How could I not write a review about my beloved MacBook?  It did, after all, win me 5 bucks when I used the built-in iSight camera to upload a profile video to this site.In truth, as a laptop it is not incredibly superb.  For that, you definitely need to get a MacBook Pro, which I plan to do for college (Moms: certainly the best thing you could send your child to college with!). ...

These silver wire Aviators are my favorite pair of sunglasses yet.  My last pair were also aviators, but they were brown, too big, and too flimsy.  So when I was in PacSun one day, I saw these and decided to get them. The first thing I noticed about them when I picked them up was that they were nice and sturdy.  They close with a snap and the wire frames aren't so thin t...

I have had this backpack for as long as I can remember, which is probably about 8 years.  I've used it everyday at school for those 8 years, and it hasn't worn out on me.  Eastpak certainly makes quality products; I remember when I bought it it had a tag that said "built for life."It's still comfortable but durable, and holds plenty of books.  Since it is co...

We originally bought this stereo for my brother, but now he's off to college and it resides in my room.I have to say I love the option of hooking up my laptop or iPod to this stereo with a cord and blasting music that way.  It has great bass, and a wide volume range.  You can put up to 5 discs (plus a mini-disc) into it at a time and cycle through them.  A great thing about t...

I believe I have had this flash drive for over 2 years now.  The first flash drive I ever bought was 1 GB, and I bought it for $40 (which was cheap then).  Then I got this one for the same price, with 4 times the capacity.It is certainly a quality product, and has worked fine for me over the years.  It comes with U3 smart software already on it so you can set up different setting...

I knew I needed a pair of gray jeans because my blue pairs don't exactly go with some of the crazier colors I like.  When I asked around, people recommended I look in at Old Navy.The minute I walked in, I saw a stack of gray jeans to my left.  Pretty good sign, I thought.  They only had probably one other style of gray jeans for guys, but this style turned out great, and they...

My school had us purchase these laptops so that we were all using the same build.   It was pretty hard to switch to this after using (an old) Apple powerbook.At first look at the laptop, you can see it is an ugly black, bulky and jagged.  My version (R series) is not exactly the same as the one shown in the picture, but it looks about the same.  I guess Lenovo did nothing to...

"I feel like God." That's the first thing I thought after downloading and installing Maxis' recent release of the SPORE Creature Creator.  (To learn more about what SPORE is, go to www.spore.com).  The download is about 200MB; it's not too bad, so try it out now.  It says you should have a 2GHz processor, but it works fine on lower settings if you dont ...

Years ago as I sat through fifth grade history, I pondered the "what's the big deal" question students tend to have.  I found the 18th and 19th century revolutions boring.  But I was wrong.  All they needed was a soundtrack.To me "Viva la Vida" (or "Death and All His Friends") brings out the thrill of epic revolutions, as represented in the CD...

The Flaming Lips is music you would want to play out of your toaster radio.  It has the retro robot feeling with the modern beats of synthesizers and electric guitars.  The lyrics are tripping and the songs are gripping. They are both silly and apocalyptic. Clearly the single from this album is "The W.A.N.D." which you might have heard on a dell laptop commercial (thats how ...

There's alot that can be said about Tony Stark just from his name, "stark."  That's just what he is.In the character of Ironman you will find the bad@$$, muscular, freedom-fighting vigilante everybody likes, with the additional "wow" factor of the technology and affluence everybody wants.  Tony is captured by terrorists and has to build himself a super-huma...

Beck is a favorite.  This album isn't.  Still, like alot of new albums produced by my favorites, "Modern Guilt" has been growing on me.The other day was one of those times where I had to go listen to "Gamma Ray," the single from the album.  At other times I find myself wanting to jive to the pumping "Soul of a Man" (what does make the soul of a m...

If you're a graphic designer, a graphics tablet is a must-have.  Trying to draw semi-straight lines with a normal mouse is incredibly difficult, and uncomfortable.  I used to just draw things on paper, and then I'd have to scan everything into the computer that I wanted to use.  No more.Wacom's ergonomic Intuos 3 graphics tablet is one of the best out there, especiall...

After my old cell phone flew out of my pocket at the top of the highest roller coaster in Hersheypark, I decided to use the opportunity to upgrade.  And it really was quite an upgrade; while my old LG was $30 cheaper than my Sony Ericsson, I never felt the urge to take it out and show it off like I do with my new one.In a one-word description, this phone is Sleek.  The casing is only ...

I ordered my iPod Touch about a week after they first came out.  They were the coolest things, and still are.  An mp3 player that can play video on a big screen, surf the web through a wifi connection, receive and write emails, plus control many other apps and games with its touch-pad capability and accelerometer?  That's amazing, no matter how old hat it has become within th...

Bloc Party has done it again. I wasn't sure if they had at first.  Having listened to their past two albums, plus several of their EPs/singles, this album came as a shock.  It has a different feel to it, but is still definitely Bloc Party.  Their first two CDs are a build-up and refining of the band's sound, which takes another step forward in Intimacy.  They ar...

Just to put this out there from the get-go, I wouldn't recommend this movie to kids any younger than me (16).  It is packed full of crass sexual jokes and language.Aside from that, I thought it was really funny.  The impossible scenarios, the racial jokes between the israelis and the palestinians,  and of course the whole idea that a counter-terrorist agent would want to &quo...

My mom bought me these mechanical pencils at the beginning of the school year in hopes that they would be good, solid ones that I could use the whole year.  They certainly look like they would be a good quality product.  But not a month after she got them, I was done with them.I thought mechanical pencils were supposed to make things easier.  No more sharpening, broken tips, worn...