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A pigeon's visit to a Brooklyn statue of Christopher Columbus inspires a piece on the history of the depiction of the brave explorer. Possibly related posts... 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Town Slogans in Pokémon's Kanto The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…  ( 8 min )

Examining how the Egyptian constitution handles citizenship and dual nationality in the context of eligibility to run for President. Possibly related posts... The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters Interesting Case on Japan's Dual Citizenship Ban 1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge The Misuse of Impeachment and Roy Hibbert's Jersey History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum The Hang Glider Citizenship Provision  ( 8 min )

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…  ( 7 min )

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 […]

Thoughts on interesting thoughts about thinking of being productive as a way of securing your downtime. Possibly related posts... An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure Productivity Window Shopping and Backlogs The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading Applying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Social webs of personal websites New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader RSS as a social media alternative  ( 7 min )

You can now follow The New Leaf Journal directly from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based accounts thanks to ActivityPub for WordPress. Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media Looking at ActivityPub for WordPress 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  ( 7 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/activitypub-for-wordpress-and-the-nlj/ #activitypub #wordpress

Why did I spend hours trying to catch a level 15 Dragonair in the Pokémon Yellow Safari Zone? Some questions are hard to answer. Possibly related posts... The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and… Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank Bird in Review 〜 Yellow Throated Toucan Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend 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  ( 20 min )

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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 […]  ( 2 min )

You are not dreaming. My detailed study of hair color (natural and unnatural) in A Dream of Summer is now live. Possibly related posts... A Dream of Summer - Visual Novel Review Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Brown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again! Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan Iroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected? At Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer Hair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel Kaori Orimoto's Hair is Blacker than I Expected  ( 16 min )

We review our September articles and most-visited posts before looking ahead to October. Things are well-organized this month. Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal New Bark Town and The New Leaf Journal Slogan  ( 13 min )

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…  ( 10 min )

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. https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/155/ #newsletter #videogames #visualnovels #links #music

A colorful journey (puns intended) through the slogans of the towns of Pokémon's Kanto Region before and after a certain time skip. Possibly related posts... Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 - Statistics and… Pokémon: Pathways to Adventure (1999) Review Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend Ranking My Big Impression Video Games Upcoming Ferrell Vs Gurbo Pokémon Draft Battle Two Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell vs… Calvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation  ( 20 min )

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: […]

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Ranking the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me over nearly 30 years of owning and playing games. Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines The Best Anime Series of 2021 The New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review  ( 24 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml - Remove NLJ guestbook - Add Emu Cafe Social  ( 2 min )

I review an al|together-translated visual novel with unusually high production values and a main character with braids. Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations I, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air - VN Review At Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer Bonner's "In Dreamland" Bedtime Story At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday al|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation  ( 25 min )

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 […]

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…  ( 7 min )

A goose continues drinking from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park and comes away satisfied... part two... Possibly related posts... Thirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 1 Observing a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and… Family of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Baby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge On Haughty Dog Owners in NYC Justin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try…  ( 5 min )

A goose drinks from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park... part one... Possibly related posts... Thirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 2 Observing a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and… Family of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Baby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge On Haughty Dog Owners in NYC Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends  ( 6 min )

Reviewing an obscure 19th century sport, as described in an 1882 issue of Harper's Young People. Possibly related posts... 1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball 1892 Report on Women's Basketball Game The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Ed Durr Walks To A Stunning Election Upset In New Jersey "Casey's Revenge" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to… The Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons The Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…  ( 12 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/augustus-and-the-comedy-of-life/ #quotes #augustus #romanhistory #history

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/broken-optical-audio-cable-door-fix/ #soundbar #OpicalAudio #yamaha

Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls. Possibly related posts... Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks On Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… Calvin Coolidge On Why We Celebrate Independence Day Calvin Coolidge Describes His Mother, Victoria Calvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation Coolidge and Harrison in Bennington Calvin Coolidge's July 4, 1918 Remarks in Fairhaven Applying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home  ( 6 min )

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). Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review 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?

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. Possibly related posts... Replacing soundbar and re-configuring universal remote for… An Optical Audio Cable Packaging Story Optical audio cable story update Micropost on Soundbar and Remote Struggles The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Meghan Markle's "The Bench" and Audio Book Versions of… io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review EGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke USB-C Charger Surprises  ( 7 min )

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. Middle sch…  ( 7 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml 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.  ( 2 min )

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. Possibly related posts... The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan A Walker's Review of BLUPOND's Knight Vision Night Driving… 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  ( 10 min )

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 […]

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. https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/ #nyc #brooklyn #brooklynheights #cobblehill #tree #pear #sun #pixel3axl #emucafe

It appears that something with my caching configuration choked earlier today and served a compressed file for download to visitors in […] Possibly related posts... The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review WP Super Cache Preload and Lazy Loading The Mysterious Pinterest Tracker Slow Leaf Journal, Outgrowing Cheap Hosting 〜 A Justin and… What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The Homing Pigeons Returned Home As Expected The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday WP Redis Object Cache and Link Hover Color The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review  ( 5 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml Reorganized feeds. Updated NAF Bearblog URL. Added NAF Gitea and removed to GitHub feeds.  ( 2 min )

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. #emucafesocial #wordpress #IndieWeb

Courtesy of the New York Post,  Man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: cops: A 74-year-old man was […] Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… 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  ( 5 min )

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 […]