Apr 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal AI Today, Calculators Back in the Day An article about the dangers of AI dependency reminded me of how I encouraged a middle schooler to do algebra by hand in my senior year of high school.
Apr 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Scraps A series of scribbles from my many notebooks. 1 The tenant jostles his keys. The landlord must have changed the locks again. He goes to the landlord’s door to ask why he keeps changing the locks. H...
Apr 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Unwritten Don't know what to do? Do nothing until you figure it out. Man, I sure love sitting around, doing nothing. It's awesome, perhaps the best use of my time. I think people give things like flow states...
Apr 15, 2026 from Improve Something Today Timely plugs: Mandy Brown’s workshop, Abby Covert’s next sensemaking book, & new music Three things to consider this week.
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting that Bam Adebayo is a modest scorer in the pantheon of NBA players who scored 6...
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social AI Can’t “Lie” Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour. The article itself is about a New York Times investigation into the ac...
Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-15-26 We have a second consecutive warm day in New York City. We also have a third consecutive day of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Seven Myths About the Iran War (Michael Doran for Tablet Magazine. April 13, 2...
Apr 15, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 15] - In Case Someone Needs Fire NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 15] Day Fifteen Welcome back, all! As of today, we’re halfway through another Na/GloPoWriMo. Our featured participant today is kellysteller, who brings us an Instagram-inspire...
Apr 15, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Bam Adebayo’s 83 and Scoring Averages in 60+ Point Game Seasons Bam Adebayo's 83 point performance inspired me to look at PPG and P/36 minutes by NBA players who scored at least 60 points in a game in their 60-point game seasons.
Apr 15, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Temperament and Spirit I broke my fast last night. There were about ten leftover chicken tenders from dinner a few nights ago, and I ate all of them. Thankfully I didn't eat anything else after that, but I don't feel too...
Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26 I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U...
Apr 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Introducing PDR Press Minis Announcing an exciting new book series!
Apr 14, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 14] - the day after ai was dismantled NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 14]Day Fourteen Happy Tuesday, everyone, and welcome back for the fourteenth day of National/Global Poetry Writing Month. It’s hard to believe we’ve been at this for two weeks...
Apr 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Zespri RubyRed Kiwi I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post featured four photos. The last of four photos shows slices of yellow-orange-red kik...
Apr 14, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Thought Through I've decided to make my sprints here an hour long now, but even when they were at 45 minutes, I tended to go toward a certain word count instead of writing the whole way through the timer. Usually,...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Bonbon Drop Stickers Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card speculating which referenced “Bonbon Drop stickers.” Regarding the stickers, I wrote that I did not know what they wer...
Apr 13, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 13] - in my village, even the ground refuses me NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 13]Day Thirteen Here in the Land of Na/GloPoWriMo, the thirteenth day of the month isn’t ominous — not when it means another chance to write poems! Today, our featured partici...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Google Verbatim Mode Custom Search Shortcut I read read a good article by Hana Lee Goldin at Card Catalog titled Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. In the post, she ran through several tips for using Google Search effe...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-13-26 There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Saturday because it was newsletter day (22 links in issue 275!). There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Sunday because I failed. But today is Monday. Monday is a fu...
Apr 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Asian Carp and Gefilte Fish I have read about the invasive Asian carp problem in U.S. waterways. But I learned something new from Dan Lewis’ aptly named “Now I Know” blog: Asian carp is commonly used in gefilte fish. I must c...
