Epinions Recent Reviews for wilyliam

Perfect for the gym rat in your life . . .

Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:58:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - The first thing you notice about this little player is the way it looks. In my mind, the word for that is "fantastic." I'm a huge fan of nicely designed hardware (as anyone could tell by now, considering my glowing comments about the iPod . . .) and this...

Practical, important book for anyone.

Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:50:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Funny thing how sometimes circumstance causes you to pick up a book you would never look at twice otherwise, and find it to be one of the more valuable things you've read in several years (with the exception of Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon," of...

A nice, incremental upgrade.

Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:55:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Having an opportunity to try out Office2003 for awhile, there are some things I like about it very much - though I don't know if it warrants the hefty price tag. As has become commonplace for many Microsoft products, it is another incremental upgrade -...

Glad I'm finally on the iPod train.

Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:32:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I don't think it's any earth shattering news that the Apple iPod is a fantastic product. However, I finally reached threshold to get one, and now I want to share my happiness. Firstly - I'm glad that I waited (unintentionally,) for the third...

This movie was everything (as an athlete,) I'd hoped!

Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:08:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Fantastic. I've been looking forward to this movie since I saw the first previews, mainly because I'm a big fan of hockey movies (such as "Slapshot," "Mystery Alaska," and even "The Mighty Ducks," series . . .) and also because I've enjoyed just about...

Gotta love Marky Mark!

Sat, 28 Jul 2001 00:01:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - The original Planet of the Apes was a classic - a great piece of science fiction that used the genre to say some pretty insulting things about society and get away with it.

This movie was along the same lines - using the great advantage of...

Happy so far . . .

Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:33:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I just bought this phone - my choice was primarily driven by the fact that I signed up for Verizon cellular service (for reasons outlined in another review) and this was the one I liked out of the choices I had.

So far I'm very happy - it is...

Kinda wished I'd rented

Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:08:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - This was a movie that I wanted to see, though I truly expected to rent the DVD - but I was walking by the theater one day, wanted to see a movie, and it was showing in 15min. It was the matinee though, so I don't feel bad about it.

Don't get...

Continued greatness!

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:38:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - One of the coolest games to ever hit computer screens was Mechwarrior 2, followed very shortly by Mechwarrior 3 and then finally Mechwarrior 4. For fans of the old Battletech games on pen and paper, the Mechwarrior games were a real boone to those of us...

I love this bad boy!!

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - First of all - I got a great deal! I was hanging around on the bulletin boards at ArsTechnica and noticed one of the members wanted to sell this drive, and was willing to part with it for $85 shipped - I couldn't resist. He sent me all the original...

I was pleasantly surprised . . .

Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:43:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - The first time I ever saw this book on the shelf, I put it right back down - already having been burned by "Isaac Asimov's (fill in random Robot-title here)" books that did not remind me of Asimov in the least, I immediately saw this as some other writer...

Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 For Windows: Must have . . . !

Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:48:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - When I was wandering the halls of CompUSA a couple days ago and saw Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 on the shelf (thanks for the non-existent announcement Ritual!) buying it was not a choice. It was mandatory. I've been a fan of Heavy Metal the Movie since I was...

PatientKeeper: A great start . . .

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:06:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I bought Patient Keeper almost as soon as I bought my Palm, mainly because that's what most of my classmates were using, and I was interested in the ability to beam patient info to each other for cross-cover. Since then, I haven't been disappointed.
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Big sci-fi!!!

Mon, 3 Jul 2000 20:05:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I went to see this movie because I'm a huge fan of animation, and of science fiction - so Titan A.E. was mandatory. Nor was I disappointed.

This movie has been reviewed as a children's feature, but it is definitely not. While not as serious...

How did I ever live without you?

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:20:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I decided I finally had to get myself a Palm because I just started my internship at the hospital, and so many of my classmates have them and are already sharing vast amounts of information - I just couldn't bear to be left out. So I went to CompUSA and...

Samsung SCH 3500 CDMA / AMPS Cellular Phone: Sooo happy!!

Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:06:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Only over the course of the last year have I found myself wishing I had a mobile phone, and look what happened: My brother gave me one.

Good thing too, because left to my own devices, I certainly would have bought an unremarkable, mid-priced...

See it for the effects!!!

Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:21:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Following my own advice, I went to see this movie for the effects. I wouldn't have cared if it was about sea slugs. I wanted to get an eyeful of what has to be some of the most impressive visuals in an animated film to date. I loved it, I couldn't get...

Oh, it's not that bad . . .

Mon, 5 Jun 2000 14:01:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - I had to go see this movie because, much as Travolta had mentioned in an interview, I also read the book many years ago, noticed on the back cover that it was "soon to be a major motion picture," and have been waiting ever since.

I...

Getting close to perfect . . .

Fri, 5 May 2000 15:05:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Having been interested in purchasing a portable MP3 player for some time, but distressed by the low capacity of those on the market - I finally reached threshold when Diamond released the Rio500 with 64Mb. Also - I was able to tack it on my purchase of...

Hard to beat . . .

Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:53:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - The Bethesda Theater Cafe has many of the things I enjoy best in life: Movies, Hot Dogs and beer by the pitcher.

The theater itself comes from the days when Bethesda was its own little city way far away from DC, and they have some interesting...

Meat!

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:19:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Warning! This restaurant is not well tolerated by vegetarians. This is a barbeque place in the truest sense of the word, and even carnivores such as myself roll away thinking, "My Lord, that was a ton of meat . . ."

It is at Red...

Adaptec GoBack: Yes, it works . . .

Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:41:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Huge turnaround in opinion - read this cause it's all new . . .

I previously wrote a somewhat more complimentary review on this software, but since then, my opinion degraded, but now it is much better again!!!

This software promises...

Overclockers: You NEED this site . . .

Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:07:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - Since the new generation of Celerons that is supposed to be analogous to the PentiumIII (major difference being the L2 Cache, which is reduced to 128 in Celerons (though it runs at full speed, which makes up for quite a bit) - everyone's been getting...

Iomega Zip family: Irrelevant?

Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:27:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - A logical sequel to the original Zip drive - the floppy-like disk drive which stores 100 (or 250 now) Mb per disk instead of the puny 1.44Mb that a conventional floppy disk holds, I'm not so sure that the Zip drive hasn't outlived it's usefulness.
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Laughing 'till it hurt . . .

Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:07:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author wilyliam - A friend of mine scored some tickets to a sneak preview in Washington, DC, and fortunately for me, there were two - so off we went.

I walked into this movie with some high expectations, because I was very interested by the previews - and I was...