Epinions Recent Reviews for doreiwolf

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Sun, 29 Dec 2002 01:17:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Let me give you some background here, because I really gave this thing a workout. I'm a male, and a very hairy male at that. I needed to remove most of my body hair, and thus began the descent into the mysteries of hair removal.

I began...

Fun, Atmospheric and Challenging

Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:40:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I quite enjoy graphical adventures, though it seems most of the games I've played have been from LucasArts. I kept hearing good things about MYST, and its sequels, but I never got a chance to play them.

MYST is now out as a 'Masterpiece'...

Spice up your life in the land of the dead.

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:33:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - You play the part of Manny Calavera, an employee at the Department of Death (DoD), working off a few debts by being a travel agent to the dead. Things aren't going well for him, however as he's going nowhere fast as he can't seem to get any good client...

Going nowhere real fast...

Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:15:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I originally wanted a treadmill, saw the prices, and instead thought maybe one of those stationary bikes might be the go.

After a bit of mulling over features, we went for the 'mid range' 940S.

Some assembly required

It...

A neat laptop.

Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:15:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - The Saga Begins?

As usual we made a purchase when my wife was bored. We were out driving to relieve said boredom when we decided to buy a laptop for her. We went to the nearest computer store, spent a little time looking over what they had...

You get what you pay for.

Sat, 9 Mar 2002 03:28:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Since I wrote this, I've played a lot more with the webcam and things aren't as 'good' as I first thought.

I've always wanted a webcam but they've always been too expensive. When a few of the Intel Easy PC Camera came into work for a discount...

Build a better mouse and...

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:27:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I'm sick of cleaning my mouse balls. It's become a weekly ritual, and even then it didn't take long for the pointer to begin stopping and jerking. I'd heard nice things about these optical mice, and figured 'why not'? (ok, I had to beg and grovel to my...

A return to his origins.

Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:45:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - After a diversion into the musical world with Worst Band in the Universe, Graeme Base returns to the style he's best known for, and takes it another step further.

The first book of Base's I ever saw was Animalia. This was essentially a...

Turn up the Base

Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:18:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - My wife is a great fan of Graeme Base, and when I heard that he'd released a new book, with a CD of music he'd composed, no less, I had to buy it before she found out.

Of course, whenever I buy a book for her, even one by a favourite author,...

We've been here before.

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:42:44 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I vaguely remember a quote by one of those who worked on Jurassic Park II "Ok, you've proved you can do dinosaurs, now what can you make the dinosaurs do?". And in Jurassic Park II they showed us what they could do.

In Jurassic Park III,...

DVD-V5000

Fri, 4 Jan 2002 06:53:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - This is actually a review of the DVD-V5000 since epinions don't have it actually listed yet.

Firstly, the differences (that I know of) between the 1000 and the 5000:

The 5000 is the same as the 1000 but has Zoom function, and headphone...

A bit of fun

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:20:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I've been putting off reviewing this movie for quite some time. Why? Because I'm in a bit of a quandry. You see, I love this movie. I think it's a lot of fun. However I can also see the problems with it. Reconciling these two views has been causing...

A shrekkin' good time

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:25:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Ok, let's be up front. I love Shrek. I bought the Video when it first came out, and the moment I got a DVD player I also got the DVD. Now I have to try to be objective about it.

The Movie

Shrek (Mike Myers) is an ogre...

Escape from Monkey Island for Windows, Mac: Monkey Kombat at it's best.

Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:45:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Ok, I was more than a little worried when I heard you needed a 3D card to play Escape from Monkey Island (EFMI from now on). I saw the graphics on the box cover and wondered why they had gone this way. Was this the end for our heroes?

Well...

A darker tale, but fun.

Sat, 29 Dec 2001 05:29:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - What if the Pied Piper of Hamlyn was a 'fix', a set up that the rats made a profit out of? That's the basic premise that starts this dark, fascinating tale of a cat (Maurice) and the rats who work this scam.

Here this is being touted as a...

Electronic Arts, Inc. Theme Hospital: Sick, but I love it.

Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:29:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I bought this for my wife. Everytime we saw it on the shelves she contemplated buying it, but never quite went through with it. So finally I bought it for her. Guess who's played it the most now?

The graphics are quite good being nice,...

What could have been.

Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:02:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I've updated this review since I wrote it, and made a couple of extra comments based on clarification that lynus gave me.

The Movie

A small amount of history here. When I first heard about Toy Story, the first full...

Mind expansion 101

Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:41:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Despite what the introduction of this book says, it is actually a good introduction to Zen, and to Motorcycle Maintenance. However it isn't a "how to", instead it comes at both obliquely, and you'll most likely absorb principles of both while...

Barbie Generation Girl - Gotta Groove CD ROM: My little girl loves it. Actually, so do I

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:42:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I'll begin with my usual 'Barbie Disclaimer': My little girl is in fact over 30 years of age.

I knew, the moment I bought this CD-ROM, that I'd lose the computer for a night, or longer, when I bought it, and I was glad to see I wasn't wrong...

Wonderful fun for your little girl.

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 04:45:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - Firstly I have to note that the 'little girl' in my life is in fact over Thirty.

Installation is easy, though it seems the installation procedure (for the PC) doesn't check what version of DirectX you have, and merely says you need version 6...

Listen before you buy

Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:43:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I loved Waters' work in Pink Floyd, disliked Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking intensely, and thought Radio KAOS was brilliant. When Amused to Death came out, I bought it without listening, hoping that Pros and Cons was a mere aberration in Waters' musical...

For the hacker in your life

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:33:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I had once written a very simple device driver for XINU, then when I started work in the 'Real World', I was required to write two device drivers for Coherent, a cheap Unix clone. My next task, some time later, was to port those drivers to Linux, which...

Angelic Brilliance.

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:49:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I'm going to start by saying that I'm no expert on Angels. I've read a bit here and a bit there, but in no way can I judge how 'accurate' this book is. All the 'facts' that I know are in here, and are 'verified', but I know so few facts that means...

You think by the 'last' one they'd have got it right.

Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:55:34 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I admit it: I'm one of those few who have never played any of the Lara Croft games. Never even seen them until recently. However having heard wonderful things about them from friends, and with the opportunity to borrow one for a while, I figured it was...

Fantasy Writing 101

Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:11:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author doreiwolf - I read the Belgariad, finding out about it at the second book, and anxiously awaiting the next three books as they were released. Then I 'suffered' in the same way through the Mallorean. That truly seemed to be the end of that World, when David and...