"description":"Update osmosfeed.yaml\n\nRemoved 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.",
"description":"Thoughts on interesting thoughts about thinking of being productive as a way of securing your downtime.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAn Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure\nProductivity Window Shopping and Backlogs\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nFeeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading\nApplying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nSocial webs of personal websites\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nRSS as a social media alternative",
"description":"You can now follow The New Leaf Journal directly from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based accounts thanks to ActivityPub for WordPress.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nFediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media\nLooking at ActivityPub for WordPress\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nAn Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review",
"description":"Why did I spend hours trying to catch a level 15 Dragonair in the Pokémon Yellow Safari Zone? Some questions are hard to answer.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and…\nNintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank\nBird in Review 〜 Yellow Throated Toucan\nBill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend\nImagination in Pokémon Red and Blue\nTown Slogans in Pokémon's Kanto\nPokémon: Pathways to Adventure (1999) Review\nUpcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle\nRanking My Big Impression Video Games",
"description":"You are not dreaming. My detailed study of hair color (natural and unnatural) in A Dream of Summer is now live.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nA Dream of Summer - Visual Novel Review\nTokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies\nBrown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again!\nUnderstanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series\nHair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan\nIroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected?\nAt Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer\nHair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel\nKaori Orimoto's Hair is Blacker than I Expected",
"description":"We review our September articles and most-visited posts before looking ahead to October. Things are well-organized this month.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nNew Bark Town and The New Leaf Journal Slogan",
"description":"A colorful journey (puns intended) through the slogans of the towns of Pokémon's Kanto Region before and after a certain time skip.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nWinds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver\nImagination in Pokémon Red and Blue\nThe Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and…\nPokémon: Pathways to Adventure (1999) Review\nBill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend\nRanking My Big Impression Video Games\nUpcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle\nTwo Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell vs…\nCalvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation",
"description":"Ranking the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me over nearly 30 years of owning and playing games.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nHistory of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nThe New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review",
"description":"I review an al|together-translated visual novel with unusually high production values and a main character with braids.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nI, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air - VN Review\nAt Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer\nBonner's \"In Dreamland\" Bedtime Story\nAt Summer's End - Visual Novel Review\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nal|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation",
"description":"A goose continues drinking from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park and comes away satisfied... part two...\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 1\nObserving a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and…\nFamily of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nBaby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park\nA Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge\nOn Haughty Dog Owners in NYC\nJustin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try…",
"description":"A goose drinks from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park... part one...\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 2\nObserving a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and…\nFamily of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nBaby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park\nA Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge\nOn Haughty Dog Owners in NYC\nNineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends",
"description":"Reviewing an obscure 19th century sport, as described in an 1882 issue of Harper's Young People.\nPossibly related posts...\n\n1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball\n1892 Report on Women's Basketball Game\nThe Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters\nNineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nEd Durr Walks To A Stunning Election Upset In New Jersey\n\"Casey's Revenge\" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to…\nThe Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons\nThe Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…",
"description":"Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nCalvin Coolidge's 1922 \"Better Homes\" Remarks\nOn Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007\nWhen President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving…\nCalvin Coolidge On Why We Celebrate Independence Day\nCalvin Coolidge Describes His Mother, Victoria\nCalvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation\nCoolidge and Harrison in Bennington\nCalvin Coolidge's July 4, 1918 Remarks in Fairhaven\nApplying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home",
"description":"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).\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\nThe Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?",
"description":"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.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nReplacing soundbar and re-configuring universal remote for…\nAn Optical Audio Cable Packaging Story\nOptical audio cable story update\nMicropost on Soundbar and Remote Struggles\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nMeghan Markle's \"The Bench\" and Audio Book Versions of…\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nEGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke\nUSB-C Charger Surprises",
"description":"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.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation\nTokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies\nHair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan\nA Walker's Review of BLUPOND's Knight Vision Night Driving…\nUnderstanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series\nBrown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again!\nIroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected?\nHair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel\nExamining brown hair of popular anime characters",
