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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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?