Reviewing Teaser Trailers for Angel Next Door Season 2 · The New Leaf Journal
I review the first two teaser trailers for the second season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten after recapping my season one coverage.| The New Leaf Journal
I review the first two teaser trailers for the second season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten after recapping my season one coverage.| The New Leaf Journal
On October 15, 2020, I published an article commemorating what was then the 20th anniversary of the North American release of the second generation mainline Pokémon games, Pokémon Gold and Silver (see Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver). In so doing, I told the story of how I acquired Pokémon Gold on launch day and offered my take on the elegant town slogan for the player’s starting point, New Bark Town in the English releases (Wakaba Town in the Japanese version). Five year...| The New Leaf Journal
Brooklyn musician Victor V. Gurbo discusses his and Mark Caserta’s new album, Outrun the Invisible Man, with Nicholas Ferrell of The New Leaf Journal.| The New Leaf Journal
I have covered extensively in these humble pages the plight of Halloween and autumnal pumpkins left out to rot in Brooklyn. On October 3, 2025, I wrote about a Christmas countdown clock seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, in late September. What if we combined my past-their-peak rotting pumpkin series with the very early countdown clock? If you know where this is going and do not want to see it, you are out of luck. I present for your viewing horror three liquefying carved pumpkins seen on a s...| The New Leaf Journal
I came across an autumnal inflatable decoration that I knew I had to share with readers. But while most of my seasonal inflatable decoration posts end with the photos and some brief thoughts, I had a bit more to write in this one First about the camera I used to take the photo, and second on a seasonal theme for The New Leaf Journal in fall 2025. Without further ado, let us begin with an inflatable Halloween crow seen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. The Inflatable Halloween Crow in Cobble Hill, Bro...| The New Leaf Journal
A full review of the iMoon App for Ubuntu Touch as used on a Google Pixel 3a XL running UT 24.04 and a Nexus 7 running UT 16.04.| The New Leaf Journal
I demonstrate how to use a small paper clip as a SIM tray ejection tool and compare it to an IFIXIT bit for ejecting SIM trays.| The New Leaf Journal
While walking in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, in September 2025, I came across an unexpected site: An inflatable snowman Christmas countdown clock.| The New Leaf Journal
I had planned to try Ubuntu Touch on a Google Pixel 3a XL. But before I installed Ubuntu Touch, I gave Droidian a try after seeing it in the UBports Installer.| The New Leaf Journal
There is a certain residence on Hicks Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, near the boundary with the neighboring neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, which puts out seasonal inflatable decorations. I have previously covered its St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, and Valentine’s Day offerings. Most recently, I wrote about a bikini-clad gnome seen in July 2025, which we can only presume was chosen to represent summer beach trips. But summer, as it is wont to to do, gives way to fall. Aut...| The New Leaf Journal
I was caught out in the rain on a walk in Brooklyn Heights on the afternoon of September 6, 2025. While sheltering under an awning in front of the Bossert Hotel at the corner of Hicks and Montague Streets (just around the corner from where I documented a parked Cybertruck in March), I noticed an Amazon eQuad cargo bike “parked” on the opposite corner. I wrote about Amazon’s so-called cargo “bikes” back in April, and as luck would have it some people found that article interesting. I...| The New Leaf Journal
On July 29, I published an investigative report on the campaign car of Jim Walden, the now-former independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. Some people who read that article may call “foul” on my describing what I wrote as an investigative report. To be sure, the article was centered on my photographs of Mr. Walden’s campaign car, which was parked in a very open-to-the-public location in Brooklyn Heights, where Mr. Walden reportedly lives. Moreover, most of my additional comment...| The New Leaf Journal
On August 30, 2020, I reviewed the month of August at The New Leaf Journal (I do not recall why I wrote the review with one day still to go before the calendar turned to September). That started a tradition which continues today, even when some reviews such as my recent consolidated review of May and June 2025 came more than a little bit late. We are still in the first half of September, so I rate this review of August 2025 timely. I took this photograph at the Glen Head LIRR station on the e...| The New Leaf Journal
I came across a blog post by Imran Nazar titled Degoogling TOTP Authenticator Codes (via Hacker News page one). In the post, Mr. Nazar, who explains that he spends most of his computer time “in a terminal window on MacOS or connected to a Linux machine,” sought a solution that would allow him to decrease his dependence on the proprietary Google Authenticator TOTP phone app and access his TOTP codes through the command line using a utility called oathtool. Mr. Nazar describes his new TOTP ...| The New Leaf Journal
