#i was watching music reviews on major hits today and just thinking. musing.

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adele doesn’t do much for me (immortal banger rolling in the deep aside— i’m just not one for the ballads) but someone said something about easy on me earlier and i can’t stop thinking about how jesus christ “go easy on me” is like. mindboggling as a sentiment. like knife to the gut girl that is SO raw. the song doesn’t do anything for me in practice or in concept but like in that very abstract way i am just out here like

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CAPTAIN MARVEL

I basically just got home from the movie theater and I am so thrilled for this movie, still pumped and excited.

WARNING: There may be spoilers for the movie ahead, so read at your own risk. There'll be bold exclamation marks when possible spoilers are ahead.

So, let's start with the simple fact—this movie was as good as it was anticipated to be. They didn't invest so much on the marketing, and that's a good thing, since we all know how it goes for DC movies. MARVEL didn't tell too much about the script, and yes, at first, I was worried that it might be a flop, but the movie kept me watching through the two plus hours without ever getting bored or slipping away from the story and dialogue.

THE VERY BEGINNING!! THAT MONTAGE OF STAN LEE! OH MY GOD. They've done such a great job at paying tribute to him. Spoiler - he was in the movie. I loved the introduction, so lovely and heart-warming. 

Carol Denvers doesn't change the way she behaves, as most characters do in a situation where they've been a completely different person from what they are now and have memory loss of their past life. She's the same courageous, persistent, funny and loving person on Kree as she was on Earth. I like that aspect, even though it's such a small thing that barely anyone notices, it makes the movie even better.

The storyline and plots were very well planned, every dot seemed to connect and every hole was filled. They didn't make it too hurried or too slow, it was perfect. 

Character development—OH MY! That's something to talk about. Very much mistrust and disloyalty, but yielding and warming up with time are the best words to describe this movie. The relationship between Fury and the Skrulls, Carol's and Maria's lost friendship, Carol's friendship with Monica, I could go on. Very lovely.

Dialogue was amazing. Never too much movie-tized, if you know what I mean, perfect lines for each character so the audience can see them from every aspect and know them better, no banality in the way the sentences and dialogues were built. Some jokes here and there, honesty, sincerity, understanding. 

Music—wouldn't say it was the best soundtrack (not speaking about the soundtrack written for the movie, speaking about the songs of the 90ties). BUT I liked that they didn't put in the hit-hits, you know, the songs that everybody knows, including the wannabe-cool teenagers and my peers. I knew most of the songs, and I like that they added the songs that people who truly grew up with 90ties music or in the 90ties knew, not the banal radio hits from the 1990s.

! The one thing that keeps me wondering is the Tesseract. They (Carol, Skrulls and S.H.I.E.L.D) found it in a ship outside earth in 1995, and yet they found laying in the ocean with Captain America in 2011. It just doesn't add up to me, but if anyone here is smarter than me in this, please let me know how this plothole can be filled and I'll thank you very much.

Feminism. God, it's strong here. Women = scientists! Women = pilots! Women = warriors! Women = HEROES!! This is what I've been waiting for. I don't consider this movie as made for feminism and its followers, but it definitely has its features in the movie. I also love that Carol has this “No Man Can Stop Me” attitude by nature, it's what I grew up with and how I look at myself from my childhood, actually. Of course, I've had my doubts and self-hate moments, bringing myself down, but I'm human, and so is she, so it's only natural. It doesn't even need to be said.

When Carol agreed to Highest Intelligence “You're right. I am human.” and her younger selves stood up one by one—I actually felt that in my heart and teared up. It's so beautiful. It's exactly like saying “Yes, I'm human, and yes, I fall down. But I get right back up because I'm not a quitter.” Probably my favourite moment in the whole movie.

The scenes where young Carol is told that she can't do this, can't do that is so understandable, but honestly, ever since I heard that women are and have been oppressed and discriminated simply because of their gender, I was very bewildered and confused. It just seems... normal just perfectly understandable to treat everyone equally, no matter their gender, sexuality, ethnicity or anything else! It stills shocks me, although I've experienced it as well. 

