A rare, for these weekdays, instance where I don't have any new mathematics blog post! I just have my usual humor blog posts, a week's worth, to wit:
- A Fluid Dialogue which was last week's big piece and good luck reading.
- Today in how pop culture overwrote the part of me that has personality with Freakazoid references for crying out loud.
- Statistics Saturday: Top Five Letters In October which is silly but also really easy to read.
- 60s Popeye: The Glad Gladiator and wait, is that Ham Gravy? I think that’s Ham Gravy! Plus some really obscure Popeye-universe characters, for some reason.
- So I only just today got this Far Side comic but I don't feel bad about that exactly.
- What’s Going On In Alley Oop? Is Jules Rivera destroying Mark Trail yet? July – October 2020 A plot recap and, yeah, I know people want me to snark on the new Mark Trail but I'm not ready to do that yet.
- In Which My Fortune Is All But Made with a great realization.
- The Fast New Sound which was this week's big piece and is about something in the actual news.
And now? The last of my DelGrosso's pictures from 2019.
Glimpse of the Tipton Creek, I assume, on the Tipton Creek Railroad ride.
View of the Super Round-Up from behind, as well as some of the picnic areas, as seen from the railroad.
As you get off the railroad you face this slight historic marker, the Original Site of Logan Valley Presbyterian Church, 1845 AD. This is all the information you get about it, and it's so unobtrusive that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger and MWS did not remember walking past it.
On-ride carouselle picture for bunnyhugger. The lighting was not on my side.
A look at some more of the scenic panels on the antique carouselle.
The Dodge'em ride at DelGrosso's.
It's your basic bumper car ride, except that it has that diagonally-slanted wood paneling like your friend with the cool 60s basement had.
Food stand, which might not look like much but DelGrosso's has really good food and if you ever have the chance to get their potato salad, TAKE IT. Like, a bigger order of potato salad than that. As at many ungated parks, there's people who come to DelGrosso's just for the meal.
A closing thought from the park.
Trivia: The electric tabulators of Herman Hollerith's 1890 Census could count up to 9,999 punch cards in a batch. Then the results would need to be copied --- by hand --- for later processing, with totals reset to zero. Source: Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold, Merritt Ierley.
Currently Reading: Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander.
