"description":"I review my Logitech Washable K310 keyboard as it approaches its 11th birthday on my computer desk.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nReplacing soundbar and re-configuring universal…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal\nThe 9.9.99 Computer Bug That Wasn't\nBing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem\nInternet Explorer to Year of Linux Desktop\nRecommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based…\nReviewing Buddy Simulator 1984 for Switch\nDasung to release e-ink phone monitor\nDasung Link Phone E-Ink Monitor Starts at $299",
"description":"I review YOGA Image Optimizer, a free and open source GUI image optimization tool, from the context of someone using it to reduce the size of small images for a minimal WordPress blog.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review\n2023 Anime Year in Review\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nInstalling Non-Listed Programs in PlayOnLinux\nA Midsummer Day's Resonance - VN Review\nMay Sky - Visual Novel Review\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations",
"description":"While I am very much in the pro-video game ownership side of things, I had to call foul on a headline taking a seemingly anti-ownership quote by a Ubisoft executive out of its original context.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHistory of the Mario Party Gloves\nSearching for the \"Libertarian Moment\"\nLeaving the Phrase \"Reach Out\" in the 90s\nRecording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and…\nThe Last Nintendo Wii Games\nThe Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme\nAmbiguous Killer Hallucinogenic Weed Headline\nTwo Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell…\nOn Nintendo's Pro-User Cartridge-First Strategy",
"description":"Justin comes across FOPEAS's \"I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown\" on Amazon and asks Justina for her take on the product.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\n2023 Anime Year in Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)",
"description":"A short report on reports about the temporary closure of the Carroll Gardens Library with original photographs.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nA Walk Across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge\nJustin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to…\nA Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge\nHistoric Districts and Looming Tall Buildings\nBalancing Bear Topiary in Carroll Gardens\nAmerican Beauty Pasta Mural in Brooklyn\nFlying 12-Foot Witch in Carroll Gardens\nThe Unfortunate Car in Carroll Gardens\nEvergreen Carroll Gardens Christmas Tree",
"description":"This will come as a shock to all of our readers, but I (N.A. Ferrell) do not approve of requiring Instagram usage for school assignments.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe dangers of adapting school to tech\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nAnime Case Against Japan's Population Loss\nHistory of the Mario Party Gloves\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nSearching for the Figure Behind the Blob Dylan Tags…\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nAn Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative\nApril Fools, Sonic and Tails in SSB Melee",
"description":"N.A. Ferrell ranks the top six anime series that concluded in 2023, lists honorable mentions, and gives several category-specific awards.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nA Dream of Summer - Visual Novel Review\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nHistory of New York's Evacuation Day\nNarcissu (Insani version) VN Review\nFlood of Tears - Visual Novel Review",
"description":"Some websites stealth edit. Other websites issue in-article corrections. We issue full article corrections.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nExpert Gamer's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank\nRecording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and…\nDragonair Safari in Pokémon Yellow\nBill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend\nEGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke\nYoshi's Story at 25\nApril Fools, Sonic and Tails in SSB Melee\nThe Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei\nThe Two Decade Mario Party Finally Ends",
"description":"Addressing an interesting argument that because Lance Armstrong was the best stage racing cyclist in a largely doped field, he would have been the best clean cyclist in a clean field.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMost-Visited NLJ Articles of 1H 2023\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nGolf and Immigration: Matter of Masters\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nAnalyzing BIA Decision in Matter of Salama\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nBottom-tier Character Tomozaki S1 Anime Review\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Poor Little Bird - Visual Novel Review",
"description":"Justin and Justina review the 54 most-visited articles at The New Leaf Journal in 2023.\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\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nThe story of our Bing blacklisting\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the…",
"description":"What better way to spend New Year's weekend than to catch up on The New Leaf Journal's fresh December 2023 content?\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nHistory of New York's Evacuation Day",
