<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am moving toward finishing my al|together visual novel review project. I just finished reading A Dream of Summer (which had been pending for a while) and one of two translations of Narcissu (I did not realize that the al|together Narcissu was two translations in one package). This leaves just three novels to read. With […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 154th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While our short posts are on hiatus for the time being, I published six full articles since I last mailed you. You will find links to our new articles along with links from around the web and other news and notes below.
Leaves from the week that was
Six articles? Is this September 2020 instead of 2023? Let us see what is new...
Broken Optical Audio Cable Door "Fix" (I think my sticky note fix is rather clever)
On Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 (One can infer why Barry Bonds was walked at an unprecedented r…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[An 1829 quip about the comedy of life reminded me of a quote attributed to Augustus on his deathbed (14 AD), which I turned into a 2020 article.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was so proud of my solution to a broken optical audio cable door on my soundbar that I decided to turn it into an article. All it took was part of a sticky note... but the "fix" can still fall victim to sudden movements.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wherein I try to understand how the post-superhuman Barry Bonds in 2006 and 2007 was walked almost as much as the record-breaking Bonds of 2001-2003 (not 2004... of course).
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Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review
Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)
The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…
Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[How I used a sticky note to hold an optical audio cable in place in my Yamaha soundbar after the optical audio cable door broke.
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An Optical Audio Cable Packaging Story
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Meghan Markle's "The Bench" and Audio Book Versions of…
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 153rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. It was not a big publishing week at The New Leaf Journal, but I produced a few articles while also continuing to work on improving the site and its sister project, The Emu Café Social. Let us begin our week-in-review.
Leaves from the week that was
I technically published three new articles, but one was about our cache system serving some visitors a compressed page to download instead of the normal web page for 12 hours on Thursday. Technical issue update aside, my two full articles were fairly long.
Removed general NAF Gitea feed because it pulls in updates that do not make sense for this site. I will replace it with individual repo feeds.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was curious whether we would learn about the brown hair of the girl in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. Instead, we learn about the brown hair of the boy who likes her.
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Brown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again!
Iroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected?
Hair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel
Examining brown hair of popular anime characters]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was walking in Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but it could have been Cobble Hill) when I saw a pear on the sidewalk. This was unusual. You do not see too many pears on sidewalks in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the pear. But what […]]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I saw a pear on the ground in the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but small chance it was Cobble Hill). You do not tend to see pears on the ground in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the issue.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I saw a pear on the ground in the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but small chance it was Cobble Hill). You do not tend to see pears on the ground in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the issue.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It appears that something with my caching configuration choked earlier today and served a compressed file for download to visitors in […]
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The Homing Pigeons Returned Home As Expected
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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review]]></summary>
Reorganized feeds. Updated NAF Bearblog URL. Added NAF Gitea and removed to GitHub feeds.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Recent Commits to nljfeeds:main</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, [The Emu Café Social](https://social....]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/33</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/33"/>
<updated>2023-09-14T02:29:02.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, The Emu Café Social. I have two outstanding issues:
Status post error when Friends plugin is enabled and Post Kinds is disabled. This is not an immediate issue since I am using both, but any situation wherein one plugin depends on another when the plugins provide different features makes me uncomfortable.
Micropub plugin does not create an endpoint. This is minor since I do not personally plan to publish much using the Micropub endpoint, but it bothers me. I will need to investigate since I am unsure of the issue. I confirmed IndieAuth, on which Micropub depends, does work.
No other major issues at the moment. My ActivityPub profiles briefly stopped working, but I think I fixed that by ensuring that WP Super Cache does not cache author pages.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Courtesy of the New York Post, Man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: cops: A 74-year-old man was […]
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The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal
The NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan
1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I saw a copy of Tom Cantor’s Changed, a self-published religion conversion story that makes the rounds through an unsolicited direct mail campaign, sitting on a step in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why might I care? Over at The New Leaf Journal, I published what I hope was a humorous article on the cover design of […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[These days people are worried about vaping in schools. But the controversy reminded me of a strange traditional smoking story from my middle school days (with a high school sequel).
