the blackberry by rim

Blackberry was the original pda/cellphone. It was the first phone in the US to offer full key pad and support for email. However in the attempt to do two things at once it did neither well. I find it very odd to hold the very wide and somewhat short blackberry up to my ear to use as a phone and I find its vanilla email client and tiny keyboard to be a very poor tool for checking email.

Another big problem I have with it is that the OS has not been improved since it was first released 6 or 7 years ago, they have added features but not improved the odd jog wheel navigation of its folders. If email on your phone is important to you I think the iphone or any of phones that flip sideways and have the full keyboard would be better than the nextel blackberry I use for work.

My opinion: blackberry tries to be a phone with email but fails.

stranger than fiction.

I first saw this movie in the theater with Rosie. She is a big fan of Will Farrel (who stars in it) however I am not, and so I was somewhat reluctant. But, it turns out my fears were unfounded. This movie is not your average post SNL comedy, it has really depth to the story its humor is understated and mature (by that I do not mean obscene)

It is the story of an ordinary man who finds his life is being narrated. He knows he is not crazy and so begins seeking out the author who is writing about him. He does this by consulting and expert on modern fiction, who initially thinks him crazed but reconsiders when given a sample of the narration. The narrators foreshadowing leads him to carefully consider what his actual priorities are and he is challenged by the question: if you know that doing the right thing will lead to a conclusion you don't want will you do it anyway?

I loved this movie

vanilla mint listerine

Yet another new "flavor" of the original mouth wash

My opinion: This is good stuff. It really has a good flavor (for being a mouth wash, I am not saying I want a soda company to make something like it.) and the burn is greatly diminished, compared to the cool mint that I usually rinse with.

Transformers

Cars that turn into giant robots, how could you go wrong? Men my age have been waiting for this movie since we were five.

My opinion: it was LAME! Maybe the problem was high expectation but I just didn't like it. I thought the teenage drama thing was to big a part of the movie, and very poorly done. I thought the product placement was way to much, having Bumble Bee change from a "classic" Camero to a brand new Camero just but touching it trivialized something. I Thought that Autobots hiding behind buildings in robot mode rather than TRANSFORMING was silly. I was bothered that the Allspark only made Decepticons. The conversation the boy and his parents had in his room was totaly uncalled for.

Well, in short a childhood dream of every boy my age has come true only to bring us disappointment and heartache.

campbell's soup

more specifically campbell's select italian sausage with pasta and pepperoni, but that seemed a bit long for the title.

My opinion: this is really good soup.the broth has great flavor from the italian sausage the pasta gives it good body and the chunks of pepperoni are plentiful. This is WAY better than the last campbell's select soup I tried (their tortilla soup is mediocre at best) and I will definatly have it again in the future.

ebay user feedback

when you buy or sell something online you then get to say whether or not you were pleased with the product and sell (or buyer as the case may be). You have three choices for feedback positive, neutral, or negative and then room for comments (like A++ great ebayer)

My opinion: this is almost worthless. I generally feel neutral about shopping experiences (I am after all a guy). I pay what I think something is worth and, that is that, but in ebay land they seem to think you ought to have strong positive opinions about minor purchases or something is amiss. I do not understand why the seller doing exactly what they said they would should justify "positive" feedback. If I fill out a feedback card at a grocery store it is because somebody went out of their way to help me not because it turns out there staff doesn't push me down and take my wallet.

This comes up because I was looking at a feedback page from a ebay store that sells jewelry and they had received positive feedback form some one who in the comments indicated that the product was of a lower quality than described. I just don't get it.

quizno's

MMMM toasty?

My opinion: Toasty sure but not that much flavor, Ryann and I split a turkey ranch swiss yesterday for lunch and I could taste neither ranch nor swiss and there seemed to be an excessive amount of lettuce. Ryann said she only had one bite that tasted of swiss and also found the ranch lacking.