Mattel/Fisher Price has recalled a myriad of recently sold toys because they’ve been painted with paint containing unacceptable levels of lead (apparently there is such a thing as paint with acceptable levels of lead, imagine that!). The products – surprise, surprise – came from China. You expect to find lead in that cheap metallic jewelry sold out of machines – we’ve heard about it from quite a while – but in brand-name toys? You would imagine they would have better quality standards.
We owned some of the recalled toys, those to the left, and of course Camila had already chewed on one of them. Very, very sucky.
You can check if you have any of these products at http://service.mattel.com/us/recall/39054_IVR.asp?prod=
Author: marga (Page 98 of 158)
Mike got me a Sony reader because it was only $100. A waste of $100 if you ask me.
The screen has so little contrast that you can barely see the text, it’s not back lit, so you can’t read unless there is a lot of light around, and the font size on PDF files is so miniscule even someone with 20-20 vision could not read it. In other words, the thing is useless.
My ancient rocketbook is far superior. It has a much better and brighter screen (even if more pixelated, at least you can read what’s on the screen), and much easier to handle buttons. The Sony reader is lighter and has a longer battery life, but my main reason for getting it was to read PDF documents, which it apparently can’t do – so what’s the point?
I *watched* that last night. It was one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. It had some graphic kill scenes, which I don’t care for, but beyond that it was just boredom. Fortunately I fell asleep in the middle of it and woke up to see the end, I didn’t feel I missed much. It was 2:40 hours which is just ridiculous. Where was the editor for this movie?
*Explained human evolution to my 5 year old.
*Knuckled walked like a chimpanzee
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