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  1. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

    I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill three. I had some peppermint castile soap for the job, but I wanted to dilute it. In order to know how much water to add, I needed to know the volume of the soap dispenser. Fortunately, I had a good source: Me. While I did not specifically note the volume in either of my two NLJ articles, I […]

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    #soap #nljaddenda #gingerbreadman #anecdotes
  2. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    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 60 points in a single game (much less 70 or 80 points in a game), I created a comprehensive survey evaluating how many points per game and points per 36 minutes players averaged in the seasons in which they scored 60 or more points at least once (HT Basketball Reference). While looking at my […]

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    #learning2026 #nba #nljaddenda #sports #sportsstatistics
  3. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Takopi’s Original Sin Review Reminds Me of Narcissu

    Cabbage reviwed the anime adaptation of Takopi's Original Sin on her always-fun Cabbage Sorter blog. Takopi was a short six-episode series which aired in summer season 2025. It was one of the last shows I watched before I started failing and fell approximately 2.5 anime seasons behind (thus greatly delaying my 2025 anime review article). I agree in the main with Cabbage's review of Takopi. The show held my attention, but it suffers from giving the impression of being a thought experiment too […]

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    #visualnovels #nljaddenda #narcissu #anime2025 #anime #altogether2005
  4. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn (2021 and 2026)

    At about 4:00 PM on March 12, 2026, a friend of mine who lines nearby in Brooklyn sent me a message on Delta Chat: it's snowing. I turned my head to the right to look out my window. Indeed, it was snowing. The snow would stop and start again. As of 5:12 PM, it is not snowing. This snow in March reminded me of an article I published on NLJ five years ago titled A Brief Mid-March Snow in Brooklyn. Then, like today, snow unexpectedly fell from the sky in March. While I remembered writing the […]

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    #anecdotes #brooklyn #lifeinbrooklyn #nljaddenda #snow #wea
  5. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Remembering to Post to Pixelfed

    I have a Pixelfed account that I use to share better quality versions of photos I post to New Leaf Journal (and more rarely this site). Back in 2021, I published an article about how to follow my Pixelfed account using its ATOM feed. It did "well" when I published it (one of my three most successful articles at the time was my 2020 Pixelfed review, which ended up having its best month in terms of page visits in January 2025, which inspired me to supersede it with a new Pixelfed review) and it […]

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    #atom #fediverse #feeds #nljaddenda #pixelfed
  6. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Sad Update to ACE Academy and Kaori After Story Reviews

    I wrote an article a couple of weeks ago about the "retirement" of visual novel developer PixelFade Studio. I had reviewed two PixelFade Studio visual novels, ACE Adademy (see review) and Kaori After Story (see review), with the latter checking in as my ninth most-visited article of 2025. Sadly, both of those novels and PixelFade's other three finished works have been taken down from the Steam store, as had been planned. I updated my two reviews accordingly. But I have all five PixelFade […]

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    #visualnovels #pixelfadestudio #nljaddenda
  7. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Nostalgic News: Sega 32X Virtua Racing Has Been Decompiled

    On January 30, 2026, Time Extension reported that the Sega 32X version of Virtua Racing has been decompiled. If you are reading this, there is a decent chance you may have questions such as "Sega 32what?" or "do you mean Virtual?" But for me, the headline represented a bit of nostalgia in my Miniflux feed reader. On December 6, 2024, I published an article on The New Leaf Journal titled Musing About Tesla Cybertruck at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The post was prompted by my photo of a Cybertruck […]

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    #anecdotes #cybertrucks #nljaddenda #sega #sega32x #videogamepreservation
  8. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    Revisiting Last Year’s Election Research Article

    One year to the day, I published Trump 2024 vs Bush 2004: State-by-State on The New Leaf Journal. The concept for the article was the striking similarity between the Presidential Election victories of Donald Trump in 2024 and George W. Bush in 2004 in terms of states won, notwithstanding notable differences in their winning coalitions. It was a fun survey, but apart from my research, I must say I created a nice feature image. I placed President Trump's 2024 inaugural portrait and former […]

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    #uspresidentialelections #trump #nljaddenda #gwbush
  9. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    New Newsletter Leaf Journal Sign-Up Page

