Jeff Albert

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I am a #musician in New Orleans. I play #trombone and teach #musictech. I play lots of music including #jazz, #freejazz, #improv. I am also lucky enough to get to play in horn sections with some of the greats of New Orleans funk. Getting back into #vinyl records. I work in #maxmsp and #AbletonLive
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Jeff AlbertJul 10, 2023
Ken Laster 😎Jul 4, 2023
Poll: How many mastodon users do you actually know? I mean know as in face to face. People you would greet at work, school or in the park and they would return the greeting by name?
Please boost to increase response.
Two or more
47.8%
One
12.1%
None, zero, zip
40.1%
Poll ended at .
Jeff AlbertJun 23, 2023
HTTP 1.1/418 TeapotJun 22, 2023
Happy birthday to the 19" equipment rack, which turns 100 next month. From the July, 1923, Bell Systems Technical Journal: "All panels are to be of a uniform length, designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 19>< inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, according to the amount of apparatus in each unit, but this vertical dimension is in all cases to be a whole multiple of 1-3/4 inches."(p139 at https://archive.org/details/bstj2-3-112/page/n27/mode/2up )
BSTJ 2: 3. July 1923: Telephone Equipment for Long Cable Circuits. (Demarest, Charles S.) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Bell System Technical Journal, 2: 3. July 1923 pp 112-140. Telephone Equipment for Long Cable Circuits. (Demarest, Charles S.)

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Jeff AlbertJun 9, 2023
I am at the New Orleans airport and I have heard “Ooh poo pa do“ twice on the airport music and it is creating a disturbance in my mind. #nola #music #neworleansmusic
Jeff AlbertJun 5, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 5, 2023

I attended an interfaith event last Friday & the evangelical pastor lamented to me,"America's lost her way because we've forgotten Jesus."

I responded, "As a Muslim I love Jesus too—but when exactly would you say America 'followed' Jesus? Was it during Native Genocide? Slavery? Jim Crow? Denying women equal rights? While invading Iraq?”

Deafening silence.

If you want to show me your faith, first show me your service to ALL humanity—regardless of faith or no faith. B/c faith w/o works is dead.

Jeff AlbertMay 22, 2023
The level of hassle associated with trying to get short term health insurance between jobs is ASTOUNDING!!!! Why do we not have health insurance for everyone because we are all people?
Jeff AlbertMay 11, 2023
JoshMay 10, 2023

Idk if I said this before but programs like ChatGPT do NOT answer the questions you give them. What they DO is responding with what an answer to that question could sound like based on a set of pattern recognition.

These programs are not search engines, they're just advanced forms of auto-complete.

Also: it doesn't even have any Internet access https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-access/

ChatGPT can’t access the internet, even though it really looks like it can

A really common misconception about ChatGPT is that it can access URLs. I’ve seen many different examples of people pasting in a URL and asking for a summary, or asking …

Jeff AlbertMay 11, 2023
I just saw a social media post advertising playlist merchandise. Not band hats and shirts, but hats and shirts advertising a playlist. The curators are trying to supplant the artists. Or maybe they already have.
Jeff AlbertMay 8, 2023
Is it bad form to comment "PLEASE STOP WRITING COMPLETE BS!!!" on a student's written submission? I think shoveling complete BS has become so normalized in our society that some folks do it instinctually.
Show threadJeff AlbertMay 8, 2023
@jasonisaacdrums thanks. That is a fun bunch to play music with and you know it will be grooving.
Show threadJeff AlbertMay 8, 2023
@jasonisaacdrums it was