Epinions Recent Reviews for watsondog

Gets dishes clean and is very quiet

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:29:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - The KitchenAid KUDM03FT works well. It gets dishes clean, it's easy to operate, it's attractive, and it's very quiet - quieter than most KitchenAid dishwashers, let alone those from other manufacturers. The last is vitally important to me because the...

Cooktop and oven both work well; one quibble

Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:06:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I bought the Kitchenaid KDRS807 range to match my KitchenAid refrigerator and dishwasher. I have had very few problems, but there is one thing that concerns me.The burners are regular and even; with the double burner I sometimes get a flickering...

Looks good, keeps things cold: what else do you need?

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:28:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I chose this fridge for my new home partly because I have a relatively small kitchen, partly because I was sick and tired of bending over to get the milk, and partly because this model was on sale. It works very well. Cold cuts, produce, butter, and...

Good basic radio that works in Canada; tests can't be cleared

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:56:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I bought the WR602 because I'm moving to Winnipeg, a city that regularly sees dangerous heat, floods, tornadoes, hailstorms, punishing cold, and blizzards - but unlike at my current home in Calgary, not generally all in the same day. It also appears that...

Chips ahoy!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:31:02 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I bought the 20-piece Pfaltzgraff Grapevine to replace some old second-hand plates I'd been using. Even though it was significantly less expensive than other lines of porcelain, I don't feel I received value for money. The main advantage of Grapevine...

More good points than bad

Sat, 25 May 2002 22:06:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - We've had our DeLonghi Electric Coffee Mill for about a year and a half now. It does grind coffee better than the rotary grinder we had earlier, but unfortunately it isn't the greatest grinder in the history of coffee either.

One problem is...

Great coffee doesn't have to have a great big price

Sat, 25 May 2002 21:46:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I've been using the Bodum Bistro coffee maker under various names for about 15 years. I love it.

It's a snap to use: put in your coffee, pour boiling or almost-boiling water over it, wait 4 minutes, press the plunger down, and serve. Use a...

This Showtime should be cancelled

Sat, 25 May 2002 21:30:13 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - Based on the rave reviews this item has received at epinions, I went out and bought the Showtime Rotisserie, hoping that it would allow us to cook delicious meats quickly and easily without heating up the kitchen in the summer. Boy, was I wrong.
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Tiberius got WHO to do WHAT to him?

Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:53:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - The first time I read The Twelve Caesars was in school. We didn't have the Robert Graves translation for three reasons:

a) it probably hadn't been published yet;

b) it *definitely* isn't suitable for kids, and

c) everybody who read...

I had a glass of water

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:49:02 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - This review is more personal than others, because if I hadn't been a b**ch to the Keg management, I might not be here to write this review. People who have no respect or tolerance for those of us who can't eat everything put in front of us can pass.
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AD-Aware: You're not paranoid if they really are after you

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:07:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - Advertisers use spyware to collect your personal information, your shopping history, and even your Web browsing habits, giving them the ability to target you with personalized ads and offers based on their findings. Software developers may use it to...

Silicon Prairie MemTurbo: Excellent little utility

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:04:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - MemTurbo increases the amount of memory available on your system in four ways. It defragments RAM in use, plugs memory leaks, retrieves unused RAM from the operating system and from applications, and flushes unused libraries and DLLs from RAM. It runs...

It made me sob in frustration and rage

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 03:21:28 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - This review is of Musicmatch 6.1.

I'm not generally given to breaking down into tears over computer programs. After all, I'm a veteran of the Blue Screen of Death. But Musicmatch did it; about four hours ago, I was so frustrated, so angry and...

Attack of the merger morons

Tue, 7 Aug 2001 02:37:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - A couple of weeks ago on the Canadian cop drama "Cold Squad", the detectives were phoning around to the airlines trying to find evidence that a suspect hadn't been in Calgary on the day of a murder. One cop says, "I'm on hold with the merger morons."...

News for the hard of thinking

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:47:56 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - CNN used to be a great news source. Who can forget Bernard Shaw and Peter Arnett, trapped on a balcony in Baghdad, risking their lives to report the Allied bombing of Iraq? Or Christina Amanpour's trek into Iraqi Kurdistan to show the effects of Saddam...

Millie Vanilla

Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:12:40 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - Most women's magazines promote unhealthy lifestyle choices. They fill page after page with pictures of unathletic, physically unfit models who quite obviously smoke, take drugs, and purge in order to keep their weight down. But in most magazines, the...

Who in their right mind believes this garbage?

Sat, 4 Aug 2001 04:03:48 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - Remember that arrogant twit you went to high school or college with? Smug, self-satisfied, loud-mouthed, opinionated, rude, selfish, cruel, with a sense of entitlement (especially respecting women) the size of the planet Jupiter? Vogue is the magazine...

Perfect for children, not so great for adults

Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:51:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - This is one of the best children's movies in years. It takes every little girl's fantasy - to be a princess - and shows what really would happen if such a fantasy were to come true. There is nothing that a careful parent would find disturbing or...

UPS - UnPardonable Sharks

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 23:36:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I was unable to find the Intel Pocket Concert Accessory Pack in Canada, and no online seller would send it to Canada directly, so I ordered it through Amazon and had a friend in the US redirect it.

It might have been cheaper if I had flown to...

It can save your life

Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:43:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - If you are a fan of medical dramas such as ER or real-life medical documentaries such as Trauma on TLC, you may see a patient brought in with a seafood or peanut allergy. Inevitably, one of the first medicines given to the patient will be Benadryl.
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Best mosquito repellent on the market

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:54:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - This is going to be an odd opinion, because although I think Skin-so-Soft is a fine body lotion, I believe it has a far better use: it is bar none the best mosquito repellent I have ever used.

I lived in the Canadian Arctic for ten years. The...

The definitive Scrabble dictionary - almost

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:17:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - The 3rd edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) is a huge improvement over the 2nd edition. The typeface is larger, and the glaring typos in the 2nd edition have been fixed. The vocabulary includes both modern words and (some) Canadian...

Not quite good enough

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 02:56:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I have extremely fair skin, so I have to wear sunscreen every day. I tried Banana Boat mainly because it was a new product, but also because it was a lot cheaper than my regular sunscreen (Presun).

It was a bit greasy and smelled horrible,...

RealJukebox Basic: Give me my memory back!

Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:00:15 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - Remember that Star Trek episode where a race of women use a computer to remove Spock's brain, and all that's left of poor Spock is an empty shell?

I think the writers must have somehow known about RealJukebox. This thing gobbles memory like...

I could have chosen better

Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:23:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author watsondog - I really don't mind my Canon BJC-5100, probably because I don't need anything printed quickly, clearly or cheaply. It does what I need it to do - print a few sheets every day, things like jokes for my family, reminders, and the like, and it does that...