Epinions Recent Reviews for tesseract

Tomb Raider Anniversary: Feels Like the First Time

Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:36:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Remember entering that snowy cave in Peru for the first time in 1996, pistols in hand? Climbing rocky ledges, dodging poison darts, fending off wolves, and finding secrets? Ahh, those were the days. When raiding tombs was simple and pure. Guess what?...

TMI on Tomb Raider Legend: Can Faded Glory Bloom Afresh?

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:10:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Tomb Raider is back. After the fiasco that was Angel of Darkness (AOD), not to mention those god-awful movies, many of us thought the franchise was doomed. Legend seemed to have promise, but we've been disappointed...

TMI on Oblivion: I'll Take a One-Way Ticket to Morrowind, Please...

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:15:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Warning: Here comes one of my patented TMI® reviews. If you hate reading long ones, you might want to quit while you’re ahead. I just can't seem to find any middle ground between "It's great/it sucks" and going into vomitous detail. Anyway, Oblivion...

Don't Like Opera? Try Our New & Improved Popera!

Sun, 5 Nov 2006 00:00:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I first discovered Cafe del Mar's Aria 2: New Horizon while listening to internet radio at work. I normally put on something very light at low volume, just enough to provide an almost white noise level of background music that’s soothing...

Take An Armchair Tour of World Music for $3.99

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:10:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Who would have thought you could travel from Ethiopia to Switzerland to China and back for only $3.99? Certainly not me, and I could hardly believe my good luck when I spotted this gem in Barnes & Noble for a bargain price. The entire album consists of...

The Pink Panther: Steve Martin Falls Flat on his Face

Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:52:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - As if we needed more proof that you can’t do Jacques Clouseau without Peter Sellers. That Sellers is essential to the success of the role was proved abundantly by 1968’s Inspector Clouseau, 1982’s Trail of the Pink Panther, and...

The Outlaw Sea: Chaos Isn't Just for the High Seas

Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:04:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime, originally published as a serial report in The Atlantic Monthly, is fundamentally a victim of its journalistic origins. It is a series of chapters, each well told, but inadequately...

State of Fear: Weak Adventure Novel or Clumsy Propaganda? It's Both!

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 01:34:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I just finished reading Michael Crichton’s new best-seller, and I must say I am deeply disappointed in Mr. Crichton. Not so much for writing and publishing a work of unabashed propaganda, but for doing such an obtuse and ham-handed job of it...

Blockbuster Entertainment Online Store: Blockbuster Online: How Does it Really Stack Up to Netflix?

Sat, 7 May 2005 14:13:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - We were customers of Netflix for most of a year back around 2002, and we were their ideal customers… we were the ones who paid the $20 monthly fee (this was back when it was $20), but we rarely watched more than three or four movies a month. It was...

A Vegetarian Tour of San Antonio

Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:47:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - It shouldn’t come as any surprise that San Antonio boasts a ton of great Tex-Mex restaurants. Steaks and barbecue probably follow Tex-Mex as the most common kinds of food. I became a vegetarian in February 2005 for a variety of reasons, and I prefer...

Kicking the Briefcase Habit in Urban Style

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:32:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - One Miserable Commuter's Tale As a lawyer, I work in a pretty conservative profession. I got out of law school assuming that a briefcase is what you carry. You’re a lawyer, you carry a briefcase. Period. So when I got my first job out...

An Adventure Game By Any Other Name...

Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:02:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - After playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, my personal favorite game of 2003 (although I personally played it in 2004), I was hungry-- starving, in fact-- for more Star Wars action. I’d heard good things about Star Wars: Knights Of...

A Class Act For The Holidays

Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:56:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - John Boswell's Festival Of The Heart is my "desert isle" Christmas album. You know the old game... if you were stuck on a desert island with only so many books, CDs, movies, or whatever, what would you pick? Well, if I were stuck on a desert...

Bond Find a New Sound – More Fusion, Less Confusion

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:04:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Just two days ago, I reviewed Bond’s 2001 debut album, Born, and claimed that it’s unclear whether they’re classical or pop. Clearly, I hadn’t yet had the chance to hear their latest release, Classified. After checking it...

The Beauty Myth Strikes Again

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:06:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - About Bond Are they classical or are they pop? Three years after their 2001 debut album, Born, the debate still rages. Superficially, Bond resembles a traditional classical string quartet, consisting of first and second violin, viola,...

Eagle Mini Multimedia (kb-mck-91) Keyboard: A Compact Piece of Crap

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:57:02 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - After my experiment with the G
yration
wireless keyboard and mouse, I turned to something simpler (and cheaper). Since the Gyration is the only keyboard on the market that’s both wireless and compact, I decided I...

Die Fledermaus: Not Worth the Money, for Me

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:34:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - After spending six weeks on a document review project which involved using a laptop set on top of a conference table for 8-9 hours a day (not the most ergonomic workstation in the world, but a contract lawyer has to take what she’s offered), my...

New Age = Classically Inspired Solo Piano??

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:04:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I have to confess something… as much as I love David Lanz, I don’t actually own a single one of his albums. I’ll have to correct that soon. Years ago, when I was still in high school, my mother used to play Cristofori’s Dream...

Meet David Lanz, Pianist Extraordinaire

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:41:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I’ve got a serious bone to pick with the Epinions community. There are hardly any reviews of fantastic pianist David Lanz! If none of you are reviewing this man’s music, that tells me you’re not listening to his music, and that means there...

Thief Deadly Shadows for Windows: Still Life With Blackjack

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:41:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - When Looking Glass Studios, creator of Thief: The Dark Project (TDP) and Thief II: The Metal Age (TMA) went out of business in 2000, shortly after the release of TMA, Thief fans everywhere (or at least this Thief fan in Houston) went into a...

On The Fence At Emily Morgan Hotel

Tue, 25 May 2004 19:29:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - We recently spent 5 days in San Antonio, and I did something I’ve never done before. I took a chance and booked our hotel room on Priceline. I told it where I wanted to stay (the Riverwalk), what quality of hotel I wanted (4 stars), and how much I...

B!tch: For Serious Feminists and Serious Readers

Fri, 7 May 2004 23:37:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Explanatory note: This is one of a matched pair of reviews written on Bust and B!tch magazines after reading them both. The introduction is the same for both of them, so if you’ve already read my other review, you can skip straight to the gist this...

Bust: Feminist Rag or Glamour Wanna-Be?

Fri, 7 May 2004 23:13:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - Explanatory note: This is one of a matched pair of reviews written on Bust and B!tch magazines after reading them both. The introduction is the same for both of them, so if you’ve already read my other review, you can skip straight to the gist this...

My Quick Endorsement

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:35:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I don't have much to add after dhandforth's excellent review, but I'll just toss in my two cents: This is an engaging and easy-to-read book about an amazing man who lived a remarkable life. The book's only flaw to me is that it may be a bit too...

A Pixellated Christmas, Part 4: Oh, The Humanity!

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:42:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author tesseract - I heard all the complaints about Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness (AOD), the sixth major installment in the Tomb Raider series of adventure games, but I still wanted it, because I simply can’t let a major Tomb Raider release pass me by...