Southern lady she might be, but she packin' heat too!

Keep It Together ebook

Trying to move products out of the house that have Fluorescent lamps inside, since they contain toxic mercury. This quality LED based mirror fits the bill and I can finally get rid of my wife's old mirror that was illuminated with a fluorescent ring lamp / bulb. My wife loves this mirror! The other really bad thing about most fluorescent lamps is that they put out Ultra-Violet (UV) light, and that can cause eye problems over time. There is a lot of info on the web about UV and cataracts, macular degeneration, etc. Fluorescent lamps put out the highest amount of UV compared to other common light bulbs. The standard Edison bulb (incandescent) puts out very little UV, but a quality LED bulb puts out no UV. The LEDs in this mirror seem to be very high quality. You can tell by how the color red looks when illuminated with this mirror, compared to a cheap LED flashlight. Turn out the bathroom lights, and illuminate red on a package with this mirror, and then with this mirror off, illuminate red with an LED flashlight (all other lights out). The difference is incredible. Reds look better with this mirror than with our old fluorescent vanity mirror as well. Cheap LED mirrors use cheap LEDs, like the kind in flashlights. Do the test yourself if you have a cheap LED mirror. This is an excellent product, no toxic mercury, good for the environment and better for our health!

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WOW!! Finally, a lighted magnification mirror that works great!

simplehuman Sensor Mirror Sensor Activated Lighted

Trying to move products out of the house that have Fluorescent lamps inside, since they contain toxic mercury. This quality LED based mirror fits the bill and I can finally get rid of my wife's old mirror that was illuminated with a fluorescent ring lamp / bulb. My wife loves this mirror! The other really bad thing about most fluorescent lamps is that they put out Ultra-Violet (UV) light, and that can cause eye problems over time. There is a lot of info on the web about UV and cataracts, macular degeneration, etc. Fluorescent lamps put out the highest amount of UV compared to other common light bulbs. The standard Edison bulb (incandescent) puts out very little UV, but a quality LED bulb puts out no UV. The LEDs in this mirror seem to be very high quality. You can tell by how the color red looks when illuminated with this mirror, compared to a cheap LED flashlight. Turn out the bathroom lights, and illuminate red on a package with this mirror, and then with this mirror off, illuminate red with an LED flashlight (all other lights out). The difference is incredible. Reds look better with this mirror than with our old fluorescent vanity mirror as well. Cheap LED mirrors use cheap LEDs, like the kind in flashlights. Do the test yourself if you have a cheap LED mirror. This is an excellent product, no toxic mercury, good for the environment and better for our health!

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Another fantastic family hit from Pixar

Finding Nemo

YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE.

There. Now that I've said that, I should tell you that this is NOT solely a childrens' movie, but will be enjoyed as much (if not more) by adults. The cleverness of Pixar will never cease to amaze me. Only they could take a concept like a full-length movie about fish and make it totally believable. This film succeeds n being very, very funny. Heck, I'm 16 and saw it in the theater with only my mother. The two of us were laughing hysterically throughout the entire thing!

There's alot of sadness and emotion in this movie and some absolutely terrific voice acting--the voice cast is top-notch. There are some touching moments and subtle messages to be heard by all, not just kids. I look forward with anticipation to the DVD release of this wonderful movie. The suspense never lets up; encounters with jellyfish, a whale, and a deep-sea lanturn fish make every moment exciting.

As we know, every Disney/Pixar film is associated with its own special "short." Well, this one is the best yet, and the short film sets you up for the great feelings you'll have while seeing "Finding Nemo." I won't give away the storyline, but it involves a cute snowman, a water globe, and some tropical souvenirs that completely ready one for the overwhelming tropical-ness of the feature film.

One thing I can't get over is how true-to-life these characters are. The attention to finding a unique species for each fish is incredible and adds a whole new, educational, dimension to the movie. There are some memorable characters in "Finding Nemo." First and foremost is Marlin, the lovable clownfish who is an overprotective father to his adventurous son, Nemo. Then there's Dory, the regal blue tang with the memory problem. She provides much of the comic relief but is also an immensely "real" character. Bruce is a mako shark who wants to get rid of the typical image of sharks as mindless eating machines. Crush is a 150-year-old sea turtle with a cool-surfer-dude attitude. Nigel is a helpful pelican. The whole thing takes place in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.

