The New Leaf Journal

I prefer my steak well-done. Not everyone is the same. I share three personal steak-cooking disagreement anecdotes.

The February 2026 snow gets to one side of statues of Christopher Columbus and Robert F. Kennedy near Brooklyn Borough Hall.

Sharing photos of geese on a snow-covered lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, all captured on February 13, 2026.

Documenting snowman (and snow bear?) sightings in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens in late February 2026.

My review of a very short 2018 Japanese horror visual novel called Shiroi Printer. It was released with an English-language version (“White Printer”) that can be selected on the title screen.

After learning that 1972-73 NBA MVP and Hall of Famer Dave Cowens apparently considered making a comeback with the San Antonio Spurs in 1995, 12 years after his last game, I had to conduct an investigation.

The Board of Immigration Appeals published a precedential decision on issues related to marriage fraud investigations. I noticed it published the decision on Valentine’s Eve.

I take a look at the top-three market share in North America for home consoles sold in North America by generation, beginning with the NES-dominated generation 3 and going through Switch’s superlative generation 9.

NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell answers eight questions presented in a Ava’s Space’s Bear Blog blog questions challenge (with one question modified for broader applicability).

Reviewing Christmas Tina, an interesting visual novel set in Tokyo in the late 1980s with Chinese and Japanese voice acting written by Tomo Kataoka and produced by a Chinese studio.

A blog post against defining the indie web by its enemies prompted me to make the positive case for making the positive case for good and humane tech.

I learned about Project Genie and similar “world building” AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to examine humane game development concepts.