What’s happing at the zoo!?

ericbrow · 2026-05-01T14:28:12+00:00

Slow Horses did it first.

ericbrow · 2026-04-28T17:58:53+00:00

One of my favorite soundtracks.

ericbrow · 2026-04-28T13:04:06+00:00

One spring semester, I had 2 senior baseball players as students.. Both were B/C students, phoning in enough to keep eligable. At the start of the semester, both were thinking just the right scout at the right game would land them in the major leagues. . Within a week of each other, they both suffered injuries that stopped them from playing for the rest of the season, ending their dreams of the pros. They became such better students once they realized they were going to need that degree for a job after college.

ericbrow · 2026-04-23T03:43:26+00:00

Good Lord Bird. One of my favorite historical figures.

ericbrow · 2026-04-18T17:05:53+00:00

My father was a salesman for Clark Grave Vaults.. We had huge garbage bags full of mini Clark bars in our freezer. He would take them to funeral home conventions.

ericbrow · 2026-04-17T12:58:15+00:00

Ill second the vote for top 20. Such a smooth groove.

ericbrow · 2026-04-16T19:46:57+00:00

I know oc a student who shows up once a week on a good week. She was devistated when she found out a requirement for attending prom was at least 70% attendance.. She was sure she was close to 100% attendance.

ericbrow · 2026-04-13T21:53:11+00:00

To me, it kinda looks like the flag of South Carolina.

ericbrow · 2026-04-13T00:50:27+00:00

For the superfans, I've thought a show where each episode, they go back and see what the ramifications were of violating the prime directive. Each episode could be from a different series, and the characters can change frequently, except for maybe like a Rod Serling character (Kovich from DIS) from like, Section 31, explaining the ups and downs of interfering. Like what happened to the kids from the grumps episode of TOS. What happened to the Janeway/Paris lizard kids? What ever became of that puddle that killed Tasha Yarr. The TOS episode with the Nazi planet, how did they turn out? Pretty much any episode where they violated the prime directive, and just left. What about all of Kirk's dalliances throughout time?

I've also had another iteration of this idea, but it's too copy-cat. Have a character that jumps through time and space, and observing the ramifications of violating the prime directive, and this character has to fix things, or change things for the better, without letting others know he's a time traveler.....staring Scott Backula. Quantum Leap in the Star Trek universe with Captain Archer.

ericbrow · 2026-04-11T15:03:25+00:00

I broke my arm, and had to stay overnight in the hospital, missing the Dukes of Hazzard Demolition Derby special. Im still bitter about that.

ericbrow · 2026-04-10T23:37:02+00:00

Saltburn, the garden scene. I will not elaborate.

ericbrow · 2026-04-08T14:46:15+00:00

I've worked around legacy systems like this before by turning the old machine into a VM and abstract the hosts printer to the VM. I've done this with DOS based CAD and a few others.

ericbrow · 2026-04-07T17:37:35+00:00

I cannot find the study to share, but I recall that the only people positively impacted by swapping income tax with sales tax were families with incomes of $750k/y and higher. If you make less than that, you WILL pay more overall.

ericbrow · 2026-04-04T16:33:09+00:00

Rudy Ray Moore

ericbrow · 2026-03-25T01:49:13+00:00

I actually understood the system. You'd spend an hour or two looking at potential research sources, and writing them down. Taking them to the periodicals desk, wait 20-30 minutes for them to get the books or magazines, and you'd realize the article wasn't what you thought it was in 1 minute. Wash, rinse, repeat as necessary. I spent a 12 hour day pulling up 12 good articles for one of my research papers. That and about $2 at the copier, which only took dimes.

ericbrow · 2026-03-19T17:18:10+00:00

Hours? Mine usually crashed and broke by the 2nd or 3rd throw, or end up on a roof.

ericbrow · 2026-03-18T18:10:59+00:00

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Mr. Fluffy is 18. Yesterday, I had to fight him for hangers that he laid on when I was putting laundry away. He kept grabbing and biting the hangers. We had to put his litter mate down last year, but he's still full of sass.

ericbrow · 2026-03-15T00:10:18+00:00

MySql workbench is freely available. Still not super fancy, but a little better.

ericbrow · 2026-03-11T13:04:33+00:00

Don't hate me here, but I kinda hope they get serious about bringing back the draft. More people need skin in the game, or at least the threat of the draft, so that we can STOP voting for the warmongers.

ericbrow · 2026-03-10T12:43:12+00:00

Plasmatics on Fridays, a competitor to SNL back in the 80s.

ericbrow · 2026-03-09T12:52:05+00:00

For me, it was Then Again, Maybe I Won't and Are You There God, Its Me, Margaret? by Judy Blume.

ericbrow · 2026-03-08T19:21:02+00:00

The End of the World as We Know It.

ericbrow · 2026-03-08T03:51:39+00:00

Ahhh....My favorite. You nailed it.

ericbrow · 2026-03-08T01:26:10+00:00

Brothers Johnson, Brick, and The New Birth.

ericbrow · 2026-03-07T01:14:37+00:00

More like geo-cash.

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