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ege's weblog
ege's weblogAug 1, 2026
I failed JulyReply
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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 31, 2026
Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times
I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the paper published America 250-inspired letters to the editor. One of these letters, from Harvey...
4th of julybacklinks
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 31, 2026
Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times
I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the paper published America 250-inspired letters to the editor. One of these letters, from Harvey J. Graff of Lincoln Park, made the case that America's true birthday falls in 1783 (marking The Treaty of Paris), not 1776.While the Treay of Paris is worth commemorating (perhaps that is in order for my […]
4thOfJulybacklinks
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 31, 2026
Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism
A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would be a very sober take (or the opposite, either/or). Against my better judgment,...
crimedrugs
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 31, 2026
Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism
A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would be a very sober take (or the opposite, either/or). Against my better judgment, I read the interview. At first my most novel thought was "of course he's a professor at Columbia." But then I thought a bit more and had another novel thought. Over on The New Leaf Journal, I have been a long-time […]
crimedrugs
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 31, 2026
Responding to Nagoya Basho Grades
I read and enjoyed Josh K's Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026, referring to the Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament. He gave out four A's to M7E Kotoeiho, S2W Aoniishki (A+ to the winner), S1E Atamijfuji, and OE Kirishima. I cannot disagree with any. The latter three competed in a playoff for the title,...
JulyReplysports
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 31, 2026
Responding to Nagoya Basho Grades
I read and enjoyed Josh K's Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026, referring to the Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament. He gave out four A's to M7E Kotoeiho, S2W Aoniishki (A+ to the winner), S1E Atamijfuji, and OE Kirishima. I cannot disagree with any. The latter three competed in a playoff for the title, so I will focus on Kotoeiho, who was one win out of the playoff. He was wrestling at what was by far his career high rank at M7E after having made a title run from lower in the […]
JulyReplysports
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 25, 2026
On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page
I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say with certainty that I never employed any of Mr. Lui's recommendations or things not to do. I...
backlinkshacker news
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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 25, 2026
On Tactics to Hit the Hacker News Front Page
I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page. I had six New Leaf Journal articles make Hacker News page one between April 2021 and January 2024, and can say with certainty that I never employed any of Mr. Lui's recommendations or things not to do. I also never submitted any of my own articles to Hacker News (the only thing of mine I submitted was my GitHub repository on Bing Search blacklisting). But I must quibble with Mr. Lui's assertion that only […]
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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 24, 2026
Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15
I haven't watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I stay abreast of the big stories, as I proved last year with my articles on the superhuman...
JulyReplyroad bicycle racing
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 24, 2026
Tadej Pogacar Shatters Pantani’s 1995 Alpe d’Huez Record by 1:15
I haven't watched the Tour de France since 2016, mainly due to the fact I dropped cable and would need to subscribe to a streaming service that may or may not work with my all-Linux set-up. But I stay abreast of the big stories, as I proved last year with my articles on the superhuman feats of Tadej Pogačar on Hautcam and later on Mont Ventoux. Back when I was following cycling closely from 2009-2016ish, there were certainly questions about some of the performances, but for the most part […]
JulyReplyroadBicycleRacing
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 22, 2026
Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?
I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was "they were never cool." But I read on to see his perspective. While I and many others serve as proof that asserting that "everyone does it" is flippant, he does offer a...
aiblogging
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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 22, 2026
Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?
I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was "they were never cool." But I read on to see his perspective. While I and many others serve as proof that asserting that "everyone does it" is flippant, he does offer a practical point (from a non-AI skeptic perspective) that enough people use AI images to illustrate blog posts that it has the effect of "look[ing] like a 2000 PowerPoint using animated […]
aiblogging
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 22, 2026
Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test
I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other "minimalist" phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my "ideal" phone concept (creative concept photography included), I am always interested in seeing new ideas in the space. I called for open source software, QWERTY keyboard, and an e-ink screen. The...
