Epinions Recent Reviews for T.Rob

Immortality - it's not all it's cracked up to be!

Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:13:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Assume for a minute that it is possible to capture a person's brain patterns electronically and run them as a program that is so faithful to the original that you, or even the person so captured is unable to tell the difference. Dennis Danvers creates...

Eh? Oh, hell!

Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:34:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Recently while travelling my laptop lost it's connection to the office. Needing an emergency dial-up provider I went to the local CompUSA and obtained a free trial disc. Due to a recent agreement between CompUSA and AOL, the only disc they had was for...

Official vacuum of the Superhero's League?

Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:57:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - We've all had "one of those days". I had stayed home from work on the occasion of my wife's birthday. It was a good thing because she gets back pain sometimes and today her back was acting up. She has back pain often enough and severe...

Archived Web Services Reviews: IMDB.COM: Giving credits where credits are due

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 01:26:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I see you there in the semi-darkness. The house lights are half-on, the movie credits are rolling by and there you sit, nestled down in your seat or perhaps craning your neck to see around me as I walk toward the entrance. I used to be one of you...

Swish: Swish - The Best $30 you can spend on the Internet!

Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:43:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Swish is an essential tool for any webmaster’s multimedia arsenal. Animations that would take hours to build in Flash can be made in under 5 minutes using Swish. In addition to making stand-alone animations, the files created by Swish can be imported...

Battling drivers duke it out! Film at 11.

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 02:20:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I’ve had occasion to purchase several CD burners over the last few years. Some were for work and a few for home use. Almost all of those burners came bundled with the light version of Adaptec Easy CD Creator while the rest came with NTI’s software...

bacon! Bacon! BACON! BAAAACONNNNN!

Sun, 24 Sep 2000 03:54:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - There are basically two reasons people choose one dog treat over another. The second time they buy it is because Spot and Rover liked the treats the first time. But if we have no prior experience with the treat, why do we buy that very first...

Nothin' says lovin' like the smell of fresh bread!

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:05:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Our Panasonic bread maker was not our first – but it may be our last! The first bread maker was a Christmas present and by the following Christmas we had exchanged it no less than 5 times. Finally the store agreed to refund my money and I went in...

Exploring fundamental questions of humanity

Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:54:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Isaac Asimov may have written about spaceships and robots but he used these devices to explore what it means to be human. He starts with rather easy comparisons – a robot on one extreme and a human on the other. Then he brings the two successively...

What to know before you buy a CD Jukebox!

Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:43:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - If you have never owned a CD jukebox, you should read this before buying one. Although this is filed under the CDP-CX300, most of the review would apply to any of the various brands or models. This part of the review is the section below titled “Why...

Vacuum Man Saves Christmas

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:51:44 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - May 6, 2007 - Please see the update at the end. Dark Days This is the story of Christmas 1999, the Christmas that almost never was, the Christmas that Vacuum Man pulled out of the fire at the last second, the Christmas where Vacuum...

Hold My Feeler

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:53:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Joe’s Apartment

First off, this is an MTV movie not the latest Masterpiece Theatre, OK? If you are expecting Citizen Kane, this is the wrong movie. In that case, please hit {BACK} on your browser now. No, this is more at the level of...

How do I make my voice do this?

Sat, 19 Aug 2000 03:08:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - “Ralph! Ralph! I’ll take it. I can’t wait to get away from it all.”

These lines open the CD as the hero “Babe” buys a car from Ralph Spoilsport and drives out onto the freeway (which was already in progress). How appropriate since this is...

BeamIt: Beam me up, Scotty!

Fri, 18 Aug 2000 03:23:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - The Beam-It service of MP3.com is an interesting blend of hardware, software and your CD collection. The way the service works is that you place your CD in your computer while connected to the Internet. The Beam-It software identifies the CD and looks...

New math: Bottled water * 8 glasses a day/person = $$$$$

Sat, 12 Aug 2000 22:16:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I've never lived anywhere where the water was particularly tasty. In some places, it was downright unhealthful due to chemical intrusion. Not drinking enough of it eventually cost me a kidney stone. I had been put off by the high initial cost of these...

A little bit of Australia in the mail -Tjapukai online!

Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:09:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - In Cairns, Queensland Austrailia there is a park "dedicated to preserving and presenting authentic Aboriginal culture with the aid of technology". Although I've never been there in person, their performers are touring the United States in...

What's your priority?

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:34:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I have done a fair amount of sales on eBay over the last couple of years and only one was local and did not need shipping. I have used UPS for the bigger items, FedEx for the overnighters and Priority Mail for almost everything else. They make it so...

eBay: eBay been veddy veddy goot to T.Rob

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 02:06:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Well, it's no secret that I am a fan of Firesign Theatre. The only problem with being a Firehead is that most of their albums are out of print. I had been searching used record and CD stores for several years looking for a copy of Shakespear's Lost...

Firesign Theatre at top of their form

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 01:20:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - Firesign Theatre is one of those groups people either seem to love or hate. They are not easy to categorize but among Fireheads their works are thought of as radio comedy. But they are more than that. Their style can be highly linear and narrative or...

It's kid-proof!

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:48:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I have two teenage kids and the last thing they want to do is clean the grunge out of their computer mice. Being teenagers, there is no shortage of grunge - food at the computer desk, eraser crumbs, you name it. Every month or so the mice would stop...

Rocks my world!

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:45:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I have always needed portable music. As a kid, I had a combination radio/headlamp/horn clamped onto my bike handlebars and have had something ever since. I've had them all - boomboxes, headset radios, portable tape decks, CD Walkmans and...

Maybe ACME can help

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:52:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author T.Rob - I have had Road Runner for about a year now so this is review has some history behind it. I have developed a love/hate relationship with Road Runner. My overall feeling about the service is that it is worth the extra money for the speed and for...