Epinions Recent Reviews for gabby

Make the bad man stop

Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:49:13 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - I had figured out "The Sixth Sense" forty minutes in - and while I found the movie, overall, to be entertaining, M. Night Shyamalan is a man who ruins the surprise for you by trying too hard to be clever. A man so eager to see you react to his...

A perfect sonic landscape

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:40:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - Scene: Aurora, IL

Date: August 1999

Event: E-faction

Unrelentlingly hot. Luckily, our small conference had found a tiny air conditioned room at a Motel 6 or somesuch. When I came back from crossing a field to get to a mall with an...

Sturdy, dependable, the entry level cell phone

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:28:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - So, I was moving, see. And I was too lazy to give the Amertiech people enough of a head's up, so my phone wouldn't be hooked up for a few days and I knew that I had to have a phone - lest my mom flip out.

Off I go, nervously, to Cellular One...

Ah, pan fried chicken

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:18:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - A long, leisurely lunch - gossip filled, with coworkers.

I ordered a Coke but was given a more tasty pink lemonade with which to wash down my pan fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob and cole slaw.

This food is why I love...

So much better than Harry Potter

Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:15:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - Long, long, long before Harry Potter invaded the children's literature landscape, there was Lewis Barnavelt, his Uncle Jonathan, Mrs. Zimmerman - and later, Rose Rita.

After his parents' death, Lewis travels to New Zebedee where he will live...

Absolutely Perfect

Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:06:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - Neil Finn is a genius. And a heartbreaker. Listening to this album makes you want to get on a plane to New Zealand and steal him away.

What do I tell you? That's he a master of melody and arrangement; that he sings like an angel; that his best...

Pismo PowerBook astounds

Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:19:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - My Pismo (400mhz) arrived yesterday from MacMall (with a free 128MB of RAM for a grand total of 196MB RAM) and with only a slight glitch today (during software install, my trackpad stopped working, but shutting the computer down and waiting a while to...

It Is Accomplished

Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:49:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - (Conversation, today, at work):

"Or we could listen to 'Passion'"

"Yes!"

"What's that?"

"The soundtrack to 'The Last Temptation of Christ'"

"Have you ever...

Fond Memories of Earlham

Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:25:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - By the time I got to Earlham in the fall of 1990, the hippie contigent was largely gone. I'd visited the prior spring and been agog at the long haired, barefooted, smiley, friendly people walking around.

Earlham is, the conventional student...

Go Speed Racer, Go!

Wed, 15 Mar 2000 04:01:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - Living in the nation's 3rd largest city, you'd think there'd be a TON of high speed internet access options available, right?

Wrong.

I was browbeaten - the lack of widespread deregulation, living in the wrong zone and general...

Ode to My G3

Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:48:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - (Please note, I have the 350 mhz, 128 meg RAM, Zip Drive, CD-ROM G3)

I owned an Apple Performa 6290 for 2.5 years and I put it through its paces - adding memory alone (up to its whopping 64MB limit) earned me several gashes. It was slow and...

Music from Big Pink, the sequel

Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:23:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gabby - Wearing influences on their sleeves - sleeping with posters of Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko above the soundboard.

Fashioning modern day fables about the down and out and just plain tired, wandering through the wasteland of convenience and...