<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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Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
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<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 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 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[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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<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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Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013)
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A Christmas Menagerie On a Lawn in Gowanus]]></summary>
<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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"The Blind Girl and the Spring" 〜 A Poem by Sydney Grey
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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io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review
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>
<author>
<name>nafnlj</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Finding Manatsu no Kagerou]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am reading an old visual novel called Midsummer Haze as part of my review project. Now it has one choice which branches into two endings. There's a third ending visible. I guessed the gimmick, but before I bashed my head into a wall, I peaked at a single reference to the gimmick on VNDB... I will have to bash my head into a wall. But the fact I'm even able to run this took great effort... must persevere...
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The New Leaf Journal is not a single topic writing website. I have written about subjects including video game history, letters […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Public Library system decided to turn a large portion of the library’s central branch at Grand Army Plaza into […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[While I do not have strong opinions on pumpkin spice generally, I fear that pumpkin spice makeup removing wipes may be a step too far.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 150th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This week's newsletter (nice round number) comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While this week was light on publishing (we have a stronger week ahead), I did make a few changes to The New Leaf Journal that may be of interest to some readers.
Leaves from the week that was
I published one full article and three short posts. Sparse, yes. But to be fair, my full article was long.
Coolidge and Harrison in Bennington
Calvin Coolidge described having seen then-President Benjamin Harrison give an address in Bennington, Vermont, when Coolidge was in college. Coolidge's d…]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I had a minor screen tearing issue on an old netbook (I do not know the exact year but the Windows 8...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/30</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/30"/>
<updated>2023-08-25T15:45:31.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I had a minor screen tearing issue on an old netbook (I do not know the exact year but the Windows 8 sticker suggests that it is old) running Bodhi Linux 7.0. A Bodhi forum post led me to a 2018 guide for fixing screen tearing on devices with integrated Intel graphics on a site dedicated to Ubuntu MATE (link). The first step was to run inxi -G to discover information about which version of Intel graphics was in use. Fortunately, my netbook used the exact version (2nd generation) as the example, so all I had to do was some simple copying and pasting. I rebooted and the screen tearing was gone. I linked to an archived version of the guide since this should remain a great resource for fixing screen tearing on older devices with Intel integrated graphics.
#BodhiLinux #linux]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Who Are the Three US SCOTUS Justices to Use the Word “Baubles” in an Opinion?]]></title>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I am using an old LibreBooted ThinkPad as a "server"... really more as an always-on Syncthing node. ...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/29</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/29"/>
<updated>2023-08-24T05:01:00.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am using an old LibreBooted ThinkPad as a "server"... really more as an always-on Syncthing node. After having some issues with GNU Trisquel (probably my fault), I decided to go with Bodhi Linux 7.0 (I prefer to have a GUI). Installation went perfect but I had an issue with the behavior on sleep. By default, the laptop seems to suspend when I close the lid, which causes wi-fi to shut off. Since I want it to be an always-on Syncthing node, I obviously need the wi-fi to stay on when I close the laptop. After fumbling for a solution, I read on a forum that the XFCE power manager works outside of XFCE. That sounded good to me since I use XFCE on my main workstation and I am familiar with its GUI tools. I installed it (no extra dependencies - nice), enabled it, and modified the power settings. It worked perfectly. I mark this issue as solved.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a Nintendo Life report: The first entry in Sting’s Dept. Heaven series is getting an HD remaster. Making the announcement […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I had some (likely) good news to share in our 149th newsletter. After 7 months, it appears that we are finally back on Bing. I noticed meaningful referrals on August 18 and it appears Bing began re-indexing our site on July 26. While I am not sure if it will stick, it looks like we are making progress. The newsletter also includes links to our newest articles and 12 interesting links from around the web.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The New Leaf Journal has been hidden from Bing’s regular web search results since mid-January 2023. As a consequence, we have […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[How to Properly Store Your Game Boy Cartridges]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) 149th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I mailed the original on Saturday, August 19, 2023. In […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Calvin Coolidge described seeing then-President Benjamin Harrison speak when Coolidge was in college. I decided to find the story of Harrison's 1891 orations in Bennington, Vermont.
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The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 149th 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. This week was light on new article publishing, but I have a decent selection of new pieces to share in addition to our usual links from around the web, links from our archives, and some interesting site news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
We published two full articles since mailing Newsletter 148.
Game FAQs Guide For Game Boy Golf (1990)
I was looking for information about Nintendo's 1990 Golf game for Game Boy (why not?). It was like 2004 all over again. The only hope was Game FAQs.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a June 26, 2023 report in Nintendo Life: Yes, you read that headline correctly. Outright Games has today announced that […]
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You Can't Fix Stupid - King Baby
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The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho
"King Baby" Graffiti on a Truck in Gowanus
Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…
Duck and Duckling Rescue Stories From Around the Web]]></summary>
<title type="html"><. I can use ...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/28</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/28"/>
<updated>2023-08-17T18:09:55.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I set up an repository for osmosmemo. I can use a Firefox extension to immediately save links (with notes and tags) into a GitHub readme. One drawback is that it only works with GitHub. But I used the same token that I created to give the extension read/write access to clone the repo to my Gitea instance. Seems like a neat tool.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated 148th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, […]
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