As someone who only very recently started wearing glasses, I am still a little curious about switching over to contact lenses. I know that they can be expensive, but I also may have just found the perfect solution for that particular problem. I can now get contact lenses for up to 70% off of normal prices. With that particular problem solved all I have to do now is find out where I put my prescription for glasses to find out what prescription I need.
Archive for September, 2008
3-2-1 Lenses
Monday, September 29th, 2008Dexter Season 3
Monday, September 29th, 2008It’s fall again (though still over 100 degrees in the desert) and yet again Showtime is thrilling us with the addictive and twisted show Dexter.
Dexter Morgan is a forensic scientist that also searches out those criminals in society that have slipped through the cracks unpunished and slice them up into little pieces.
The new season features some new characters, new actors (Jimmy Smits), and even a big new twist in the first episode.
So far this is my favorite commercial-free cable TV program. That may change if HBO releases “A Game of Thrones” (hint, hint). I look forward to the rest of season 3.
Exposed
Monday, September 29th, 2008With all of the weight loss products on the market, it’s obvious that the whole point is to be exposed. Expose more of your body after you lose all of the weight. The list at the link above claims that these secrets are now exposed. This website lists what it thinks are the current most awesome fads in the weight loss market. Don’t forget that eating less food, moving around more, and watching less television are also sure fire ways to burn off a few more of those pesky pounds.
HBO is awesome
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Before you continue reading, you better have a seat.
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You all know that I’ve been praising the awesomeness of George R. R. Martin’s epic ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series. Earlier this month Martin posted on his website that HBO has just exercised their option and purchasd the television rights to the series. This means that shortly we could see the first book in the series, “A Game of Thrones,” as the first season of the series in just a couple of short years!
This isn’t a done deal yet, and it’s still not definite. But, this is the next step in the process to bring the series to the small screen. Earlier HBO had purchased the option. Now they’ve exercised the option and have purchased the rights. Looks like they may film it in Spain or the Czech Republic.
A short note to HBO. Please make this series. I just have basic cable right now but will become a subscriber to the Home Box Office when they bring this series to their network. Heck, I’ll forever remain a subscriber if this comes to the screen.
Newest Camcorders
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Now that everyone has an iPod and some sort of digital camera built into their cell phone, it’s about time that we as consumers revisited the camcorder market. There are definitely two ways to go with modern camcorders. Get one that’s really tiny. Or get one that’s fully HD.
Either way that you go, you can just about guarantee that you’ll get the best deal online. They don’t have any store employees to pay. So when you go and buy that camcorder, look for the one that fits your needs best. Make sure you have an HD TV before you go out and get an HD camcorder.
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Beings that it is coming up on Talk Like A Pirate Day, I was doing a little musing. If Han Solo was a smuggler (pirate), and Chewie was his first mate, shouldn’t Harrison Ford have brought a little more “mateys” and “arrghs” to the role. Or maybe, just maybe, Chewbacca’s pirate accent was so heavy that it came out in his trademarked roars.
Makes you think, huh?
USB swag
Sunday, September 21st, 2008If you want someone to remember your company name for the rest of the day, try giving out hats or visors or frisbees as giveaways at your next convention or conference. However, if you want your company name and logo to become instantly recognizable to every member of the convention, give away a free USB flash drive with your company name and logo on the side. They come in many shapes and sizes and styles.
Star Wars Unleashed review
Sunday, September 21st, 2008For at least a year now I have been looking forward to the release of the newest entry into the huge library of Star Wars related video games, Star Wars Unleashed. Now that it’s out… meh.
I was hoping for something unbelievable and outstanding. I got something pedestrian and clunky.
Granted, I have only played the PS2 version of the game and am still willing to give the other consoles’ versions a chance, but… meh.
The controls a pain, and most disappointingly, the use of the force powers is the most difficult to control. The game feels more like a fighting game with big levels than the first person shooter with force powers game that I was hoping for. And there’s no multiplayer either, even for the PS3 and 360 versions.
Hopefully, the destructible environment and improved AI that were featured so prominently in the previews will be used in the future to make better games than this.
Need boxes?
Sunday, September 21st, 2008If you’re moving to a new place or trying to get organized, you’re going to need some boxes. You can try to dig some boxes out of the dumpster, but you may just end up with some dirty boxes of all different sizes that just don’t stack nicely. There is a site now where you can get the shipping boxes for exactly what you need to ship something, store something, or move something.
Starship Troopers 3 review
Sunday, September 21st, 2008I was really expecting something a little different. I know, I know, it’s just Starship Troopers 3, and we rented it just to make fun of it, but it was still very different than expected.
The movie starts with the MPAA rating of R and even explains the reasons behind the rating. Well that just made us all try to predict which actress or actresses were in the movie solely to get naked and which ones were hired for their acting ability. Turns out three were hired to get naked and not a single person was hired for their acting ability. Oh, and watch out for dudity from Johnny Rico.
The long and short of the ‘plot’ involves a group of space marines crash landing on a bug infested planet and then arguing for the rest of the movie about the existence of God. The marine leader (and lounge singer) takes the side of the pro-God castaways but constantly gets that weird faraway look that means, “I’m either going to betray you all to the bugs, or I am a bug. Didn’t see that coming, huh?”
Good for a couple laughs, but mostly a waste of time.