© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-scmrak Recent reviews written by member scmrak en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_476011269764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - For those DIY woodworkers who've taken the plunge and are now using pocket screws, drilling those pocket holes with a Kreg Pocket Screw Jig is only the beginning: you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476011269764 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:01:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476011269764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475687128708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Shot - Jenny Siler When Lucy Greene married the boy next door, she figured she and Carl would go the distance. She hadn't counted on the pain of child born so badly damaged he couldn't survive; didn't expect the widening... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475687128708 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:27:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475687128708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475353550468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - A long, long time ago I was a summer intern for an oil company; a summer spent living in a tiny company town where there was little to do beyond playing softball and watching meter maids mark car tires on downtown streets. It was miserably hot and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475353550468 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:52:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475353550468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475125747332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - I'm not much of a barbecue fan, myself: maybe it has something to do with the sorry excuse for "barbecue" we had in the school cafeteria as I grew up (I later learned that most people call that "sloppy joes"). The Ms, however, loves a good hunk of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475125747332 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:52:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475125747332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474647596676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - There are lots of ways to join wood to make a strong, secure joint; but few will leave the finished surface of your project unscathed. Glue joints don't hold well under heavy use, and dowels and biscuits require time and patience to place - but maybe you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474647596676 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:48:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474647596676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474434801284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - It wasn't all that long ago that a book entitled The Geek Atlas would've conjured up images of carnival sideshows, but sometime in the Information Age "geek" stopped being a carnival attraction who bites the heads off live chickens¹... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474434801284 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:15:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474434801284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474172198532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - The Thirteenth Skull - Bonnie Ramthun Talk about your busman's holiday: no sooner does Eileen Reed arrive at her parent's Wyoming ranch than a body appears behind the chicken coop. Though hundreds of miles out of her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474172198532 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:35:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474172198532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473954881156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - If you're heading to Denver for a convention, the nearest lodging choice will be Downtown Denver's newer Hyatt Hotel, the Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center. This property, built in 2005, wrested the "Regency" mantle from what's now called the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473954881156 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:08:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473954881156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473927552644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - The Increment - David Ignatius It began with a message that, as Harry Pappas' WW2-era pals at the CIA might have said, "came over the transom." The anonymous document posted to a CIA bulletin board not only traced back to an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473927552644 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:25:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473927552644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473852120708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - 16th Street Mall, Denver The first- and, often, second-time visitor to the Mile High City almost invariably heads west, straight up I-70 through Mt. Vernon Canyon, into the soaring heights of the Rocky Mountains. Who could blame... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473852120708 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:01:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473852120708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472945233540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly It's bad enough to be laid off because your employer wants to bring in cheaper staff, but an even greater indignity is to be kept around just to train your replacement. That's exactly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472945233540 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:17:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472945233540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472660610692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Go ahead, hate me if you must, but I haven't owned an American-made car since I sold my 1967 Camaro Rally Sport Convertible to pay for grad school back in 1979, and I've been slinging metric wrenches since I bought a '63 VW Beetle that was six years old... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472660610692 Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:13:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472660610692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472365305476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - If anyone around our house would ever "stoop" to drinking simple lagers, it'd be me - as a general rule, the Ms doesn't bother with anything that comes in under perhaps 8% ABV. I, on the other hand, like to sip lighter fare in the summer when my spouse... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472365305476 Sun, 31 May 2009 22:24:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472365305476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472202120836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - One of the things you don't think about when moving across country is changes in water chemistry and how they affect cleaning products. Our move from Illinois last year started with some of the best-quality water in America (the renowned Mahomet Aquifer)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472202120836 Sat, 30 May 2009 11:39:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472202120836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472025173636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - The White Gates - Bonnie Ramthun When Torin Sinclair finds himself uprooted from sunny Southern California and dropped unceremoniously in a little Colorado mountain town - in early December, no less - he's certain that life... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472025173636 Thu, 28 May 2009 21:40:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472025173636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471671410308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Road Dogs - Elmore LeonardJack Foley had been called the "Sweetheart Bandit" in the days when he was robbing banks at the rate of about one a month. He'd tallied 126 (or was it 127?) of them before US Marshall Karen... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471671410308 Wed, 27 May 2009 15:52:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471671410308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471789964932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - A 189-page piece of merde. Saying absolutely nothing worthwhile about completely detestable people, Denis Johnson's Nobody Move would have been much more aptly titled had it been namedNobody Read!Avoid... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471789964932 Tue, 26 May 2009 22:53:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471789964932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471533063812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Suitcase (Keb' Mo') If all country music is about wimmen, dawgs, an' pickup trucks; then blues music is basically the same - minus the dawgs and trucks. Should you want proof, all you need do is listen to Kevin... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471533063812 Tue, 26 May 2009 19:24:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471533063812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471334555268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Ken-Tool 18" Metric Four-Way Lug Wrench If you've ever had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere and the middle of the night in a pouring rain, you probably learned the hard way that the last person to tighten your lug nuts used an impact... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471334555268 Mon, 25 May 2009 10:54:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471334555268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471502065284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Peek into any serious woodshop and you'll find yards of wall space devoted to storing clamps of every description. Chances are good you'll find a large assortment of what looks like simple black pipes with orange doodads on their ends. That's exactly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471502065284 Sun, 24 May 2009 11:16:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471502065284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471301459588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Lisa Scottoline:  Look Again   Ellen Gleeson reached the mommy track via an unconventional route: after writing an article about a sick boy in a Philly hospital, the thirty-something single reporter... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471301459588 Sat, 23 May 2009 12:23:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471301459588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471210692228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Times are tough in the awl bidness, and so our little office no longer has an office manager to buy supplies and make the coffee in the morning. In fact, our little office only has two (sometimes three) people who even drink coffee any more - so guess... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471210692228 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:48:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471210692228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469796228740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - You're not supposed to outlive your own child.That's what Pat Nolan surely thought to himself, yet he held his only child Meagan's suicide note with trembling hands as he stumbled toward the morgue's viewing room to identify her remains... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469796228740 Tue, 19 May 2009 16:45:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469796228740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470757707396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - Mike Riccetti: Houston Dining on the Cheap  There are two different kinds of restaurant guides: those aimed at high-rollin' tourists (e.g., Zagat) and those intended for the common folk who drive the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470757707396 Sun, 17 May 2009 18:34:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470757707396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470499364484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author scmrak - David Baldacci: First Family Twelve-year-old Willa Dutton has gone missing; snatched from her suburban Virginia home by heavily-armed men who left her mother lifeless on the kitchen floor. What sets this apart from your... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470499364484 Fri, 15 May 2009 13:53:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470499364484?linkin_id=8003929