! When Jude Law's character (I forgot his name) told Carol that he'd made her the best version of herself that she can be, I laughed out loud. Like, really? No offense, Jude, I love you, but for a man to say that he's made a woman—listen, man, that ain't it. That ain't right. Also, when he said that he'll be pleased when she beats him down without her powers and Carol didn't prove that to him was a major power move. Finally a movie without cliché feminism!

! I saw this movie in 3D and the special effects and just everything was so beautiful and detailed and epic and just... WOW! For example, the scene where the engine explodes and the power morphs itself into Carol's body—that scene right there is the most beautiful scenery in the movie, in my mind.

Carol's costume is so well-made and powerful. Through out the whole movie, all I could think was “I have to draw her”. Larson's features are basically made by the gods, and seeing her in Captain Marvel costume makes my small self feel like a goddess and she looks like such a muse. I will definitely draw her as soon as I get the chance. 

! The skrulls - very interesting turn of events and characteristics for them. At the start of the movie, I already suspected something about them wasn't entirely evil. Poor them, honestly. I like that they had a sense of humor. And really, when Talos says to Carol that he's got his hands dirty in this war as well as she has—that is what you call a character showing all his colours and being close to human, with regrets and feelings and sadness and longing. 

In conclusion, I give this movie a 9/10. It was well made, well edited, actors = BRILLIANT (I'm glad they didn't choose too many stars for this movie), outfits = splendid, everything else = MAGNIFICENT. I don't want to say this too soon, but this might be one of my favourite MARVEL movies. I saw exactly what I wanted on the big screen after months and months of waiting for this epic movie, and I'm still biast of MARVEL making the best comic book movies ever. 

!! ALSO!! The after-credits scene!!! Since I was already emotional tonight, a tear slipped down my cheek when I saw Steve. It's been too long without seeing him, and I've missed my favourite characters - Cap, Loki, Bucky, T'Challa, Natasha... all of them, really. I'm probably going to have a small marathon of my favourite MARVEL movies later this week. I can't work out how they got Fury's communication device yet, but it'll probably be all over youtube in a couple of days. Nat's almost crying AND SO AM I. I cannot wait for Endgame. !!

That's all I have for today, folks. Have a safe night and go watch Captain Marvel as soon as you can. If you have any questions or want to share your opinion on the movie or my review, don't hesitate to pop into my messages and tell me all about it :)) I'll be waiting. Hope you enjoyed my review.

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Tag Thing

Nicknames: No nicknames (but I do go by Molly in games and such)

Star sign: Scorpio (also my chinese zodiac is a dragon :D )

Height:165,5cm (I think *shrug*)

Time right now: 01:39(start)

