Zane Roskoph
@scholarerrant.bsky.social
Birder. Photographer. Traveller. Population ecologist. Compulsive collector of information. Sewage & wastewater treatment specialist. BAs in evolutionary biology and psychology (CWRU), MS in biology (Rutgers). Be warned, there will be puns. He/him.
Speaking as a WWTP employee, I thank you.
I can also state that, at least in NJ, unless you’re in a combined sewer area, that would be out of the sewer authority’s jurisdiction. (It would be NJDEP’s, which is much, much worse from a violator’s perspective.)
I can also state that, at least in NJ, unless you’re in a combined sewer area, that would be out of the sewer authority’s jurisdiction. (It would be NJDEP’s, which is much, much worse from a violator’s perspective.)
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Speaking as a WWTP employee, I thank you.
I can also state that, at least in NJ, unless you’re in a combined sewer area, that would be out of the sewer authority’s jurisdiction. (It would be NJDEP’s, which is much, much worse from a violator’s perspective.)
I can also state that, at least in NJ, unless you’re in a combined sewer area, that would be out of the sewer authority’s jurisdiction. (It would be NJDEP’s, which is much, much worse from a violator’s perspective.)
For an alternative take:
Please do, but then don’t complain when your local wastewater treatment authority has to raise rates to cover the overtime on holidays.
Please do, but then don’t complain when your local wastewater treatment authority has to raise rates to cover the overtime on holidays.
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For an alternative take:
Please do, but then don’t complain when your local wastewater treatment authority has to raise rates to cover the overtime on holidays.
Please do, but then don’t complain when your local wastewater treatment authority has to raise rates to cover the overtime on holidays.
This is pod of orcas versus seal on an ice floe.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is pod of orcas versus seal on an ice floe.
This makes me glad that the worst I had to deal with when I was a TA (years ago) was when two lab partners co-wrote a lab report and justified it with, “You didn’t say we couldn’t do that. And it’s clearly our own work since we each did part and turned in our own copy.”
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This makes me glad that the worst I had to deal with when I was a TA (years ago) was when two lab partners co-wrote a lab report and justified it with, “You didn’t say we couldn’t do that. And it’s clearly our own work since we each did part and turned in our own copy.”
Well, as one ecologist and evolutionary biologist to another, I say a well earned congratulations!
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Well, as one ecologist and evolutionary biologist to another, I say a well earned congratulations!
If it helps, even though I was only three when Carson retired, I understood that reference.
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If it helps, even though I was only three when Carson retired, I understood that reference.
The third sign idea may not technically be true, but it would be very on brand.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The third sign idea may not technically be true, but it would be very on brand.
Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.
October 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.
Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our dog Ursa sits in almost exactly the same way, though she usually trades some of the poise and balance for comfort.
How about a compromise? Two meals per day, but one has to be either a moose leg or waffle mountain.
September 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How about a compromise? Two meals per day, but one has to be either a moose leg or waffle mountain.
But who’s the Mastermind?
September 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
But who’s the Mastermind?
Should I be concerned that I found that price tag for…that even more disturbing than the creepy dolls?
August 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Should I be concerned that I found that price tag for…that even more disturbing than the creepy dolls?
Good to hear they’re staying relatively stable!
-Signed, the guy whose masters’ thesis was on age-structured modeling of northern gannet populations.
-Signed, the guy whose masters’ thesis was on age-structured modeling of northern gannet populations.
August 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Good to hear they’re staying relatively stable!
-Signed, the guy whose masters’ thesis was on age-structured modeling of northern gannet populations.
-Signed, the guy whose masters’ thesis was on age-structured modeling of northern gannet populations.
What would be your opinion on specific, narrow exceptions similar to those found in attorney/client privilege? I’m thinking the crime/fraud exception as an example.
July 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
What would be your opinion on specific, narrow exceptions similar to those found in attorney/client privilege? I’m thinking the crime/fraud exception as an example.
I honestly think he’d be one of the last “blue dog” Democrat holdouts based on economic and environmental policy and the combination of a mix of political calculus re. how entrenched the two parties are with sheer stubbornness on not wanting to give anyone the satisfaction of making him move.
July 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I honestly think he’d be one of the last “blue dog” Democrat holdouts based on economic and environmental policy and the combination of a mix of political calculus re. how entrenched the two parties are with sheer stubbornness on not wanting to give anyone the satisfaction of making him move.
Not just that stage.
For that twenty minutes, he was the single most powerful person on Earth.
For that twenty minutes, he was the single most powerful person on Earth.
July 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not just that stage.
For that twenty minutes, he was the single most powerful person on Earth.
For that twenty minutes, he was the single most powerful person on Earth.
I’ve said on numerous occasions that, for the duration of Queen’s set at Wimbley that day, Freddie Mercury, not Reagan or Gorbachev or Thatcher, was the single most powerful person on Earth, period.
July 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’ve said on numerous occasions that, for the duration of Queen’s set at Wimbley that day, Freddie Mercury, not Reagan or Gorbachev or Thatcher, was the single most powerful person on Earth, period.
I read part of this as trying to distance as many people as they can before it comes out that whatever the specifics are were common knowledge in GOP circles and hushed up.
July 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I read part of this as trying to distance as many people as they can before it comes out that whatever the specifics are were common knowledge in GOP circles and hushed up.
Never before has a dog swimming more warranted Yakky Sax.
July 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Never before has a dog swimming more warranted Yakky Sax.