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The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime
Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
The dangers of adapting school to tech
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The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I spent more of my life than I would like to admit figuring out how to add my own footer text to our theme, which is a child theme of SemPress. But mission accomplished. With our child theme and my initial style tweaks done, I published version 1.0 of the newly-named Emusem Press to my […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to Newsletter Leaf Journal 152. The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I had a busy week with site administration -- although not all of it had to do with The New Leaf Journal (I will explain in our Notable Leaf Journal) section. But despite the side projects, I published several new articles and made a few adjustments to what I hope is your favorite perennially virid online writing magazine.
Leaves from the week that was
I published three new full articles.
Two Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis (I did not realize before reading Midsummer Haze and A Midsummer Day's Resonan…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As I note in the article, the game remains free to download from the official source and can be run natively on Windows and Linux (not modern MacOS, although the original translators are working on remastered versions that will run on modern MacOS).]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My review of A Midsummer Day's Resonance, the 2005 translation of a 2002 freeware Japanese visual novel. I reviewed it as part of a project to review nearly 30 translations from 2005-2008. A Midsummer Day's Resonance, which is a story about growing up with holograms coming from phones, turned out to be one of the better reads thus far.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have learned about many new topics while looking for New Leaf Journal content. For example, as I noted in the above quote, I distinctly remember some of the “Y2K” computer glitch fears from 1999. But I do not recall having heard about the 9.9.99 fears. Fortunately, the internet preserved a number of contemporaneous articles […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I remembered the "Y2K" computer scare from when I was a kid, but not the fears of 9.9.99... my article 2022 on the concerns about 1999 September bugs.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A rare admin update. I am still having some issues with one or two of the plugins I hope to rely on for this project. I am seeing if I can resolve those issues before launching the site proper and bringing more posters on board. I hope to have it resolved one way or another […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I had a long day of working on the site. On the down side, I am having some technical issues with a couple of our key plugins that I want to resolve before starting in earnest. At the moment, it seems like Post Kinds is a hard dependency for certain post types working when I […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingback and trackback support by default. I had a need to enable it on The New Leaf Journal in order to allow certain pages to accept incoming Webmentions. In that case, I added the PHP snippet to my child theme’s functions.php file. But with multiple sites […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A post wherein I relive the trauma of inadvertently making an enemy very angry (and spammy) in Persona 3 FES's Answer epilogue about 13 years ago (note that there are some FES The Answer spoilers, albeit below the fold).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you administrator version of me for the site intro. I confirmed that the first post from the administrator version of my account is visible from my Mastodon profile. Very good. For early readers, my regular posts will come from this account (/naferrell). I will usually post site news and updates from my /nafaugustus account. […]]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[[Note] Welcome to The Emu Café Social, a new social publishing p…]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to The Emu Café Social, a new social publishing project built on top of WordPress. I (N.A. Ferrell) am writing this post from my administrator account, but you will usually see me posting from my user account at social.emucafe.org/author/naferrell. If you want to learn more about the project, see our new About Page. I […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am starting a WordPress-based social publishing sitewith the ActivityPub plugin. If anyone is interested, you can already follow our first three accounts:
@nafaugustus
@naferrell
@victorvgurbo
You can learn more on our first About page:
https://social.emucafe.org/about/
If you do follow, I would appreciate notes/feedback on how our posts look from your instance (or if you can see at all). You can also follow the main WP site via RSS, ATOM, JSON feed or even TWTXT (/feed/twxt).]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Remembering the time I inadvertently triggered the wrath of a video game character in Persona 3 FES and was forced to hang on for dear virtual life.
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Persona 4, Coffee, and Children
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Designing video games to produce benefits]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I came across a WordPress plugin called [Post Type Switcher](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/32</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/32"/>
<updated>2023-09-04T20:49:51.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I came across a WordPress plugin called Post Type Switcher. Description:
This plugin adds a simple post-type drop-down to the post editor interface, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type. It allows you to switch post’s type while editing your post.
