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 suspect that most people who follow this site know that my main project is The New Leaf Journal. We control two domains for NLJ: thenewleafjournal and newleafjournal dot com. But there are similar domains out there. I recently came...
From Macy McCue Bell in The Washington Times this morning (link): Many internet users woke up Tuesday morning and logged onto social media, video games or news sites, only to see an error message. An issue with the web infrastructure...
I recently wrote about ordering Copper Moon’s “White Christmas Blend” coffee beans. In my first article (I noted the arrival of the beans in a second article and can now confirm it is good), I noted that I usually buy my coffee beans at...
Replied to Why I Don't Need a Steam Machine by Wouter Groeneveld (Brain Baking) I’d like to tell myself why I don’t really need a Steam Machine. The following list will hopefully make it easier to say no when the buy buttons become...
I subscribe to Anime News Network’s feed. I saw the following headline: My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha TV Anime Reveals 5 More Cast Members, 2nd Promo Video. I have a problem with this headline: One “9” too many. The late great Herman...
Replied to Firefox AI by cybrkyd (Cybrkyd) AI is creeping into my beloved Firefox I use Firefox. I have mostly missed its new “AI features,” but a good post by Cybrkid alerted me to Firefox’s newest in-development AI “feature”: AI...
Five days ago, I wrote about ordering Copper Moon White Christmas coffee after an entry in my feed reader caught my attention. The coffee has arrived. It arrived as promised, well packaged and all. I appreciate the little postcard with...
After finishing chapter 1 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore, I learned that there are between-chapter intermissions. The intermission allows you to roam around town, complete side-quests, and train. I continue from where I left off in...
I read that Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham scored 46 points on 45 field goal attempts in a 137-135 ovetime win over the Washington Wizards on November 10, 2025. This story reminded me of Hall of Fame forward Chris Webber. I...
Three years to the day, I covered the first Veterans Day Proclamation, issued by then-President Dwight Eisenhower 71 years to the day. The proclamations continue. On November 10, 2025, President Donald Trump proclaimed today, November...
I finished chapter one of Tokyo Mirage Sessions: FE just over three weeks after completing the prologue. I published a short “impressions” post after finishing the prologue (see Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Prologue Impressions). Now I will...
Anime News Network reports that “The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie, the compilation film of the television anime … will get a theatrical elease in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and additional Central...
Over on Brain Baking, Wouter Groeneveld offered a critique of the thumbs up reaction emoji, noting correctly that it is an at best ambiguous response to substantive messages. I largely agree with his general critique of emojis and emoji...
From a November 4, 2025 CNBC report: Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding it prevent people from using its artificial intelligence browser Comet to make...
The New York Post reported on what it believes are the five front-runners to be the next New York City schools chancellor. The article leads with the most well-known name of the bunch, Jamal Bowman, whose accomplishments include running...