I was a groomsman at a wedding on August 31, 2025, which I previewed in an August 30, 2025 post about my rental tuxedo on The Emu Café Social. This wedding took place at Swan Club on the Harbor (venue location), which is in Roslyn, New York. This was the first time I had gone to Long Island in about ten years. I took the Long Island Railroad with a friend to the Glen Head stop and managed to take one of the few walkable routes (as in having a sidewalk for most of the route) from the station ...| The New Leaf Journal
I offer a specious take on the United States Air Force’s request for Tesla Cybertrucks to use for target practice.| The New Leaf Journal
I heared man excitedly exclaim to his friend “I am The Mat!” His friend had an unexpectedly clever report for what The Mat could do with himself as a mat.| The New Leaf Journal
A fictional dialogue about the dangers of heroism in traffic - with a stuffed armadillo making an appearance.| The New Leaf Journal
On finding and enabling the new Charging optimization toggle in GrapheneOS on my Google Pixel 6a for limiting charging to 80%.| The New Leaf Journal
I read a report questioning how much Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko spends on his hairstylist. I looked at a recent photograph and had a different question.| The New Leaf Journal
Examining an endearing extended warranty card for the iVANKY optical audio cable and the story of why I needed the cable in the first place.| The New Leaf Journal
Victor V. Gurbo, no fan of kokeshi dolls, took a photo of Nicholas A. Ferrell’s Kokeshi Doll against the backdrop of a monitor - creating a silhouette effect.| The New Leaf Journal
An in-depth examination of a scene from Persona 4 wherein Dojima gives Nanako coffee on a school night, enshrining him as a video game hero.| The New Leaf Journal
I describe a unique strategy with the fusion move Infinity to fight the Reaper in Persona 3 FES. Infinity protects my party while grinding down Reaper’s health.| The New Leaf Journal
I revisit an outline team-building strategy guide for Persona 3 FES’s The Answer epilogue that I wrote in 2011 for a friend before he started.| The New Leaf Journal
A comprehensive look at the English sources on the anecdote that Natsume Sōseki translated “I love you” as “Tsuki ga kirei desu ne.”| The New Leaf Journal
This post includes a video of Victor V. Gurbo’s original song, “Mondrian,” along with his discussing how he came to write the piece.| The New Leaf Journal
I tell the story of discovering a game of Mario Party that I left unfinished for nearly 20 years and how I finally finished it.| The New Leaf Journal
The story of that one time Lysithea, a proverbial magic glass cannon in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, turned into a physical tank.| The New Leaf Journal
I tell the story of how I rescued a fallen trash can in Gowanus, and speciously explain that a deed is only heroic if you tell everyone about it.| The New Leaf Journal
New Leaf Journal editor Nicholas A. Ferrell lists the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on him over nearly 30 years of playing games.| The New Leaf Journal
I explain Pokémon Gold & Silver’s slogan for New Bark Town - “The Town Where Winds of a New Beginning Blow” - gave me ideas for The New Leaf Journal.| The New Leaf Journal
Sign-up page for The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of The New Leaf Journal. Readers can sign up via email or RSS.| The New Leaf Journal
A humorous review of the 50 most-visited New Leaf Journal articles of 2021. Let no one say the content was not varied.| The New Leaf Journal
I list several alternative search engines to Google and Bing and discuss what one should look for in an alternative search engine.| The New Leaf Journal
A comprehensive review of the unfortunate School Days anime and the infamous “Nice Boat” meme that came out of its final episode.| The New Leaf Journal
A comprehensive study of the views of the ancient Roman historians of the life and death of Emperor Otho, who ruled Rome for three months in 69 AD.| The New Leaf Journal
A short post on a cleverly named private boat, “S-cape,” docked at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Marina and photographed from Pier 5.| The New Leaf Journal
A fictional dialogue making the case (initially, at least) that 999 is the best of all numbers. The dialogue is the 999th full article at The New Leaf Journal.| The New Leaf Journal
Welcome to The Emu Café, a special section of The New Leaf Journal dedicated to discussions about aesthetics and the life lived well.| The New Leaf Journal
I discuss in brief looking for category- and author-specific RSS and ATOM feeds on high-volume websites to keep your feed reader from being overwhelmed.| The New Leaf Journal
School Days’ “nice boat” is one of the best-known anime memes. But another question occurred to me: What happened to the full “nice boat” episode?| The New Leaf Journal
A brief guide to finding Substack RSS feeds and some other notes and thoughts about the importance of offering readers an RSS option.| The New Leaf Journal
