Chris DeLuca

Started reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚

Impressive visuals for the time, and slow paced. The opening segment is all still images with text boxes. The conclusion draws some I think for the time progressive parallels between witchcraft persecution and the then modern treatment of women, but it sounds ignorant from now modern knowledge. Interesting from a history of film perspective, and there’s some great shots of nuns sticking out their tongues.

I found a little command line program, ftb, to align markdown tables. Very useful. I use it as a Neovim filter, as I recently blogged about. 💽

Listening to a 1970 Love bootleg at the Fillmore West, that Paul of Albums That Should Exist cleaned up. It’s the seventies, so Arthur Lee is heavier, more Hendrix influenced than the insurmountable “Forever Changes”. The show is pretty great. 🎵

Rocks.

I was looking for a quick, minimal way of aligning columns in grid-template-areas values, and found something more generic and, I think, useful—the venerable column command.

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Why nearly every farmer who grows these chile peppers is a woman

“Not many men step up to do it under these conditions,” Pandiamma says. “But for women, chile is a godsend. If we labor hard enough in the fields for those few months, that extra income is enough to keep our homes running for the rest of the year.”

Finished reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚

Man this book is funny. Everything you love about a tight mystery, combined with everything insane about modern reality TV (and plain reality). Jo Firestone writes hilarious, relatable prose that moves. I flew through this. Can’t wait for the next book!

My cousin’s band Chalk Teeth just dropped a new single.

It’s an entrancing and unique concoction that touches on elements of dark wave, synth punk, shoegaze, early electronic dance music and krautrock, all while leading with vocals in the Polish language.

I’m very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it (other than somewhat genetically). Check it out! 🎵

Donkey Kong-ass Donkey Kong’s Donkey Kong-ass Donkey Kong ass.

A quote from Scott the Woz that lives rent free in my head. 💬

Currently reading: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 📚

I feel like “think again” advertising contains an implied insult.

“Think JustSalad just has salad? Think again!…idiot.”

From Miriam Suzanne on Mastodon.

There are still absolutely beautiful websites using basic css and html with little or no js…

What we’ve lost, it seems to me, is the broad indie pipeline to both learning and socializing (and socially learning).

partly because we who learned it 20yrs ago have landed in more specialized/complex jobs.

As part of that ~20 year ago learning, I completely agree. The internet culture does not default to the web, the open thing we all fell in love with. The only way most folks interact online is through corporate captured channels. Raising this, the response is often some form of, “yeah and the sky is blue”. It feels that inevitable. But as we continually learn, change is a constant. What end of the scale do you want to press on?

Does anyone still use Last.fm? I just (re)discovered that I’ve had an account since 2007. Old profile photo to match.

Spoiler alert for a 200 year old story you’ve heard a bunch of times already.

This is my first time reading this, after years of meaning to. I’m glad I finally did. I can tell why this …

Yep, it’s real good.

There are two types of New Yorkers who don’t take the subway. Working folks who live in a transit desert, or silver spoon scum fucks hellbent on casually destroying your life.

I love a street cart kabab. The stick makes it seem portable, and I always end up covered in shit. I will eat them forever.

Some new room decor.

As always, I have mid Oscar guesses. Very happy to see all the Sinners and One Battle After Another love, and boy was I happy to be wrong about Amy Madigan. 🍿

A friend didn’t want their Aloe anymore, so I took it home. Looking pretty good so far, I think.

Pure joy.

I bought every studio Fugazi album on Bandcamp, along with the new Albini Sessions. No regrets. 🎵

This movie is daffy and fun.