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  SteveO 1:41 am on February 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  The new “The Catch” 

  If you didn’t catch the Superbowl this weekend, you missed a great game! Well, maybe a GREAT 4th quarter. I kinda wanted to witness the Patriots pull off the perfect season, but it’s not really fair to see such talent all on one team (Brady, Moss, Bruschi, Seau, etc). Somehow the NY Yankees come to mind. Anyway, I wanted the Giants to win so I was impressed with their solid defense and how they kept the Patriots at bay and pressured Brady constantly. Well, when it came down to the last 5 minutes of the game, NE scored making the score 14-10 NE. Here comes Eli Manning with all their timeouts. He built an impressive drive with a couple 3rd down and longs and a 4th and 1. With 1:15 left in the game, 3rd and 5, Eli somehow manages to break out of at least 2 Patriots’ grasp, broke free, and chucked the ball maybe 40+ yards to David Tyree who had 4 Pats surrounding him. Check out the video:
  

  Sorry for the poor quality – I video taped this from my HDV Sony pointed at my plasma. Yes, I do have some video-in hardware, but didn’t want to set all that up to capture a 2 min clip. Oh, and you should turn up the volume as mine wasn’t loud enough when I taped the TV.

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  SteveO 2:07 am on February 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  More reviews upcoming 

  So in addition to electronic gadgets, I’m also into R/C cars, buggies, and trucks. I recently purchased a Traxxas Bandit VXL and dropped in a Mamba Max brushless motor. I’m still tweaking it to hit max speed, but I’ve speed-gunned it at 60MPH and next I’ll strap on my Garmin GPS to get the satellite’s to help me out. I’ll post some videos and pics soon. But in the meantime, you can view my Associated RC10t jumping over my 1989 Honda Civic:
  An my RC18T with an onboard 5in1 eDVR camera (sorry – it’s a little grainy and bumpy):
  

  Enjoy!
  SteveO
   
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  SteveO 1:16 am on February 2, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Thanks Battery Bob! 

  The other day, my wife calls me and asks “What did you want me to buy again?”. She was at Target and earlier in the day I asked her to buy an LR44 watch battery. I think these go for $3.49 at The Shack (but they were out of stock when I checked over the weekend). Anyway, the Target employee helped her find one (#357 is the same size) and she said they’re $7.99. WTF? I said forget it and immediately Googled LR44. The top ad had a URL of www-LR44.com so I clicked on it. I usually don’t click on ads, but this one looked different so I clicked. And I’m glad I did. I found a set of five 357s for, are you sitting down, $5.89. Yes, FIVE batteries for less than the price of one from Target. I added it to my cart, then proceeded to look for a couple other popular sizes like the CR2032 and the #377. When I go to check out, I notice that Bob’s offering me FREE SHIPPING. Sweet! Seeing that he’s in Florida and I’m in California, I figured it’ll be here in a week, but to my surprise, it made it cross country in 2 days.

  OK, so before I ordered them, I actually went to Bob’s “About Me” page to see if there was any mention of the quality of batteries. I was expecting no such information and I thought these would be some cheap, imported cells with expiration dates within the next few months or even already expired. This is what happened when I bought some CR2032s a few years ago on eBay. Well, when they arrived, I was really impressed. They’re Maxells (name brand) and are fresh – expiration dates well into 2010. Very nice, Bob.

  All in all, I’m a very satisfied customer and will definitely return to Bob for my future battery needs. Now go buy your batteries. http://www.batterybob.com/default.asp

  SteveO

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    Jason Rakowski 1:18 am on February 2, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

    Jason Rakowski

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    batteries 8:24 pm on May 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    Thank you for this outstanding article.I thought Centrino was the best technology for laptop battery performance.

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    Annie 9:56 am on August 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

    BATTERYBOB.COM IS THE BEST WEBSITE FOR BATTERIES….. WE LOVE U BOB