The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
Latest Posts
I learned about an upcoming smartphone called the Lotus Diplomat from an article on NotebookCheck (HT to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony).The Lotus Diplomat looks much like my old BlackBerry Classic, right down to the QWERTY keyboard....
I have seen the famous 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie. But was that the first theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Braum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Had you asked me before November 17, 2025, I may have tentatively guessed it was. But I now...
I recently read a November 23, 2025 Morning Brew report by Adam Epsttein titled America’s oldest sport is drawing up new plays. The artticle is about a new professional lacrosse league called Premier Lacrosse League (“PLL”). To be sure,...
I just published a short post on The Vending Company’s 2025 snacks and drinks survey focusing on my surprise that Pepsi took the first place ranking over Coca Cola (see survey). I focused on the top two in that post, butt I found another...
The Vending Company surveyed 1736 respondents about their favorite snacks and sodas (see survey summary and article about the survey). Pepsi narrowly won the soda category with 207 votes to Coca Cola’s 190. I would have assumed that Coke...
I mentioned in my previous post that I could not send our regular weekly newsletter due to a formatting issue in Buttondown. Fortunately, my support request was answered quickly. It turned out that I had an extraneous tag in the header...
I use Buttondown to host my weekly newsletter, wherein I share links from this site and The New Leaf Journal as well as 21 links from around the web and other news and notes. I had finished drafting my newsletter. Unfortunately,...
On November 25, 2025, President Donald Trump proclaimed that November 27, 2025, would be a National Day of Thanksgiving. From the start of the Proclamation: In 1789, just years after America’s triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary...
Replied to ‘AI elves’ dominating holiday shopping trends, marketing insiders say by Sean Salai (The Washington Times) Digital elves are fast replacing Santa’s helpers when people buy holiday gifts, according to marketing experts who say...
From What are we gonna do about turf fields? by Molly Liebergall in Morning Brew (November 23, 2025): Rip ’em all up, if it were up to NFL players. It seems nothing has been able to stop synthetic fields—not the league’s widespread...
November 25 marks New York’s Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? I humbly cite to me: New York’s Evacuation Day, not to be confused with Massachusetts’ Evacuation Day, is a former New York annual holiday that fell on November 25. It...
I just published my thoughts on chapter 2 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions. I also played through the intermission between chapters 2 and 3, so I will offer some brief takes on what I saw and did. A new area opens up in the over-world in the...
I recently finished chapter 2 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore for the Nintendo Switch. I previously published my thoughts on the prologue, chapter 1, and the first intermission. Continuing with the theme, I now cover chapter 2. The...
“They” say that my main internet writing project, The New Leaf Journal, is one of the “most popular” websites on the world wide web. Many fledgling websites link to my writing because of my big popularity. For example, last January, some...
I have been writing about my play-through of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore (see prologue, chapter 1, and first intermisson takes). I am in the middle of chapter two. While playing chapter 2, I completed a side quest for Kiria Kurono....