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Stepped my mathematics blog down to three posts last week, the better to give myself some breathing room before finishing off last year's ever-diminishing A-to-Z. In hindsight, I maybe should not have done the A-to-Z part. Still, here's recent stuff posted there:
- From my Fifth A-to-Z: Oriented Graph
- From my Sixth A-to-Z: Operator
- From my Seventh A-to-Z: Big-O and Little-O Notation
- Some Progress on the Infinitude of Monkeys
- How All Of 2021 Treated My Mathematics Blog
- A Moment Which Turns Out to Be Universal
And now since Livejournal is letting me upload pictures again (it logged me out and I had to log back in, and seems to be letting me do stuff once more), let's look a little more at Crossroads Village. We're getting to the back of the village and the really good part.
Decorations, including Christmas tree stands, in front of the Village church. Also some great reflections in the water that wasn't quite at freezing yet, but so wanted to be.
Here's a couple (not animated) deer in the snow.
And the centerpiece of the Village, as we see it: the antique merry-go-round! And Ferris wheel! And rides that are closed for winter!
The carousel building as framed by the poinsettia arch, a picture we take every single year with different levels of snow on the ground.
The carousel building --- you can see the ticket booth inside --- and the Ferris wheel beyond. This year it was running again.
Looking in on the carousel through the door. Note the sign pointing out the recommendation that everyone wear a mask in indoor settings to protect others.
Trivia: A C Gilbert boasted a circulation of 75,000 for Toy Tips, an advertising publication presented as a newspaper for Erector-Set enthusiasts and sent free to anyone requesting a subscription, for 1921. Source: The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, Woody Register.
Currently Reading: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals, Jeff Rovin. OK, he has an entry for Bernie the Whiffle Hen, but not Eugene the Jeep. Digging around it appears the dividing line is whether the cartoon animal is an actual animal which is at least a coherent dividing line, but, if a Whiffle Hen counts as a chicken then why doesn't Rosebud, the basselope from Bloom County, count as a basset hound? (And Jeeps were explained as what happens when the ``African Hooey Hound'' gets pushed into the fourth dimension, so, why wouldn't he count as a magical dog by that standard?)
