St. Chris

@stchris.bsky.social

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Technical writer, business analyst. Web application everything-person for a couple of decades. Writer/editor who got stuck in computers. I fight for the users. He/him/Chris. Autistic, ADHD, anti-kyriarchy. I have been, and always shall be, in New Jersey.

Dr. Yukio Hattori saying his signature getting “Always a pleasure” on Iron Chef
A cardboard box with a printed designation: C BOX
St. Chris smiling with his metallic red Yamaha Pacifica PAC012 electric guitar with a walnut fretboard and a white pearloid pick guard.
Close-up of the upper bout of a Yamaha FD01S dreadnought acoustic guitar, sort of a shoulder-down view. The nato wood on the sides is a rich, variegated reddish-brown. The spruce top is golden yellow. The binding between the two different tonewoods is black with two fine white pinstripes. The dark fretboard is at the left edge of the frame; the black pick guard and bridge are below it and somewhat out of focus.
Control panel on a Breville Smooth Wave microwave oven. There are buttons for: SOUND 🎵 BEEP VOL 🔈 MUTE 🔈🚫
Close-up of the red headstock of an Ibanez SR Mezzo SRMD200 bass with a white Dunlop 1.0 mm Tortex Flex (Delrin/Nylon) guitar pick wedged between the blue silk ends of its D’Addario ECB81M flatwound strings.
An Elgato Stream Deck Mk.2 desktop keypad. It has 15 buttons that are all customizable LCD displays. The buttons are currently showing controls for Microsoft Teams conference calls via the MuteDeck app, which makes common actions like muting/unmuting, screen sharing, emoji reactions, and recording into single button presses, and shows when the microphone is muted or the camera is turned off.
Close-up of the red headstock of an Ibanez SR Mezzo SRMD200 bass with a grey Dunlop .88 mm nylon guitar pick wedged between the blue silk ends of its D’Addario ECB81M flatwound strings.
A multicolored assortment of guitar picks scattered on a black desk next to a metallic red Yamaha Pacifica 012 electric guitar with a white pearloid pick guard.
A cylindrical black-and-silver 512 Audio Skylight large-capsule condenser microphone, cradled in a silver Samson SP01 shock mount with black suspension elastics. The background is blue with a light retro geometric pattern.
Large dark blue lowercase logotype with an all-caps light blue art-marker tagline: sears YOU KNOW…SEARS!
Cropped screenshot of a technical document on a website. An information bar includes several items: “Ready for review,” (status), “1 min” (estimated time to read), “Listen” (hear an AI-generated voice), a count of how many times the page has been viewed, and “Add a reaction” (to put an emoji reaction on the page)
A digital watch face showing the time 4:04
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Customers Out: 128,116 Customers Served: 1,158,126
Bluesky app screenshot: “No longer following Howard Mittelmark”
A well-worn hardcover copy of Benoit Mandelbrot’s classic 1982 mathematics book, The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Related-page link headline on an article about words that can make you “influential”: Highly approachable people use 10 phrases to make others feel comfortable: Public speaking expert
Headline under the topic “How to Talk to People”: Use 10 phrases to be more approachable and likable, says public speaking expert: People will 'trust' you more
Email preview: WellBefore Celebrate DAD's health today! Top wellness picks for your Dad →
Headline: “Al and Brain-Computer Interface Allow Speechless ALS Patient To Work a Full-Time Job”
1970s-children’s-television-style title card. The main title is in puffy white letters with a dark blue outline and shadow: “Boustrophedon Steppin’Puddle”. The subtitle, in dark blue Cooper Black font with a white outline, is “& Company!” The background is sky blue. The entire image has the scan-line pixelation, uneven streaky color, and subtle edge distortions of a standard-definition analog TV signal viewed on a CRT television with an indoor antenna in the hilly suburbs 22 miles from the station’s metropolitan broadcast tower.
A sun-dappled, completely relaxed grey squirrel stretched out on its belly on a porch railing, feet hanging off the sides of the wood, hands in a pile of sunflower seeds, bushy tail draped over the edge of a large glass dish and resting in the water.
A Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesizer in a thickly padded black carrying bag. The zipper is partly open and the case is clearly perfectly tailored for the keyboard.
St. Chris with a band-aid, 3/4-inch-wide with ends trimmed, wrapped around the middle of his earlobe like an ear cuff.
Two Yamaha acoustic guitars in open hard cases: (1) a blond-top FD01S steel-string dreadnought acoustic in an all-black Road Runner RRDWA Deluxe Wood Dreadnought Acoustic Case; (2) an orange-brown C40 nylon-string classical in a brown Access Upstart Small-Body Acoustic Guitar Case with burgundy lining.
A Yamaha C40 classical guitar in an Upstart Small-Body Acoustic Guitar Case from Access Cases and Bags. The vinyl exterior of the case looks like vintage leather with brass latches. The inside is padded burgundy velvet. The guitar itself has a dusky orange-brown top, a dark brown fingerboard and bridge, and a soundhole decal that’s an intricate, subdued rosette of black and green details with a middle ring of red highlights that echo the lining of the case.
Product photo, a close-up of the kind of molded plastic carrying handle that’s on virtually every guitar case in existence. Text above the image says: ERGONOMIC PVC HANDLE that offers "a comfortable grip"
Product photo, a close-up of the bottom of a brown guitar case with a brushed metal latch and small round feet. Text above the image says: Metal Feets against the damages, dings, and bumps.
The words “Keep on tranglin” in a white pixel font on a black background from the “lunch special” Strong Bad Email. Here, there’s an added infinity-mirror effect, a series of faded copies of the text trailing off to the lower left.
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers
St. Chris’s hand holding three galvanized steel landscaping spikes and a one-foot ruler. The spikes are exactly as long as the ruler.
The “We Should Improve Society Somewhat” paperback volume of Matt Bors comics.
Close-up of a travel bag, zipped partly open. The outer fabric is hand-loomed cotton, the inside of the flap and the edges of the case are light brown Cordura, and the interior is padded plush black velvet cradling the dark brown-sunburst headstock of a fretless bass guitar with black strings whose ends, wrapped onto matte black tuning pegs, are bound with dark gold silk. A muted silver logo on the headstock reads “SDGR: Soundgear by Ibanez.” A length of beige-and-black macramé dangles from the pull tab of a zipper.
Close-up of a beige-and-black macramé pull handle on a black zipper set into a loomed natural cotton panel on a padded guitar bag. Another black zipper is at the side, with a sliver of dark gold material visible on the edge of the bag.
Thermian crew members in Galaxy Quest (1999), including Missi Pyle as Laliari, Enrico Colantoni as Mathesar, and Patrick Breen as Quellek.
Front view of a soft, padded, contoured carrying case for a bass guitar. The exterior of the case is mostly hand-loomed cotton cloth in a natural beige color. The bottom end is covered with dark gold polyester canvas; a handle on the side is made of the same material. The zippers are black with black-and-beige pull handles. There’s a small zipper for a pocket on the front at the top end; on the body area is a large rectangular cotton-cloth pocket with a big flap and a sewn tag that says “SOMEONE SOMEWHERE / GATORCASES”
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers: New Jersey (Jeff Goldblum), Billy Travers (Michael Santoro), Rawhide (Clancy Brown), Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller), Reno Nevada (Pepe Sernq), Pinky Carruthers (Billy Vera), Perfect Tommy (Lewis Smith)
Economics: “Humans only value things monetarily.” Sociology: “Uh, I don’t…” Economics: “Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus.” Sociology: “Uhhh, Psy, can you help?” Psychology: “That’s not how humans…” Economics: “ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!” Physics: *drops teacup*
UPS package tracking update screenshot: Estimated Delivery Your package is still on the way and we are actively working to get you a new delivery date. (Below a progress bar that is now only half-green:) On the Way
A UPS delivery truck icon sitting on a large building on a map. At the top is a cheerful green “Almost there” tag. Below is “Estimated Delivery May 9, 2026 by 9:00 PM” and a progress bar that’s completely green with a happy little check mark at the end, and another “Almost there” label.
