1997 Geo Prizm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_Prizm

By Gail Nobles

In the year of 1999, my mother and I paid for a used 1997 Geo Prizm (Chevrolet Prizm after 1997). The Geo Prizm is part of a Toyota Corolla. Today in the year of 2007, I am still driving that wonderful car. It is just right for me. I am a small person, and it is a small car. Squeezing into parking spaces is a whole lot easier than trying to park with a big car. Driving that Geo Prizm feels so smooth. The car doesn’t drink a lot of gas. You can ride a long distance away on a trip before you get low on gas.

The one thing that I worry most about is it has a timing belt instead of a timing chain. A timing chain will last longer. At every 60,000 miles, I have to get a timing belt replacement according to the car manual. So far the car has never let me down. I think the Geo Prizm will last me some more years keeping the oil changed and just taking good care of it. The Geo Prizm is a great car to buy.

DC Comics Sued Fawcett Comics in 1941

Do you remember the Superhero comic "Shazam"? He is also known as Captain Marvel by Fawcett Comics. Detective Comics (DC) sued Fawcett comics for copyright infringement in 1941. They claimed that Captain Marvel was based on their character "Superman". Captain Marvel was ended in 1953. Fawcett liscened their characters to DC in 1972. You may find some old Captian Marvel comics published by DC today. The newest comic that I found today is "Shazam Power of Hope" by Alex Ross. The art and story is beautiful.

McDonald's Commercial Cha Cha Slide

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See the new McDonald's Commercial with the "Cha Cha Slide" song by DJ Casper. The little boy with the boom box gets down eating a meal at the dinner table.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eN9KP6lOZs

The GE Frontload Washer

By Gail Nobles
5/6/2007

A washing machine with an agitator can last a long time if it is a good one. Washing machines are not made as good as they use to be made. The knobs are plastic and can wear out so quickly. You can not put as many clothes in a washing machine as you wish without clothes wrapping around the agitator.  When the timer wears out, the timer will not click and go to the next step. Your machine will not drain or spin. You will have to pay someone to fix the washing machine and replace the parts. It might cost you a lot of money. So you might as well buy a whole new washing machine.

My washing machine was a Whirlpool with an agitator. It lasted me up to seven years. But my next new washing machine is a heavy duty GE frontload washer.



Washer Features

GE is a great brand name that has been around for years. I trust GE. The cycle knob is very light weight and it lights up when you turn on the machine. You will see your wash cycles. The wash cycles are for specific types of wash loads. You have whites, colors/normal, stain wash, easy care, active wear, delicates, handwash, speed wash, drain and spin, and rinse and spin.

On the washer, there is a soil level which increases or decreases the wash time to remove different amounts of soil. You can choose between extra light, light, normal or heavy soil.

The 3rd feature the washer has is spin speed. The machine has a high speed, medium speed, low speed, and no spin. Higher spin speeds remove more water from clothes and will help reduce dry time.

Nu-Wave Oven

By: Gail Nobles
12/3/2007

For many days, when my mother was alive, I would watch her cook. She was a great cook. It seemed no one could beat her cooking. It was her hobby, and she loved cooking. Well, it wasn’t mine, and my mother made cooking look so hard. She cooked everything from scratch. I only wanted to learn because I knew that some day I would be on my own. Sometimes my mother would say, “Gail, I don’t have time to teach you this today. I am ready to cook it and get it out of the way. But you can watch and learn. There is nothing to cooking. You just read the recipe and put what you want. You just throw it together.” My mother made it sound so easy.

When she was teaching me how to cook, I dreaded waiting for the chicken to unthaw. I dreaded cleaning the chicken. My mother taught me how to split the chicken down the middle and she taught me to use  paprika, salt, and pepper. I would put the unions and carrots in the roaster pan along with the chicken into the oven. It smelled so good. We cooked on a gas stove, and the heat was so hot when it was time to open the oven. Those were my days of cooking in the 90’s watching and learning from my mother.

Now, cooking is made to be a lot easier. In the year of 2007, I found out about a Nu-Wave Oven. It is a counter top oven that reminds me of a microwave oven and a grill all in one. So with the Nu-Wav oven, you don’t need to turn on the gas or electric stove, you don’t need to go outside to grill, and you don’t have to use the microwave to cook. You can cook your food frozen without defrosting with the Nu-Wav. It leaves your food moist, juicy, and tender. You can just place your food into the oven and push buttons on the top and go. You can set it to the desired time on how long you want something to cook. The oven can  help you to lower fat intake to eat healthier. You can bake, broil, roast, grill, barbeque, steam, dehydrate, and fry right on your counter top.

I only have one thing to say. Nu-Wave! Where were you in the 90’s! What took you so long! Glad you are here!

If you would like to learn more about the Nu-Wave Oven, you can visit nuwaveoven.com.

SimpleTech External Harddrive

By Gail Nobles

9/23/2007

Do you have loads of videos, pictures, and games on your hard drive? Are you running out of room on your computer. Videos, pictures, and games can really take up a lot of space. Creating pictures that are 500 x 600 can help you use up your space. It’s important to pay attention to the size of files and programs in your control panel. You might keep looking at your computer screen thinking that you’ll clean up one day. Maybe you need to do a lot of naming folders and organizing. You might be too busy creating to take time out to do it, and you might be too lazy to download and burn a copy of your files to a CD.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, you can have easy backup data from your PC or Mac to a SimpleTech External Hard Drive. This is an external hard drive for storing and backing up your music, video, photos, and more. Installing is easy. All that you have to do is plug up the AC adapter and USB 2.0 cable to the drive and connect to your computer. You will have a one click back up. Just simply press the back portion inside the inner ring to backup your data. The built-in capacity meter allows you to view the disk space. The Simple drive’s blue light ring will show you how much disk space is used.

Now when you want to get more free space on your C drive, you can drag and drop to your external drive which would be your F drive. You can view the files and folders. You can get a capacity up to 750GB with an external drive. Between 500GB and 750GB is plenty of space. With 500GB you can get 542 Hrs of video, 366,000 photos, and 127,000 songs. You can also download and save software or freeware to your external which might leave a shortcut icon to your computer. You can disconnect the SimpleTech hard drive and carry it around. Your files would be safe on that drive. Just visit http://www.simpletech.com/ to learn more.

Better Anti Software Removal Tools

By Gail Nobles
8/20/2007



Do you need better anti-virus software? Many people complain that the Norton AntiVirus doesn’t work. It never worked for me either. People that fix computers and sell them are starting to talk about Norton. They recommend better anti-virus software. Norton seems to scan and scan and there is no virus detected. When it finds threats, it leaves them there. I just bought a brand new computer, and I uninstalled Norton from my control panel right away. If it don’t help you, it only takes up space on your computer. Make room for something else.



There are a lot of virus, spyware, and malware freeware. They seem to find a hundred infected files when you download them at first. Then, they seem to find less and less and my computer starts acting strange. That tells me I need better virus software. If you have this problem with your virus software along with spyware, ad-aware, and malware, you need a new version of that software or a totally different software all together.




I would recommend AVG for viruses. It is free and it automatically updates itself. It will scan your computer for viruses at certain times. I also recommend Spyware Terminator. It is a spyware, maleware, and virus scan all in one. It will make sure that you don’t go to bad websites that could be dangerous for your computer. It is really cool. Get the best anti
software removal tools.