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"description":"Courtesy of the New York Post, Man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: cops: A 74-year-old man was […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan\n1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge\nWinds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver",
"description":"Hackaday published an article titled Spuds Lend A Hand In The Darkroom. I have no experiences with darkrooms, much less potatoes in darkrooms. Thus, I cannot comment on the utility of the potato-darkroom recipes referenced in the article. However, if your potato has reached the stage where it is growing hands, it is much more […]",
"description":"I am on the record as being a fan of the Teasing Master Takagi-san anime. I selected the first season as one of my honorable mention recommended series for general audiences from the 2011-2020 decade. Last year, I picked the third season of Takagi-san as my 2022 anime series of the year and described it […]",
"description":"I published the list of the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me in close to 30 years of gaming over at The New Leaf Journal (see article). My New Leaf Journal article contains my reasoning for each selection. Here, I will re-post the list without the essay. Pokémon Red Harvest Moon: […]",
"description":"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 […]",
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"author":"Nicholas A. Ferrell",
"description":"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 […]",
"description":"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 […]",
"description":"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 […]",
"description":"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 […]",
"description":"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 […]",
"description":"Welcome to the 156th 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. I had a bit more non-New Leaf Journal work than expected last week, but I still managed to produce a respectable number of new articles. Below, you will find our usual weekly recap accompanied by links from around the web and other news and notes.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI was somewhat surprised to discover that I published five new articles since mailing the previous newsletter.\nSeptember 2023 at The New Leaf Journal\nHair Color in A Dream of Summer\nA Dream of Summer with a review of hair color in A Drea…",
"description":"Today we end September with the 155th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. The final week of September brought with it three fairly long articles. Below, I will recap those articles along with our usual assortment of links around the web and other news and notes about The New Leaf Journal.\nLeaves from the week that was\nWhile I only published three articles since mailing newsletter 154, all three articles were long. Word count over article quantity?\nA Dream of Summer - Visual Novel Review (I entered the final section of al|together visual novel reviews with one of my longest reviews. A Dream of Summer has some of the best production values of the al|together visual novels, but as my review reveals, some aspects of the story left me wanting…",
"description":"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.\nLeaves from the week that was\nSix articles? Is this September 2020 instead of 2023? Let us see what is new...\nBroken Optical Audio Cable Door \"Fix\" (I think my sticky note fix is rather clever)\nOn Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 (One can infer why Barry Bonds was walked at an unprecedented r…",
"description":"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.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI 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.\nMiddle sch…",
"description":"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.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new full articles.\nTwo Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis (I did not realize before reading Midsummer Haze and A Midsummer Day's Resonan…",
"description":"I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, The Emu Café Social. I have two outstanding issues:\nStatus 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.\nMicropub 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.\nNo 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.\n#emucafesocial #wordpress #IndieWeb",
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"description":"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 />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/</a> <br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nyc?src=hash\" title=\"#nyc\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#nyc</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/brooklyn?src=hash\" title=\"#brooklyn\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#brooklyn</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/brooklynheights?src=hash\" title=\"#brooklynheights\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#brooklynheights</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cobblehill?src=hash\" title=\"#cobblehill\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#cobblehill</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash\" title=\"#tree\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#tree</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pear?src=hash\" title=\"#pear\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#pear</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sun?src=hash\" title=\"#sun\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#sun</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pixel3axl?src=hash\" title=\"#pixel3axl\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#pixel3axl</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/emucafe?src=hash\" title=\"#emucafe\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#emucafe</a>",
"title":"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.\n\nhttps://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/ \n\n#nyc #brooklyn #brooklynheights #cobblehill #tree #pear #sun #pixel3axl #emucafe",
"description":"I installed ActivityPub for WordPress on The New Leaf Journal. You can now follow the site at @newleafjournal to stay up to date with our latest posts from Mastodon or other ActivityPub clients (I have only looked at the on Mastodon). Note that you will only see new posts that appear after you follow.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/activitypub-for-wordpress-and-the-nlj/\n#activitypub #wordpress",
"description":"Our 155th newsletter features links to my three newest articles (a visual novel review, the 12 games which left the biggest impression on me, and a journey through Kanto Pokemon town slogans), 12 links from around the web (banker's boxes and whales), a link to a music video, NLJ news, and notes on the fall anime season.\nhttps://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/155/\n#newsletter #videogames #visualnovels #links #music",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/augustus-and-the-comedy-of-life/\n#quotes #augustus #romanhistory #history",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/broken-optical-audio-cable-door-fix/\n#soundbar #OpicalAudio #yamaha",
"description":"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).",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/a-midsummer-days-resonance-vn-review/\n#VisualNovel #VisualNovels #freeware #indiegame",
"description":"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.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-9-9-99-computer-bug-that-wasnt/\n#1999 #glitch #bugs #thisdayinhistory",
