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At a recent NCS rehearsal, the notion of "full-body singing" came up a number of times. It even came up in reference to some for...

At work, we've got a some 0.8.5 cassandra clusters running stably for nearly a year now. This is fairly behind the stable cassandra rel...

For the sake of convenience, I've gathered all my offensive comments about North Carolina in one place. Enjoy! 1. This state apparentl...

If you're like me, you like Hive, and you like storing some of your data in sequence files. You also like compressing your data, so tha...

This is the first draft. I expect to need to prune it down. Comments welcome. Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata, published in 1956 and ...

The movements can be paired in various ways, giving a general symmetry overall and a sense of formal and stylistic cohesiveness. The outer m...

Text sources for Pinkham's Wedding Cantata. I. Rise up, my love King James Bible, Cambridge Ed.; Song of Solomon 2:10-2:12 Rise up, my l...

First obvious formal thing: the clear relationship between first and third movements. Both have a primary theme in a fast 6/8, with similar...

As mammals with linguistic tools handy for the structuring of thought, we are by nature inclined to analyze and categorize and tokenize, so ...

On that day, God created Carbon; He created Carbon, and sprinkled it both within and without the face of the Earth; and He created Gravity, ...