Chris DeLuca

Sabotage, 1936

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I’m thinking of being from the 1970s.

A photo of me, a white guy with a bald head long beard, wearing a bright red headband and a worried expression.

There’s a billboard on the New Jersey turnpike that just says, “I got hurt in Jersey .com”. And you did. Don’t lie. You know you did .com

Alien, 1979

Watched on Saturday September 28, 2024. Read more

I just saw a man on the subway with a hand gun keychain ornament right next to a pikachu ornament. What a ven diagram.
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Another old golden hour post.
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From my old photos, in iOSs Golden Hour collection.

Follow up food shots from Sunday’s supper club.

We started with some fish in a really nice sauce. Don’t you wish I remembered anything more specific? Me too.

Close up of fish in a light white sauce, garnished with some herbs in a white plate.

Then we had slice duck with grilled eggplant with a walnut and pecan sauce. That yellow Swiss cheese cracker looking dude is fried flower oil. Bonkers.

Close up of sliced duck and eggplant in a white plate.

After that, we lightened it up with tamale, cheese, and pickled tomatillo with a unique salsa verde. Almost all the ingredients here are from pre-colonial Mexico.

A blurry close up of half eatne corn tamales and cheese smeared with salsa verde sauce on a white plate.

Finally, we finished with a moist polenta cake with some sort of sweet, tangy jam and this light, sugary cracker cookie that I forget the name of.

Close up of a thick, brown cake, almost zuccini bread looking, with a dark red jam with a fruit that looks like strawberries but isn't. There's a half eaten cookie with some of the jam on it and sugar coating. All on a white plate.

The chefs gave wonderful explanation on each dish, and I can’t remember it. Thankfully, the pictures speak for themselves. All these shots were taken by my friend Jenny.

Total Recall, 1990

Watched on Monday September 23, 2024. Read more

My Chef friend Kayla ran a supper club on our roof last night. Incredible food, and lovely company. No notes.

A group of people seated around a table on a rooftop under a cloudy sky, with one person standing and speaking. String lights decorate the scene, and city buildings are visible in the background. A table holds a partially eaten cheese and crackers platter, surrounded by wine glasses and bottles. Guests stand in the background under a cloudy sky, with lights and flowers providing decoration. A group of individuals gathered around a table adorned with candles, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.

Why does any hobby turn into a socialized to do list?

Context: I added 6 movies to my watchlist today.

The Substance, 2024 - ★★★★

This movie keeps going harder. But then? It goes even harder. Read more

Every time I type bathroom, half way through iOS suggests 🦇.

Finished reading: Cinemaps by Andrew DeGraff 📚

James Adomian - Path Of Most Resistance, 2024 - ★★★½

That was the only impression of Jerome Powell I've seen this year. Read more

Playing with photo filters.

A photo of an abandoned Brooklyn street under an elevated highway. There is graffiti on the retraining wall on the left, and parked cars on the street. The image is stylized with filters to produce hightened reds and pinks, with jagged color stops.

Demolition Man, 1993 - ★½

"Jeffrey Dahmer? I love that guy!" Largely a clumsy conservative power fantasy, Wesley Snipes still manages to be very entertaining. Read more

My smart talented colleague Laura Donalan is co-leading Untangling Your Drupal Migration: Lessons from the State of Iowa. If you’re considering any CMS data migration, it’s well worth a look.

Today I learned the term Data Piggy.

A tech sector Venture Capitalist who stuffs their little piggy faces on people’s private information until their little piggie overall buttons pop off their engorged little piggy bodies.

Seems incredibly useful. 👍

I added a new about page for this blog. It has everything: information, links, whimsy, that’s it.

Gripping read about one of the first women hackers, by Claire Evans for The Verge. I read this years ago, and only now getting around to sharing it.

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.

Vim Macro Trickz by Hillel Wayne is just that. For the vimthusiasts.

Anyone actively use Oblique Strategies?

I found this conceptually sprawling UX article in the depths of my reading list. It’s several years old, so you may spot an outdated reference or two, but the points are still salient.

The Future is Analog (if you can afford it), by Maroussia Lévesque, explores the “analog privilege” of economic elites to escape the automation and A.I. they apply to everyone else.