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Sunset
Yesterday, the sun set in Gainesville at 5:31 PM. The sun set at 5:30 PM the preceding fourteen days. Tomorrow the sun will set after 5:32 PM, and so it will go, a little later each day until the...
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What Is and What Might Have Been
Anniversaries are strange things. Fundamentally, they are merely exercises of memory – an opportunity to recollect a momentous occasion or, just as often, contrast our lives today with the world of...
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Before I forget, I wanted to note the record-setting rainfall Gainesville experienced this July. Without a hurricane, tropical storm, or tropical depression, 16.66 inches of rain fell on Gainesville...
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I am a wimp. For the next two weeks, as I fill in for a vacationing colleague, I am working the morning shift – meaning I need to be at work at a quarter of six each morning. It is really distressing...
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What Summer Means to Me
In Gainesville, July 3 is July 4. That is, we do fireworks a day early. I don’t know why, exactly. I assume it’s so that everyone has a chance to get out of town on Independence Day itself. Whatever...
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Collecting Music: Origin of the Collector
[This essay is part of a planned series about collecting classical music recordings. This post may serve as a prequel to the one that preceded it, and the ones which will follow.] In 1993, when the...
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Music Collecting: The Golden Age
[This is the first in a new series of essays about classical music collecting and the evolution of the compact disc.] If you believe the internet, the compact disc is dead. And if you read a variety of...
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