Favourite music artist: It's unusual for me to like more than a few songs pr artist lol, so I guess the ones who are the exception to that could kinda be called my favs, even if even that's a stretch for many. I do very much adore the Danish artist Kim Larsen he's like one of our national treasures. He's kinda like wierd cross between Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Elton John among others lol. So yeah I love Kim Larsen. I also love a lot of music by the danish Rasmus Seebach. I have a fondness for Backstreet Boy's second album (I think it was second, the one with the ”everybody rock your body” song (my first ever cd actually)), I really like a lot of Eminems work too; I really love most of Westlife's old works (they also did one of my top fav song of all time Flying Without Wings), I also have a fondness for some of Avril Lavign's old works. Gah let's just say my fav singers/bands off the top of my head are Kim Larsen, Westlife, Rasmus Seebach, and Yui (japanese). I listen to little bi of everything. From Fallout Boy and the occasional Lincon Park and Evanescnese; to Neon Trees, Paramore, and even those two one direction songs (best night ever, and perfect); to oldies like Dolly Parton, and Bob Dylon (yeah prolly add Dylan to fav list too). I like a few Gwen Stefani and Beyonce songs, and even a Taylor Swift songs. I also love Bruno Mars (yeah he should prolly be on the list, maybe, Iunno). I like classic musik and some opera, I like some rap, I folk songs, and country and old and some new. My fav song to listen to atm is prolly All Of You/Me by John Legend (which may just be the most romantic song I've ever heard). I DON'T like synths, and autotunes and all the horrible thing like that, which is sadly the norm in so much music today. I've very rarely seen it used well. It grates, and while some of it may be ok to dance to in a club (like the unholy racket that was crazy frog, actually kinda fun to really dance to on a sugar high) but the problem is that it's never kept there. It bombards the radio stations, which in turn, bombards shopping malls and recntly my god damn grocery stores! WTF? D:  So yeah I fucking HATE modern club music! I literally hurts my ears, and stabs at my head. FUUUUCK! (sorry for the rant ^^; ) Not much for Disco, I find the majority of Elvis songs kinda boring, and I'm not much for punk. I do love a good rock song, and I have a fondness for most of the hits thats came out when I was a kid. I like exactly one Spice Girls song (three guesses which, lol) but I REALLY do like that one. I love Aqua and while Barbie Girl will always scream ultra Nostalgia my fav is Doctor Jones. The VangaBoys too, Boom Boom, and Ibiza stand out lol. Achy Brachy Heart will always be fondly smiled at, and Over My Shoulder is still one of my favs (for some inexplicable reason, despite its subject matter being sad, it never fails to make me smile. Must be the upbeat melody, lol.) The danish band Shubidua was played to redicluous levels in my early teens, someone was always putting it on, lol. (That and Kim Larsen.) Their silly, silly songs made us laugh and smile and sing along. Also the Danish song Videoman. I Swear by All 4 One evokes memories of when my parents were still in love and not estraged divorcees, (while I don't regret them splitting in hindsight, no kid likes going through a divorce. Let alone moving a country away and leaving one parent behind. *forget ”every other weekend” I saw my dad 2-4 weeks a year if that.*) that song reminds me of simpler times (not that I long for them, I like my life now, but still). The Soop Shoop Song aka In His Kiss by Betty Everett is and always will be awesome. Las Ketchup was rediculous but fun. Yeah I  could go on, but I think that's beyond enough lol. Sorry long babble is long. XD

Song stuck in my head: Can't remember for a blessed moment and I want to keep it that way lol.

Last movie watched: Uh. Prolly a drama or some scifi movie.

Last TV show watched: Underground, Handmaid's Tale, American Gods, so many more. (Also, Game Of Thrones needs to start NOW not in two weeks :O )

What are you doing right now: Writing this, reading an awesome Naruto fanfic, arguing with my cat, smiling at my cat, enjoying that my cat is currently not screaming his head off and hoping lasts, considering attempting to gather my sweet kitty for a cuddle, watching a few anime Hero Academia, *just finished a few too* just started the first ep of Spiral; cat's yelling again ”be quite I'm not giving you a snack! Top scratching the table gah!”; quiet again, please last; playing Pokemon Sun.

When did you create this blog: Uh, like last year I think. It's fairly new.

What kind of stuff I usually post: Mostly reblogs. I'm planning to start psoting some fan theories, musings on stories, and maybe a review or two, I dunno. Who knows.

Do you have any other blogs: Twitter (my primary hang out) and Deviantart.

Do you get asks regularly: No

Why did you choose your url: Uh.

Hogwarts house: Swings between Slytherin and Hufflepuff, with the potential but not really the desire for Gryffyndor.

Pokémon team: I think it was Valor, but I dunno. Also, if I really lived in the pkmn world my occupation would totally be treasure hunter/adventurer.

Favourite colour: Pastel/baby/pale pink and pastel/baby/pale/sky blu are tied for first place, second  is pastel/baby/pale purplish blue and pastel lavenderish. I just love pastels, and I'm fond of all lighter shades of blue. I like some reds too. Bright orange and yellow in nature. If it's found on a real rainbow I likely have a fondness for it. Flowers and nature make me happy. I love the sky, and bodies of water. My dream is to live near a lake and a meadow. (I hate grey.)

Average hours of sleep: It swings. But for an otimal nights sleep I require around ten hours min.

Lucky number: 7

Favourite Character: Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail (probably one of the best female characters (and characters period) ever; Naruto Uzumaki (pre Tobi ”reveal”) from Naruto; Sakura Haruno (pre Tobi reveal), various other Naruto characters; Madoka from Madoka Magica, Usagi/Sailor Moon; various Madoka Magica characters; various FairyTail characters; various Digimon Characters; Harry Potter from HP; various HP charas. A ton of others too, but this list is long enough.

