Chris DeLuca

A while back my dad would text me movie reviews, and I would publish them to Tumblr. I’ve re-collected them here on my blog. They are…well, just read for yourself.

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I accidentally triggered my friend’s automatic garbage can to open, and I reflexively apologized to it. “Oh, sorry, I don’t need the garbage, my bad.”

I’m in Houston, spending time with my friends and their small daughter. It’s really nice. And warm.

Nothing makes you feel more like a tube then simultaneously being thirsty and having to pee.

I’m here watching a Steely Dan cover band and thoroughly enjoying myself. I have definitively entered my childless dad phase.

Started reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 📚

Finished reading: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚

The guy sitting next to me in the emergency exit row on the plane is reading a book on game theory. Doesn’t inspire the most confidence.

Caught a nice view in Harlem.

Photo of a sunset through a window with a potted plant in the foreground.

Media diet - November 2023

As December rolls in, I’ve been spending some time reflecting. There’s a lot on my mind, but for now, here’s the media I’ve been experiencing over November. Movies Killers of … Read more

Friends showed me Rebecca Black sung by Bob Dylan. It is Friday, after all. 👨‍🍳💋

Did anyone else play Gorillas back in the day? Still holds up.

You ever get a random song stuck in your head, apropos of nothing? Today it’s Come Sail Away (with meeeeee lads).

I’ve been really addicted to Suika. It’s a falling fruit, physics-based puzzler, and I can’t stop playing.

Here’s my contribution to the “what apps am I using?” posts.

Industrial metal is synth pop with a lip ring.

I made a black and white version of a shot my cousin took in LA.

Black and white photo of a rocky cliff with a pale moon in the daytime sky

Corey Doctorow on tech antitrust.

It’s possible to have a good internet run by flawed people. But to get that new, good internet, we have to support technologists of good will and character by terrorizing their venal and cynical colleagues by hitting them where they live: in their paychecks.

Capitalists hate capitalism, but we knoww how to fix it, since we used to live in that world. Regulate to increase competition.

I saw No Hard Feelings last night. Fun, formulaic, funny moments, and as always Jennifer Lawrence is endlessly charming. 🍿

You know you’re rich when you use the phrase, “coin of the realm” in casual conversation.

NEDCamp is great, as always.

The view from Lincoln Park, Jersey City.

A moody black and white photo. A pond in the foreground, trees, a grandstand, and a metal suspension bridge behind.

I wrote a blog post for Lullabot on Useful git configurations you may have missed.

I don’t have a permanent home right now, and sometimes people ask me where I am. So, I setup a page that (roughly) shows where I’m currently staying. Good idea? Bad idea? Maybe both, but here it is. www.chrisdeluca.me/where-am-…

Bluetooth? Its development is so arrested, it’s more like Bluthtooth. I’ll show myself out.