NLJ Anecdotes

A story about EA considering shoving ads into its AAA games led me to remember a time when you could buy an EA game and own it without ads. That gave rise to other memories.

After writing numerous articles about the A Sign of Affection anime, I saw an ad for the manga on my Kindle lockscreen. While there is no conspiracy, I have a story.

If my modem’s quick start card tells me the default password is “password” — surely the default password is password. Right? Well about that…

I use the 2004 NBA Finals to pin down precisely when I received my copy of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, 20 years ago.

I take the time to describe a positive experience that I had with my ISP.

I had not seen a BLOB DYLAN tag since I was last in Bushwick in 2021 until my first return trip through the neighborhood in May 2024.

Using a Southwest Airlines napkin to give a very late news update to our millions of readers: I have been on vacation.

I wrote a post in November 2023 about having gone more than five years without breaking my Hario coffee glass. All good things must come to an end.

I received a mailing from the NYC Board of Elections about the April 2, 2024 Presidential Primary. I already knew when the primary was but I came away impressed with a pigeon on the mailer.

I took a rare (and long walk) to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and checked out the Newtown Creek Nature Walk. I submit for your enjoyment a photograph of a large orange “DONUT FENDER.”

I commemorate the unexpected dominance of my first two articles about hair color in A Sign of Affection in our February article ranking with a history of my anime/manga/game hair color project. Let’s start in 2012…

Microsoft’s impending discontinuation of Publisher made me recall my experiences using it as the student editor of my high school paper in the late 2000s.