Epinions Recent Reviews for Nomad_Scry

The Happening: It's Not

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:35:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - When the opening credits are rolling and you find yourself getting bored watching white clouds billow in a blue sky, give in to the feeling to turn off the movie and go do something else. Don't waste your time sitting around waiting for The...

A Children's Primer on Death

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:42:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - LIES If there is one thing I learned from this movie, it is this: Never trust a trailer. If I had even once thought that the trailer was blatantly lying to me about the sort of movie I was going to see, I would have checked Epinions and...

Mr. Cutty says, "NO TAIL FOR YOU!"

Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:34:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - I picked up two pairs of the Razer m|100 rsquo;s at a recent w00t-off (woot.com) for less than I typically pay for one pair of Sony Fontopia MDR-EX51LP< a> . Each package contains a pair of the m|100s with...

If mediocre is your cup of tea... then drink up

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:33:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Meh. It's always difficult to explain how I feel about something that is not really good or bad. School for Scoundrels is certainly not a bad comedy, but it isn't very successful at being funny either. The basic story is that a...

Shuffling should not be hard work

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:47:53 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - I am sorely disappointed with Creative's Zen Nano. I had rather high expectations from Creative, as they are the de facto kings of PC audio. I expected excellent sound quality and a generous volume level. I expected a simple and easy to use...

Mildly more interesting than if he hadn't returned...

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:19:21 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - What a disappointment. Well, not really, since I wasn't expecting all that much. Despite Bryan Singer. Despite the intriguing story basis. This is a movie, after all, about the Man of Steel. So quintessentially boring that the most interesting thing...

Personalized radio broadcast

Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:37:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Some time ago I decided that I needed a new CD player, since mine only worked if I held it at an angle... and even then it was very ticky about which CDs it would allow me to play. At that point in time, I had just over 100 CDs so I decided that I...

Simply Un-'American'

Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:35:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

I think my biggest disappointment with FF:TSW was that the trailer I downloaded months ago looked so much cleaner, sharper, simply better on my monitor than it did when I saw the exact same scene on the big...

Funky Chunky Clunky

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:25:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - HISTORY

Back in the day, I recall my Pa telling me about the heroic Juno, taking on the growing menace to society that AOL represents. He told me how Juno always set their price just a wee bit below that of AOL's monthly dial in...

Air, Knowledge, Fire?

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 08:01:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Album reviewed: Read My Sign by Bell Book & Candle.

Why did I buy Read My Sign

In 1998 I was living in New York on Long Island. Being a good counter culture person, I listened to 92.3 (Howard Stern's home station) with...

WindowBlinds: The pretty, the bad.

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 05:16:43 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Well, what do you know... a sorta pretty program with the wonderful ability to prevent other programs from loading. For instance, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, my process killer... all of them utterly prevented them from running.

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The Girl with a Curl...

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:37:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - There once was a girl who had a curl in her hair...

And when she was good, she was very good.

And when she was bad, she was horrid.

That describes 1 Nation Online perfectly. Such an utter pain in the behind when it isn't working,...

The end of the tower?

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:44:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - I'm torn. It is my understanding that "The Tower and The Hive" is the final installment of Anne McCaffrey's exciting Rowan series. Therein lies my main disgruntlement, this being the end; I was expecting some closure. A drawn out goodbye to...

I dream of gravity

Wed, 9 Aug 2000 21:46:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - I always hated writing book reports for school as a kid. I think I just figured out a large part of why. How can I, a snot-nosed brat, possibly demonstrate the utter "coolness" of that which I had just read? I feel that way right now.
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5700 Powershot Staple/Nail Gun: Backwards is better

Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:47:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - A staple gun can be a very handy tool. You can reach a stapler into a space to small too drive a nail or fasten objects that would split if a nail or screw were used instead. And the skill level is minimal in comparison to using a hammer (point and...

Chapter Three: The Ending

Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:34:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - The time has come. The Westerners (sweetpaulie, Leah, kimmiko, Syd_Kick, MShawPyle, and mgreber) champion has come against us, and we (PeterLRuden, Lambira, forkids, Tsomes, elegiac, Sleestakk, stonehousellc, Kurt_Messick, Cornelia) must...

Chapter Two: The Middle

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:08:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - The field is becoming a mess, with bodies and bottles strewn about. The end must being drawing near.

I again step forward, clutching my last hope, a bottle of zinfandel from... Cline, an Ancient Vines Zinfandel, 1997. The bottle is stylish...

Chapter One: The Beginning

Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:00:15 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - It was a cool and windy night as the two camps approached the field of battle. In my hands I held the tools of war, ready to be used. At my sides were my compatriots, the East Coasters: elegiac, Cornelia, Kurt_Messick, Lambira, forkids,...

C2C WTO: Redneck Input

Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:10:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Greetings and welcome to the second part of my contribution to the 2nd C2C WTO, the red. The powers that be have a silly sense of humor and chose two "leap"ing wines for this Leap Year.

The Stag's Leap proved to be even more...

C2C WTO: Redneck Input

Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:05:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Greetings and welcome to the low-brow section of the second Coast to Coast Wine Taste-Off. I remain convinced that I will be the distasteful odor that will detract from all my fellow C2C WTO Epinheads.

First off, this wine was miserably hard...

Are you a masochist?

Mon, 14 Feb 2000 08:14:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - UPDATE: WorldSpy has shut their doors and is recommending their users to switch to the free internet provided by Juno. Version 2 of the software was much better, but that is no longer pertinent. End Update.

WorldSpy offers free internet...

Iomega Zip family: Nomad's Waffle?

Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:49:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - At work we use a 100Meg Parallel Zip Drive for backing up and transporting our databases. It has proved quite handy to be able to just grab a 5meg file and "zip" it onto the drive whenever we outsource projects. It is much quicker than using...

...Roasting by an open fire...

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:45:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - Humorous Intro Having kept myself nice and toasty by burning parts of my vast collection of AOL discs and CDs this winter, I will admit that the idea of a free ISP that looks and feels similar to AOL is worrisome. How will I stay warm...

XDrive: My invisible, intangible, super-sized floppy disk

Thu, 3 Feb 2000 06:03:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - I first signed up with FreeDrive, a competitor in the free internet storage niche, as a part of Freei.net's internet access, as a tool to share files that various co-workers were working with both at the job site and from their home offices. But while...

Now I am free to web.

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:20:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nomad_Scry - *UPDATE:* <crying> They shut their doors. FreeWWWeb and it's sister FreeXDSL are both defunct. FreeWWWeb recommends that its users go to Juno's free internet service. End of UPDATE.

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