Bankers Lamp, I Like It!

I've always wanted to have my own Bankers Lamp, Ranging in price from $15.00 to a pricey $250.00 Tiffany. So when I was doing some thrift store hunting, I spotted this right away and immediately put it in my cart, price? a cool $2.99, nice! check it out.

Here are more photos of the MARK VI Spartan Soldier 12 inch Action Figure from Mcfarlane Toys...

Aero Garden, I Like It!

It was late at night and I was flipping channels looking specifically for an "As Seen on TV" infomercial and I happen to see this Aero Garden. I told my wife about it and we kinda said to each other that we may get this in the future to extend our tomato garden through winter. So one day we decided to get this and start our indoor garden, we got three kinds of seed kits, a cherry tomato, green salad and herb seed kit. I am used to having a lot of different kinds of veggie plants on my summer garden so when having just one kind of crop through out its 6 month growing average span, I kinda got tired of having just tomatoes or just salad. I am on the third seed kit (herbs) and its not even a year yet, that's how impatient I am, Hopefully I will let it thrive this time. Since I love to cook I think this kit will be best for me to have fresh herbs on hand. as for the Aero Garden itself, it delivers. as long as you follow the directions and not forget to add water and nutrients when reminded then everything will be golden or green, no pun intended. The bulbs are quite pricey but they last for a long time, though they recommend replacing them every 6 months. I have to say I like it! so I'm giving it a cool 4 out of 5.

xyzik

MARK VI Blue Spartan Soldier, HALO 3

WOW! I found this at my fave MallMart (exclusive) today and it really caught my eye. It's a 12 inch HALO Spartan action figure made by Mcfarlane toys and it has 26 moving parts, it includes the assault rifle and a grenade, hmmm, no bubble shield? I like the sniper rifle better or the energy sword! Halo is probably my favorite game ever, I suck at it though :( but the story line, the protagonist, the music and everything just ties it in for me and I love playing the game. The action figure is pretty detailed but posing it is kinda challenging. It is top heavy for its leg joints that if it's slightly off balance it will start to lean over and fall. I also posed it with my Master Chief figure that I got with the Halo edition Xbox 360 controller for size comparison. Let's give it a 4 out of 5, points docked for price and pose ability issues.

Pentax K1000, After all these years...

After all these years it's still giving, so what's so great about this camera? for starters it does not need any batteries for it to work, film is as sharp as you can get when it comes to grain clarity and and it has a lot of lens options that have been produced for the Pentax K-Mount line, Even Lenses Made for my Pentax K10d works with the K1000. This Camera is built like a tank, controls are as basic as you can get, ISO/ASA Setting, Shutter Speed and Aperture Opening, the real basics of photography. I bought this second hand 10 years ago from a camera store, it looks mint when I was examining it but the seals were rotting out, so I bought some sheets of black foamies from Mallmart and used it to replace all the seals to make it lightproof and it still holds up to this day like it was brand new. I always load this camera with whatever film I happen to have or whatever is the cheapest I can find. I find it refreshing sometimes to really get into the old ways of taking photographs, the little things sometimes lets you reminisce about the thought process of taking a picture before pressing the shutter. All the small details that comes up in the back of your mind like if I'm using daylight film? (sorry no white balance for this camera) or the correct shutter/ f/stop combo, The feel of the steel of the camera and the sound of the clunk of the shutter, the anticipation of the pictures after being processed. Someday my wife and I will rebuild the darkroom we always wanted and be able to again start our passion with Black and White pictures and this camera will be my best friend again, frome time to time I can rest from my newer digital cameras with all their buttons and settings and endless previews after every shot, every subject wanting to see their pictures after every session, all the pros from a digital camera that just becomes a burden that it slows down the creative process. This camera though not my first one showed me the ways, tricks and thought process of taking pictures, I will never part with my K1000 and it will always be in my gadget bag loaded and ready to go. I give this particular K1000 a 5/5 as a personal fave!

xyzik

I Definitely Like My New Watch!

I got a nice surprise today from the wife, she probably peeked over my shoulder when I was reading about this cool timepiece from the Scratchworx website. To my surprise when a package arrived for me yesterday, this cool watch was inside! YEY!!! My smiles was from ear to ear. This watch is designed by FLUD, Table Turns Steel is the model name. They do have other cool watches but this is my favorite because I spin records too (not really since I use a turntable that doesn’t have any needle and besides, I’m a dj w/out any gigs, a DJ w/out a DJ name?) This would have been cooler if the design of the watch was based on my Numark HDX's. The watch’s strap is sized large and some links need to be taken out since I have a smaller size wrist. Good thing I have a watch repair kit that I bought from Harbor Freight and I was able to size it exactly for my wrist. As for the quality of the watch I’m not sure how long this will last me since I’m pretty careless when it comes to watches, they end up being scratched up with my carelessness or the fact that I don’t normally wear watches so I’m not used to anything wrapped around my wrist. Oh, and it's not waterproof. For the coolness factor though, I give it a nerdy 5 out of 5 :)

I do like it!

Welcome to my blog, "xyzik says, “I like it”". My blog is all about stuff that I have encountered, things that I have a chance to play around with or things that I own. I am very interested in different things like music, Video games, Automobiles, TOYS, Photography/ equipment and a lot more stuff that really piques my curiosity, more or less like a review of something. Hopefully I will have a chance to blog about all that interests me but my typing sucks big time and it's frustrating to think of all the words to say but hampered by the slow speed of my typing. I have been using a typing teaching software that helps me in that area so hopefully I will be a better blogger in the near future.

xyzik