LOVE their’s) I decided to buy myself one. It has great suction, and is lightweight and easy for me to maneuver and carry around.
My only criticisms are… I wish the electrical cord was about twice as long, and that the hose was made of a bit beefier plastic…but both are very livable as is.
Ramayan Volume 1 Stories
Think of Compatible 4 pack of ?
This brush was referred to me by a friend and I am more than pleased with the purchase. It does exactly what it says it will and is effective in reducing further shedding. While you cannot expect any amount of brushing to completely eliminate stray hairs around the house this brush will make a good start!
4 pack of Compatible
Night Skies test
As a teen in the 60’s I remember “How it was” with the racial issues. Although I lived in Pa, it was a fact that even here, blacks were second class citizens and injustice was common place. I think this novel was pretty much accuate in the portrail of life during that time. i really enjoyed the book. My only disapointment was the abrupt ending. Like other reviewers, I would have liked to have more of the loose ends tied up. It left me wanting more. This is a relly good read for anyone who wants to step back in time to the way it was during that era. Loved each of the charecters!
Night Skies
Think of Bottle iQ Philips Avent ?
..any philips avent product if you think it will make your life with your baby any easier! We have purchased the avent IQ sterilizer which stopped working after a day, the BPA bottles which all leak and after receiving this bottle warmer today it worked once and has stopped! All the buttons are flashing which according to the manual means the lid is not closed properly, it is a rather flimsy catch to close it, but seriously, how can you close a lid incorrectly? After contacting philips avent helpline for the first two items they did send replacements after several phone calls and rather reluctantly! It appears to be too much to ask for an avent product to work and I will ensure I NEVER buy anything from them again!
Philips Avent iQ Bottle
Crazy on Hard Shell Memory Foam
Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old millionaire, a genius, and a criminal mastermind. The story begins in Vietnam where Artemis and his servant Butler track down a fairy who has the Fairy Bible. Artemis plans to use the book to capture a fairy and charge a ransom of 2 tons of gold in exchange for the fairy’s safety. Unfortunately for Captain Holly Short an ace office of the LEPrecon unit, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was captured by Artemis and Butler, while trying to renew her fairy powers. But Artemis going to learn that these fairies aren’t the same as the bedtime story fairies, their lethal and dangerous and won’t give up on one of comrades without a fight. So when Commander Root (head of LEPrecon unit) and Foaly (a centaur in head the LEPrecon transportation and surveillance network) notice Holly is missing they find evidence that Artemis Fowl is behide the kidnapping and has Holly under the watchful of Juliet (Butler’s little sister). But Commander Root had a situation, he had to save Holly within 24 hour or Lieutenant Cudgeon would blue rise (a bio-bomb that kills all living tissue in an area) the Fowl Manor in the time-freeze field. Captain Trouble and his retrieval squad were the first victims to be defeated by Butler while he was wearing one of their helmets that could see them they were invisible. During the conflict outside, Holly put Juliet in a trance, renewed her powers, and escaped from her captivity cell. Sense Root knew Artemis was thinking the LEPrecon unit was going to follow the book’s rules he took prisoner Mulch Diggums (drawf) to break in Fowl Manor. Mulch got inside the manor took a copy of Artemis’s Fairy Bible and got out as an escaped prisoner. Just as Root was about to pay the ransom, Lieutenant Cudgeon put a full grown bull troll in the manor. Butler took the troll on and lost, Holly got hurt also but healed Butler with her powers, then Butler deated the troll with a lance in a suit of armor and threw it back in the hover trol
Memory Foam Hard Shell
I Lessons Learned 52 focus
This cable works just as well as any high dollar cable (such as Monster). The connectors are not gold plated like Monster cables are, but I guarantee you TV or BluRay/Sat aren’t either. So, having Gold on the cable does absolutely no good preventing oxidation since the plug will oxidize, even if the cable does not.
I’ve been a broadcast engineer for 27 years, and I can unequivocally say gold plating does absolutely no good. This cable works perfectly, meets all of the fastest speed specs, and is working perfectly for me in mission critical areas at the station.
Save $100. Buy this cable.
52 Lessons I Learned