Epinions Recent Reviews for bethy

Netscape Can't Cut It Anymore

Wed, 30 May 2001 20:12:42 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Last year, I wrote a mixed (and from a second look at it, rather half-hearted) review of Netscape. Some of the features I listed as bettering IE's included its history list and the hand icon that appears when users move over a link. I liked it better...

Oritron DVD100 DVD Player: A Truly Poor Product

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:06:15 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - For my birthday last October, my boyfriend bought me an Oritron DVD-100. He had just gotten a job after graduating college, and he didn't have much money. He figured it might not be the best DVD player in the world, but it was a DVD player that he could...

Dreamhost: Dreamhost is your friend

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:02:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Two summers ago, I started playing on the web. My first web site was hosted for free on Netscape and created with almost no HTML know-how. A couple months later, I switched the page over to my college's server. But when I graduated, I had to find a new...

Loser lit can make you feel good

Mon, 4 Sep 2000 23:29:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Note: If you don't want to learn any details of this book's plot, you should stop reading now.

I picked up Kate Christensen's In the Drink because of its cover. It wasn't the cover pictured above; it was a rich black and pink cover, boasting...

An odd, bluesy, horny, fun album

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 00:21:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Of all the (primarily brief) reviews I've read of Red Krayola leader Mayo Thompson's 1970 lone solo effort, not one of them mentions the album's overt sexuality. "It's no surprise/ it just gives my heart a rise/ when you bend down to tie your shoelac...

Nintendo NES: up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-select-start

Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:45:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - First, does this category ("Classic Consoles") exist solely to allow Epinions members to express nostalgia for outdated electronics? I'm not complaining; I enjoy partaking in such self-indulgence. I tend to remember the good things more than...

I heart Dreamweaver

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:14:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - When I first started at my web design position, I had never used any HTML editors, let alone Dreamweaver. In fact, Dreamweaver kind of intimidated me. I'd heard others rave about it, so I figured it must be cool, but I'd open it now and then and look at...

Ultimate 11-year-old girl fantasy

Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:55:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - For my fifth grade birthday slumber party, I had my mom rent two movies: Hairspray and Dirty Dancing. From what I remember, we watched Dirty Dancing once before we went to sleep, and again the next morning. Since that sleepover, I've...

Cheesy but Engrossing '60s Suspense

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:49:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - One of my goals in life, at least at present, is to make my boyfriend watch all the movies I think he should have seen by now. Because he seems to have a similar goal, I sometimes get to see movies like the early '80s car race flick Cannonball...

Four years in Pittsburgh

Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:40:12 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Only now, having been away from Pittsburgh for about a month, do I realize that I will miss this small city. I'll miss silly things, like the feeling of almost being "home" when I hit a certain stretch of road just before my apartment. I'll...

Cool for coding

Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:17:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - This past week, I started a new job (finally) as a web designer at a small company. Among the perks of this position are all the cool programs on the computer I've inherited. I've played with a lot of these programs before, but Homesite was new to me...

The Mutter Museum: A Disgusting Delight

Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:34:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - When you're a kid in the Philadelphia area, you end up going to a lot of museums on class trips. Or more like, you end up going to a few museums a lot of times during your elementary school career: The Franklin Institute, The Museum of Art (whose steps...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Themestream: With the right stuff, you'll rake it in

Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:44:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - I've been using Themestream (previously Oscartech.com, now Themestream.com) for nine days, and I have earned just over $25. It's nice (and addictive) to check my author page on Themestream and see the money add up.

But it's also unsatisfying...

Savagely Funny; Surprisingly Insightful

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:11:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - One of the bonuses of living with someone who writes for an alternative weekly is the free stuff. Newspapers get sent promotional copies of books and CDs so that writers will hopefully say something good about them in their paper.

One of the...

Fun with the Fam at Ocean City

Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:43:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - People from the Philadelphia area have a phrase they use when they talk about visiting the Jersey beaches: "down the shore." As in, "We're going down the shore next weekend," or "We saw them when we were down the shore."...

Pretending to be Gay in Happy

Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:30:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - It seems that you can't go wrong with a beauty pageant movie set in a quirky small town these days. Last summer's Drop Dead Gorgeous was a consistently funny if somewhat far-fetched sleeper about a group of teenaged girls competing viciously in a...

Job Direct: Directly Frustrating

Wed, 24 May 2000 16:22:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - JobDirect tries. It wants to help job seekers, particularly young ones, find entry-level employment in today's cutthroat job market. But its self-acclaimed selling point -- a feature that matches jobs with users, rather than requiring the users to search...

Suspend that disbelief

Thu, 4 May 2000 00:05:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - Whenever I go home to visit my parents (in Philadelphia), my dad and I try to catch a movie together. Sometimes we go downtown to see an obscure independent flick, the likes of which are scant here in Pittsburgh; sometimes we just hit the stadium-seating...

X's Edgy, Essential Punk Album

Sat, 22 Apr 2000 13:35:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - When I was a crazy little teenager, I used to correspond with some strangers I had met in AOL teen chatrooms. Typically, the people who appealed to me (because they were the most intelligent) were the, uh, older men. Now, of course, I wonder why certain...

Makes Me Feel Like a Pro

Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:39:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - When I first discovered the web's greatness last summer, I'd often come across testimony about Photoshop's greatness as well. So I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop 5, just to see what all the fuss was about. The problem was, I didn't know what to...

Consistently interesting, if sometimes questionable

Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:10:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - I first found Salon.com when I was searching for information on the best Bruce Springsteen albums to buy. I clicked on a link that took me to one Salon writer's nostalgic but insightful review of Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town. From there, I...

Strange, Engaging Suspense Flick

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:23:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - The Spanish Prisoner initially struck me as strange. The characters talked in an unnatural, overly scripted manner, and generally seemed to behave stiffly and abnormally. It didn't seem poorly acted, just awkwardly written. I think part of the reason...

Hot Jobs: Cool jobs are hard to score

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:44:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - About three months ago, I began my online job hunt during an intolerable temp assignment. I had just discovered Fast Company magazine, and was roaming around their web site, thinking that if anyone had a lead on cool jobs, they would. When I searched for...

Perfect for Lazy College Students

Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:54:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - When one of my roommates received a George Foreman grill from his parents last year, we were all excited to try it out. If any TV infomercial had hooked me, it was the one for the Foreman. How could I resist George's jolliness? He got so excited about...

Sophisticated '60s Pop

Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:18:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bethy - I used to know Dusty Springfield only for "Son of a Preacher Man," and I was never particularly knocked out by it. Then my sweetie started getting excited and turning up the oldies station when songs by "his girl" came on. So last...