Posts Tagged ‘12’

I can live with this scale — not thrilled, but I don’t regret the purchase.

The best thing about it is the display – I can read it without putting on my glasses (and then having them fall off because I’m looking down!). It’s comfortably large and feels solid.

Three things I’m not crazy about:

a) It is hard to turn on. It seems to need a sharp, sudden tap, as opposed to gradual pressure. I’ve been unable to turn it reliably without creating a noise. I can’t turn it on by tapping my foot on the top unless I press quite hard. Sometimes I turn it on by lifting an edge of the scale with my toe and letting it drop. One day I dropped a small box next to the scale, and it turned on, even though the box fell about 1-2 feet away. This is repeatable. But toe-tapping is ineffective unless I’m wearing hard-soled shoes (not often the case when I weigh myself).

b) We keep the scale against the wall so that it’s not an obstacle in the bathroom. It makes a loud rattling noise when you try to drag it across the floor. My old scale was much quieter. But, on the bright side, the rattling seems to be effective in turning the scale on!

c) It offers one-tenth of a pound precision, but not accuracy. I was originally excited to see that I could weigh myself with finer granularity than a pound. But it’s erratic. For example, I just weighed myself at 154.0 pounds. I then weighed myself while holding .7 pounds of objects, the scale still reported my weight as 154.0. Then when I increased it to 1.1 extra pounds, the scale read 154.8. So there is quite a bit of rounding going on, and if you want to micromanage your weight, this is not the scale for you.

We’ve had this scale for quite awhile, and it hasn’t needed batteries again, which is great. And it is miles (or pounds?) better than the old one we had, so thumbs up, with qualifications.

Lazybeans 12 Sitting Cheetah

Artemis Fowl captivated me with his outrageous schemes and high-tech skills. I really got hooked on the scary fight with an enraged troll and the dangerous actions of an earth-gulping dwarf. The novel moves at the pace of a video game, pinging between battles and secrets revealed. I especially enjoyed the high-tech fairies, with their futurist’s gadgets and cranky suspicions about humans. The novel is also appealing if you enjoy breaking codes and sarcastic dialogue. My favorite character is Foley, a centaur with a smart mouth and the inventive talents of a next-generation Gyro Gearloose. I was caught up in the jeopardy of the story and am definitely going to read the series. I found it intriguing to have such an ambiguous main character. Artemis is a shady criminal, with unashamed greed, yet he’s also a lost boy without anywhere to belong. It will be intriguing to see his personality evolve in the next book.
KitchenAid 12 Cup Snap

Amazon is very dependable. My product arrived in 2 days, and there are 3 downloads available for the software. the price is one of the better ones out there and you know you are getting a legal copy. I turn to Amazon often when I want qualiity at a good price.
Tripp Lite IBAR12 12

I was looking for a quiet and dependable pedometer. This one is with me everyday and no noisy clicking. Nice to have the 7 day memory to help keep on track too. This pedometer has a nice sturdy clip to keep it in place that I personally have not had a problem with. I’m not a large person (130 lbs), but if what I’m wearing doesn’t allow the clip, you can put this in your pocket and it keeps track of your steps as well. As far as accuracy, I really haven’t made the effort to do a scientific study on it, but it seems to be fairly accurate.
CBK Ltd 12 Inch

As an auntie of a niece that is just growing way too fast (and I also work closely with high schoolers), I read the entire Twilight series to see what all the hoopla was about. For the most part, it is innocent (except for Book 4, “Breaking the Dawn”–do NOT let your teenager read that one!). Although, I do not condone feeding into the whole “vampires are real…let’s feel sorry for them” mantra, I think the average teenager will NOT pick up or focus on the deeper social, spiritual, and psychological themes (which I feel are unhealthy, once grasped) throughtout the books. As I was reading, I could see most tween- and teenage girls 1) being able to relate to Bella’s feeling disconnected from her “world” and 2) being strongly drawn to the undeniably romantic and tangible relationship between Edward & Bella. Girls will be girls; even I am a sucker for a good “star-crossed lovers” tale! Meyer does this very well; the hundreds of pages in each of her books seem to fly by because the character & plot development is so natural. So, for the most part, the saga is harmless.
*Parents, Educators, Aunties, etc: for the more “sensitive” tween & teenage girls, I would recommend having a talk about: making the clear distinction between reality and fiction (vampires), discussing healthy perspectives on boys (rejection: Edward rejects Bella), inner beauty & self-esteem (Bella finds her worth in Edward), discussing rebellion (the vampires have only 1 rule that they live by), keeping secrets (Bella hides everything from her father to “protect” him), the lifelong effects of choices (it’s Bella’s choice to become a vampire), stressing it’s okay to be different but setting clear boundaries on acting on those differences (Bella would DIE to be a vampire), and about sex & intimacy (Bella & Edward don’t have sex until marriage only because it’s not physically possible–so we think)——all before they even pick up the book. All of this makes for a great, entertaining read but be not
KitchenAid 9 and 12

Purchased for my Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7, and works flawlessly. It requires a class 6 speed or better for video recording and I couldn’t even get this speed at Best Buy! Thanks to this product I saved about $40 bucks and now I’m sitting pretty! (And recording myself sitting pretty in HD!)

Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3.0-Inch LCD (Black)
Pk 12 Wild West

I think by now everyone understands the concept of Wii and if you are the type of person to enjoy this gaming system or not. My family and I are very active so this is an excellent product and a good way to stay active in the winter. I really like how easy this product was to setup! Very easy to follow step by step instructions with pictures and information on what to avoid to increase the accuracy of how your system communicates to the remote controls. I’m not always technologically savy and tend to get frustrated easily when products don’t work right away but this system set up quickly and easily and worked the first time!!
Klein 5139L 12 1

This supposed classic was a boy ranting at the world over a few days span. It was nothing more than a teenage boy talking crap to everyone and saying he didn’t care about anything that happened to him. A lot of GD’s and Christsakes. It was the worst 5 or 6 hours I ever spent. I won’t be reading anything that may be published after he died, not based on this book.
Pack of 12 GLOW

Genius TG 312M 12

I put the card in my Canon camera and it works. So far so good. 8GB seems like a sweet spot for our needs. It will hold over 1500 pictures and it looks like the write times are fast.
Canon PowerShot SD780IS 12