Epinions Recent Reviews for mkp51

Windows Vista Home Premium Edition: an mkp51 horror story...

Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:46:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Step right up, come on in If you’d like to take the Grand Tour… I have nothing here to sell you, Just some things that I will tell you- Some things I know will chill you to the bone… May 8, 2007: This is the day...

One Touch UltraSmart System: diabetes management made easy!

Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:28:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Saturday, June 25, 2006 was for me one of those defining days that people have once in a lifetime. It was most assuredly a day to remember, but definitely not in a good way. You see, this was the day I was diagnosed as a diabetic. I hadn't...

2004 Mercury Sable LS Premium Wagon: Meet mkp51's new "mail hauler!"

Sun, 3 Dec 2006 15:17:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Well, folks… it was finally time to do it. After three years and 60,000 miles (added to the 50,000 already driven before I owned it) the time had finally come for me to retire my 1994 Dodge Caravan. My venerable old “mail hauler” had begun...

These Days: Vince Gill is "Workin' on a Big Chill!"

Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:13:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Over the past couple of years, my taste in music has – shall we say – evolved. For most of my life, I've been a passionate fan of seemingly disparate music genres: classical music, and what what has now become known as “classic rock.”...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom: "Action... and action NOW!"

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:16:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - My ongoing project to read a biography of every American president takes some unusual twists and turns. Last year, I finished Volume 1 of Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson trilogy, (The Path to Power,) and began reading the second...

An Unfinished Life: "…I am an idealist without illusions."

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:46:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - It’s now been nearly 40 years since President John F. Kennedy (JFK), the thirty-fifth President of t...

The Path to Power: From the Texas Hill Country to Capitol Hill

Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:59:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - …And so my ongoing project to read a biography about every American president continues... Last y...

1994 Dodge Caravan: mkp51 "hauls the mail..." in style!!

Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:48:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - It’s not new. It doesn’t have sexy lines, or any newfangled, state-of-the-art gizmos in it. Almost completely devoid of that curvaceous, 21st century aerodynamic design so popular nowadays, it sits frumpily in my driveway, shimmering white,...

An Army at Dawn: "In the night, all cats are grey…"

Tue, 13 May 2003 16:22:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Every once in a while, a book comes along that excels in so many respects that it takes a very special place on my personal library's bookshelves. (I currently have over 400 volumes in my personal library. Most of them are biographies of great...

Road to Perdition: "We are only murderers in this room!"

Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:23:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Anyone who’s read many of my movie reviews knows of my predilection for well-acted, high quality gangster films. Of these there have been a-plenty in the past two or three decades. The Godfather Trilogy, Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction...

Band of Brothers: "We Stand Alone Together..."

Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:43:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - In September 2001, not long before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, there began on the Home Box Office (HBO) cable network one of the most extraordinary television mini-series I have ever seen. Entitled Band of...

"We were fathers... we were husbands... we were sons... We Were Soldiers."

Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:48:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - [An Open Letter to Mel Gibson and Randall Wallace, the star and writer/director (respectively) of We Were Soldiers]

Dear Messrs. Gibson and Wallace,

I’ve just finished watching your latest movie, We Were Soldiers,...

Spy Game: "This is one game you don't want to lose..."

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:25:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Ah-h, yes-s... there's nothing like a good old-fashioned spy thriller to get the old heart pumping. Back in those good old Cold War days of the 1950s through the early '80s, it seemed like there were plenty of spy movies around... films usually pitting...

Our Town: "In our growing up, and our marrying, and our living, and our dying…"

Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:24:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Hearken back with me, if you will, to the halcyon days of our collective past... the days when we all passed through the comparative idyll of high school or college. It matters not our age, or the particular years we attended school – somewhere...

Pearl Harbor: "Oh, gimme a ho-o-me, where clichés all ro-o-a-m-m, and bullsh-- flies all day-y-y!!"

Sat, 17 Aug 2002 16:27:32 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - For the past three days now, I’ve been asking myself a coupla tough questions: what in the world would possess a mature, 50-year old, reasonably intelligent man, with pretty good tastes in movies and books, to go out and pay good money for the film...

Links 2001 Championship Edition: An old friend returns home... in new clothes!

Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:31:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - I’ve been using home/personal computers almost since they came on the market for average consumers in the early 1980s. Remember Commodore’s ancient and venerable VIC-20? How about the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A? Or the Commodore-64, or the Apple IIc and...

The Curse of the Bambino: "When grown men cry, it hurts..." (July Multi-media W/O)

Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:35:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - PREAMBLE: This review is my submission to the "July Multi-Media" write-off hosted by fellow Epinionator mshawpyle. Write-off participants have been asked to write in any media category (books, movies, music) on one of the following...

Black Hawk Down: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:54:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Believe it or not, I actually missed seeing Black Hawk Down when it was showing in theaters. I had heard so many good things about it that I eagerly anticipated its DVD release date. When I acquired the DVD, I certainly was not disappointed!!...

Report from Ground Zero: "There is no center to this day..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:56:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Is it possible that the gradual commercialization of 9/11 has begun?

According to Amazon.com, there are at present 64 books dealing with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that...

Rules of Engagement: "What is it about this order you don’t understand?!"

Sun, 26 May 2002 20:14:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Throughout military history, one of the burning questions that has confronted soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines is: when is an order not an order? Is it ever right for a person to refuse an order from a higher ranking officer or...

The New Jerusalem Bible, Standard Edition: "The Book that Changed My Life" Write-off

Tue, 21 May 2002 23:16:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - "The Book that Changed My Life…" hmmmm… this is gonna be a tough one! When I received my invitation to participate in this write-off, I felt a great deal of apprehension as to whether or not I would be able to make an adequate contribution…
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Theodore Rex: "The greatest herder of emperors since Napoleon..."

Sat, 18 May 2002 13:56:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - My most recent literary sojourn into the world of Theodore Roosevelt (TR) ended when I finished the 555th – and last – page of Theodore Rex, the masterful second volume of Edmund Morris’s planned three-volume biography of the 26th...

Panasonic Versio EB-TX320: "Yep… I can hear you now!!"

Tue, 14 May 2002 21:08:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - SKA-RUN-N-CH!!

That sickening sound on a cold February day last winter marks the beginning of the end for my one of my most trusted and oft-used electronic friends… my Nokia 5160 cell phone.

I am busily painting the...

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life: "A legacy of work well-done..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:20:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - I consider Theodore Roosevelt one of the most fascinating figures in American history, and certainly one of our Nation’s greatest presidents. I suppose my affinity for TR stems in part from the fact that he and I share a few things in common. No, I...

The Glorious Cause: The war of the "Children of the Twice-Born"

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:38:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mkp51 - Over the past three years, I’ve been busy collecting and reading the books that comprise The Oxford History of the United States, an outstanding series of volumes dedicated to telling the story of our great Nation. The brainchild of its longtime...