How many blankets do you sleep with: Two summer duvets (sometimes I forgo the one if it's REALLY hot, but my body goes into super shut down mode when I sleep, so I get super chilly. This is not fun on a plane.) In the winter I sometimes pile on one or two or even three blankets. (Then despar when I wake to one or more on the floor.)

Following: 6

Followers: 11 but not because tumblr spazzed out. The real number is iffy. :P

I was kinda tagged by Amarevia. I tag those who wanna give it a go.

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Inside the Mind: KC Freeman

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  Welcome to Inside the Mind where we here at The Faerie Review interview authors and creators.

Our guest today is KC Freeman, the author behind Rekindled Prophecy.

Lily: ​ Thank you so much for agreeing to this interview KC I really enjoyed reading ​Rekindled Prophecy​. What inspired you to write about guardian angels? 

KC:   I have always had an affinity for guardian angels. As a child I would dream up stories about my guardian angel. As I grew up the stories started to take a more solid definition. So when I finally decided it was long past time for me to pursue my life’s dream/desire/soul purpose of writing, I knew guardian angels would be my “thing”.

Lily: ​ That's wonderful! I've always loved the idea of a guardian angel watching over me, although I'm sure mine has probably face palmed more than once. Greylyn is such a unique name, how did you come up with it? 

KC:   I’ve always loved the name Greyson for a boy, but my protagonist is female so I needed to use something else. I tried Grace, Gracen, and every other version but none felt right so I made up Greylyn – or so thought. On the way back from the dentist one day (long after I wrote the first book) I saw a street sign for “Greylyn Drive” so guess I’m not 100% original with the name.

Lily: ​ I think it's still pretty unique! Were Kael and Greylyn based on anyone? 

KC:   Based on anyone? Not really. However, I have often used Jensen Ackles as my muse when I write Kael. And I wanted Greylyn to be petite with delicate features like Vivien Leigh (one of my favorite actresses) but she also needed to be a total badass. 

Lily: ​ I have to admit I LOVE Jensen Ackles (he may be a major reason why I watch Supernatural). Vivian Leigh was absolutely beautiful and I loved her in Anna Karenina. Why call Kael a dark guardian instead of a demon? 

KC:  He’s not exactly a demon. Demons have no trace of humanity left in them. No human weaknesses. No soul. They are simply demons in the truest sense of the word. Dark guardians have some demon in them, but they retain their humanity. You see mostly the dark aspects of that humanity, but the other is hidden away deep in their soul. They just need to access it.

Lily: ​ I love that distinction, and how they're not full demon. Now we’d like to talk about you as a writer. What’s your favorite time of day to write? 

KC:  Early afternoon until early evening if I get that much time. Some writers wait until the wee hours of the night/morning to write, but I need my sleep.   

Lily: ​ Hehe I'm definitely most productive late at night. If you could build your ideal writing space, what would it look like? 

KC: I have my ideal space except with the pandemic causing everyone to work/school from home, my office has been taken over by my husband. He and my son just recently renovated the entire office “for me” but I spent less than a week in it. It’s open, spacious, lots of bookshelves, my crystals all around (particularly in the dormer window). The only other thing I would add is to have the entire house located on a large, clear lake (Lake Tahoe or Lake Nantahala would be perfect) so I could look out over the water for inspiration.

Lily: ​ That sounds like a wonderful writing space! Hopefully you're able to get it back soon. How do you keep track of ideas when inspiration strikes? 

KC:     Inspiration usually hits when I don’t have something to write with (like when I’m dreaming or driving). I need to invest in a voice to text app for my phone, but for now anything will do – post it notes, napkins, notebooks intended for other uses, whatever is available.

Lily: ​ I probably have a notebook in every room in the house at this point to jot down notes honestly. A voice recorder app sounds like a good idea though! Let’s finish up with some fun questions and get inside your mind. What’s one book that you could reread any number of times? 

KC:   One book? You know that’s the impossible question. How to pick one book? I would probably have to go with Angelology by Danielle Trussoni or Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Lily: ​ Ok, I admit, I couldn't pick just one! What’s your favorite and least favorite color? 

KC:   Favorite color of all time is forest green. Least favorite is any shade of pink.

Lily: ​ I love forest green, it's so soothing. Do you have a favorite drink?

