Epinions Recent Reviews for dtobias

Back to the Big, Freaky, Wonderful Life!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:39:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - OK, name that movie! A guy, unsatisfied with how his life is going, sees a nutty old man jump off a bridge, goes into the water after him, and this launches a sequence of fantastic events that helps him figure out that his life is worthwhile after...

Kelly's Bellyaching

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:35:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - My r
eview
of Kelly Clarkson's last album said that it was a "great but depressing album", and that "I just hope she gets a bit happier in the future." This was in reference to the trajectory of her musical releases so...

Clever technology, but too many bugs in it.

Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:37:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Since I'm a gadget geek, and I hate cleaning floors, I bought the Scooba last year in the hopes this would help in both of these things. Scooba, by the makers of the vacuuming robot Roomba (but, despite what Saturday Night Live said, not a...

Did you know... Kelly Clarkson was in a worse movie than 'From Justin to Kelly'?

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:40:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - The only way this thing came to my attention was the fact that Kelly Clarkson made her movie debut in it, with a cameo appearance that was filmed during her first attempt to make it in Hollywood, which ended with her returning to her hometown in Texas...

A Gadget Freak's Dream Car

Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:31:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Finding myself with enough money to afford it, I decided to get more upscale with my newest car purchase to replace my aging 1997 Nissan Maxima. Several close family members owned Lexuses (or should that plural be "Lexi"?) and had nothing but good...

Out with the old iPod, in with the new

Sat, 6 May 2006 21:34:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Recently I decided it's about time to replace my ailing, antiquated iPod with a newer model. Yes, that's the same iPod I w
axed
enthusiastically about in a review here a couple of years ago, but it's the way of...

This whole season should get lost!

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:14:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I've already reviewed the first two seasons of Land of the Lost here. The first season was very good; the second one was pretty good. But that's not where the series ended; there was one more season, and it too has been released in a DVD box...

Get Lost Again!

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:01:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Earlier, I r
eviewed
the first season of Land of the Lost. That wasn't the end of the series, though; there are two more seasons after that, and they've all been released as DVD box sets. This is my review of...

Aurora AS1015CD Compact Home/Office Paper Shredder: The Joy of Shredding

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:18:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Paper shredders... they're not just for Ollie North or Enron executives any more. With identity theft constantly surfacing, people are having second thoughts about putting things indicating their name, address, credit rating, and other personal...

Canon PIXMA MP780 Inkjet Multifunction Printer: Excellent multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:49:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - After the p
roblems
I had with my last multifunction printer, I decided to shop for a new one. This time, I had the good sense to read the reviews on Epinions (which would have saved me from my last bad purchase). The...

Get Lost!

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:15:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Back in the '70s, my sister and I were usually enemies. We fought all the time, and furthermore, we seemed to go out of our way to develop completely opposite preferences on everything, whether it was food, music, or anything else. She hated hamburgers...

This would have been a great multifunction printer... if it actually worked!

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:52:11 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I got this printer from Dell along with my computer which I purchased a little over two years ago. I made the seemingly sensible assumption that, since it's sold by Dell as part of a package with its computers, it would therefore be likely to "play...

This book isn't nonexistent any more!

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:20:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - On an episode of the children's TV show Lizzie McGuire ("Mom's Best Friend"), the "cool" substitute teacher Mr. Dig gave the class an assignment to read a book and write a report on it. In an act of sexist segregation of reading matter, the boys...

A 300-issue, 27-year epic gets off to its start

Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:44:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Early in the run of the self-published comic book Cerebus, creator Dave Sim announced that the series would have a run of exactly 300 issues. Few believed him at the time; only a fairly small set of comic books ever reach 300 issues at all, and...

More S**t, Piled Higher and Deeper

Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:53:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - In the first season of BS, which I've a
lready
reviewed, Penn and Teller took on hokey beliefs and scams based on them, from alternative medicine to alien abductions. Most of the things they debunked were pretty far...

A Fictional Teen, Written by Adults, Instructs Real Kids on How to Speak

Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:52:23 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - The books based on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire mostly consist of adaptations of the episodes of the series, in plain-text and pictorial "CineManga" versions. Some others, such as the Lizzie McGuire Mysteries (of which I...

It sure beats floppies... or punch cards!

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:49:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I got one of these SanDisk Cruzer Micro 512 MB flash drives as a gift this past holiday season. If you're not familiar with this item, it is a portable data storage unit which can be used to transport files between computers, a handy thing to have if...

Be Obsessive-Compulsive: Watch This Show!

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:03:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I reviewed the f
irst
season of Monk not too long ago. Now I've watched the second season on DVD, and it was even better than the first. In the first season, we were introduced to Adrian Monk, a former police...

The Program whose Name Must Not Be Said Here

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:45:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - The silliness of this site's "Bad Word Filter" is illustrated by the fact that the title of this program is right up there, in big, bold, type, but they still won't let me say it here myself. I think that's a whole load of bull...stuff!...

Lizzie's not clueless

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:43:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - This item is Get A Clue!, a book from Disney Press which is the first in the series of Lizzie McGuire Mysteries based on the popular children's TV series on the Disney Channel. It's not to be confused with the various other,...

Finally: Somebody more obsessive-compulsive than I am!

Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:45:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I hadn't heard of the TV show Monk when my mother recommended I rent the DVDs collecting this series. She thought I'd sympathize with the title character. She was right; I can see a lot of my own personality traits in Mr. Monk, only he's got...

Disney doesn't neglect its classics

Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:21:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I was glad to see, when browsing the racks of the local video store, that Disney isn't neglecting their old classics; they have brought out a DVD edition of the original 1961 version of The Parent Trap despite the existence of a newer remake...

Lizzie's last appearance; too bad it was in a silly movie

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:38:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Kristi
nafh,
a reviewer I trust and respect, wrote a re
view
of The Lizzie McGuire Movie where she talked about how out-of-place she felt watching it. She often has a liking for...

A great but depressing album shows that Kelly Clarkson is a serious singer

Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:59:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - Kelly Clarkson first became famous through the American Idol program, where she was the first season's winner. A hit single, "A Moment Like This", followed, but after this her continued career seemed in doubt; the movie she did with runner-up...

Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie!

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:08:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dtobias - I'm about as far from the target demographic of the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire as it's possible to get. OK, that's not quite true; I could be a 113-year-old man in Kazakhstan. But I'm still pretty far, in age and...