It supports custom post types. This may come in handy down the line, so I am saving it here as a proverbial bookmark.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The boy-Emperor Romulus Augustulus is often described as the last (Western) Roman Emperor. He abdicated the royal purple to Odoacer on September 4, 476. But there remained another claimant to the title of Western Roman Emperor -- the exiled Julius Nepos, who lived until 480. Who was the last Western Roman Emperor? One year to the day, I wrote an article on this ultimately unimportant question.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Kimi ni Todoke was a shoujo romance manga series which ran from 2005 through 2017. It received a two-season, 38-episode anime […]
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Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth
Misguided parking ticket-income idea
1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft
My Kimi ni Todoke article and Netflix]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I decided to try removing the right widget area and using the full screen. Mobile users should not experience too much […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I tried to set up a mini WordPress site on Pikapods that would be used for social publishing. It was...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/31</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/31"/>
<updated>2023-09-03T19:46:19.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I tried to set up a mini WordPress site on Pikapods that would be used for social publishing. It was successful at a baseline level but I found that things like setting security headers via .htaccess were not working. There were a few other instances of behavior that I did not like, so I will switch the project over to the NLJ server where I can manage it with Cloudron.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On noting the identical first names of the protagonists of two Midsummer visual novels I reviewed back to back (without knowing the names in advance).
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A Tanka on Ant Home Invasions in the Spring
Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)
The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 151st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. August is in the books, but I stepped up our publishing pace after a few slow weeks to bring the month to a proper conclusion. Below, I share our week's worth of posts, links from around the web, our new most-visited statistics, and other news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
I published six new articles since mailing Newsletter 150. I suppose that is a decent enough rebound from a one article week (even conceding the month-in-review post only barely counts).
Pumpkin Spice Makeup Removal Wipes: I am no…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I take a look at one of the best visual novels of the al|together set, featuring a terrific protagonist in Kasumi Kurasawa, broken phones, holograms, and growing up.
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Japanese Environment in PoL, Lutris, and Bottles
Why Vintage Guitars Sound Better
An 1895 Poem on Memorial Day and Piece by Theodore Roosevelt]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Virtual Boy Fan Making New Tech and Games for Nintendo's Console Curio]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) 150th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, […]
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New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On our new Twtxt feed and how to set one up in WordPress. This will be useful for the 2-3 Twtxt users who may find our site.
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Introducing our Osmosfeed Aggregator
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RSS for keeping up with MikroTik updates]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[If you decide you want to experience the adventure that is Midsummer Haze for yourself, I wrote a story spoiler-free guide to the endings and published it to a repository on my Gitea instance.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Let it be said that Midsummer Haze's... interesting... random mechanic was not my only challenge. The EN translation is a patch for an indie Japanese VN from 2004 that went offline in 2008 or 09. In a separate post, I explained how I managed to find the original Japanese game... much searching and a lucky torrent.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed Midsummer Haze, a 2006 translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel, as the 24th review of my project to review nearly all of the 31 Japanese visual novels translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. The game has four endings, and the third unlocks the fourth. How do you get the third? By re-doing the second until it triggers. How many times did that take me? FORTY-THREE
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently wrote that we were re-indexed by Bing after being invisible to Bing searchers for the better part of eight […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I used the GB Operator to extract ROMs from a good number of GB/GBC/GBA carts, including Nintendo's 1990 Golf. I want to master Golf 1990, but one initial challenge is that estimated distances are not included with clubs (Mario Golf for GBC had... some QoL improvements). Like anyone who played games in the early 2000s, I knew where to find the answer: Game FAQs:
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I didn't think of projectors because I don't have a good set-up for it, but that's another great option along side dumb TVs, TVs that work without internet, and monitors/digital signage. Starting with a mini PC or something similar unlocks plenty of good options for avoiding all of the smart TV issues.]]></summary>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[New comment by nafnlj in "TV's are becoming intrusive and abusive; what to do about it?"]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I do a version of this approach. I have a 2018 model TCL TV that I do not give access to the internet (this one works without any issue, but I don't know if that is true of newer models). My TV is right next to my desktop computer, but in order to reduce noise and power, I bought a cheap Beelink mini PC and set it up with Fedora-GNOME and Kodi. Works very well for simple purposes and can easily handle light games. There are plenty of other (possibly better) solutions to this effect such as SBCs, spare laptops, or more capable mini PCs to handle some newer games. I would prefer using a computer instead of the Smart TV OS even without all of the concerns listed in the original post.]]></summary>
