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ah, ambience!: Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System ( 970181-0403 )

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

My company’s IT guy decided I work best when I have music in my office. Continue Reading »

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one of the great kick-offs: Mendelssohn – Elijah / G. Jones, J. Baker, Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Frühbeck de Burgos

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Mendelssohn’s Elijah has been loved, hated, belted out by innumerable church and community choirs, performed with white-tie panache, and more often than not simply ignored. It’s a difficult work to categorize and even more challenging to review helpfully, since it often appears to be several works in one. Continue Reading »

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good value in an inexpensive paperback Bible: The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

The New Revised Standard Version is a late-twentieth-century updating of the venerable Revised Standard Version. This reviewer has become familiar with the NRSV as the base English-language text of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary, a project for which I am writing the volumes on the book of Isaiah. Continue Reading »

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only in my rear view mirror: Swingline 10-Sheet Precision Prot Adjustable 2-3 Hole Punch, 9/32″ Dia., Black/Silver (SWI74037)

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This is a perfectly adequate hole punch.

But unless you have space issues, pay a little more and buy the much better ‘Light Touch’ hole punch by the same manufactorer. It’s infinitely better.

Progress happens sometimes.

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design matters, so does size: Study Stand Wire Book Stand, 9-3/8″x6″x5-3/8″, Chrome Finish FEL10024

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This is a very cool product made with just three pieces of stainless steel. Continue Reading »

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the man with the golden quill: Paul Simon, Negotiations and Love Songs 1971-1986

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Question: How does a man with such an ordinary voice and diminutive stature toss off a whole anthology of agile, smart hits with an edgy title and huge listenability?

Answer: He writes. Good grief, but the man writes. Continue Reading »

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eyes on the text(s): Hatch and Redpath, Concordance to the Septuagint, A,: And the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (Including the Apocryphal Books)

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Before there were computers, before there were even ball point pens, Edwin Hatch and Henry Redpath churned out this fundamental work on the Greek Old Testament.

The laborious care–one wants to say love–which they brought to the first translation of the Hebrew Bible is a testament to that species of linguistic rigor and respect for the text that is too rare in the humanities and even in biblical studies these days. Continue Reading »

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Does the job, but the chord is short: Rapid Car / Auto Travel Charger w/ Tip Exchange for the Blackberry 8700c – Gomadic Brand

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This product will be adequate for in-car charging of your Blackberry 8700c unless you have a large car and need a slightly longer chord. The chord on this project is shorter than on other similar projects.

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simple is elegant: Kenneth Cole Reaction Men’s Watch #KC1351

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This stylish, understated Kenneth Cole watch sports black-and-silver versatility. It goes great with blacks, grays, and blues. ‘Also not bad for a jeansy dress-down day, though that can be a bit of a stretch. Continue Reading »

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the maddening, lucid past: Psalms 77, 78

August 8, 2007 by David Baer

Psalms 77 and 78 both peer intently into the past, even to the point of employing the same vocabulary to access it, to render it recoverable by defining it with words.

Yet the two poets see a different picture. The author of the seventy-seventh psalm views a glorious past from within the painful longings of a present in which God has absented himself. Indeed, his pathos-filled language dares to suggest that God has changed. The deity of those good years no longer dwells with his people:
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