Currently reading: The Stone Sky by (ISBN 9780316229258)
Want to read: Project Hail Mary by (ISBN 9780593135204)
★★★★★ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by
This was a fantastic story of human connection spanning decades and the characters really drew me in. While a binding factor is their love for and creation of video games, I think it is still very accessible and hope that won’t put anyone off reading it. Read: it’s not just a story for gamers.
I keep coming back to this one line:
“Humans want so much. I am glad to be a bird.”
Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by (ISBN 9780593321218)
Want to read: The Language of the Night by (ISBN 9781668034903)
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.”
It’s part of the Episcopalian church and streams Wednesdays at 11AM Eastern on TikTok. It is usually about 25 minutes long.
What a lovely post. Thank you for introducing me to this term!
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
You tell me not to eat them but then name them things like nugget, c'mon! :)
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:
Contrasted with how it looked before:
Go Google, give us nothing!
Reference: Know Your Meme
Want to read: Year of the Tiger by (ISBN 9780593315392)
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.”
Hey Portland, just saw that starting November 1, Heretic Coffee is offering free breakfast to anyone losing SNAP benefits. No proof needed and no questions asked.
I quite enjoyed KPop Demon Hunters. Loved the animation style, quite funny, and some good bops. It’s one I probably wouldn’t have considered without a friend’s recommendation, so I’m passing it along.
From an interview with a costumed Portland protester. Portland rules and this is spot on:
“There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.”
— An Interview With the Portland Chicken (archived)
Loved it growing up but haven’t revisited it or the reboot yet! I don’t think it scared me, but Dark Crystal definitely did. Time for some Jim Henson nostalgia watching!
“It was the ’80s man. We were built (traumatized) different.”
Me responding to a friend who said how frightening Marjory the Trash Heap was in Fraggle Rock. 🤣