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Archive for July, 2010

I love my Kindle, take it everywhere I go. I am, however, getting increasingly frustrated with the rising costs of the books, both new releases and ones that have since been released in paperback. When I first got my Kindle the most expensive book was $9.99 and any book that I could find on the shelves in paperback was about $4.99 or less for Kindle. Now I’m finding that the books I purchased 18 months ago for $9.99 are now being sold for $12.99 and I can find paperbacks in the book stores for less than I can get them for Kindle! Are these electronic versions now costing MORE to “produce” than they did before? Doubtful. I realize that capitalism works by the laws of supply and demand, but if the prices continue to rise the way they have over the last 6 months, my demand is going to significantly decrease.
Grip n Go Handheld

What an awful book. Written in 1951, this book originally sparked great controversy with its mature themes focusing on the teenage angst, loneliness and rebellion of the protagonist Holden Caulfield. I guess its like a really bad version of James Dean’s classic Rebel Without a Cause. Caulfield is the archetype of an underachiever. Today kids are reading about the latest sluggard – Greg Heffley from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The characters Greg and Holden have a lot in common.

Catcher in the Rye follows the life of Holden Caulfield for a few days after being expelled from Pencey prep school as he returns home to New York City and contemplates life. Although, Caulfield does little contemplation and spends most of his time whining and complaining about everyone and everything. He sees the negative in everything (except his little sister) and makes one bad and offensive decision after another for almost 300 pages of misery. The only value I can find in reading this book today is to use Holden Caulfield as an example of what NOT to be – lazy, negative, and uninspired. Unfortunately the latest version of Holden Caulfield appears to be as popular with readers today as Catcher in the Rye was fifty years ago. When are we going to wake up and stop celebrating negative characters like Holden and Greg?
A New Friend Angel

God’s words, thoughts..meanings are often taken and fitted into holes that would take squares. Many often take one verse and build an entire belief system around it without any sense of context or application.

This book however, goes one better. A better title would be, Talking with Satan…
If there were ever a bastardization of God’s Holy words and their meanings…this book is it.

For instance (and I paraphrase), when a girl asks the question “Why am I a lesbian?” His answer is that she was ‘born that way’ because of genetics (just as you were born right-handed, with brown eyes, etc.). Then he tells her to go out and “celebrate” her differences.

Another girls poses the question “I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?”

His reply is, “Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong.”

Another question asks about God’s forgiveness of sin. His reply “I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive.. There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is “‘judge not lest ye be judged.”

So, as my title ask…Are your ears itching..I take that from the following scripture which warns us of this very thing being offered up as something from God.
2 Timothy 4:3……”For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.”

Classic Pet Products 08003

As others have mentioned, this is more complex than a vaccum, so please pay attention to assembly and use and cleaning instructions, you’ll be glad you did. This thing works very well, it has a very powerful extractor. I like my carpets (and my pukey cats) a lot more now. My very first attempt my carpet was soaking afterward, which is how I learned that it’s very easy to not get the lid on the recovery tank correctly, thereby creating a leak that means no suction at the floor. Now I know to check the front of the device: if I don’t see water/foam being pulled up, I know something isn’t seated correctly.
VGA to 3 RCA

Too bulky and a weird shape. I don’t believe this case was designed for a GPS. It’s big enough for accessories like the power cord but I don’t want to take a chance that I’ll scratch the GPS. There are better choices that fit like a glove and offer the same protection.
Hard Shell 4 3