Making the case for using a feed collection in conjunction with a read-it-later solution to supplant social media and algorithmic curators for online reading.| The New Leaf Journal
Making the case for RSS feeds and feed readers as the best alternative to big tech news consumption services like Facebook newsfeeds.| The New Leaf Journal
A satirical article by The Babylon Bee about Elon Musk’s Twitter saga inspires a piece on Twitter, content curation, and (of course) RSS/Atom feeds.| The New Leaf Journal
I look at the evolving slogans of the colorful towns and cities of Pokémon’s Kanto and evaluate how well they fit in generations I-IV and VII.| The New Leaf Journal
Inspired by a Nintendo Life survey, I offer my own opinions on the best controllers for Nintendo consoles, separating joystick-free entries from the rest.| The New Leaf Journal
A short piece on my decision to order a GB Operator from Epilogue to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Pocket games on my PC.| The New Leaf Journal
Despite the fact that I disconnected my TCL Roku TV from the internet, I get the feeling that it is still watching me. Or is it a stuffed tardigrade?| The New Leaf Journal
The story of and guide to how I used a sticky note to hold an optical audio cable in place after the optical audio door on my Yamaha soundbar broke.| The New Leaf Journal
A comprehensive study on how the Pokémon special split that occurred between generations 1 and 2 affected the original 151 Pokémon.| The New Leaf Journal
Remembering the time I inadvertently made Akihiko spam Megidolaon against me in one of the decisive battles of Persona 3 FES’s Answer epilogue.| The New Leaf Journal
New Leaf Journal editors N.A. Ferrell and Victor V. Gurbo record a Pokémon battle and post it to LBRY/Odysee.| The New Leaf Journal
My review of Pokémon: Pathways to Adventure, a 1999 novelization of Pokémon Red and Blue that doubled as a strategy guide.| The New Leaf Journal
A full review of Midsummer Haze, the official 2006 English translation of a short Japanese doujin freeware visual novel called Manatsu no Kagerou.| The New Leaf Journal
I introduce a project to turn a new play-through of Pokémon Red into a serialized novel and quasi-strategy guide with helpful tips and strategies.| The New Leaf Journal
A look back at the aesthetic wonder of Pokémon Red and Blue and a look forward to how modern Pokémon games can recapture the spirit of the original.| The New Leaf Journal
The story of my wholly unnecessary quest to catch a wild level 15 Dragonair in the Pokémon Yellow Safari Zone after having already caught Dratini.| The New Leaf Journal
Back in 1999, a classmate of mine told me a unique version of the well-known Bill’s Secret Garden legend from Pokémon Red and Blue. I revisit the tale here.| The New Leaf Journal
I set out to catch a Caterpie in Viridian Forest in Pokémon Red. I eventually found and caught one — but only on my 118th Forest encounter.| The New Leaf Journal
The New Leaf Journal is a proponent of RSS and Atom feeds. This page contains our site’s main feed, as well as author, category, and topic options.| The New Leaf Journal
In order to run Midsummer Haze, the official English translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel, I had to find the original Manatsu no Kagerou.| The New Leaf Journal
The New Leaf Journal’s short introduction to and history of RSS and related feed specifications such as Atom feeds and JSON feeds.| The New Leaf Journal
I describe playing Pokémon Red on a Linux-powered computer and the Ganbatte emulator using the official Nintendo Switch Online SNES controller.| The New Leaf Journal
Examining the original Adobe Flash version of Gogatsu no Sora, a freeware Japanese visual novel localized as May Sky, and running it with Ruffle.| The New Leaf Journal
20 years after the American release of Pokémon Gold and Silver, I revisit New Bark Town, “The Town Where Winds of a New Beginning Blow.”| The New Leaf Journal
A humorous dialogue about a strange scrap statute in Gowanus, Brooklyn, which makes reference to the 2021 New York City Cow Parade.| The New Leaf Journal
I investigate the origin of a retired New York City Cow Parade statute seen in a front yard in Manhattan in May 2024.| The New Leaf Journal
I look back on the 2004 NBA Finals wherein the Detroit Pistons upset the Los Angeles Lakers and examine whether the Lakers should have been favored.| The New Leaf Journal
I discuss different methods and systems for organizing a collection of RSS and ATOM feeds in a feed reader to make it easier to follow interesting writing.| The New Leaf Journal
Applying Calvin Coolidge’s 1922 remarks on the home to a concept of a “digital home” in today’s world.| The New Leaf Journal
I reply to an interesting article on maximizing signals to noise in RSS feed collections, which was a response to my article on organizing feeds. I focus here on purpose.| The New Leaf Journal
I describe the process I went through to replace a lemon of a motherboard, complete my computer build, and install Manjaro Linux.| The New Leaf Journal
Victor V. Gurbo shares two recordings of his original melancholy holiday song, Christmas & You, along with a discussion on how he came to write its lyrics.| The New Leaf Journal