And then there are the aquarium fish, who invite Nemo into their 'club' when he gets scooped from the sea. He goes through the initiation ceremony at Mt. Wannahockaloogee, complete with tiki statues and all. The animation is awesome. Their group includes Peach, the lookout starfish; Deb, a delusional fish who thinks her reflection is her sister; a French shrimp, a puffer fish, a yellow tang, and a royal gramma. They are led by Gill, a moorish idol who longs to return to the ocean.

This film is excellent; it deserves a sequel...

Overall this is one film that nobody should miss--parents, kids, or otherwise. I hope this review has convinced you to go get yourself a ticket to "Finding Nemo."

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Awesome watch!

Casio GR8900A 7 G Shock Tough Digital

I have small wrists and the thing is big but fits. Not bulky or heavy as I would have thought (which is a good thing). Solid construction (as expected for a G-Shock). Doesn't squeak like another poster commented about. Great illumination - light blue text on dark purple background...very easy to see in the dark. Digits not as easy to see in daylight as other watches, but you'd be buying those watches if 100% clarity was your number one priority. This isn't hard to see per se, just not as easy as others. It might take you maybe a millisecond or more than usual to make out the digits. If you're like me, you're gonna end up looking at your watch, immediately forgetting the time and having to look at it again.

Easy to set up and pretty sweet arm candy (though a hot woman would definitely trump this). I put it on and don't feel all full of douchebaggery that people with big bright watches are prone to having.

Simple concept - big white watch with cool functions that can take an ass-kicking.

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Wonderful Time Travel

If Cant Have You ebook

I enjoy time travel stories. I especially enjoy romantic time travel stories, beginning with the first time I saw "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Berg's delightful foray into the genre is not eclipsed by "Somewhere..", however. It succeeds on so many levels, beginning with the allure the old time Hollywood stars held for America -- Gable, Power, Flynn, et al -- and now we have Montgomery. Picturing in one's mind's eye the glamour of the estates, the posh parties, the fancy cars, and those wonderful b/w films from the 1930s -- ah, it almost makes one long to return to those days -- to the Hollywood that no longer exists except in dreams.

But it's better to read about them and escape into a never-never land of romance. That's what happened when I read this book. I had a wonderful reading experience, and had a tear in my eye at the end (all the while smiling). I thank Ms. Berg for putting her talent to "paper" and making my day a whole lot brighter!

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A wonderful sequel to the Marann

Daughters Suralia Tales Tolari ebook

I've been waiting anxiously for Daughters of Suralia for months, since I read The Marann.

This was a challenging book and really brought home that even though the Tolari are humanlike, they think differently than humans and they will act in different ways from humans. Consequently, some of the actions that propel the plot forward will challenge some readers. I think this is great, because if I wanted to read a romance about a culture that is the same as mine, well, then, I'd have picked up a Harlequin Romance. Daughters of Suralia is definitely not that. The author is clear that the differences ARE hard for her human characters to take. She doesn't make them acquiesce to everything that is strange and hard to understand. And it's not all sunny days, either.

The writing was good, I understood where things were going and unlike so many self-published books, this one was edited so there weren't any grammar, spelling or punctuation howlers to interrupt the flow. I am looking forward to more books about the Tolari and their interactions with the humans as well as the other races of space.

Thank you, Christie Meierz, for another lovely book.

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Pestilence: Looking in the Rear View Mirror

Pestilence A Medieval Tale Plague

As a public health worker, I was excited to pick up Pestilence, by Jeani Rector. And I was not disappointed. Whenever I pick up a book in which disease is a big feature in the story, I often get ready to pick it apart if it's not someone who has a background in infectious disease, because I'm kind of a jerk like that. But there wasn't much to pick at. Ms. Rector has clearly done a lot of research, not just about the disease and its history, but about the conditions of London and the feudal system. And she does something that few authors do so well as this author does: show how all of the different conditions contributed to the perfect storm. I'm a medical anthropologist. I have little snippets of knowledge about very specific things, but I'll confess that medieval history, names and dates, are not my forte. I struggled to stay awake in history class as soon as dates and names of people started droning from my teachers' mouths. But if I had had a book like this when I was in school, I would have remembered every history lesson. Not only does she explain the history of the Black Death, but each of her characters was alive and engaged me in caring about what happened to them, whether that was holding my breath hoping that the heroine survives, or wanting to stab the bad guys and rub fleas all over them. She has created a living history. I would use this book to teach because bringing events to life is the best way to engage people and make them remember.

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