Archive for May, 2010
The only thing I could say about this product is just be sure your gps device fits this particular product. It only supports a particular type.
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You’ll have to look for an important sentence before you buy Windows PowerPoint home/student edition. It is not allowed for commercial use. That includes showing your presentation to any sort of audience – whether they pay to get in or not. Consequently you can only create presentations for your own amusement, I guess.
That was not brought forth in my purchase of PowerPoint and I’m damned mad that Microsoft got my 99 dollars without very clearly – in headline sized type – telling me the product is useless because I can’t show the presentation to anyone. I don’t know what the punishment might be. A personal whipping from Bill Gates, a fine, or what?
I’m glad to have found this out BEFORE I went to the expense of learning how to use it. I’ll just download something else – once I’ve determined they don’t care how I use it, and I guess I just eat the $99.
My dog is a German Sheperd/Husky mix and she sheds a lot.
She loves getting brushed and this tool is no exception.
Tons of fur is always on the ground after just a quick session with the tool.
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Love these…Gave them to my 7yo. son for Christmas with a Nerf gun! They have provided hours of entertainment and we only have a few missing due to where he shot them.
Nerf Suction Darts 36pk
This item stopped working within 3 days. I sent it back, but Beach Camera could not guarantee my money back. I got some San Disk Extreme 3 8GB cards instead. I would not bother with this, though the price is right, according to the reviews, it has about a 20% chance of failure, and nonrecovery of photos. The SanDisk cards come with a lifetime warrenty and recovery software. Just spend a little extra and get the good cards.
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I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.
When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.
Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.
I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
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I’m going to go out on a limb here. Let me get right to the point: This is a terrible book.
Harsh? Maybe, but that’s how it is. About the time Artemis Fowl hit the market, I heard it claimed that Eoin Colfer was 14 when he wrote it. On some simple checking of dates, the claim seems unlikely (he was 36 when it was published). But the book is so badly written that it’s believable. If this was fanfic, everyone would be pointing at the protagonist and shouting “Gary Stu! Gary Stu!” (If that doesn’t ring any bells, try looking up “Mary Sue” instead.) The descriptive style … well, what can one say about the descriptive style? Phil Foglio uses some very similar characterisations in his Myth books. (Compare Guido and Nunzio to Fowl’s butler, for example.) The difference is, Foglio is writing humorous — and occasionally risqué — parody (and doing a good job of it) … but Colfer is serious. And it just doesn’t work. The characters are cardboard and flat; the plot is predictable and stereotyped, and yet manages to strain even a teenager’s willing suspension of disbelief with its excesses of “But wait, there’s more.”
Granted, this is supposed to be “young adult” fiction. But so is Harry Potter; and the qualkity of writing and plot development in Harry Potter are so far above Artemis Fowl that there’s scarcely any comparision. I know if anyone had given me a copy of Artemis Fowl when I was a “young adult”, I’d have been insulted that they thought my reading level was so low.
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Look no further, I wanted to find more information about this watch and do some more extensive research before my purchase. Then I stumbled onto this blog by DC Rainmaker and I was sold! This review was the most informative review I found so far. I’ve had the watch for almost a month now and I love it and got exactly what I expected from the review. Great training device, and most importantly I think the watch makes the running that much more fun.
Artemis Fowl is a genius and a criminal mastermind, plus he is 13. It all starts when Artemis hears about fairies. After a long search Artemis gets his hands on a Fairy Bible. With the help of his bodyguard Artemis captures a fairy, a police fairy. After the capture there came war between 3 humans and a fairy army, but it took place in his house. A great fantasy incorporated into modern times.
I think that Artemis Fowl is a brilliant book. I love how Eoin Colfer used technology with the fairies. He created a whole new image of fairies in my head after I started reading through it. I would definitely recommend this book to any one who likes fantasy. It might be a fantasy but it is also seems like science fiction at times, with all the fairy technology being so far advanced to anything we have today. It was a real page turner too. There was never really a dull moment in the book. Whenever Artemis thinks there is either a plan coming up or something must be going on, say a conflict. So whenever Artemis doesn’t think it settles down, but that is very rarely. Even though it was a good book the plot isn’t very believable. You don’t really hear of 13 year old boys being smarter than most adults, who is a criminal mastermind. If there was a civilization underground by now I also think that it would be discovered. Even though it was unbelievable I very much enjoyed the style of writing. I’m already a fan of fantasy, and to add futuristic items just really made me enjoy it. The best part is how he turned fairy terms we know of into something else like our leprechaun is actually LEPrecon, a retrieval team to get back fairies. Overall, if I could I would rate Artemis Fowl a 7 out of 5.
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