Epinions Recent Reviews for driver4t5

More Power Than We Deserve. Texas Instruments TI-34

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:24:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - The Texas Instruments TI-34 scientific calculator has proven to be one my best buys. This highly underrated little device has saved many hours of laborious and potentially error-wrought bookkeeping and numerical base conversion. For those who do no more...

The Best in the Division - But Is It The Best VALUE?

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:54:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Enough slumming with the riff-raff. It's high time that I mingled among the rich and famous, if only for a few weeks. The Norelco 6885XL Quadra Action Razor is where the shaving elite meet. I gave my yeoman Norelco 5801XL the rest of the month off and...

Functional? No! Fun? So!

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 01:32:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - One rite of passage as adults is a better grasp of the fine details as well as an awareness of what is and what is not feasible. Lost in the distance, however, is the rush of imagination and excitement. Where we once looked for FUN, we now look for...

TekNO - The Dust Collector of The 2000 Xmas Season

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 00:06:28 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Thirty-five dollars for half a pair of bookends? Sound preposterous? Think NOBODY would buy such a thing? Think again - millions did just that when they bought Tekno the Electronic Puppy.

Tekno was one of the two most-ballyhooed toys of the...

Negative buzz? Not on THIS phone! VTech 9151

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 18:29:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - As much negative buzz as I've heard concerning VTech, I have yet to experience any for myself. I have used a VT9000 and a VT02-9151 model phone and have had positive results with both. This review concerns itself with the latter model - the...

How Far From A Snickers Bar?

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:55:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Nutrition bars come in two versions. Either they're nutritionally complete and are aesthetically pleasing as compressed sawdust or they taste great and have all the food value of a compost heap. I've run the spectrum on the former and decided to give...

It Wants To Be, It Wants To Be...The "New" Motor Trend

Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:10:57 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Motor Trend (MT) is the periodical equivalent of the high-school tough-guy whose reputation's origins are largely unknown other than the fact he beat up an anemic kid back in second grade and nobody's dared test him since. The cutesy spelling of...

"I Wonder How The POOR PEOPLE Detect Radar?"

Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:44:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Beating the cops at Radar Games leaves no margin for error. The penalty for failure is getting pulled over and very likely cited. At the risk of sounding elitist, if a person can't afford good, capable equipment, he's better off saving his money and not...

My Favorite After-Cocktail Cocktail

Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:15:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - My college career and young adulthood consisted of arduous, nose-to-grindstone existence punctuated by occasional, infrequent nights of reckless alcohol-ingesting rampage. While I was wise enough during those times to be passenger4t5 instead of...

Just Short Of The Full Monte, Still A Solid Distant Replay

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:54:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Setting a devout Honda owner loose to shake down a Chevy is not a vision for the faint hearted. I show all the mercy that a hungry, motivated lion shows a slow gazelle (Impala?). I was bent on vilifying yet another General Motors offering and exonerating...

An also-ran in a crowded race - EAS Myoplex Lite Shake

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:17:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Pioneers are easily recognizable as they're the ones wearing a bodyful of arrows. Settlers are those who come in the next wave and enjoy the fruits of the pioneer's labor. I don't mind being the official Epinions arrow-catcher for the Sports Nutrition...

This Eagle Is Part Chicken - Goodyear Eagle GA Radial

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:15:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Goodyear touts its Eagle line of tires with great pride. Much pomp and circumstance is made of its racing heritage trickling down to street level. While much of this is marketing hype on both ends of the spectrum - the racers often have NO choice of the...

Extra Charge For Extra Cheese - But WHY?

Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:05:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Years ago I stopped donating blood to Gilette, Schick, and countless other blade razors and made the transition to electric. The electric razors of the 1980s did a fair job, however, for closeness they couldn't beat the blades.

Newer...

Dog Food (or Feces) For Humans - EAS Myoplex Lite Bar

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:32:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - EAS should have quit while they were behind. I drilled their Myoplex shakes for being benign. I can say many things about the taste of the Myoplex Lite bar - and many of them beyond the vulgarity tolerance of bikers. One adjective I will never use is...

Archived Web Services Reviews: Keen Too Lean, Except With The Psychic Scene - Keen.com

Sat, 2 Dec 2000 21:29:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Imagine getting paid 50, 75, even more than 100 dollars an hour to answer your phone! Even better, earn that amount by letting a taped message do your work while you're enjoying life in another manner! Such is the scanario that keen.com offers its...

Its Icebreaking Ability Might Have Saved The Titanic

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:15:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Blenders are throwbacks to a primitive era. While the external packaging has undergone myriad changes, the basic internals have not, nor has their prime mission to easily mix, grate, crush, puree, frappe, etc whatever a person dares throw into the...

Passport 6800 - Yesterday's Ambassador, Today's Doorstop

Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:00:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Highbrow brands often come with highbrow prices that keep them out of the clutches of the great unwashed. While this exclusivity carries high snob appeal, it also carries the bane of extremely limited demographics. Exactly how many Hilfigers and Range...

Uninspired and Forgettable - Myoplex Nutrition Shake

Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:51:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - The most deadly sin of a product is to be bad. While bad works for certain movie stars and wrestlers, it is the kiss of death for a consumer product. The next worst sin is to be forgettable; to be little more than a benign, generic experience. Such is...

One Tiger That Doesn't Need Stripes - Porter-Cable Tiger Saw

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:17:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Japan, Inc has all but obliterated American competition from many key industries. One of the categories that they haven't been able to claim as their own, however, is the quality power tool category. Yes, Makita is a highly worthy brand, yet it has stiff...

CrossDRESSER or CrossDRINKER?

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:17:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - I was completely enamored with the Labrada Lean Body mix and made a run to the hole-in-the-wall nutrition store where I originally made the discovery. While there, I picked up an envelope of what appeared to be another flavor of Lean Body, but something...

Go Ahead - De-face me! Pioneer DEH-2100 Auto CD Player

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:32:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Who let the cassette deck in my Honda? I can't believe that a top-edition 1996 model car would include a dinosaur like that in its stereo. Why didn't they go completely retro and make it an 8-track?

I love my Accord but I hated its stock...

Escort fires at the Valentine! Passport 8500 Radar Detector

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:29:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Oh, how I truly believe that speed limits are arbitrarily set by agents of The Man.

Weeks ago, I did a head-to-head comparison of the Passport 7500 and the Valentine One. This had the results of a man-vs-boy confrontation with the Valentine...

FINALLY a Great Protein Drink! Labrada Lean Body powder

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:24:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - One successful product can be the lynchpin for venturing deeper into a company's product line. One such example is the Labrada line of nutrition products. I liked the Labrada Lean Body Bar so much that I felt brave enough to try the Lean Body powder...

Pioneer TS A1668 Car Speaker - 180Watt Max Output: Why I DIDN'T Buy - Sometimes More Is Less. Pioneer TS-A1665

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:06:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - Sometimes this site is not about what we DO buy, but about what we DON'T buy and why. Negative reviews are as necessary as positive reviews as it may be YOUR money that's saved!

It's easy and natural to look at an item in the middle of a...

Keeps its cool even when stressed: GE Refrigerator

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 01:03:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author driver4t5 - When we created new snack rooms at my place of employment, my company purchased three General Electric TBX22PABWW (the WW designates color so changes to this value are just different colors of the exact same unit) model refrigerators. These have seen...