KC:  It’s mentioned in the book – Godfather (one part scotch/one part Amaretto) 

Lily: ​ I've never had one but that sounds delicious. Describe the best dessert you ever had.

KC:   My mom’s chocolate chip chocolate pound cake.

Lily:  Now that sounds interesting and yummy. I've had lemon and plain pound cake but never one with chocolate. What object would be the most annoying if it played loud pop music every time you used​ it? 

KC:   My ponytail holder. I’m constantly pulling my hair up in or out of ponytails. 

Lily:  Oh that would make me crazy! I always have my hair pulled back or up in a scrunchie. Would you rather be able to only eat ice cream, pie, cake, or donuts for dessert for the​ rest of your life? 

KC:   PIE!!!!! 

Lily:  I have to agree there are some I just couldn't give up. Is there anything else you would like to add that I haven’t included?​  

KC:  While the Greylyn series is definitely more PG13/TV14, if you prefer something with a higher rating (more R or NC-17), I have a couple of short stories in anthologies that would fit that bill. One even has one of the characters from the Greylyn series (featured more in Book 2 and 3). One is After Dark: 9 Modern Takes on Classic Fairy Tales and the other is Bowman’s Inn: Autumn-Winter 2017 Anthology. However, the Greylyn series, while a fantasy romance, will remain PG13 so the story can be enjoyed by both adult readers and Young Adult readers. I had to keep it tame so my daughter wouldn’t be too embarrassed for her friends to read it.

Lily:  I'll definitely have to put After Dark on my list I'm a sucker for fairy tale retellings. How can readers discover more about you and you work?​  

KC:  Check out any of the below social media accounts, and my website. I just started up a readers’ group on Facebook for the series called Freeman’s Urban Fantasy Fanatics.

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System S8 versus iPhone 8: Winning Has Little to Do With Phones

The new Samsung Galaxy S8 has propelled, and its objective of decision is the up 'til now unlaunched Apple iPhone 8 Anniversary Edition. These telephones are basic for both organizations. Apple survives generally off the iPhone today, and Samsung is attempting to recoup both from its consuming telephone issue and from its top official being captured on pay off charges.

Neither one of the firms can bear the cost of a major misfortune to the next, and Samsung just left the door with one hellfire of an opening salvo.

A major contrast is that Apple can concentrate on item, while Samsung needs to reestablish its picture, and that is a far harder thing to do.

I'll share a few musings about this coming fight and close with the nearest thing in market to an iPod-like gadget, in spite of the fact that it doesn't play music. It's a printer called the "Sprocket."

Apple's Problem

Apple's iPhone both astounded and, for a period, drove the cell phone advertise. It wiped out Palm, constrained BlackBerry to roll out huge improvements, and thumped the once-predominant Nokia down to the third level of cell phone players.

Then again, Apple's endeavors at enhancement haven't gone exceptionally well. The iPad is no longer the PC executioner it once was thought to be, the iPod is everything except gone, and the Apple Watch was a baffling failure to discharge. (Incidentally, it is as yet the best single item in its class, recommending an up 'til now uncertain class issue.)

Apple no longer controls the cell phone showcase, however. Control now is shared - and firms utilizing Google's Android stage speak to an altogether bigger share. In this new Android-drove world, Samsung has been the organization to beat.

Apple has had a stunning run as of late, to a great extent in light of the fact that Samsung's radiance telephone, the Samsung Note 7, had an awful propensity to burst into flames. Samsung didn't address that issue well by any means, prompting the telephone being prohibited from planes and eventually reviewed.

That didn't give Apple a manageable preferred standpoint, however, on the grounds that Samsung didn't fall flat. That implies the increases that Apple got likely will leave once Samsung re-enters the top of the line section and recoups its image, which truly is the more concerning issue. It has made a begin - recouping the telephone is the thing that it simply did.

The long haul issue for Apple is that Apple's edges are industry-driving yet Samsung's aren't. That implies Samsung and others can place more into their telephones and still charge less. That is the reason the S8 is so startling. It is an innovation feature that Apple can't coordinate unless it cuts into edges, and Apple can't do that without caving in its valuation.

In actuality, Apple is in a sticky situation if Samsung can execute - yet execution isn't simple.

