Member Since: September 23, 2007Last Activity: April 22, 2008
About Me: I'm a PhD student in the social sciences. My primary interests are studying the interaction of language and culture, playing video games, watching movies, cooking and baking (especially vegetarian and vegan foods), and home improvement.
I frequently use short audio-video clips in the courses I teach on language in society, and I have tried a number of programs designed to capture segments of video from. While m...
Having played the GameCube Paper Mario, I must say that this new version is a huge improvement. The original Paper Mario was fun, but its major flaw, for me, was that fighting e...
HI Fisherman's Wharf is probably the best budget lodging in San Francisco. In a city where it's difficult to find a hotel room for under $100, this hostel is a great opt...
Note: the high price I paid was due to the game coming with an extra Wii remote. For this reason only, the purchase was worthwhile. Overall, however, I didn't think this gam...
This breadmaker is the first I've ever used or purchased, but I am really glad I finally made the plunge and decided to get one. This particular model was an amazing deal (l...
If you liked GTA: Vice City, buy this game right now. It has everything Vice City has, only better and more of it. The premise of the game is essentially the same as earlier gam...
As far as I'm concerned, Vice City might as well be the original Grand Theft Auto. I've played GTA III and tried a few of the earlier versions, but Vice City was a groun...
Being a big fan of the Harry Potter books and movies, I was excited to make my first foray into the video game sector of HP merchandise. However, I was sorely disappointed by th...
Yes! Katamari Damacy was such a great concept, but poorly executed. Finally Namco has improved on this concept and introduced the more sophistocated and fun sequel: We <3 Kat...
The original Katamari game - no doubt, it's a lot of fun. But unfortunately, one simply can't get much gameplay out of this version compared to the remake, We <3 Kata...