    I just finished creating and publishing a new version of The Newsletter Leaf Journal Sign-Up page on The New Leaf Journal. It had been a long time since I last changed the page. I improved the structure of the page, beginning by listing different ways people can subscribe to or otherwise follow our Saturday newsletter before explaining what people can expect to find and why I think they should consider reading. One point I highlight is that The Newsletter Leaf Journal is also the official […]

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    #nljnews #nljaddenda #newsletterleafjournal
  10. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

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    I read an article about the completion of the renovation of the Brooklyn Public Library in Gerritsen Beach. Although I am a life-long resident of Brooklyn (NYC) and can point out Gerritsen Beach on a map, I have never stepped foot in the neighborhood, which has its own volunteer fire department owing to its relative isolation and narrow streets.

    While I had not been previously aware that Gerritsen Beach has a public library, I wrote about the renovations of the Brooklyn Public Library branch in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, back in January 2024. According to my reporting (i.e., photographing the relevant signage outside the library), the renovations were projected to be complete within 18-24 months of July 23, 2023. We blew through the outer-limit of that projection nearly five months ago. I have noted on my walks that the Library is still closed, but I did not look into the reasoning. Fortunately, a syndicated copy of the report about the Gerritsen Beach library on Brownstoner included an update about the Carroll Gardens library in the related posts (plus-one for related post links). According to the May 27, 2025 report in Brownstoner:

    Additional funding allocated by state Senator Andrew Gounardes last fall ensured all the required work would be done at once, and officials said the library would be finished in summer 2025. But crews from the city’s Department of Design and Construction recently determined that the building would need additional structural enforcements to support the weight of new high-energy HVAC units.

    My original report noted that one goal of the renovation was to install a new HVAC system in the library. The new HVAC system proved to be more burdensome than originally expected. The report continues:

    Now, according to BPL, DDC plans to wrap up in November 2025, at which point BPL will take over for some additional sprucing up — pushing the reopening date to summer 2026.

    As I noted, I can confirm that the permanent Carroll Gardens Library (there is a temporary library in neighboring Cobble Hill) has not yet re-opened. We will see if the new summer 2026 estimate turns out to be accurate.

    #brooklyn #carrollGardens #library #nljAddenda

    #nljaddenda #library #carrollgardens #brooklyn
  11. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    My Haqqani Bounty Payment Hangs By a Thread

    Back in 2021, I briefly moonlit as an OSNIT analyst and used The New Leaf Journal to inform the United States Government that I had information regarding the whereabouts of Sirajuddin Haqqani, who had a bounty of up to $10 million on his head. By "OSNIT," I mean I shared a news report about Mr. Haqqani being appointed as the new Interior Minister of Afghanistan. Several years have passed. Mr. Haqqani continues to be the Interior Minister of Afghanistan. I have yet to receive an award. […]

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    #nljaddenda #afghanistan
  12. Nicholas A. Ferrell @[email protected]

    On October 20, 2024, I wrote an article about presidential runner-ups with the most recent birth dates. My article was inspired by the fact that prior to the 2024 presidential election, Al Gore, who lost in 2000, was the youngest person to finish runner-up in a presidential election.  I went through all the runners-up to see if Mr. Gore had the longest streak, and learned that he was the record holder.  Mr. Gore had appeared slated to extend his mark prior to July 2024 since both of the presumptive major party nominees were older than him.  However, the presumptive Democratic nominee, now-outgoing President Joe Biden, withdrew the race and was replaced by the Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is just more than 18 and one-half years younger than Mr. Gore. I noted the possibility that Mr. Gore’s streak would end and indeed it has. As Donald Trump prepares to join Grover Cleveland as the only men to serve two non-consecutive terms as president, Ms. Harris replaces Mr. Gore as the presidential runner-up with the most recent birth date. This is admittedly a very niche record, but Mr. Gore’s holding the mark for six elections is a fun oddity, especially in light of the fact that he was not an exceptionally young major party nominee in 2000. I will add a few small updates to my research article in the coming days.

    https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/al-gores-historic-streak-ends/

    #elections #nljAddenda #usPresidentialElections

    #uspresidentialelections #nljaddenda #elections
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