"description":"A full and complete review of the first season of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki, which aired in 2021.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nNew Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki Anime\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nLeveling up Yamada-kun at Lv999 to Linux\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nDialogue: Dinosaur fight tier-lists\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations",
"description":"With season 2 of The Dangers in My Heart just around the corner, I review season 1 of the middle school romance with an antisocial boy and a popular model.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHeights in “The Dangers in My Heart” Anime\nHeight differences in anime romances\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nOn Review Scoring Systems\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review",
"description":"Inspired by a series of recent blog posts, I offer a proposed set of best practices for media review scoring systems.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nal|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal…\nKaori After Story - Visual Novel Review",
"description":"Once clad in a witch's hat for Halloween, an endearing green car in Gowanus is now bearing Christmas presents.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Wicked Car of the Gowanus - Car with Hat\nRudolph the Red-Nosed Car with Antlers\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nPlain Song Christmas Special - VN Review\nA Christmas Menagerie On a Lawn in Gowanus\nMake it Christmas With a Santa Hat\n\"Uncle Susan is a Wolf\" - A Graffiti Photo and…\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe Inflatable Christmas Dragon of Gowanus",
"description":"Victor V. Gurbo shares two recordings of his original holiday song, Christmas & You.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nTwo Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell…\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nFour May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)",
"description":"WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg published an interesting “birthday post” asking people to create blogs for his birthday. The idea is that […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMatt Damon's Brooklyn Heights Crane Game\nAround the Web 〜 Alternative Software and Services Resources\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal…\n100 Articles and Counting at The New Leaf Journal\nSearching for the \"Libertarian Moment\"",
"description":"Over at The New Leaf Journal, my January 5, 2024 article, which was about drug-enhanced professional cycling results, became the sixth New Leaf Journal article (going back to February 2021) to appear on Hacker News page 1 (only after a stop in The Browser newsletter). It reached as high as 11th on HN and was […]",
"description":"Pro-Hamas protesters spent January 15, 2024 loudly protesting outside of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, yelling that the cancer hospital is complicit in the so-called “genocide” in Gaza, or even “supporting” it. Far be it from me to offer any sort of advice to supporters of a foreign terrorist organization, but in light […]",
"description":"I did not get around to publishing a review of episode 2 of season 2 of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun after publishing a brief review of the first episode. The second episode had a dramatic tonal shift — segueing from the social game shenanigans that began in the first episode to bullying. I had some issues […]",
"description":"I came across a blog post titled Just Blog by Frank Meeuwsen. This post alerted me to an interesting “birthday” project by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Mr. Mulenwig asked for people to blog for his birthday and link to his post. Ideally, the links should show up as pingbacks on his article. His post said […]",
"description":"I published an article on The New Leaf Journal about doping in cycling during (and before) the Armstrong era. I noted in my Saturday newsletter that it unexpectedly blew up (by our standards) within hours of its publication. I was not immediately able to identify the source, but I figured out from our referrals that […]",
"description":"I starred this very insightful comment by Hacker News user marcinzm about search engines. The commenter noted the obvious, that big tech search shows ads because its purpose is to generate revenue through ads. But I appreciated the commenters putting it in terms of means and ends. Ideally, the user wants a search engine to […]",
"description":"This was the first completely new (as in not subsequent season) anime I am trying in the Winter 2024 season. These days, not involving “another world” or “reincarnation” is a good place to start. We have a girl, Himari Momochi, who is an orphan. When she turns 16, she learns her late parents left her […]",
"description":"I re-watched the first season of Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (after having watched it as a simulcast in 2021) for two reasons. Firstly so I could write a review and secondly so that I could refresh my memory for the second season. I watched the first episode of season 2, titled The best games make reconnaissance […]",
