Tuesday, Feb 20, 2024 (Rooted Edition)

Let's check in on the goings on at The New Leaf Journal and related projects...

The New Leaf Journal

I posted my third article on hair color in the ongoing A Sign of Affection anime adaptation.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-sign-of-affection-ep-7-hair-color-notes/

This article covered some interesting hair color notes (interesting if you are a fellow anime hair color anthropologist) from episode 7. It follows my studies of Yuki Itose's hair color in episode 2 and Itsuomi Nagi's hair color in episode 5. See those two articles below:

• https://thenewleafjournal.com/changing-hair-color-in-a-sign-of-affection/
• https://thenewleafjournal.com/itsuomis-hair-color-in-a-sign-of-affection/

The first two hair color articles have been dominating our most-viewed articles as of late. I am heartened to see my anime hair color project gaining traction. See the full collection...

https://thenewleafjournal.com/collection/hair-color-in-japanese-anime-manga-and-games/

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café Social saw one new post today.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/microsoft-publisher-sunset-nostalgia/

Microsoft Publisher is being discontinued. I used Publisher way back in the day when I was senior editor of my high school newspaper to design the newspaper template and format. Seeing it mentioned again felt nostalgic. Of course, it also occurred to me that I thought Microsoft had killed off Publisher a while ago.

Socials

I shared one of my very early New Leaf Journal articles on Mastodon where I featured an original haiku written on my Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator.

https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111964973324340085

I used Ti Connect on Windows for that post. I have not touched Windows since August 2020, so that too was somewhat nostalgic.

Around the Web

A local Brooklyn restaurant was temporarily shut down by health inspectors.

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/99130

Its list of violations is genuinely awe-inspiring. I may have an article on this in the near future because I have a pet theory about dining sheds that I have not yet featured on The New Leaf Journal.