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.
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Quoted Zantigo (St. Paul, Minnesota) by saundersreed (Atlas Obscura) Founded in Minneapolis 7 years after Taco Bell, Zantigo (named Zapato at that time) had a similar model of rearranging the same array of a few ingredients to fill out a menu of Mexican-American dishes. After growing to 82 restaurants by 1986,...
Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? My new (old… 2000 model) atomic G-SHOCK has arrived. 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dreamcast watch looks cool. The other two are a bit too dark...
Quoted What is a Visual Novel? (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction) A Visual Novel (VN) is a digital narrative focused game that requires interactions where the player must be able to impact the story world or the story’s progression. The story and interactions are most commonly presented through a...
My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby steps to giant strides and all. I took this photograph in the evening on April 13, 2026. I do not remember exactly where....
Quoted The Sadness of Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Onosato's Poor Performances and Defeats at the Nagoya Tournament (Sumostats) Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7) and Hokutoumi (9-6)—that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach double-digit wins and...
I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting update) and trying to launch KOReader would freeze the device. My first idea was to update manually by connecting the...
Quoted Celebrating the nation's strengths, beauty for the big 2-5-0 by Letters to the Editor (Chicago Sun-Times) British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the rebels after the Battle of Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781. But, critically, the Treaty of Paris — granting independence to the new nation of former colonies —...
Quoted I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem by Mark MacNamara (Nautilus) With genial candor, Hart presents himself as a model drug user. 'I am now entering my fifth year as a regular heroin user,' he writes. 'I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have. Each day, I meet my parental, personal, and...
Replied to Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026 by Josh K (tachiai.org) M7E Kotoeiho 11-4 – Led the basho after 10 days before running into trouble, having adjusted to the higher level of competition at his highest ever rank. Despite being knocked out of the race, finished strong with wins against two...
Replied to Nagoya Basho Predictions by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The Emu Café Social) In the spirit of putting my picks on record, I will pick the eight wrestlers who I think will reach double-digit wins [in the Nagoya Basho]. On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of...
Replied to 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page by Herbert Lui (herbertlui.net) A good article can hit the front page with none of these tactics. But executing all of them perfectly won’t save an article that isn’t any good. I read a post by Herbert Lui titled 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front...
Replied to Tadej Pogacar explodes the historic Alpe d'Huez record! (climbing-records.com) 1. 2026: 35:25 Tadej Pogacar 23.38 km/h. 2. 1995: 36:40 Marco Pantani 22.58 km/h. 3. 1997: 36:53 Marco Pantani 22.45 km/h. 4. 1994: 37:15 Marco Pantani 22.23 km/h. 5. 2004: 37:36 Lance Armstrong 22.02 km/h. I haven’t watched...
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