<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.
Leaves from the week that was
I was somewhat surprised to discover that I published five new articles since mailing the previous newsletter.
September 2023 at The New Leaf Journal
Hair Color in A Dream of Summer
A Dream of Summer with a review of hair color in A Drea…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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 […]]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You can now follow The New Leaf Journal directly from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based accounts thanks to ActivityPub for WordPress.
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Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
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The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations
An Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative
The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why did I spend hours trying to catch a level 15 Dragonair in the Pokémon Yellow Safari Zone? Some questions are hard to answer.
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Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank
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Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue
Town Slogans in Pokémon's Kanto
Pokémon: Pathways to Adventure (1999) Review
Upcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle
Ranking My Big Impression Video Games]]></summary>
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Victor V. Gurbo feat. Mark Caserta "Ghost Woman Blues" Live at City Lore (September 14th, 2023)]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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 […]]]></summary>
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Hair Color in A Dream of Summer]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We review our September articles and most-visited posts before looking ahead to October. Things are well-organized this month.
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New Bark Town and The New Leaf Journal Slogan]]></summary>
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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</entry>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Newsletter Leaf Journal CLV 〜 Shades of your newsletter await! 〜]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.
Leaves from the week that was
While I only published three articles since mailing newsletter 154, all three articles were long. Word count over article quantity?
A 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…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A colorful journey (puns intended) through the slogans of the towns of Pokémon's Kanto Region before and after a certain time skip.
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Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver
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The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and…
Pokémon: Pathways to Adventure (1999) Review
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Ranking My Big Impression Video Games
Upcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle
Two Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell vs…
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[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: […]]]></summary>
<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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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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Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series
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>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, [The Emu Café Social](https://social....]]></title>
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<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 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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<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>
