Jul 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Gaps Remember the gaps. I've been getting better at it myself, finding those lovely small glimpses of time where nothing seems to pass; nothing to process, nothing to manifest or build. Those small mome...
Jul 06, 2026 from riz#000000me Grading Papers Working with high school students in a college-level class.
Jul 06, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Admonitions I find myself becoming a lot less rigid in my prayer life, which to some might sound like a good thing. For me, I don't see it as a bad thing so much as a slightly scary notion; there's a sense of ...
Jul 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Independence Day Fireworks I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took this video from Pierrepont and Willow Streets and then converted it into a gif ...
Jul 05, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Nonprofit Entity Something I realized from the donation I received yesterday: it's a weekly donation of $1.15, which covers nearly all of my site's yearly operational costs. There's a sense of joy in that, but also...
Jul 04, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Independence Forever! 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXVII Welcome to the 287th 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 writing sister...
Jul 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Living Signatories to The Declaration of Independence and the American Jubilee America celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 4, 1826. Just three signatories to The Declaration of Independence, Adams, Jefferson, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lived to see the day. I look...
Jul 04, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Proof of Something You get to fuck off; I have to fuck off. That was a negative piece of self-talk I had in an internal monologue against the haters who probably don't even exist. What, you don't internally monologue...
Jul 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues he has had with various Google phones and tablets over the years. One of the iss...
Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For those not in the know, noai.duckduckgo.com is a subdomain of DuckDuckGo search whi...
Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026 Last month, I participated in Robert Birming’s “Junited” project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a ...
Jul 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social World Cup De-Branding I have never been a soccer person, so this year’s World Cup has not registered much on me beyond seeing an unusual number of foreign national team soccer jerseys on some days (despite the best effo...
Jul 02, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0043: The stone boat Episode details A reading of a short poem by W.S. Merwin: The Estuary. I share a few words about what might have influenced Merwin at the time of the poem’s composition. More podcast episodes onlin...
Jul 02, 2026 from Noahie's Blog That One Thing I've been quite tired lately, and I suspect this is because I haven't taken a midday nap in some time. Even after my morning caffeine dose, I still go about my day with much fatigue, but it's been ...
Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social On Markdown Editors and Fluff Rodrigo Ghedin published a short “hot take” on markdown: “[I]f you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting.” I largely agree, although I personally use...
Jul 01, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 9 As I’ve repeatedly said over the course of this series, Sylvester McCoy really had the least to prove out of any of the original wave of Big Finish Doctors – his run wasn’t cut as absurdly short as...
Jul 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-01-26 I have not published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links since June 23. But today is the start of a new month. Let us turn over a new leaf in July with the Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Nina Totenberg Sincerely Apologiz...
Jul 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Not Done Yet Yesterday, I played trivia at a new bar. I was at this place a few minutes from my house a few weeks ago—in an entertainment district in my town—and was hanging out, doing stuff on my laptop. Acros...
Jun 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832) Diagrams from a lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
Jun 30, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Computer Guy I have plans for a new project, and I think this one's actually going to stick. However, it'll take a bit of setup on my part, but when I finally get it going, I think you'll really like it. I was ...
