Epinions Recent Reviews for CyberChas

Performances & Story Arrive on Time at THE TERMINAL

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:03:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - THE TERMINAL is a fish-out-of-water story where the fish is Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski -- an Eastern European traveler to New York who finds himself suddenly caught in a bureaucratic no-mans-land-- and the alien place he finds himself trapped and -- in...

A Spring Break Film for Horny Kids

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:16:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - This is a film with a very specific audience -- the spring break crowd. If you are a young man or woman of age 15 to 22 who is having a boring spring break and want a little film to perk your spirits, then you will find this one is a blend of RISKY...

Plantronics M110 hands free headset SAVES LIVES

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:47:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - OK. First we have to accept that we WANT to be using our mobile phone hands-free in the car and/or on the street. In either case we have to accept that people are going to look at us like we're a little crazy. After all, until a few years ago, people...

Moore 34, Jesus 32 at halftime

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:28:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - Christopher Moore is quite the risk-taker. Perhaps he looked at himself and saw that he had the satirical talent of Vonnegut and Adams; the style of Barry; and the literary construction skills of a young John Irving, and decided that he was ready to...

A great start -- but badly timed.

Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:24:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - Jenny McPhee is an extraordinarily unlucky author. What terrible timing it is to have written a wonderful, existential and life-questioning first novel and then to have it published in August of 2001. You couldn’t do much worse if you had invested your...

One of the best 100 books of the 20th Century.

Fri, 11 May 2001 20:42:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - His work is terrific. It's witty. Very well written. The characters are cleverly filled out and very REAL and the situations are delightful. It is full of the whimsy that you would expect from Douglas Adams, the intellect you would expect from John...

The FIRST book to make the I-CHING accessible and usable.

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:38:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I had never planned to review this book for epinions; I had already written one for Amazon and B&N and (by way of a "truth in advertising" disclaimer) I wrote the forward for the book itself and am (quite) related to the authors (they are...

Ceiva Digital Picture Frame 8.5 in. Flat Panel LCD Monitor: An Early-Adopter Toy, but it WORKS

Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:49:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I have a half-sister and a step brother and we're all heavily "wired" and quite bleeding edge, but we share a "dad" who is a neo-luddite and hasn't turned on a computer for two years.

For a May birthday-combo-early-Father's...

Irving at his the top of his game? Perhaps.

Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:09:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - Disclaimer: I love every book John Irving has written except for SON OF THE CIRCUS (too damned slow and plodding and lacking the FUN and HUMOR that makes the intensity and depth of thought worth working through) going back to the early works like THE...

Eddie, Eddie and Steve make BOWFINGER fun.

Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:49:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - This one really works, perhaps because it's NOT an "Eddie Murphy Film" but a Frank Oz film that happens to INCLUDE Eddie Murphy. Lately it seems that when Eddie is "in charge" there's nobody around with the clout to tell him that...

Finally retired my daytimer

Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:43:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I've had a Daytimer (R) planner for 20+ years. (Yea, I know, I'm "old.") This is the first September that I've let my pages lapse. That I won't have the trusty binder. I already has pages this year, since I got my PalmIII as a gift last...

Moore, Christopher: Christopher Moore -- Vonnegut meets Irving meets Adams

Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:45:34 GMT

Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.

Tue, 14 Sep 1999 04:00:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - The first of many great things about this book is that I was able to decide I loved it without having to pay a penny. I was able to download the first four chapters of this text online for free and THEN decide whether or not I wanted to buy the rest...

We love it! A magic film that recharges the soul.

Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:58:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I'm not gonna spoil it for you. Our family LOVES this film and we try to watch it every New Year's Eve as a way to recharge our souls and prepare for the next year's challenges. I can't promise that YOUR family will do the same, or even feel the same...

A Near-Perfect Film. Nuff said.

Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:49:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - Without revealing the plot, let me say this: if you haven't seen this film, make it the next one you see.

THE PRINCESS BRIDE is one of the most well crafted films ever made. It has a PERFECT script by William Goldman that can not be faulted...

One word: DESCRE

Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:18:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - What's DESCRE? And what's it got to do with THE SOUND OF MUSIC? Easy. DESCRE is what you get when you take WIDESCREEN and cut off each side. Lose the WI at the beginning and EN at the end and you've got something left that doesn't make any sense.
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A very short book with a very small audience, but...

Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:06:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - There's a simple problem with Hitchins book. Stark raving rightists (Dittoheads, etc.) will think he goes too easy on Bill Clinton. Many leftists and liberals who can't bear to hear critique of their standard-bearer will feel as if he's gutting...

ICQ: Gotta Love ICQ

Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:25:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I like it. Even with the AOL'ish new features. It's still great. As a long-time ICQ user (#6735953 is my SECOND account) I've come to appreciate and love "instant messaging" long before it was the big buzz.

ICQ was a great product...

Nextel: Uggggg. Busy. No tone. Etc.

Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:41:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I'm not going to review the specific plan for my NexTel i1000 (I think it's the 650/month deal) since the company pays for it and I haven't gone over my allocation and it hasn't been a problem.

The network however sucks. Yes, I'll use...

It's brilliant and GREAT! A must-have for a writer.

Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:27:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - The other review of this product seems to be critiquing the Palm itself and/or some specific software for it, not the GoType! keyboard.

The GoType! Keyboard is an add-on for the Palm. I have the one for the PalmIII, though they __do__ have...

You CAN and WILL know HTML by Monday morning.

Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:41:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyberChas - I’ve been recommending this book since the first edition (three years ago). In fact, when I teach multimedia at PSU I give a personal “money-back guarantee” to anybody who buys this book on Friday, works with it over the weekend and isn’t able to...