Piggybacking on Hoopla, your public library may also offer other stuff. My local library also provides access to Kanopy (which wasn’t listed in the slideshow but has a ton of documentaries and other content) among others.

Matthew Sweet says hello from 1991.

If you are no longer able to care for a pandemic pet for any reason (regardless of how specious), be sure to check the paperwork you signed. The shelter I’m at contractually requires people to return the adopted animal to us. We will occasionally make exceptions to that, but we would treat it like a new adoption where…

S-Video cables could also be used for ADB keyboards back in the pre-USB days.  PowerMac 9500 all day.

I volunteer at an animal shelter, and can confirm that a lot of people that adopted dogs should never have done so. Despite being literally closed for two full months during 2020 we adopted out more dogs than we ever had in a year.

I think the chances of humanity coming together in the face of something like this is we’re fucked.

Hes not the first evil person to have this idea!

HE MOTHER NEVER REALLY LOVE HIM

I feel like it is wrong to give you a star for this, no matter how accurate it is.  But, fuck it, it’s 2020 so a star for you dammit.

Check with the shelter ahead of time - the one I volunteer at isn’t currenly accepting walk-ins due to the pandemic so prospective adopters have to make an appointment.

Whatever angle you take on this, make sure you are talking to these people from at least ten feet away.

I beg to differ.

As the oldest generations of professors mostly . . . retire/die off, they are being replaced by non-tenured positions with dramatically lower pay and benefits.

Reminds me of the Homer Simpson app that used to run on Macs in the pre-OSX days. His eyes would just follow the cursor around the screen and every so often he’d utter a quote. If you moused too close to him he’d get angry and say “don’t point that thing at me” and then eat the cursor. A few seconds would go by, he’d…

I’m hoping for “The Cat From Outer Space,” personally.

Some terriers will live to be 15 to 20 years old

Then there’s this bad boy...

It was for me last year, although my mortgage is a few years old.