Chris DeLuca

As I’m reading 50 Years of Text Games, I’m naturally getting back into IF. Man it’s good. Just played 9:05, a ten minute game, and had a blast.

Waiting for the show to start: John Cale playing at the bandshell in Prospect Park. 🎵
Crayon effect drawing of a girl with her hands in the air in celebration.

Experimenting with just using color, instead of a colored line drawing.

#drawing #art

I’m just a simple man, but 4 indictments is more than you want in a leader, right?

🎵 Just discovered Atlanta punk band Upchuck. Really exciting music.

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A drawing of a warped, male face with red hair.

This guy looks like mutant Conan O’Brien.

#drawing #art
The word 'Chris' in green block letters with a spray paint effect dripping around and over it.

Messing around with the spray paint tool.

Today I learned about the Kentucky meat shower - Wikipedia 😳

Currently reading: 50 Years of Text Games by Aaron A. Reed 📚

Finished reading The Far Reaches Collection. Short stories by some heavy hitters. Really enjoyed it. Free with Amazon prime, cheap if not. 📚
A zoomed-in drawing of a face with a curved nose and shining green eyes, looking off to the side.

#drawing

Been listening to a lot of Ty Segall’s Taste. All bangers.
A drawing of a square with eyes and a moustache, and stick-figure arms and legs. He has a determined expression. He stands on wood paneled floors, and agaist a green and yellow floral patterned wallpaper with an odd perspective. There are smudges of lime green and royal purple with some opacity wafting around.

This doodle seems like if a 70s detective was a shape.
A drawing of a man with tufts of green hair and one snaggle tooth triumphantly pointing up and away. He is just a head with arms coming out of it, resting on a metalic plinth, under which are many legs rendered in simple line drawings. There is a sea in the background with large spikes of water shooting up like mountains. The sky is pink.

This doodle I made while messing around in Paintbrush, which is a macOS replacement for MS Paint.

I’ve manually checked every long article I’ve written, fixing all the broken images after importing to micro.blog. I also had a chance to clean up broke URLs and improv alt text. Next up, adding a redirect for every old url 😩

Via John Scalzi.

My personal observation about Democrats and liberals is that many seem to vote to “solve” things, and once they think things are “solved” they let their attention wander off to whatever else it is they are doing. Many republicans and conservatives, on the other hand, seem to vote to “push” things in the direction they want them to go.

This tracks with my observations. If there’s one thing to take from the GOP, it’s vote to “push” not to “solve”.

Via Manton Reese.

Great article by Christina Warren on the history of the App Store and why we’re due for some kind of change, likely helped along by the EU’s Digital Markers Act. Apple taking a cut of all developer revenue is not sustainable forever.

I’ve been trying to collect my thoughts several days: I’m so very sad to hear of Bram Moolenaar’s passing. The author and largest maintainer of Vim for something like 30 years, his charitable work and dedication to his software was incredible. We lost a titan.

Late to the party, but this article from music blog Brooklyn Vegan on modern hardcore is introducing me to a lot of cool stuff. 🎵

I’m in a diner and Ho Hey by The Lumineers is playing. I looked up and saw the 1800 Cars for Kids ad on a muted TV. It’s the spot where children play rock instruments along to the jingle. For a brief moment, I thought that the kids were playing The Lumineers song.

It was horrible.

Bush Terminal Park.

Choppy water with a stormy sky. New York City in the distance. Teenagers sit on rocks in the foreground, facing away from the camera, their long hair whipping in the wind. &10;

I pushed up the color vibrancy on this photo of a warehouse near sunset park and like the surreal effect.

A brownstone building next to vibrant green grass and a mossy hanging metal construct. &10;

Another doodle. I’m proud of the sense of movement and adventure in this one.

A drawing of a bird-like humanoid in a space suit in a superman pose flying through space
A drawing of a bird-beaked, robed figure with a pointed hat, with a stylized earth and sun in the top two corners.

Publishing some of my old doodles. This one done on the iPad.

Why is all software “blazing” fast? It’s like they ran out of adjunctives.