A sticker on the sidewalk: a barcode, the words “Special Bouquet,” and, in large numbers: $19.99
A supermarket curb-pickup order label, stuck to the sidewalk. The label has barcodes and basic info about the order, along with the large text “Code: ANGR” and, below it in smaller letters, “AMY”
Screenshot of St. Chris’s previous post in the Bluesky iPhone app. Because the photo has alt text, the Bluesky [ALT] badge is plastered directly on his eye in the corner.
Three Yamaha guitars wall-mounted in a row: a blonde-top FD01S steel-string dreadnought acoustic, an orange-brown C40 classical, and a metallic red Pacifica PAC012 electric. Also St. Chris leaning in from the bottom corner, partly obscuring the Pacifica, just one eye visible, staring at the camera.
Gene Wilder lovingly squeezes Peter Boyle’s face in Young Frankenstein (1974)
ARP Instruments VP of Engineering Phil Dodds as keyboardist “Jean Claude” in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
An issue of Reader’s Digest in a supermarket magazine rack. The cover story is “Making Friends with AI: Smart Steps & Safeguards.” Illustration: a blonde white woman in a blue dress is sitting at one end of a porch swing, one hand holding one of the ropes and the other hand resting in her lap, with a blue sky and puffy white clouds behind her. On the other end of the swing is a similar-looking white woman with both hands on her own lap, but she is shimmering and luminous, with white hair and nebulous purple-and-blue clothing, surrounded by swirls of light, with a shadowy mist behind her that seems to suggest that she has just coalesced into existence. Their faces are turned toward each other and smiling.
Green circuit boards and multicolored ribbon cables inside a 1986 Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesizer.
A 1986 Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesizer with the top cover detached and flipped up. The space around the keybed is crammed with about a dozen circuit boards covered with full-size electronic components and a thick spaghetti of multicolored wires. It’s an engineering marvel, as compact as a fully functional 61-key synthesizer could be in 1986.
Close-up of the giant Stratocaster guitar in front of the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster ride at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park. Annotated with a red outline are the struts supporting the guitar strings between the neck and middle pickups.
Top-down view of a Lego-like set depicting a sandy coral reef with rocks, a variety of bottom-dwelling plants and animals, and fish. A long-haired person in pajamas swims above the ocean floor, and a giant sea turtle glides overhead. The scene is lit by several small, bright lights in the “water.”
St. Chris quasi-smiles at the camera. He’s wearing a black t-shirt and a grey hoodie. Behind him on the wall are a (mostly obscured) blond-top acoustic guitar, a reddish-brown classical guitar, and a dark red electric guitar with a white pick guard. In the lower corner of the photo, a framed Myst Channelwood poster rests against the wall with a few other assorted things. In the upper corner is a pale grey number 58.
The sunset skyline from the CSI: Miami title sequence, overlaid with white lettering: YEAAAAAAAAH
A grey Adidas sneaker with a white sole, stripes, and laces, but the heel is a wavy chaos of colored ink-splash shapes: purple collar, black heel counter, and accents of yellow, red, and blue. Conservative in the front, cartoon in the back.
The underside of a grey New Balance 9060 running shoe. The sole has six separate black pads that flare out past the edge of the shoe, with a red diamond shape in the middle of each pad. The rearmost two pads are elongated and seem to protrude quite a bit behind the wearer’s heel. The overall appearance is of an otherworldly cloven hoof.
A pair of New Balance 9060 running shoes. They’re greyscale, multi-material, and have bulbous nodules sticking out from the edge of the sole.
Phone reminder: “Check in on Jill”
A white-throated sparrow perched on the edge of a water dish. It has a grey breast, brown wings with white bars, and a black-and-white striped head with gold patches near its eyes.
The ChatGPT logo, which is almost two interlocking rounded triangles — sort of a cross between a Celtic knot and a Star of David — but the segments of the triangles don’t actually line up with each other.