I'm lost, I'm lost, find me

[austin_dern]

So of course I'm going to spend the day sharing links to my humor blog from the past week. But I did want people not to miss something funny on birdsite. Failed burrito merchant Scott Adams took a break from creating Dilbert to give the federal government 48 hours to explain its search of Mar-a-Lago to his satisfaction. That deadline passed without response and so he declared he was now entering ``Phase 2''. So, search over there if you'd like to see the Internet cackling at the author of God's Debris.

Anyway here's stuff that I'm the author of:

• MiSTed: The Jovian Jest (part 1 of 4)
• Statistics July: Some Round Numbers
• Statistics Saturday: Articles of Clothing, Ranked by How Good They Are for Containing Portals Usable for Escaping Unpleasant Conversations
• 60s Popeye: Popeye's Pep-Up Emporium, almost your last chance to get Wimpy in shape
• I Am a Real Person in the Year 2022
• What's Going On In Prince Valiant? Where is King Arthur that Arn and Maeve are regents? May - August 2022
• There's a Kickstarter to Preserve Mutt and Jeff Cartoons
• MiSTed: The Jovian Jest (part 2 of 4)

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And here's stuff that I'm the photographer of:

Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain is one of Indiana Beach's three wooden coasters and it's maybe the most intense wooden coaster out there. Part of that is because so much of its structure was built in the building that housed a dark ride, so, it's all incredibly tightly packed and twisty.

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Good view of the wheels for Lost Coaster's train. Note the side and upstop wheels, on the inside and the bottom of the track, which are so important to making a modern coaster possible.

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Lost Coaster uses an elevator to get its train up top. It's an unusual but not unheard-of technique and conserves even more space for this tiny ride.

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Lost Coaster train going uphill; a lot of the ride, it gets hard to be sure just which way you're going, especially if you're one of the half of the riders facing backwards.

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And here's Polyp, a Monster-type ride that unfortunately wasn't running when we visited. Polyp had been in the Kiddieland Amusement Park of Melrose Park, Illinois until that park closed in 2009. Many of Kiddieland's rides, including their wooden roller coaster, were relocated to other places; their Ferris wheel and kiddie hand car rides moved to Nelis's Dutch Village in Holland, Michigan, so we've seen but not ridden them.

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And here's Cyclone, their new roller coaster and the one we didn't realize was there. Even when we got on it, we thought it was Tig'rr Coaster, which is actually on the other shoreline of the park. Because we didn't realize this was a new coaster at the time I don't have good photographs of it, this time.

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Trivia: The San Antonio, one of Magellan's fleet of ships, mutinied and returned to Spain rather than enter the Straits of Magellan. Source: The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, Amir D Acel.

Currently Reading: King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor, Paul Willetts.

Comments

[selki]

Polyp is to me a creepily evocative amusement ride name! :-)