I purchased my Medion laptop at a nearby Aldi's. For those who don't know what that is, it's a supermarket similar to Save-a-lot. You're probably thinking why the hell I would ever want to plop down the money for laptop at a grocery store, and I wonder that myself. Wasn't really my idea, but anyway. I recieved the laptop, plugged it in, and tried it out. It was installed wit...

For class, I was to purchase some 13 x 19 matte paper for a few projects. I purchased the staples brand because it was much cheaper than the others. The paper works flawless, let me tell you, simply flawless. It's double sided matte, which is great, and all my projects looked great on it. It includes twenty sheets which isn't a bad deal at all, and works with all inkjest printers. I'...

This bookbag has lasted forever. I recieved it as a present during my sophmore year of high school, and still carry it around in college. It's your standard bookbag, that opens up via zipper and with a smaller pocket in the front that can carry materials such as pencils, erasers, and your crayolas. Mine is a grey, black, and white color, nothing to special. I imagine you can purchase more s...

The Gateway E-Series, the computer of choice when it comes to my college's cafeteria. For a computer that doesn't get much attention payed to, it's not bad. I have no idea about the video card, ram, or hard drive space, for there are nothing but restrictions on it, but I can check my e-mail and ESPN  instead of homework rather quickly. The major complaint, aside from the keyboa...

Life water is a new beverage released by SoBe, makers of those glass bottle drinks with an array of different flavors. The one I purchased was tangerine flavored. Life water is an excellent replacement for soda. It has only 130 calories per bottle, and includes vitamin C, E, B6, B12, Niacin, and Pantethenic Acid. Compare that to a pepsi or coke or even a gatorade, which have more calories and n...

This little planner is almost small enough to go in you back pocket on the go, and big enough to write whatever you want and still have leftover room to doodle! It includes a wide array of colors, ranging from black and red, blue and green, and many more! There is plenty of space to write. Also included in this fabulous planner is a map of the US featuring all the time zones in the country, and...

Fortress Forever is team-based capture the flag mod for Half-Life 2. It was released in September of 2007, around the same time that Team Fortress 2 and the Orange Box was released. Fortress Forever includes nine unique classes such as scouts, medics, soldiers, and engineers for offensive and defensive purposes. Many players flocked to Team Fortress 2 after it's release because of the simpl...

The Orange Box, a product of Valve Software, includes Half-Life 2, Episode 1, Episode 2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Lost Coast, and a special edition of Peggle. I will be reviewing each of these games seperately, but for now, know this. This is by far the best value for a game package that I have ever witnessed. If you're a fan of first person shooters, team based games, or even puzzle games,...

Team Fortress 2, the sequal that many players have been waiting for what seems an eternity for. Original release date was scheduled to be December of 1997..ah well, anyway. It is here, and is quite a different game than it's ancestors. Team Fortress 2 resembles more of Day of Defeat, a World War II mod for Half-Life, than Team Fortress or Team Fortress Classic. It's a bit slower paced, ...

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a real time strategy computer game from the popular company Blizzard. While Blizzard has other franchises such as Starcraft and Diablo, the Warcraft universe was their first real big hit with Warcraft I and made them by far the most income ( World of Warcraft ). Warcraft III's story takes off after number two, with the humans defeating the orcs and driving th...

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is the official expansion pack to the hit from Blizzard, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Those who have already played Warcraft III know exactly what they're getting into. The story picks up right after the last game and features many of the same ( but entertaining ) single player missions and multiplayer maps. I personally enjoyed the entire campaign, although...

Team Fortress Classic, one of the first mods released for Half-Life. Released in April of 1999, it was sort of a semi-sequel to the popular Team Fortress for Quake. It became quite popular, although not even close to Counter-Strike, and still holds a couple hundred people on Steam daily. At first, Team Fortress Classic is a wacky game with crazy physics and imbalanced classes, and it is. But un...

Out of the six Mega Man games released for the Nintendo Enternainment System, the third sequel is my personal favorite. Why? Much of the gameplay in MM3 is still fresh, with new enemies and original bosses. The graphics are just a minor tweak of the first two games, but the backgrounds look nicer and there's not as much slowdown. The real reason, though, it because of the tunes in Mega Man ...

For quite some time now, Nintendo fans have been asking for a new side-scrolling Mario Bros. game, and now it has been delivered. The New Super Mario Bros. is everything an old-school fan could ask for, playing a homage to the earlier Nintendo versions of the plumber more than anything. The visuals are completely 3-D, but still play out like the older sprite based versions. The music is mostly ...

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is the latest installement of the popular sidescroller genre from Konami. POR plays exactly like it's predecessars since the 1997 underground hit Symphony of the Night, minus a couple exceptions. You now have the ability to switch out between two different characters, each with their own stash of equipment, spells, and weapons. Unfortunatly, the story really re...

Cooking Mama is an altogether different kind of genre that recently became popular due to the touch screen of the Nintendo DS. In this game, you are basically mixing, cutting, setting the time, and other things in which is basically steps in creating food. Timing is everything, however, because if taken too long ingredients get burned and that soup or salad you're trying to prepare doesn...