But now we are in luck, beauties everywhere

[austin_dern]

Time for a mathematics post roundup! So, some more Parc Festyland pictures for you.

Festyland park statuary, near the antique-cars ride: one of the rabbits and one of the large snails.

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Festyland park statuary, near the antique-cars ride: remember, the Titanic sank before the discovery of ``too soon''.

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Festyland park statuary, near the 1066 roller coaster and the Kaskade water ride. Do you recognize this ... wooden-barrel spaceship alien-plant growth thing? If you do please tell me what it's supposed to be. We've been debating it for six weeks and have no idea yet.

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And what's been on my mathematics blog the past week? Was it you? If not, then, why not try reading:

• My Mathematics Blog’s June 2015 Statistics, Unabbreviated, the previously missing parts of the June 2015 statistics report.
• A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: step, or, how I disappoint people who want me to be outraged about the Common Core.
• Reading the Comics, July 7, 2015: Carrying On The Streak Edition, about what you might expect.
• A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: tensor, not an Alfred Bester reference.
• Infinite Circle Packings, featuring a beer glass trick to play.
• A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: unbounded, featuring a joke from my college days.
• Slowly Rotating Hyperdodecahedron, a neat picture of something four-dimensional.
• Reading the Comics, July 12, 2015: Chuckling At Hart Edition, in which I finally ask explicitly if people are amused by these comics.

Trivia: Warren G Harding served as basis for the fictional Willis Markham in Samuel Adams's 1926 Revelry and Judson Cumming Hammond in Thomas Frederic Tweed's Gabriel Over The White House. Source: The Uncyclopedia, Gideon Haigh.

Currently Reading: Authority, Jeff Vandermeer.

Comments

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Hindenberg?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It's really much too much a wooden barrel with plants growing out of it, though. I'd wondered if it might be some Melies allusion I had missed, or something like that. It's quite green and a bit alien-looking, not fiery.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Beautiful bunny!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? There's a bunch of rabbit statues, and on the fridge magnets they sell, a rabbit dressed in top hat is among the park icons. I didn't notice the dressed rabbit appearing among the park attractions, though.

[bunny-plush.livejournal.com]

...perhaps the spaceship is a nod to Jules Verne?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It's quite possible. There's a surprising shortage of other obvious Verne references in the park, but that's all right, because it's not like a Fish-O-Plane is an obvious reference to anything either.