"description":"I opened Steam because I am purchasing at least one visual novel while it is on sale. Steam prompted me to ask whether I wanted to participate in the Steam hardware survey. I said yes. I did my part to represent EndeavourOS. But what about my specs? OS: EndeavourOS CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core […]",
"description":"I checked by 404 logs over at The New Leaf Journal. I found an interesting user agent among the myriad web crawlers: PoorlyConfiguredWebCrawler I appreciate that the crawler advertises that it is not well configured. You get the feeling that whoever released the poor thing on the internet is asking us to not be too […]",
"description":"My privacy-friendly local page-counting solution for WordPress, Koko Analytics, picked up a referral from snapchat.com over at The New Leaf Journal. Snapchat? Really. I thought this was for sending photos. No no, don’t correct me. I am happy living in ignorance. I will just go on living under my assumption that Snapchat is not the […]",
"description":"I enjoy some of the fun public domain images on Openclipart. For Christmas 2022, I shared a “cat Christmas tree” over at The New Leaf Journal. This year, I will use my new social posting site (it seems more conducive for the purpose) to share a fun Openclipart Christmas owl posted by Openclipart artist Michal […]",
"description":"My good friend Victor V. Gurbo noted over on The New Leaf Journal that his college friend gave him the prompt for a melancholy Christmas song that would have no prospect of commercial success. I addend his post to note that the unnamed friend was a very versatile character. The person Victor refers to is […]",
"description":"Welcome to the 170th 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 is highly likely that there will be a live New Leaf Journal article about said keyboard when you read this newsletter, but that is technically an article for next newsletter week. Below, we cover the events of January 13-19 in our typical Newsletter Leaf Journal manner.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles since mailing Newsletter 169. \nShopping on AI (Sp)Amazon\nJustin and Justina discuss some interesting AI-generated product descriptions seen on Amazon (or Spamazon). \nProvocative O…",
"description":"Welcome to the 169th 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 am running a bit behind schedule today, so let us cut straight to your regularly scheduled newsletter content. \nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles since mailing Newsletter 168. \n2023 Anime Year in Review\nMy third annual New Leaf Journal review of the year that was about anime, and it features my ranking of the top six series of 2024, notes on additional series, and category-specific awards. You can either use my article to find something to watch or as a prompt to become angry bec…",
"description":"Welcome to the 168th 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, like the newsletters of 2020-2023, from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Despite being under the weather for the early days of 2024, we still had an eventful week of the new year at your favorite green online writing magazine. Without further ado, let us begin with the first newsletter of the new year.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published four new articles since mailing Newsletter 167. \nDecember 2023 at The New Leaf Journal\nJust in case you have to catch up on 2023 before starting on 2024. \nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nOur annual year-end r…",
"description":"Welcome to the 167th 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. We had New Years Eve for the last newsletter of 2022, but we will have to settle for New Years Eve Eve in 2023. But while we missed the holiday this year, I think we nevertheless have some holiday-tier content to bring 2023 to a close. \nLeaves from the week that was\nWe (actual \"we\" this time) published five new articles since mailing Newsletter 166. \nVictor V. Gurbo's \"Christmas & You\"\nI included links to Victor's two YouTube videos of his recording of his original song, Christmas & You, with last week's new…",
"description":"My Logitech K310 keyboard after a good washing and scrubbing in my kitchen sink. I have been using this as my main desktop keyboard since April 2013 and it is still going strong after countless keystrokes, many cleanings, and one coffee incident. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.<br />\n<br />\nMy review:<br />\n<a href=\"https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/</a><br />\n<br />\n<a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Logitech?src=hash\" title=\"#Logitech\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Logitech</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/LogitechK310?src=hash\" title=\"#LogitechK310\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#LogitechK310</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Keyboard?src=hash\" title=\"#Keyboard\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#Keyboard</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PhysicalKeyboards?src=hash\" title=\"#PhysicalKeyboards\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#PhysicalKeyboards</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WashableKeyboard?src=hash\" title=\"#WashableKeyboard\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#WashableKeyboard</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#NewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#NewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TheNewLeafJournal?src=hash\" title=\"#TheNewLeafJournal\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#TheNewLeafJournal</a> <a href=\"https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pixel3axl?src=hash\" title=\"#pixel3axl\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">#pixel3axl</a>",
