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 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...
Apr 13, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal 2000-01 Bucks vs Second Three-Peat Bulls A quote from former NBA player Jason Caffey inspires me to compare the offenses of the 2000-01 Milwaukee Bucks and those of the 95-96 through 97-98 champion Chicago Bulls.
Apr 13, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Ascetic Containment Today is day four of my fast. I'm officially under 300 pounds. This is basically a water fast. I'm allowing myself to drink water, coffee, and diet soda; I'm also letting myself chew gum and eat a ...
Apr 13, 2026 from Toni Notes What should be documented in a publishing system, and what should stay habitual? Document what future-you cannot safely reconstruct. A publishing system needs visible state, a real next action, and a few earned safeguards, not a bureaucracy that competes with the work.
Apr 13, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ getting attention is the only job As The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica said recently (on a livestream, it should be noted), “The gap between ‘I’m a comedian,’ ‘I’m a content creator,’ ‘I’m a musician’ — we used to think of those a...
Apr 11, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Bunny March 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXV Leafy intro Welcome to the 275th 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 wr...
Apr 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Tough Guy Never underestimate time alone. It's a weird thing when I'm alone. Sometimes I think I might actually have autism because when I am actually alone, I can really let the wiggles out and all other ki...
Apr 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26 My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage...
Apr 10, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Uganda, Israel, and Iran in 2026 vs 1976 Relations between Uganda and Israel were very "strained" in 1976. 2026 X posts from Ugandan Defense Minister Muhoozi Kainerugaba would have been hard to explain 50 years ago...
Apr 10, 2026 from Toni Notes A small publication needs an operating model, not just good posts A small publication becomes real work before it looks large. Once the archive has real weight, somebody has to keep it legible, connected, and cheap enough to maintain.
Apr 10, 2026 from Ploum.net Ne rien avoir à penser Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de personnes dans le monde avec un smartphone Android que de personnes qui ont accès ...
Apr 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bread Alone It's Holy Friday, and I intend on going to my parish's service tonight. One of the subdeacons was saying that it's supposed to have some of the most beautiful music the church sings all year, so I'...
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want. This is a flawed headline. It presupposes that the main r...
Apr 09, 2026 from Improve Something Today Questions along the way The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, and to what end?
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26 I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu Touch-powered Google Pixel 3a XL. I think I fixed the issue. With that aside, on ...
