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gRegor Morrill

My name is gRegor Morrill, a.k.a. gRegorLove. I live in San Diego, enjoy tinkering on the web, and try to make people laugh. Yes, “Gregor is a weird name,” and I know gRegor is a weird capitalization. More about me

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Media

  • My friend Sheryl started up a video podcast! The first several episodes are up; here is the first one.
  • I recently watched Dispatches from Elsewhere. I loved it and keep thinking about it. Beautiful stories about human connection and a fantastic cast. I might re-watch it and write some more about it.

Music

Fun

  • infiniteballdrop.com takes the New Years Eve NYC ball drop and extrapolates the countdown to the whole year. Fun visualization! Note: turn your volume down before you click “Start” since the audio is a bit loud.

Health

  • Crawford Killian wrote a good overview of what we’ve learned about COVID in its first six years:

    “Long COVID can last for years; it’s a personal disaster for those suffering from it, and a social and economic disaster for the country. Worse yet, a study in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas found repeated infections increase the risk of incurring long COVID.

    The COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, isn’t only a respiratory threat. It can migrate through the body, doing damage to many organs. One study found that the virus can invade the brain, causing injury and cognitive deficits.

    A recent Australian study reported that brain damage inflicted by COVID-19 can last years, long after people feel recovered from the disease. The consequences include problems with memory, cognition and overall brain health.”

    — COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We’ve Learned (archived) by Crawford Killian
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Photos

Purity Ring on stage with spinning LED lights that show video of a pink/purple-y spiral, caught mid-spin Purity Ring on stage with spinning LED lights that show video of four faces Purity Ring on stage with spinning LED lights that show video of blue sparkles flying out

Purity Ring last night was such a good show and refreshing in multiple ways. The production was awesome, with several spinning LED “fans” that showed video, making the video look like it’s hanging in the air in the space around them. There were several of those in front of and behind them, plus a large screen at the back of the stage, so it was a really cool 3D effect. Photos don’t quite do it justice since they pause the spinning, but they still came out pretty cool.

I was also excited for this show because the band requested fans wear a respirator mask and provided them if anyone needed them. I was even more impressed when I learned that they invited mask blocs from each city to table at the event, so my Fan Favorite SD buddies were there and I got to meet a few new people!

The band talked about it briefly, thanking everyone who masked and stressing its importance as an act of community care. 💛😷

As the Mandalorians say, “This is the way.”

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#music #CovidConscious

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gRegor Morrill

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Notes

animated image of construction person shovelling dirt into their own face This section is under construction

Want to read: The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin (ISBN 9781668034903)

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gRegor Morrill

I enjoyed watching the replay of the Disabled Body of Christ’s Christmas Eve service. I’m reflecting on the prompt: “Where is one place in your life or the world where you want love to be born this Christmas?”

About the service:

“Disabled people are a necessary part of the Body of Christ. This is not a healing service because our bodies are not problems to be fixed and disabled bodies are also part of the Body of Christ just as we are.”

— Rev. Kate Harmon Siberine

It’s part of the Episcopalian church and streams Wednesdays at 11AM Eastern on TikTok. It is usually about 25 minutes long.

#faith #love #Christmas

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gRegor Morrill

Just learned you can create QR codes pretty easily in LibreOffice:

  • Menu: Insert > OLE Object > QR and Barcode
  • Enter the URL and tada!

It inserts an object in the document at that point, so it can be resized and moved around. It is not an image that can be exported separately from the document (or at least, I have not found out how to do so yet). This worked OK for my needs, though, which was creating a PDF document with some QR codes in it.

Via help.libreoffice.org page

#dev

gRegor Morrill

I added a candy cane banner to my site for the month of December.

screenshot of the banner currently at the top of my site: diagonal bands of red and white to appear like a candy cane, with a light green shadow underneath it

Previously

#site-updates

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For today’s IndieWeb Create Day, I finally updated the layout on my article permalinks. Several years ago, I started updating non-homepage pages to use a streamlined template with a smaller header logo and navigation links beside it. I kept putting off the article permalinks because a lot of messy, custom code piled up in it over the years. The end visual result is not a huge difference, but it will make maintenance a lot easier going forward.

I improved some of the layout in the article footer while I was at it. I moved my author card to the very bottom of the page, instead of putting it between the article footer and responses. That let me remove the links to jump to the response, which was kind of a weird experience before. I also set the metadata (published date, tags, syndication links) to be right-aligned, matching the layout on the rest of my posts.

Here is what it looks like now:

screenshot of the current footer on my article permalinks

Contrasted with how it looked before:

screenshot of the previous footer on my article permalinks

#site-updates

gRegor Morrill

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