einkJulyReply
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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 22, 2026
Light Phone Continues to Fail QWERTY Test
I have read some articles about the Light Phone and other "minimalist" phones. As someone who wrote not one but two articles on my "ideal" phone concept (creative concept photography included), I am always interested in seeing new ideas in the space. I called for open source software, QWERTY keyboard, and an e-ink screen. The Light Phone, which seems to be one of the more oft-covered "minimalist" phones, checks the e-ink box, but not the other two. Does that change with the new Light Phone? […]
einkJulyReply
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 17, 2026
Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan
SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the "Around the Web" secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some "news" news, see for example an article I wrote based in significant part on a SoraNews24 report about dress code rules in Japanese...
japanJulyReply
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 17, 2026
Cup Noodle (Cold Edition) in Japan
SoraNews24, which covers news from Japan, is a long-time member of my feed collection and a regular article contributor to the "Around the Web" secution of my weekly newsletter. They cover some "news" news, see for example an article I wrote based in significant part on a SoraNews24 report about dress code rules in Japanese schools. But they also cover less serious matters such as food and snack trends in Japan. I recently read an article about Nissan introducing code Cup Noddle instant […]
japanJulyReply
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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 15, 2026
Using AIM Until the Bitter End
Hackaday published an article authored by Tyler August titled AIM-ing For A More Open Platform Than Discord, wherein he summarized an article on running a self-hostable open-source implementation of AIM's underlying OSCAR protocol (see Here's how I host my own AIM server at Veronica Explains). I appreciate the project to bring back AIM because I used AIM for many years. My own use of AIM inspired me to reply to one minor part of Mr. August's report. He began the article by asserting that […]
aimanecdotes
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 15, 2026
Fortunate NBA Champions (2001-2016)
Writing for The Pudding, Russell Samora recently put together a list of the "most ethical" NBA champions, wherein he used a formula (with many entertaining graphs) to determine, going back to 2001, which NBA champions benefited the least and most from missed games against their playoff rivals. I followed the NBA closely for most of...
basketballJulyReply
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 15, 2026
Fortunate NBA Champions (2001-2016)
Writing for The Pudding, Russell Samora recently put together a list of the "most ethical" NBA champions, wherein he used a formula (with many entertaining graphs) to determine, going back to 2001, which NBA champions benefited the least and most from missed games against their playoff rivals. I followed the NBA closely for most of the relevant period, let us say 2001-16, so I can offer my own, non-stat-infused take, on which champions had the most good fortune in the misfortune of their […]
basketballJulyReply
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 14, 2026
DRM-Free Ebook Sources
I read a blog post on Schemescape titled Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader. I have one, and I will have everyone know that I ordered mine in fall 2025 after reading about it in Liliputing before it apparently became an online "thing." But that aside, the Schemescape post, in noting that the X4...
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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 14, 2026
DRM-Free Ebook Sources
I read a blog post on Schemescape titled Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader. I have one, and I will have everyone know that I ordered mine in fall 2025 after reading about it in Liliputing before it apparently became an online "thing." But that aside, the Schemescape post, in noting that the X4 does not support DRM-protected books, provided a helpful list of resources for DRM-free books. In the area of stores, the post includes StoryBundle, Humble Bundle, the DRM-free sections of […]
drmebooks
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and tea
The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaJul 13, 2026
Favorite Summer Songs
Laura Cameron at The Well-Apportioned Desk is wrote a post titled Journal Prompt July. She decided to tackle July journal prompts compiled at the BaronFig blog in 2024. While I do not have a journal, this struck me as promising  JulyReply material, so I looked at the five prompts she singled out as interesting examples and noted "What is your favorite summer song and why?" As I have noted in NLJ articles on the ending song in season one of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten and my […]
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The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJul 12, 2026
The Sinking of Victory Chimes
In late 2024, I wrote a research article on Victory Chimes, a historic schooner that was docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park and was in the process of being converted into a restaurant boat. My article perfomed well on NLJ, earning a Wikipedia citation and rating as my 22nd most-visited article of 2025. Granting its past...
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