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H-180 3M 2″ Box Sealing Tape Dispenser

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

This little doobie is just the thing if you ship more than a handful of packages each week. The physics of it make it a simple matter to get a tight swath of tape around your package without wrinkled tape and disproportionate cursing.

Trust me, you’ll quickly recoup the 25 clams you’ll invest via increased efficiency and fewer damaged goods en route.

Plus, with a little imagination, you could use this thing (it’s got teeth!) as a self-defense implement. You might end up buying a second one and storing it beside your bed for this very purpose. It’s cheaper than getting a dog.

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sovereign surgeon: Mo Leverett, The Sacrament of Life

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Mo Leverett’s New Orleans jazz, a vehicle of the most streetworthy and reflective Christian faith, is just the thing.

Sensuous, anchored, penetrating, persuasive, Leverett’s music celebrates life as a gift that is capable of thriving and enlightening journeys walked out in otherwise insufferable darkness.

Leverett’s convincing voice is ragged in the very best sense yet so very sure of itself. He celebrates his family—not least his ‘Cajun queen’—with no hint of embarrassment. If he’s preaching—this reviewer suspects he is—his words get into the listener’s ears and perhaps even through his pores before any defenses can be raised. (more…)

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a slight adjustment: Presto HeatDish plus Footlight

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

My basement office—a.k.a. ‘the man cave’—is for me not unlike the Garden of Eden. Still, about 20 mornings per year it’s just a little too cold.

I could attack this with the home heating equivalent of using a hammer to kill a mosquito, turning up the heat and arming every single corner of the place to about five degrees above the status quo. But that costs money.

Instead, I bought the Presto HeatDish Plus Footlight two years ago for those cold winter days when my favorite space in the house needs just a touch of extra warmth. It’s got good adjustment and, with a little practice, can be focused on the area where I sit in front of my desk in my stocking feet and do the thing I do.

I recommend this economical, highly concentrated, easily adjustable solution to one of life’s cold zones.

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getting there (especially in the city!): Sony NVU73T 4.3” Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

Posted in paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

I’ve owned five GPS units. The Sony NVU73T is the best of them. I picked mine up at a Radio Shack in a hurry when my Garmin fritzed out like those old 1960s black-and-white pictures of what would happen to your TV if the Soviets snuck one through our defenses onto, say, an unsuspecting Kansas City.

Googling ‘Russians drop atomic bomb’ has not yielded any news reports but I sure am glad I listened to the Seattle techie at the Shack who said ‘this is a new product and it’s better than anything you’ve ever seen.’ He was right. (more…)

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sacred geometry of chance: Sting, Ten Summoner’s Tales

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

If he had never played another note, Ten Summoner’s Tales would by itself have cemented Sting’s stature as one of the late 20th century’s premier song writers. The music on this 1994 release still beguiles and satisfies, neither one stingily.

‘If I Ever Lose My Faith in You’ proves Sting the past master of the oblique love song. He approaches his object in a circling pattern, canvassing all things that might serve as the existential center of the universe but fail to do so before the tenacious matter of his love for this woman. Though the Police hinted at the genre with the mildly obsessive ‘I’ll Be Watching You’ and Sting himself would crown it with ‘I’ll Still Love You’ on the Brand New Day CD, ‘Lose My Faith’ is the real flower in mature bloom. It is exquisite song-writing, performed unforgettably by what Sting has elsewhere called his ‘unschooled tenor’. (more…)

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a lot for a little: Hewlett Packard Officejet J5750 All-in-one Print Copy Scan Fax

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on December 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

The Officejet J5750 is my first home-office move into an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier/scanner device. I’ll never go back to multiple options.

That is not to say that the J5750 is the sturdiest or most reliable HP product I’ve ever owned. It is not. The simple HP1012 and 1200 printers, for example, easily outpace the J5750 on both counts. But then they don’t shoot for the same degree of difficulty as the all-in-one does, either. (more…)

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kicking up dust: Point of Grace, Steady On

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on December 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Point of Grace‘s extraordinary 1998 release displayed the formula working at full strength. Tight harmonies, Bannister-ish orchestration, flawless execution from start to finish, this was an album of Big Songs. There’s not a lot of angst or soul-searching in this album. PoG would only rarely go in that direction. Instead the four women of that era’s PoG majored on encouraging Christian messages with which `positive radio’ makes hay. (more…)

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

Posted in reseña, tagged , on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »

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. (more…)

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no reason not to move up: HP 74XL Black

Posted in reseña, tagged , on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »

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. (more…)

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never complains, never apologizes: HP LaserJet 1012 Printer

Posted in reseña, tagged , on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »

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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