The past week on my humor blog:
- Spelling And Why Not, some historical nonsense.
- Statistics October: How Good It Is For Me When Longrunning Comic Strips End as I ride that Henry wave into the sunset.
- Statistics Saturday: The Letters Of The Spanish Alphabet turning one silly little joke into the silly little joke done twice.
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Is The Rat Nearing Death Yet? August – November 2018 and no, he's getting farther from death, but the wrong way.
- I’m Sorry, This Is Sitting On My … Oh, Wait. which is a funny title because it's about a group of villains called the Headmen, see, so something sitting on the head would oh just trust me, it parses.
- The Stan Freberg Show: The ninth episode, revisiting the Abominable Snowman and I note something that, I think, is novel about this episode?
- In The Not-Too-Distant Future, Next Christmas, AD and not necessarily in Christmas gifts.
- How To Remember A Fact, this week's big piece, tips you can use!
And that time at Pinburgh 2017 when we'd be in the playoffs and searching for a place in finals:
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bunny_hugger watching a competitor get off to a fair start on Stars.
bunny_hugger getting to the serious work of putting up her own score on Stars.
Sometimes, you have to do a slap-save. (I'm not sure that is actually what she's doing here, but it seems plausible.)
bunny_hugger talking with some of the Michigan Pinball community between her turns at play.
Our tournament official whose name I never did catch, working on keeping all his paperwork straight. Scores were uploaded to Pinburgh's official web site as they were entered so you could follow action quite closely.
Emergency repairs. I was very nervous about Cirqus Voltaire going down, possibly to the point of needing replacement, because I not only knew the rules of the game well but I'd played that exact table and I knew something valuable about its tilt: it was incredibly prone to tilting. I figured the game was my ace in the hole. But the game got back in order (although it needed several more quick repairs), and yes, two of my competitors did tilt at one point or other. So yes, the game was one of my two aces.
Outsiders would never guess how rampant plagiarism is in the world of competitive pinball. (This was not actually the final scores, but wouldn't it be great if it were?)
D Division wouldn't get any trophies. We'd be up for medals. First through fourth place, here. ... Yes, there was an Avatar pinball game.
More emergency repairs. I don't think that playfield glass can be from Stars --- notice the coin box isn't open --- but then it would have to be off Genesis, which I don't think needed any repairs during the tournament. I might be mistaken.
Trivia: During the Space Race the third-floor mission control room at the Manned Spacecraft Center was used for all launches except three Saturn I-B tests, one Saturn V test, and Apollo 7. Those five exceptions used the otherwise identical second-floor control room. Source: Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965 - 1992, Rick Houston, Milt Heflin.
Currently Reading: Popeye, Editor Mike Higgs.
