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About pipet
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Epinions.com ID: pipet
Location: San Diego, CA
Member Since: Nov 26 '00
 
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A baby, school, and a new house; lots to write about but no time.  more
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Reviews Written: 17
Member Visits: 3,046
Total Visits: 107,049



pipet's Recent Opinions
Date Written Review Title Product / Topic Product Rating Review Rating
Aug 12 '02 My washing machine might as well be a Lexus (2 year update) Kenmore 4292x Front Load Washer
in Washing Machines
  Product Rating: 5.0    Very Helpful
Aug 05 '02 Completing the home theater experience JVC XV-SA75 DVD Player
in DVD Players
  Product Rating: 5.0    Very Helpful
Apr 05 '02 Georgia Tech: pink parachutes, the shaft, and most likely a good job Georgia Institute of Technology
in Colleges and Universities
  Product Rating: 4.0    Very Helpful
Jan 26 '02 Bringing the movie theater home: Mitsubishi WS-65819 Mitsubishi WS-65819 TV
in Standard Televisions
  Product Rating: 5.0    Very Helpful
May 21 '01 Can't afford a real safari? Try this instead! San Diego Wild Animal Park
in Zoos & Aquariums
  Product Rating: 5.0    Very Helpful
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pipet's Most Popular Reviews
#589 Overall: My washing machine might as well be a Lexus (2 yea ...
#563 in Autos & Motorsports: Sport Tracking along (and why we are not Frontier- ...
#155 in Business & Technology: Me and my HP
#246 in Education: Georgia Tech: pink parachutes, the shaft, and most ...
#978 in Electronics: Bringing the movie theater home: Mitsubishi WS-658 ...
#141 in Home & Garden: My washing machine might as well be a Lexus (2 yea ...
#309 in Wellness & Beauty: No more Eyes Swollen Shut!
pipet's Author Popularity
#837 Overall
#383 in Autos & Motorsports
#189 in Business & Technology
#331 in Education
#340 in Home & Garden
#394 in Wellness & Beauty

About pipet
I am married to a wonderful guy, Techjunkie, and we've just had a little girl on Feb 15, 2003. We're very excited, and it's quite a shock to find myself reading reviews on kids products! We also have two beloved kitties to keep us company.

I'm swamped. I am currently trying to complete my PhD (lots of analyses & writing left) and spend as much time with my daughter as is possible (lots of interrupted work at home). By necessity, I have to be sporadic. I am working on locating genes involved in bipolar disorder. Behavioral genetics = fascinating but very complex.

e-mail
If you wish to e-mail me, take out all the letters in CAPS to obtain my real e-mail.
pipetpeople@GREENEGGSNSPAMyahoo.com

About my epinions
All my epinions share my personal experience (I will not review something I have merely seen in the store). I try to share the information about a product that I genuinely like to know. Depending on the product, this can include copious details.

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About my ratings:
I try to honestly rate epinions by how useful they would be to a consumer, and I am a moderate in my interpretation of Epinions guidelines. I try not to let others' ratings influence how I rate - I just judge on how helpful your epinion is to me and rate it accordingly. I don't really find epinions that regurgitate instruction manuals or directions to be very helpful (and when epinions don't give credit for "copying" instructions I also consider that plagiarism). owling wrote a great epinion about how she rates, and it conveys many more of my thoughts on rating as well. Check out her epinion here: Ratings will always be subjective, no matter how hard we try. BTW, if you have a question about why I rated an epinion a certain way, feel free to e-mail me. It is possible that I could've clicked the wrong button.

Tit-for-tat - I'm not into that. As regards the WOT, I don't think about it a lot, so I have only added people sporadically. When I do add someone, it's because I imagine that I would trust their opinion in real life, and they write at least some of their epinions on topics that interest me. There are lots of good writers on the site that write about things that are only marginally interesting to me.

I am flattered by those who have added me to their WOT. Thanks! I will to try to check you out, but I really am a graduate student, and I do want to finish someday, so give me a little slack if I haven't stopped by your profile yet. I'm one of those slow-to-trust-but-loyal-when-I-do type of people anyway...

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