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[austin_dern]

The start of the End 2016 A To Z on my mathematics journal gave it a nice busy week. Not so busy as to overflow your RSS feed, but still, busy. Run the past week have been:

• Reading the Comics, October 29, 2016: Rerun Comics Edition, featuring a lot of comics that were in reruns.
• The End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Algebra, starting the sequence off with one of those big important and very-overloaded words.
• End 2016 Mathematics A To Z: Boundary Value Problems, which you learn a lot about in doing differential equations.
• How October 2016 Treated My Mathematics Blog, the readership data review I meant to post on Thursday but forgot.
• Reading the Comics, November 5, 2016: Surprisingly Few Halloween Costumes Edition, rounding up the reasonable number of comics I had to discuss this past week.

Some more of Indiana Beach! We had a grand time so you'll surely like more pictures of it.

Safety sign for the Antique Autos ride. Also note that it is described as a ``Mild Thrill'' ride, leaving me to wonder what exactly a mild thrill is. ``This is great! Sort of!'' Something like that.

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Kid on the Antique Autos ride scared the Wabash Cannonball train is going to run into them. He shouldn't worry. They're on totally different tracks. Just very near one another. There's also the Cornball Express roller coaster in the background.

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Miniature train crossing sign, from the Allan Herschell Company of North Tonawanda, New York. The sign might well date back to the 50s. Herschell specialized in the 50s in Kiddielands and the rides that would fit there.

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Dr Frankenstein's Castle: Indiana Beach's repeat award-winning walk-through haunted house. Dr Frankenstein's animatronic is visible on the balcony on the left side. On the far left is the little shooting gallery and Whac-A-Mole arcade.

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Bit of a closer look at Frankenstein's Castle, so you can see its promise of Fear, Fantasy, and Fun. Also some of its (nonfunctional) gargoyles. And its

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Waiting area for Frankenstein's Castle, with some of the props which give it atmosphere.

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Trivia: Only 108 vessels entered the United States during 1812. Source: Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, Peter L Bernstein. (I'm not clear if this reflects the number of ships arriving from overseas, and whether that reflects best estimates at smugglers or is just ones that came properly through customs. But it was depressed and then war times.)

Currently Reading: The Lost Work of Will Eisner, Editors Andrew Carl, Josh O'Neill, Chris Stevens.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that the (not maybe so) good doctor's waiting room might benefit from, say, a little bit of oozing here and there, especially from the "bad brains" crate (while trying not to invoke the spirit of Tom Servo, lest the populace grow confused).

There is veritably a slew of caption contests in the second photo, but, I'm entirely useless therein. I shall defer to greater, snarkier minds than mine. ^_^

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It might at that! Although I suppose having a functioning puddle of stuff is hard to keep up and the park's got bigger problems right now. (But based on our trip it is recovering with remarkable speed and skill, as if it just needed someone to breathe life back into it.)

I hadn't thought about captions for the second photo there but you're right; it's got a lot of promise.