From Mr. Heinrik Karlsson’s “A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox” Having idiosyncratic interests that grow in complexity means that if you pursue them too far you will end up obsessed with things that no one else around you cares […]

Seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, a Halloween snake decoration protecting flowers on a front lawn. https://thenewleafjournal.com/carroll-gardens-halloween-snake-skeleton/ #halloween #brooklyn #nyc #carrollgardens #snake #skeleton #flowers #lawn #sign #pixel3axl

A Carroll Gardens household puts a Halloween snake skeleton decoration to good use on their front lawn. Possibly related posts... A Walk Across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge Flying 12-Foot Witch in Carroll Gardens Justin & Justina 〜 4th of July Grill Sacrifices to… A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge Historic Districts and Looming Tall Buildings Flexible Hose Halloween Snake Creature Halloween Cooking and Decorating Tips From 1913 Balancing Bear Topiary in Carroll Gardens American Beauty Pasta Mural in Brooklyn  ( 6 min )

The Russian government is appropriating Soviet humor. (I dare say that this is a better example of Russia’s questionable Iran-coddling commentary than the one I used for an October 14 article at The New Leaf Journal.)

I return from a brief and unplanned publishing break with an important story (“important” is the operative word here). I use a MikroTik hAP ac3 internet router. However, I disabled its wi-fi functionality and use a low-end tp-link access point for wireless. The access point is right in front of my computer. I turned on […]  ( 2 min )

The original Mario Party for Nintendo 64 had some poorly-conceived mini games that required players to rapidly spin the delicate Nintendo 64 joystick. I remember them for destroying joysticks. Others claimed terrible injuries. This is the story of Nintendo's offer of gloves as a result of a settlement with New York State (I note the gloves would not have saved any controllers from harm). https://thenewleafjournal.com/history-of-the-mario-party-gloves/ #nintendo #n64 #marioparty #law #videogamehistory

On upgrading my Google Pixel 3a XL from LineageOS 19 to LineageOS 20. Possibly related posts... Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a From Murena Teracube 2e to Pixel 3a XL with LineageOS Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review A Segmentation Fault and a Peculiar Ghostwriter… Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Computer, New Leaf  ( 8 min )

I would say that the announcement of a second season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten was a surprise... but I expected it when I wrote my review of what is now season one. Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo? The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Best Anime Series of 2021 Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81)  ( 8 min )

We ended up only publishing nine articles in October 2023 due to some unexpected events, but our month-in-review structure is very aesthetic. Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… The story of our Bing blacklisting Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the… The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal  ( 9 min )

Welcome to the 159th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially 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. As always? I should say except for last week. Two factors caused a lapse in New Leaf Journal publishing. Firstly, middling health commencing on October 24. Secondly, I had a decent amount of work for my law job to do while I was feeling sluggish. As a result, I did not publish any articles. Because I had no articles to share and I still had work to do last weekend, I let October 28 pass without a newsletter. While I have a few article drafts in the pipeline, I still have not published a new piece since October …  ( 9 min )

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Welcome to the 158th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal (the previous one had a Roman numeral title typo -- sad!), the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. I am a bit pressed for time this week, so this newsletter will only cover our most recent posts, links from around the web, and our most-read articles of the week. Let us get straight into the content. Leaves from the week that was I published two new articles. On Russia’s and China’s Self-Awareness Russia's and China's statements about restraint and justice ring just a bit hollow. Analyzing BIA Decision in Matter of Salama An in-depth study of an interesting 1966 U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals decision with my original legal analysis. I wrote it in a way that should be acc…  ( 6 min )

I wrote a detailed analysis of a 1966 Board of Immigration Appeals decision in Matter of Salama, 11 I&N Dec. 536 (BIA 1966). In that post, I worked through the decision and examined the small number of citations to it in precedent decisions. I opined that although I first came across the decision while researching […]

A post reviewing Halloween cooking and decorating tips from a 1913 magazine. https://thenewleafjournal.com/halloween-cooking-and-decorating-tips-from-1913/ #halloween #cooking #decorating #owls

I study a 1966 Board of Immigration Appeals precedent decision wherein the BIA held a Jewish man from Egypt would face persecution on account of his religion. Possibly related posts... Citizenship Rules for Running for President of Egypt Matter of Man, 12 I&N Dec. 305 (BIA 1967) - BIA Hong Kong… Noncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners Golf and Immigration: Matter of Masters "A Strange Admixture of Contentions" - Study of a Phrase Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Hang Glider Citizenship Provision Immigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case  ( 18 min )

From last November (I was a bit late), a 12-foot flying witch seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (NYC). https://thenewleafjournal.com/flying-12-foot-witch-in-carroll-gardens/ #halloween #witch #brooklyn #nyc #carrollgardens

A comprehensive study of hair color in the English translation of a 2005 freeware Japanese visual novel titled A Dream of Summer (because why not?). https://thenewleafjournal.com/hair-color-in-a-dream-of-summer/ (Note that a re-worked browser version of A Dream of Summer is free to play on Freem! in both English and the original Japanese) #visualnovels #VisualNovel #videogames #freeware #haircolor

A look back at the 1922 Better Homes Demonstration Week, a project headed by the administration of then-U.S. President Warren Harding. This introduction post links to two follow-up articles on remarks by then-Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. https://thenewleafjournal.com/introducing-the-1922-better-homes-in-america-demonstration-week/ #ushistory #history #uspresident #home

I came across an article noting that Corey Seager of the Texas Rangers was walked three times in a 3-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Divisional Series, breaking Barry Bonds’ 2003 record of 8 for a divisional series. I am not a baseball fan and am not following the playoffs, but […]

Formatting for The New Leaf Journal ActivityPub profile is a work in progress but everything works perfectly here on Emu Café Social.  ( 2 min )

Jonathan Turley’s blog is part of my RSS feed collection. One reason I enjoy his work is because he is consistent in his views and articulates his position well. However, his recent piece on free speech issues related to the response to pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses in the last week was a bit sloppy. […]

I took a trip through Pokemon's Kanto region to examine the 10 city/town slogans and how they changed (or stayed the same) through all of Kanto's appearances. Because everyone likes rankings, I concluded with a ranking of the slogans based on the slogans in and of themselves and how they fit the city or town. https://thenewleafjournal.com/town-slogans-pokemons-kanto/ #pokemon #gameboy #videogames

Update osmosfeed.yaml Remove NAF HN feed.  ( 2 min )

The statements of the Russian and Chinese governments on the Israel-Hamas War would be ironic if they were not entirely expected. Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines  ( 7 min )

Welcome to the 157th 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 a bit short on content with just three new articles -- although all three were fairly time-intensive by my standards. You will find links to our three new pieces along with links from around the web and other news and notes below. (No News leaf journal section this week because I have no news to report other than our new articles.) Links from the week that was Our three new articles... Citizenship Rules for Running for President of Egypt (I examine how Egypt handles dual citizenship in the contex…  ( 7 min )

I run two WordPress accounts that double as ActivityPub profiles thanks to ActivityPub for WordPress. You can follow them for links to my longer-form writing. New Leaf Journal: @newleafjournal (This is my main project. You will find links to new articles with short descriptions.) Emu Café Social: @naferrell (This is my social publishing site. You will find my short-form posts in full -- instance permitting.)

Wherein I use a particularly questionable "experts say" headline on a piece trying to justify Hamas' behavior to question the "experts say" headlines. Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Ambiguous Killer Hallucinogenic Weed Headline Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The Last Nintendo Wii Games Eyewitness to History: The Resignations of Cuomo and Spitzer The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII Social media on government phones Designing video games to produce benefits  ( 17 min )

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