I introduce readers to my nearly-30 year old Newpoint Switcher 2000 Plus. | Continue reading
On finding the 132nd Pokémon, Ditto, on Cheever Place in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn (without a phone app). | Continue reading
Rafael Nadal was only defeated on the court in 4 of the 19 French Opens he entered. I examine what transpired for the four players who won three sets out of five against the King of Clay at Roland Garros. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
If my modem's quick start card tells me the default password is "password" -- surely the default password is password. Right? Well about that... | Continue reading
I use the 2004 NBA Finals to pin down precisely when I received my copy of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, 20 years ago. | Continue reading
I take the time to describe a positive experience that I had with my ISP. | Continue reading
A Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night features three teenage girls whose hair is shown to have undergone some dramatic color and style changes over the years. | Continue reading
For the first time ever, we review two months at The New Leaf Journal for the price of one. | Continue reading
I offer a specious left-field take on why Elon Musk renamed Twitter "X" after spending 43 billion dollars to purchase the platform. | Continue reading
I photographed a dove sitting atop a sculpture in the Long Island City Noguchi Museum's Sculpture Garden. At the time, however, I said "dove on rock." | Continue reading
I had a rare occasion to walk to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick in January 2021. There, I happened across BLOB […] | Continue reading
Visiting a weathered World I Memorial on Tillary and Jay Streets in Downtown Brooklyn. | Continue reading
I reviewed the A Sign of Affection anime after having written five articles about hair color in the show. A report on the show's production gave rise to additional thoughts. | Continue reading
I shot a five second video of a waddling pillbug in Texas and then went through great effort to learn how to turn the video into a charming GIF. | Continue reading
A special Justin and Justina dialogue to commemorate 999 full articles at The New Leaf Journal. | Continue reading
I test whether there are rules for breaking the rules of the tutorial of an underrated classic game, Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy Color. | Continue reading
I test whether there are rules for breaking the rules of the tutorial of an underrated classic game, Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy Color. | Continue reading
Everything is bigger in Texas, including lawn chairs at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. | Continue reading
Using a Southwest Airlines napkin to give a very late news update to our millions of readers: I have been on vacation. | Continue reading
Cars with cherry blossoms and actual cherry blossoms seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, in April 2024. | Continue reading
While the first season of The Dangers in My Heart missed my 2023 top-six list, the second season proved to be the first genuine anime of the year candidate for 2024. | Continue reading
I question charging for a manga streaming service that uses unmodified Google Translate "translations." But par for the course, I question it for lack of wisdom more than for lack of morality. | Continue reading
I review The Boy I LIke? -- the English localization of what is effectively a freeware doujin meme visual novel | Continue reading
I wrote a post in November 2023 about having gone more than five years without breaking my Hario coffee glass. All good things must come to an end. | Continue reading
I walked to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens, with a friend on March 16, 2024. By ‘walked,’ I […] | Continue reading
Crescent shadows, beams of light, and the Sun seen over my shoulder: A collection of solar eclipse photos from a sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights. | Continue reading
La, the 17-year old co-protagonist of the excellent visual novel True Remembrance, has silver hair. The rest of the cast have seemingly natural and expected hair colors. I study La's unexpected silver mane. | Continue reading
I use the case of an unnaturally intelligent 6-year old visual novel character to describe a specific character-writing flaw in fiction. | Continue reading
I use Retro Dodo's complaints about a dramatic and unexplained decrease in its Google traffic to caution webmasters against relying solely on Google Search to deliver visitors. | Continue reading
A comprehenshive spoiler-lite review of the second season of the Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki anime. | Continue reading
I filtered all headlines and descriptions containing the word "Palworld" from appearing in my RSS and ATOM feed items. I did not know until April 1, 2024, that I also needed to filter "Pal World." | Continue reading
Reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal in March 2024 as we bring the first quarter of the year to a close. | Continue reading
I received a mailing from the NYC Board of Elections about the April 2, 2024 Presidential Primary. I already knew when the primary was but I came away impressed with a pigeon on the mailer. | Continue reading
I go to the grocery store a couple of days a week. The general purpose grocery stores I go to (as […] | Continue reading
The winter 2024 adaptation of A Sign of Affection gave me five articles about anime hair color. Having written so much about it already, I decided to write a full review of the eseason itself, separate from its great hair color topics. | Continue reading
Although I do not use my "smart" TV's operating system and thus cannot buy things from its store, I confidently recommend against buying smart TV games from a smart TV store. | Continue reading
I published an essay about different methods for organizing a collection of RSS/ATOM/JSON feed sources on February 1, 2024. Yukinu, who […] | Continue reading
An unusually detailed computer in episode 11 of Nana, an anime which aired in 2006-2007, set me off on a journey to identify the vintage computer in question. | Continue reading
I question New York City Mayor Eric Adams' describing his city as "the Port-Au-Prince of America" from a political branding perspective. | Continue reading
I question whether Elon Musk can re-brand X into a platform for reading articles when it still carries Twitter's distinct brand and legacy. | Continue reading
I celebrate White Day with Boku no Shokora, an unofficial English translation of an over-the-top doujin visual novel that comes with an entire "White Day Scenario" | Continue reading
I took a rare (and long walk) to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and checked out the Newtwon Creek Nature Walk. I submit for your enjoyment a photograph of a large orange "DONUT FENDER." | Continue reading
Itsuomi Nagi reveals the reason behind his unusual silver hair color in episode 10 of A Sign of Affection. We learn it is not Itsuomi's call, but the "experiment" of his hair stylist friend. | Continue reading
An interesting essay on proving one's humanity on the internet inspires me to take a slightly different look at what it means to create humane writing and media online. | Continue reading
The commencement of crowd-funding for The Minimal Phone, an e-ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard, prompts me to revisit my similar ideal phone concept. | Continue reading
I commemorate the unexpected dominance of my first two articles about hair color in A Sign of Affection in our February article ranking with a history of my anime/manga/game hair color project. Let's start in 2012... | Continue reading
Microsoft's impending discontinuation of Publisher made me recall my experiences using it as the student editor of my high school paper in the late 2000s. | Continue reading