Samsung's Problem

On account of the consuming telephones and a propensity for some of Samsung's clothes washers to detonate generally, people aren't putting stock in Samsung much. This has brought about Samsung running a costly battle to recoup its image.

Having dealt with a comparative venture at IBM decades prior, I know this sort of issue is neither shoddy nor fast to settle. It took IBM millions and five years to recoup its image. Samsung's market is both all the more sympathetic and more whimsical, which proposes it could do it far speedier, yet despite everything I think it will take no less than two years of strong execution and millions in promoting.

This may not be aided by the reality it at present is offering repaired Galaxy Note 7s, which still are restricted from planes. Given that the disappointment was brought on by a plan highlight as opposed to a segment issue, these telephones still could burst into flames.

This appears like a continuation of the strategic suspecting that got Samsung into this wreckage in any case, and on the off chance that one of these renovated telephones ought to burst into flames, it could bring about a tremendous favorable position for Apple.

It additionally recommends that the issue made money liquidity issues that possible brought about this extraordinarily dangerous choice.

A considerable measure of people have hypothesized that if the new telephone bursts into flames, then Samsung is screwed. Notwithstanding, actually none of its telephones can burst into flames, since that will make individuals distrust the message of another, greater quality-centered Samsung.

Along these lines, the telephone it propelled might be up to the test of reestablishing Samsung's image, yet the organization's execution seems, by all accounts, to be missing the mark in different regards. Despite everything it could bomb because of the choice to exchange the hazardous Note 7s and the sheer time it will take to recuperate its picture.

Wrapping Up

With a solid and well-executing Samsung, the new Galaxy Note S8 could have done unnerving things to Apple's iPhone 8 deals, especially in light of the fact that Apple essentially can't bear to coordinate in its telephone the sorts of progressions that Samsung has exhibited.

In any case, Samsung isn't solid, and its choice to exchange the risky Note 7 is a feature of what has been a string of intemperate dangers. An Apple supporter could fix a revamped Note 7 to burst into flames in a basic area, and the hazard that Samsung speaks to could be expelled. That is one serious enticement for a considerable measure of Apple workers and accomplices, regardless of the possibility that Apple administration weren't required in such a move.

Encourage, Apple just torpedoed Andy Rubin's iPhone executioner before it propelled, recommending Samsung ought to think significantly more protectively. Evidently, Tim Cook picked up no less than one Steve Jobs expertise - and if Samsung doesn't look out, this one will chomp it in the butt.

Unless Samsung all of a sudden gets a ton more intelligent, this round likely will go resoundingly to Apple, regardless of what generally is an extremely solid exertion with its new S8 telephone.

Against Apple, it for the most part is the execution, not the item, that has the basic effect, and Samsung remains overmatched.

The iPod's strategy for achievement really was characterized a long time before the iPod propelled and displayed by before victories, similar to the Sony Walkman, Flip and Polaroid Cameras. Individuals will rush to items that effectively accomplish something they need done however that right now is excessively troublesome, making it impossible to do.

Back in the iPod time, on account of the record names, it was truly difficult to put music onto a genuinely compact player. The iPod settled that. Despite the fact that it was fiendish costly at the time and took three renditions to take off, it changed the market once it did.

The nearest item to the iPod at present in market is, oddly, a printer. It is the HP Sprocket - a pocketable printer that does only one thing effortlessly and well: It prints little pictures in shading from your cell phone. You can give these photos to companions or family, especially the individuals who don't have cell phones, or you can stick them to things.

Clearly, this little printer has been a genuine hit with people who jump at the chance to bring selfies and with the individuals who get a kick out of the chance to stick pictures to things. It costs around US$130. The photos cost around 50 pennies each to print, and they have glue backs so you can stick them to things.

You know, what I believe is especially interesting is that Apple's new iPhone advertisement has at its center printed stickers that people stick on individuals. iPhones can't do this, however the Sprocket can (though significantly littler).

Quite a while back, Apple deceived HP into not propelling a MP3 player that terrified Steve Jobs enough to get by and by required in the trick. It would be amusing if the following "iPod" were a printer from HP. Consequently, and in light of the fact that this thing is in reality entirely cool, the HP Sprocket is my result of the week.