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First Panel: I've got a record. I was Zero Cool. Second Panel: Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Third Panel: Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988.

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

I had forgotten how lush and green the mall was when it first opened.

YouTube video by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV) CBS Special - "The Fantastic Funnies" [with Loni Anderson] - WBBM-TV (1980)

To celebrate Loni Anderson’s life, watch this absolutely bizarre tribute to newspaper comics that she hosted. Features some of the only animations of some comics. youtu.be/UnZodlc0UyE?...

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ has died Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

Popular 1980s actor Loni Anderson of the hit TV series 'WKRP in Cincinnati' has died www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/l...

black and white dog pulling a tennis ball out of a tub full of water

bobbing for tennis balls

4:46 < Maintenance Group > Today 10:17 AM amed the conversation "Maintenance Group". Today 10:18 AM , changed the group photo. Put these phones down and go to work, if whoever you're talking to or texting is more important than you doing your job you are more than welcome to go home and join them. We are here to work not talk on the phone this is not a call center. Today 4:40 PM 4g whispering pines toilet stopped up I'm here now The sender and other recipients are not in your contact list. Report Junk + IMessage

now I know how that reporter felt when he got added to the text chain about the military secrets by accident. if anything scandalous comes out about this maintenance crew in Phenix City, Alabama I’ll be sure to let blue sky know first. 

i know that smell

I do miss the days of going to Mama Sid's for pizza and then buying my comics at Vinyl & Videos. Based on the new releases we guessed this was from around 1986 or 1987.

lighthouse at sunset

sailboat on a blue lake with mountains in the background

yellow flowers growing in rocks at a lake

sailboat with sunsetting and in the background

Some parting shots of Lake Champlain

a used book store with a stool and a box of comics

a neatly organized comic shop

cement baby heads

cover of book called Feel the Bern with an illustration of Bernie Sanders and a brunette woman sitting in rocking chairs.

Wednesday was our last day in Burlington and we did some shopping. We went to the UVM bookstore, a curiosity shop on Church St., a used book store called Speaking Volumes, and Earth Prime Comics. Yes, there exists a cozy Bernie Sanders mystery.

tiles embedded in a sidewalk

Don’t Be Part Of The Problem. Be The Whole Problem.

I went once before almost 40 years ago. It’s a lot fancier now!

reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?

mural next to a window labeled Hongs Chinese Dumplings

Masonic Temple BUILDING ERECTED BY THE GRAND LODGE OF VERMONT F AND AM AL 5897 AD 1897 DANIEL N, NICHOLSON GRAND MASTER

half a pizza in a box

sunset over a lake and parking lot

then a walk to pick up dinner and watching the sun set from
the window.

a beach with mountains in the background

* ThE BURLINGTON EARTh CLOCK * * The Burlingron Earth Clock is a 43½-foot circle of 14 granite stones that creates a clock, compass and calendar. The stones weigh between 3.5 and 20 tons. through the cycle of seasons. The Earth Clock measures the sun's journey north and south along the horizon Seasonal Change Pol * In the center of the circle is a sundial. When you stand on the date line in the center of the sandial, your shadow tells the time of day. We invite you to sit awhile. Breathe. Enjoy the view. Perhaps, in the stil ness, you'll renew your connection to the rhythm and cycles of nature. How to use the Earth Clock Stand in the center and look west to the Adirondack Mountains. The five stones on that side mark the sunset at the Solstices, Equinoxes and the mid-points between these times of the year. Understanding the Astronomy Equat hourtor a 20) of day and night Seasonal change point (-May 5) Seasonal change point (-February 4) Earth closest to sun (-January 4) Summer Solstice Longest day (-June 21) Earth (-December 22) Earth farthest from sun (-July 4) Seasonal change point (-August 7) Seasonal change point (-November ") The filt of the earth's adis as it orbits the sun causes the seasonal change of the sun's location on the horizon. to deepest How to use the Sundial Stand on the big circular stone in the center of the earth clock. When you stand on today's date, your shadow will point to solar time time by the sun) on the oval stones Solar time varies because the earth orbit is elliptical and its axis is tilted. CONVERTING SOLAR TIME TO CIVIL TOME: Autumnal Equinox Equal hours of day and night (-September 23) Croated by Circles for Peace, a Vermont nonprofit organization that believes witnessing the rhythms and cycles of nature can help restore inner peace and inner strength. www.circlesforpeace.org The stones on the East side of the circle, from the North to the East. to the South, are spaced 301 apart, allowing astronomical observation.

a circle in grass with months surrounded by small stones in a circle

stones surrounding a small stone disc in grass

then back to Burlington to see
the Earth Clock

sour dough starter named Guinevere

sign reading LAMiNATED PASTRY INTENSIVE BAKING SCHOOL

historical marker reading : BASIC: THE FIRST USER-FRIENDLY COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE In 1964, Dartmouth College math professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz created one of the first user-friendly computer programming languages, called Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC made computer programming accessible to college students and, with the later popularity of personal computers, to users everywhere. It became the standard way that people all over the world learned to program computers, and variants of BASIC are still in use today. 2019

plants in a greenhouse

then King Arthur Flour, a drive through of Dartmouth, and a green house at a rest stop.

man blowing glass

close up of man blowing glass into a christmas tree

covered bridge and waterfall

and saw glass blowing at Simon
Pearce

Small house and camper painted with cows

grave stone with the following text : FRESH GEORGIAPEACH Fresh-picked peaches trucked from Georgia Tasted great but couldn't last 'Cuz Georgia's quite a-ways away & trucks don't go that fast. 1986-1991

large vats labeled sugar, milk, and cream

Went to Ben and Jerry’s

green plants on the foreground with a lake and mountains in the background

lake with a small lighthouse and boats

lake with boats under a cloudy sky

Lake Champlain, Burlington, VT.

sculpture of sleeping gnome under a mushroom

mural of flying bird on brick wall

silhouette of flying monkey on top of a brick building

multi colored mural on brick wall

walking around Burlington, VT.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Wore the Gordon Gartrell Shirt Like No Other Remembering 'Cosby Show' star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who died July 20, with a flashback to a classic episode about a Gordon Gartrell designer shirt.

I wrote about Theo Huxtable wearing the Gordon Gartrell knockoff shirt, the comic gifts of the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and the complicated feelings of watching other actors shine on The Cosby Show:

Cher’s dad is impressed she negotiated higher grades. he is sitting at a desk, she is picking a lemon from a tree outside the window.

Inflight entertainment on the way to Vermont. Happy 30th Clueless, i have seen you a lot of times.

Look Out. 2026.

Replay All Time on Apple Music Playlist · 100 Songs

According to Apple Music, these are my most played songs of all time.

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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

Superman movie poster

time for the movie!

Post a song from the year I turned 12? hello mr. springfield.

yeah but Kamala had a weird laugh

Gidget the dog approves of this episode.

I was at Kenny Rogers’ house while Sarah Purcell and Byron Allen talked about what a hard life Skip Stephenson had.