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Emotional support emu in man's home sparks legal fight: 'I needed this bird'

  Emotional support emu in man's home sparks legal fight: 'I needed this bird' Nicholas Olenik says he’d never experienced grief and depression until his brother and father died in the span of less than two years. “It was just a little much. I never felt that low before, so I was looking for anything (to help),” Olenik, 41, who lives in the Kempsville neighborhood of Virginia Beach, Virginia,  What finally helped was an emotional support animal in the form of an emu, the large flightless bird, prescribed to him by a local psychotherapist, he says. Olenik raised the bird from a tiny chick at his suburban home and felt his mental health improve. “It brought me back to life,” he notes. “It gave me a reason to wake up in the morning.” But when a neighbor complained he was keeping an emu, it set off a legal fight with city officials. The emu industry also cautions against the practice. The American Emu Association doesn’t support keeping emus as pets, warning suburban environmen...
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TTL Computer

  TTL Computer There was certainly no shortage of unique computers on display at the 2021 Vintage Computer Festival East; that’s sort of the point. But even with the InfoAge Science and History Museum packed to the rafters with weird and wonderful computing devices stretching back to the very beginning of the digital age, Alastair Hewitt’s Novasaur was still something of an oddity. In fact, unless you knew what it was ahead of time, you might not even recognize it as a computer. Certainly not a contemporary one, anyway. There’s nothing inside its Polycase ZN-40 enclosure that looks like a modern CPU, a bank of RAM, or a storage device. Those experienced with vintage machines would likely recognize the tight rows of Advanced Schottky TTL chips as the makings of some sort of computer that predates the 8-bit microprocessor, but its single 200 mm x 125 mm (8 in x 5 in) board seems far too small when compared to the 1970s machines that would have utilized such technology. So what is it?...
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