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 | HP Photosmart D7360 Printer | |
 | "will not print in black-and-white if a color is low" | 2009-03-15 |
| Here it goes - my first negative review for a consumer product. First ever. This printer is a complete waste of money. I NEVER print in color, and yet the various color always seem to exhaust themselves as if by magic. So, now, with a one page printing job on my hand, I can't use my printer because it ran out of the light blue. This printer will NOT let you print in b/w if your color levels are down, but, again, I NEVER USE the colors. They are simply drained slowly with every black and white printing job I send to the machine. Besides, it's extraordinarily slow - it takes forever to come online, it asks a whole bunch of unnecessary questions before proceeding with the printing job, and, get this, it SHAKES on my desk in a way I've never seen an appliance do. Seriously, this is an incredibly ridiculous printer. No one should buy it. | ||
 | Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor | |
 | "I bought it because of good reviews - can now confirm them" | 2009-02-16 |
| I read the Amazon reviews for this product and I'm now able to confirm them. This scale is fantastic, though, honestly, if you are struggling with your weight, the numbers it will give you will not flatter your self-esteem. But that's the whole point, no? I have 20 lbs of unnecessary weight and I weigh myself every morning. I noticed that weekly or bi-weekly or monthly weigh-ins were just a way for me to deceive myself - I thought I was doing well and made progress, but it turns out I was staying at the same weight. SO I bought this scale in order to track what is really happening with my body day in and day out, so I know what my "normal" baseline is. The readings are very accurate and they provide me the motivation i need to stay with the program. Watching the body fat percentage drop is particularly satisfying. I am on the upper end of "healthy" and "normal", and I want to be more in the middle. This scale allows you to track that extremely accurately. The other fun and scary thing about it is the "metabolic age" reading. I am 30 but came out as 40 at first. Wow. After a month of going to the gym, I am now "32". Let's hope soon enough I'll be my actual age or younger. If this sounds gimmicky to you, don't worry, I don't take this too seriously. The number is silly, of course, but it does remind you that your weight and your fat/muscle ratio are not what they should be for your age/gender/frame. | ||
 | Philosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust | |
| "Can a book on philosophical literature make you happy? Yes!" | 2004-12-30 |
| Like many other readers of Proust, navigating through the novel at a slow and painful rate, without a map, I experienced many frustrations, as well as precious exhilarating moments of clarity, followed quickly by despair.
Joshua Landy's book is that precious road map that rekindled my Proust enthusiasm and is sending me back to the original text with a penintent and yet joyful feeling. What a wonderfully strong, stylish, limpid and yet sophisticated analysis! Will we be cabaple of discovering anything new in Proust after Landy's "Philosophy as Fiction"? Is that the final word on 'La Recherche"? As you can very well see, I am still under the book's spell (finished it just yesterday), but everything, everything makes sense to me now! :-) I won't comment here on the the book's most important claim, i.e. that 'La Recherche' possesses a coherent, and largely original, philosophical theory on the nature of the Self and its capacity for Knowledge and Self-Fashioning; suffice it to say I bought the argument completely, since it is so beautifully laid out. I challenge anyone to find a better argued work: every chapter, every sub-chapter is demonstrated elegantly and concisely. The numerous end-notes (perhaps a bit too numerous?) are ideally supportive of Landy's arguments and represent a faithful sample of the entire novel, as well as Proust's other writings and the numerous critical works inspired by his novel. Joshua Landy's style, largely free of jargon, always in pursuit of order and clarity, demonstrates a laudable democratic sense that the author possesses: if you are not initiated into the rarefied society of Proust specialists, or if you are not a philosopher, you need not despair. Joshua Landy's seems to entirely lack the narcissism and self-satisfied inscrutability of many other literary-critical or philosophical works, and it opens itself to the reader with sincerity and authority. It is complex, but suple; echoes many critical and philosophical voices, but remains coherent and unburdened. Holding the book in my hands nostalgically, I'm experiencing a sense of joy and loss at having finished it. Enjoy your reading! | ||
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