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Shopping:
December 1998
What to get that
special someone
12/14/98
Haven't found the
perfect gift for that special someone? Well have no fear!
Just back from the hustle and bustle of the shopping malls
(where I only just managed to
snatch up a very hard to find item before someone else got
it) I'm here to provide the perfect shopping list; there's
something here for everyone! So sit back, relax, and get
ready to shop...
Michael
D. Murie
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Book:
The Elephant
Walk Cookbook : Cambodian Cuisine from the
Nationally Acclaimed Restaurant
by Longteine
De Monteiro, Katherine Neustadt, Longteine De
Monteiro
The
Elephant
Walk is an
excellent restaurant in Boston. Unfortunately, it's
too far (and expensive) for us to go to frequently.
I'm hoping this book will make an acceptable
substitute(!)
Amazon.com:
$24.50
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Book:
Nasa and the
Exploration of Space : With Works from the Nasa Art
Collection
by Mary
Kalamaras, Bertram Ulrich, Roger D. Launius
(Introduction), John Glenn
I've looked
through this book at the bookstore and it looks
cool. A review I read criticized the book for being
two books rather than one; the text covers the Nasa
space program, while the art work is used to
illustrate the text. The reviewer felt there should
have been more about the creation of the works
themselves -- and there are some great works of art
here. How ever you feel about that criticism, this
is the only way to see all those works at the
moment!
Amazon.com:
$42.00
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Book:
Life the
Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality
by Neal
Gabler
Sometimes
just the idea behind a book is enough to catch your
attention. I mean, I don't feel I need to actually
read the book, just buy it and have it lying
around: The title says it all.
But for those
who want to know more, according to Amazon.com
"this book traces the evolution of high and low
culture in American society through the 19th and
20th centuries." The Washington
Post Book World said the
books "one original and interesting idea" is that
it is "a synthesis, or omnium gatherum, of work
previously published by others, notably Leo Braudy,
Richard Schickel and Neil Postman." Sounds like
they damned it with faint praise. Now where's my
dictionary; I've got to look up omnium
gatherum. It's not in
my spelling checker -- but neither is
"website."
Amazon.com
: $15.00
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Book:
How to Use
Html 3.2
by Scott Arpajian, Robert Mullen
Do you have a
father, mother, grandmother or other relative
wanting to set up their own website? Are you living
in fear of providing technical support to these
people? Then this book can help you. Buy it, and
give it to them.
It's great, I
bought it for my wife when she started using HTML,
and my support calls went way down. It's simple,
and uses lots of illustrations to make the subject
understandable.
Amazon.com:
$19.99
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Looking for a
digital
camera under
$1,000. The best three choices (in no particular
order) are:
(The D-620L
costs more than $1,000 so I haven't listed it here,
but you might want to look at that also.)
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Too rich for
you? Then maybe the Barbie Photo
Designer Digital Camera is a better
choice. Lots of fun software, but the resolution is
only 120 x 160 and it only takes 8 pictures before
you'll need to download them. Oh well, maybe
version 2 will be better.
Beyond.com:
$68.45
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Software:
The Rugrats
Movie Activity Challenge
I love the
Rugrats television show, and now they have a game.
So even if it might be educational, it can't be all
bad, right sprouts?
Beyond.com:
$27.45
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Software:
Star Trek
Starship Creator
I don't buy
much entertainment software, but I did buy the
Starfleet
Technical Manual (the one
with the QuickTime VR images of the Starship
Enterprise.)
It was cool, but you couldn't really do much other
than walk around.
This program
takes a different path, and let's you design a
spaceship (I wonder how many years of college are
required before you can be licensed to buy this
program?)
Beyond.com:
$26.45
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