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desperate prayer: Psalm 143

December 24, 2008 by David Baer

No joy accompanies a prayer that’s been returned to sender. The leaden, silent skies mock our attempts to penetrate them. Our words deflect and fall to the soil that’s been dampened by our tears and packed hard by our restless pacing. Continue Reading »

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strange things: Proverbs 30

December 23, 2008 by David Baer

The biblical proverbs owe a portion of their potency to what we might call the shock-and-recognize phenomenon. The pithy statements that are the warp and woof of this wisdom anthology are capable of startling with the apparent novelty of a declaration, then allowing the reader to settle back into the realization that, yes, he always felt that way but wouldn’t have found the words to say so. Continue Reading »

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no reason not to move up: HP 75XL Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge

December 22, 2008 by David Baer

When Hewlett Packard introduced the ‘XL’ version of its Inkjet printer cartridges, I was skeptical. If it’s that easy to fit three times the ink into a cartridge designed for my printer’s unforgiving cartridge socket for roughly twice the price of the standard size, why did HP start out with the smaller size in the first place?

Truth be told, the question still lingers. Continue Reading »

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no reason not to move up: HP 74XL Black

December 22, 2008 by David Baer

When Hewlett Packard introduced the ‘XL’ version of its Inkjet printer cartridges, I was skeptical. If it’s that easy to fit three times the ink into a cartridge designed for my printer’s unforgiving cartridge socket for roughly twice the price of the standard size, why did HP start out with the smaller size in the first place?

Truth be told, the question still lingers. Continue Reading »

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never complains, never apologizes: HP LaserJet 1012 Printer

December 22, 2008 by David Baer

This economical little black-and-white printer may be the most reliable laser printer I’ve ever owned, and I’ve known a few. Our family networks to this printer from several computers scattered around the house via a wireless hub. This assures that it will print small, casual print runs as well as business items from my home office downstairs.

Short story: it never fails.

No alignment problems, no eternally processing virtual logjams, no blurring. Just one sharp print run after another. If HP ever alters the recipe, let’s hope it’s in the direction of some concrete improvement that I cannot at this imagine. Because right now, everything works

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a bit like a chickadee: Bird Watcher’s Digest

December 21, 2008 by David Baer

With the size and appearance of a slimmed-down Reader’s Digest, the less famous Bird Watcher’s Digest is a chirpy little optimist of a magazine not so very different from, say, a black-capped chickadee.

Short and moderate-sized articles cover specific species, how-to/techniques, choosing the right birding equipment, and joy-of-birding anecdotes.

Advertisements abound but do not overwhelm. Some are quite helpful.

BWD is a perky standard for birders both casual and serious.

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un pueblo creado: Isaías 43.1–10

December 21, 2008 by David Baer

La literatura bíblica emplea el verbo hebreo bara’ con reticencia. Notoria por la manera en que describe la creación del mundo en el primer capítulo de Génesis, la palabra adquiere un significado creativo que realiza su vocación léxica en la medida que alude a actos de creación de la nada. Es decir, YHVH de costumbre forma y YHVH de costumbre configura. Pero uno siente que la palabra bara; llega a ser apropiada solo en aquellos momentos cuando YHVH hace algo nuevo de la nada. Continue Reading »

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in my fashion: Sting, Field of Gold. The Best of Sting 1984-1994

December 21, 2008 by David Baer

The unhurried pace of `When We Dance’, the opener to a decade’s anthology of Sting’s best work, could serve as an icon for the artist’s contribution to serious popular music. Pensive, elegant, emotionally resurgent, the song captures the burden of the man’s music. Perhaps the highest compliment this reviewer can pay the collection and the reservoir from which it was drawn is just this: unlike the figures in Sting’s balladic poetry, the music refuses to grow old. Continue Reading »

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rage: Revelation 12

December 21, 2008 by David Baer

Anger, we are resolutely assured, is not a bad emotion. If societal instruction comes to us in unanimity on any topic, this one surely occupies the top of the list.

It is also true: anger is not in itself a bad thing. Continue Reading »

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being see-through: Psalm 139

December 20, 2008 by David Baer

The searching eye of the Lord is not always for the biblical writers a pleasant notion. In his agony, Job finds it ruthless. Sinners, we are told, consider it laughable and, sometimes, a paper tiger meant to scare people straight but quite powerless once you get a clear angle on things. Continue Reading »

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