Jeff Sisson

i'm looking for haunting doo wop recs...hoping you know what i mean...

i'm picturing ASP heads who hate the snowstorm because it undercuts the joy of lesser holiday ASP suspensions

quote from Louis Armstrong: "Oh, I'm going to love doing this!" he told Avakian. "I knew cast like this in New Orleans. Every one of them, they'd stick a knife into you without blinking an eye! Mack the Knife! Let's go!"

Mack the Knife LFG
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YouTube video by Fernando Garcia de Andoin Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong & Lotte Lenya

#schaap talking about how Lotte Lenya couldn't swing in the duet she did w/ Louis Armstrong but it still sounds good...and it's true www.youtube.com/watch?v=5362...

i love that one of the leading lights of contemporary drum & bass is named Tim Reaper. this is maybe 80% of the way to a Jacob-style birth name riff

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Fifteen Thousand New York City Nurses Strike Fifteen thousand nurses across 10 campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. It’s the city’s largest nurse strike in decades. Picket lines stretched for bl...

more details (tho not about their wages proposal) from the bargaining committee members themselves here labornotes.org/2026/01/fift...

spookiest cli name

i remember reading about a proposal for an email service that was ad and data-harvesting free, but/and where emails took a day or so to be delivered

YouTube video by Productores Independientes Canal Oficial J.Q. y Sus Estrellas - Cumbia Del Viajero, La Santa, Amor Lejano, A La Ingrata, Sin Un Querer

youtu.be/3eAVNGevHTg?... channel posting late 90s Ecuadoran music videos good stuff

honestly so relaxing to listen to a game announced by walt clyde frazier & mike breen

i've been trying to workshop a "protocol" joke about this for years

i wrote some AppleScript for the labor movement today 😈

i'm getting rate limited by one of the nyc public library websites

i love the detective show plot structure with no detectives! peaceful howcatchem

reading about lossless jpeg cropping on this stunner of a url www.ben.com/jpeg/

YouTube video by dcaligari Tom Waits lawsuit

enjoying this dorito's radio ad that ripped off tom waits (he sued & won 2 million) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNIJ...

demented jargon du jour: querying s3 metadata tables exposed via iceberg catalogs using duckdb

i made a command line tool talk2html to turn recordings of talks/panels/q&a's/etc into text, and wrote about my struggles with durational media: regexking.info/2025/11/23/t...

gonna need a bigger crank

this is cute, "quite ok image format": qoiformat.org

people are generally either jinx aware or jinx unaware

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

you've seen the water flute video ya? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbf...

haha...yes!

New York City Is Full of Green Space. You Just Have to Find It.

i got my first html on the website www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/n...

abnegate easter egg

Black Sea deluge hypothesis - Wikipedia

sharing this with all my bath taking friends en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_S...

screenshot of digital bookseller with the text: DRM Types Consumer DRM (eBook) • Unlimited downloads • Up to six (6) devices/computers • No copying and printing 2. Business DRM (eBook) • One (1) download • Up to one (1) device/computer • No copying and printing 3. Education DRM (elextbook) • Two (2) downloads • Up to two (2) devices/computers • Limited copying and printing 4. Hard DRM • Six (6) downloads • Up to six (6) devices/computers DRM Types • Used for Case Studies made available by professors and specific courses

this is mad funny...wtf is "hard drm"...

i'd left reading this book with the impression that cellular "polarity" was more often a function of mechanical/physical constraints on cell development, vs. pure turing patterns; but i also dont feel like i quite get it! highly recommend this book tho!!

have you read "how life works" by philip ball? he has a whole section about left/right axis in morphogenesis; i think the science here is still quite active, but for embryos at least it's a combination of cilia (cellular "stirring"!) and axis-aware gene expression