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Today is my brother Samuel’s birthday, and as a present I got him the album Wayfaring Stranger, an album of hymns played on the cello, from BlueBehemoth.com.

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I finally got around to getting the recording of Csárdás, which I performed at the Tri-County Youth Festival concert. [read more]

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From The Rebelution blog I saw a video of Emily Bear, who is a little pianist and composer. She is around eight years old now, but at age seven she had already won the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. […]

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LaTeX is a system for typesetting that’s rather difficult to set up and learn to use, but for me was well worth it. The chief reason why I like to use LaTeX for any largish document is that the results are so much better. In addition, it’s much easier to manage large documents.

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This is an interesting video I first saw yesterday of Seattle-born actress Amy Walker speaking in twenty-one different accents. Part of what her aim is is to replicate not only the consonant and vowel sounds of the people who live in the region, but also the tone and mannerisms. […]

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A while ago I was sent a video of Australian comedians John Clarke and Bryan Dawe. It was about an incident involving an oil spill at sea, and Clarke and Dawe created a parody around it:

These two have done many other parodies, and among the ones I thought funny there are these:

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