"title":"My Logitech K310 keyboard after a good washing and scrubbing in my kitchen sink. I have been using this as my main desktop keyboard since April 2013 and it is still going strong after countless keystrokes, many cleanings, and one coffee incident. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.\n\nMy review:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\n\n#Logitech #LogitechK310 #Keyboard #PhysicalKeyboards #WashableKeyboard #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #pixel3axl",
"title":"Let's check in on how Amazon and brand FOPEAS are doing...\n\nFictional dialogue inspired by the \"product\": https://thenewleafjournal.com/shopping-on-ai-spamazon/\n\nInternet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Ffulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown%2Fdp%2FB0CM82FJL2\n\n#Amazon #AI #Spam #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal",
"title":"The ultimate test of my theory that a Santa hat can make just about anything Christmas. Not Tux (surely that penguin is Tux), but the gentleman just behind Tux.\n\nSanta hat dialogue:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/make-it-christmas-with-a-santa-hat/\n\n#NYC #Brooklyn #BoerumHill #Christmas #ChristmasDecorations #Penguin #Tux #TerracottaSoldier #Brownstones #BrownstoneBrooklyn #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal #Pixel3aXL",
"title":"Cardinals are somewhat Christmas-y for a variety of reasons, but I still ordinarily associate them with warmer months (from my New York perspective). However, if you put a Santa hat on a cardinal -- it is clearly and beyond doubt Christmas-y.\n\nDialogue discussion:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/make-it-christmas-with-a-santa-hat/\n\n#NYC #Brooklyn #BoerumHill #Cardinal #Bird #ChristmasDecorations #LawnOrnament #SantaHat #Christmas #Pixel3aXL #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal",
"description":"I published a new version of my New Leaf Journal feed directory. It includes links to our RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds with directions for subscribing to narrower subsets of articles and it also includes our less-used feeds (e.g., mf2, TWTXT), static feed aggregator site, and off-site newsletter RSS feed. For those who do not know much about feeds, I also linked to my introduction and several essays on the benefits of feeds.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/new-leaf-journal-feeds/\n#WordPress #RSS #ATOM #JSONFeed #TWTXT #Feeds",
"description":"A 2022 post featuring my photographs of the Freedom Tower, shrouded in fog, from a morning walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/freedom-tower-in-the-fog-from-the-brooklyn-bridge/\n#NYC #Brooklyn #Manhattan #BrooklynBridge #FreedomTower #Fog #Photography",
"description":"The story of then-President Abraham Lincoln's decision to pardon Frank Judd, the son of Lincoln's Minister to Prussia, sparing him from what would have been execution for desertion.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/lincoln-spares-frank-r-judd-in-1864-65/\n#AbrahamLincoln #History #USHistory #CivilWar #Desertion",
"description":"I published my third annual review that was of the year in anime. In the article, I ranked what I think were the six best series of 2023, included notes on 12 additional series, and gave out five category-specific awards. I made sure to get it done close to New Years because I know the whole industry was waiting for this.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/2023-anime-year-in-review/\n#Anime #AnimeReview",
"description":"A 2021 post about my 2020 photo of a pigeon on a limb looking for a snack... and a reminder that pigeons are heavier than sparrows.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/the-pigeon-on-a-limb/\n#Pigeon #Bird #NYC #Brooklyn #Photography",
"description":"Presenting the 54 most-visited New Leaf Journal articles of 2023, in dialogue format. For WordPress admins out there, I use Koko Analytics, an open source and entirely local page counting solution for stats.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/new-leaf-journal-year-in-review-2023/\n#Blogging #WordPress #OpenSource #Links #KokoAnalytics",
"description":"My final newsletter of the year includes links to a week's worth of new articles and short posts, 21 links from around the web, and news and notes about what I am working on as we look ahead to 2024.\nhttps://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/167/\n#newsletter #buttondown #blogging #anime #reviewsystems",
"description":"Back in January 2022, I wrote a dialogue (using fictional characters) explaining why I was moving the NLJ off Bluehost shared hosting to a small VPS server. Nostalgic, and in terms of site performance... definitely turned out to be the correct decision.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/slow-leaf-journal-outgrowing-cheap-hosting/\n#WordPress #WebHosting #VPS #Bluehost #Dialogue",
"description":"My short notes on figuring out how to properly enter administrative precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals into Zotero.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/adding-eoir-bia-decisions-to-zotero/\n#Zotero #Law #USImmigrationLaw #BoardOfImmigrationAppeals #USDOJ",
