Epinions Recent Reviews for rich2003dm

An Unlikely but Effective Treatment for Nail Fungus

Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:26:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I don’t do product reviews.

Did some early on…didn’t enjoy it…didn’t do it well…stopped.

I wouldn’t be doing this one, but I noticed a serious information gap on this product. Figured I could help some folks by writing this. So this...

Baking Soda: The Case of the Carbonation Abomination

Sun, 26 May 2002 22:30:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Like most households today, everyone is busy doing their own thing and it is often difficult to get the entire family gathered around the dinner table. Sometimes my wife is off on some chore or errand and I am forced to fend for myself in the kitchen and...

Adult Health Issues: Aging (Dis)gracefully

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:41:30 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I'm an adult…and I have health issues. I've got to warn you folks that they ain't gonna be pretty. In fact, they're pretty gross. Because getting old is pretty gross. There's even gonna be some sexual content here. So, if you are easily grossed out,...

Our City Will Heal; But Will We?

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:28:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - It’s been almost three weeks and everything should, by now, be getting back to normal.

To the rest of the nation, I’m sure they appear to be.

The subways are running and we’re back at work. As expected, those damned Yankees have...

Groceries: The Manly Art of Snacking

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:37:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - My wife hates taking me grocery shopping.

First, I like to ride in the cart. Not that she’s embarrassed or anything, but I weigh a solid 185 pounds, and she finds maneuvering the congested aisles difficult with the added weight. (I guess...

Postponed: Just Another Useless Review on an Even More Useless Category

Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:40:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Late one evening, while trolling the dark, dank, and labyrinthine bowels of the Epinions-Generic Services categories in search of the ideal topic, I found (on page 18) a listing with only the word “Postponed”.

How intriguing!

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Charity Organizations: A Little Known Organization That Has My Eternal Gratitude

Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:13:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - It was twenty years ago in mid-May that my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

As you would expect, my family was devastated by the news. Our sadness and confusion were exacerbated by the hospital’s ultimatum that we find a home for my...

A Case Study in How to Write A Bad Book about Interesting Times

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:37:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - When I hold a newly purchased book in my hands, I feel the same sense of anticipation and expectation that a child feels when holding a brightly wrapped present. It was especially so with “Los Alamos.”

It is a weighty book at 517 pages. A New...

WWW Site Reviews: These Internet Resources Can Make You An Epinions Star!

Sat, 2 Jun 2001 13:05:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I’ve been a member of Epinions for about eleven months now, and I’ve enjoyed a modest degree of success. I have a fair amount of people who trust me (costs me ten dollars per month per truster, but it’s worth it), and more and more people have been...

Phantom Frat-boys Frazzle Foxy Physicist

Sat, 26 May 2001 17:02:23 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I have always been fascinated by novels that touch on the supernatural.

I’m not exactly sure why this is so. Perhaps, as an agnostic, part of me yearns to believe in something other than this tangible world. If vampires, or poltergeists, or...

An Imperfect 'Rose'; But a Rose Just the Same

Sat, 19 May 2001 21:01:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - In the 1870s in Wigan, England, men toiled a mile beneath the surface of the earth to provide the coal that stoked the engines of the Industrial Revolution. Working in near darkness, claustrophobia inducing constricted spaces, and oppressive heat, they...

Blood and guts on the street, and me without a spoon to eat

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:06:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I’m often criticized by my peers (at least those that can read) because my choice of reading material runs to contemporary fiction, and in particular, crime, adventure, and science fiction novels. No rocket scientist is rich2003dm.

I don’t...

Archived Web Services Reviews: You'd Beta not pout; you'd Beta not cry!

Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:40:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Eight months ago, I was a normal middle-aged guy with a wife, two kids, and a dog. Like everyone else, I had a few kinks in my personality, but by moving to a new state every few years I managed to avoid any real trouble. (Yeah! Like I'm the only guy who...

Zen stuff; different way!

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:15:13 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I’m not a spiritual person. Raised in a moderately religious household, I have somewhere along the way lost touch with that side of myself. I can’t point to any one specific incident or time that caused me to lose faith. It was more a gradual erosion of...

Archived Web Services Reviews: I'm gonna make you a waffle you can't refuse. (Epicurious)

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:47:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - My name is Nicky Blades. A coupla weeks ago, my boss, Tony Guns, calls some of us guys together and says that the woid on the street is the Feds and the NYPD been pokin' their noses around our Family business and somebody's gonna get busted. Tony thinks...

Echoes and Personal Reverberations

Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:28:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - The Vietnamese people were no strangers to guerilla war, having waged successful campaigns against both the invading Japanese and the colonizing French from 1941 through 1954.

It should have been no surprise that the Viet Nam Cong San...

Evisceration of the body; denial of the soul

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:46:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - As the Cold War began to thaw and glasnost (political and social openness) and perestroika (economic and political restructuring) were the hope of the former Soviet Union and the fervent prayer of the free world, a popular toy imported from Russia was...

Running out of enemies. Will Rhode Island be next?

Sun, 3 Dec 2000 00:31:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Tom Clancy has a typical formula. Choose a bad guy (usually a nation), make the bad guy do very bad things (usually to the U.S.A.), demonize the bad guy, and finally, totally annihilate the bad guy. It works for me!

Please note that this...

Hold the pickles, hold the E. coli...

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 23:14:32 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Toxin is a novel about bad hamburgers that I read without relish.

Cook dons his apron and serves up a half-baked novel intended to be a scathing indictment of the beef industry, but which instead lays an egg.

"Fowl!", you...

How did we ever win the cold war with guys like this?

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:34:26 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Before you begin reading, please note that this review, by necessity, reveals some major plot elements of Spencerville. If you intend to read this book (which I will try to talk you out of) stop here.

DeMille's main character, Keith Landry,...

Did Wolfe get bored with his own book? (A Man in Full)

Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:27:44 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - This book,"A Man in Full", could have been, and in fact, should have been, a great one. After reading the first hundred or so pages, I was sure it would be. It had all of the necessary elements...a powerful, larger than life central character,...

Content, content, and more content!

Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:33:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - Maybe I'm naive because Compuserve is the only ISP I've ever had, but I really like it.

I'm one of those people who subscribed to Compuserve because of the $400 rebate I received from the purchase of my computer. Three years at...

I really didn't want a Hyundai...

Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:30:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rich2003dm - I really didn't want a Hyundai.

My old car died and I was looking for a reasonably priced and reliable used car. My wife and I stopped into a Mazda/Hyundai dealership to look at their used car lot. On the way in she pointed at a car and said,...