Mar 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Bossert Hotel Work in Brooklyn Heights (March 2026) I saw new scaffolding going up around the iconic, and now derelict, Bossert Hotel building in Brooklyn Heights. According to Brooklyn Bridge Parents, the new scaffolding is going up so that new new...
Mar 22, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Burnout Phase Divine Liturgy was great today, thanks for asking. I had a really good thought while I was out on my patio earlier, and I wanted to make it the central theme of today's entry, but when I sat down a...
Mar 21, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Introducing N.A. Ferrell’s NLJ Blogroll Re-launching The New Leaf Journal Blogroll after about four years centered on posts about website entries.
Mar 21, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Verily vernal 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXII Vernal Intro Welcome to the 272nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form w...
Mar 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Heaviest Owl in North America I learned from Cornell Labs’ All About Birds site that the Snowy Owl is the heaviest bird in North America, “typically weighing about 4 pounds—one pound heavier than a Great Horned Owl and twice th...
Mar 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sega Genesis Stock Ticker Available My first video game console was a Sega Genesis. I received mine in 1994. Back in 1994, I almost certainly had no idea what a stock was, much less a ticker. But had I known, I am sure I would have w...
Mar 21, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Affording It Tensions are running a bit high today. Over the last few weeks, I had been waiting on my Mounjaro prescription to get filled. At first, I thought that it was an oversight on my doctor and that they...
Mar 21, 2026 from Toni Notes A small blog does not need a content strategy, it needs a path A tiny publication usually does not need a grand content strategy first. It needs a clear reader path through the homepage, the archive, and the next click.
Mar 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal My Recollection of Kobe Bryant’s 81 Bam Adebayo's 83-point performance on March 10, 2026, prompted me to recall how I learned and shared the news of Kobe Bryant's 81-point performance on January 22, 2006.
Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; Return Old Online Things to your own Site I read a good blog post by Lisa Charlotte Muth titled I’m bringing everything back to my website. In the post, she described how she pulled everything she has published online in various places sin...
Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-20-26 Another day means more daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Note that the Pook-Emu Bee will take tomorrow off for The Newsletter Leaf Journal (which features even more links), but should return on Sunday. If ...
Mar 20, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 1 The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another actor in a “second voice” role to add aspects of audio drama to the production, w...
Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Jeff Green’s Career-High 43 on 03-18-13 Brian Windhorst for ESPN wrote 27 straight wins: The most dominant stretch of LeBron James’ career, revisiting the 27-game winning streak of the 2012-13 Miami Heat. I followed the NBA closely that ...
Mar 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social MSN Dial-Up Internet in 2026 I read Dave Luna’s interesting hacker story Hacking the Compaq iPAQ IA-2 Internet Appliance. I learned many things from reading. But one fact which jumped out to me was a note about Microsoft’s MSN...
Mar 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Happy Cleaners Cargo Trike in the Rain A Happy Cleaners cargo tricycle sighting just off the Third Street Bridge in Gowanus, Brooklyn, turns into a short essay on recent developments around the Gowanus Canal.
Mar 20, 2026 from Ploum.net The Social Smolnet The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion th...
Mar 20, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Interactive Entertainment Sometimes in between writing these entries, a certain set of thoughts will come about. I'll think through the ideas and say to myself, "That would make a good Cogito entry," but then I'll end up si...
Mar 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Carroll Street Bridge Proposals The Carroll Street Bridge is the second bridge crossing Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, situated between the Union Street and Third Street Bridges. It is the most interesting of the Gowanus Canal Bridges...
Mar 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-19-26 Another day means more daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. 1. Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux (Michael Larabel for ...
Mar 19, 2026 from BEEW Sprezzatura Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd want to eat, or drink, or steal. By the time you get to that last syllable your ha...
