The winter winds will be much colder

[austin_dern]

Filled up my humor blog this week. What with? If you're not following it on RSS, and let's be honest, you're not, you can catch up to it here:

• MiSTed: A Moment of Hack (Part 2 of 2)
• For Those Waiting for My Statistics December Post
• Statistics Saturday: Some Failed Attempts At Finding The Past Tense Of ‘To Glide' After ‘Glided' Looked Weird
• 60s Popeye: William Won't Tell, because in this one, William is Popeye, that's why
• Statistics December: How Can I Care About December 2021 When Wilbur Weston Might Be Dead?
• What's Going On In Mark Trail? Why is Mark Trail worked up about NFTs? October 2021 - January 2022
• In Which I May Have to Cut Back Here for an Exciting New Opportunity
• MiSTed: JSH: So They Lied (Part 1 of 3)

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Finally we get to some of the trees sponsored by local dentists. I don't know why dentists sponsor so many of these trees, but they do. Note the tooth ornaments in this one.

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And here's just some plants that aren't lighted themselves, but that refract the light from the trees behind in this gorgeous way.

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Lights wrapped around the rails for one of the staff buildings.

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And here's the great rainbow wall of lights along one of the longer arching paths; I think it wraps around where they (used to?) have camel rides.

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Here's lights reflected in the frozen-over pond near the sensory garden.

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And here, reflections plus the rainbow wall in the father distance.

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Trivia: Pre-construction estimates for the cost of constructing Rockefeller Center put the ``rock bottom'' price tag for the first group of building at $126 million. The estimate dropped to $115 million by 1932. In the end, by 1935, it had been a total of $102 million. Source: Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, Daniel Okrent.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Volume 17: Sea Dust, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.

PS: From my Sixth A-to-Z: Operator, not a plea to telephone workers here.