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Had another week on my mathematics blog where I wrote about the mathematically-related at least. Here's recent postings from there:
- Here's the 157th Playful Math Blog Carnival
- Reading the Comics, August 5, 2022: Catching Up Edition
- Reading the Comics, August 14, 2022: Not Being Wrong Edition
- You Could Help Make an Educational Kickstarter More Successful (not anymore you can't; the funding period ended the 1st of September. But they reached all but one of their stretch goals, so it did turn out well enough.)
Strip of runes in the pavement in front of the queue for Time Warp, the former Lara Croft ride.
Decorations for the Flight Deck queue. This ride --- yet another twin of Michigan's Adventure's Thunderhawk and Every Six Flags Park's Mind Eraser --- was originally called Top Gun and the Kings Island version of this has everything set up to be a vaguely US Air Force Base. Here, it's not all that different.
Missing block of decor, one of several, in a tunnel shortly before the ride station. There are a couple of these ... cloud? ... shaped featureless blanks.
And here's the station, with a mock air traffic control tower, and the lift hill. And hey, what's that in the control tower? COMPUTER, ENHANCE.
Yeah, they set up a mannequin there to be the Air Traffic Controller! I hope it's a mannequin.
Canadian fighter jet prop on display near where the entrance and exit queue rejoins the main body of the park.
Trivia: In July 1686 Edmond Halley --- in one of his first projects as salaried clerk to the Royal Society --- proposed the triangulation of England, for the purposes of better establishing the locations of things. The Royal Society agreed to give to Halley £50 ``or fifty copies of Willoughby's History of Fishes'' to support the project. The triangulation of England would have to wait for the Ordnance Survey, next century. Source: Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, Lisa Jardine. I mean, yeah, £50 went farther back then, but even Halley pointed out that wouldn't nearly cover his personal costs.
Currently Reading: All Natural Pogo, Norman Hale. Hale has a bunch of essays here, several in a row exploring the morality and structure of the animal society as seen, particularly in the comic books, but also the comic strip. And since the comic books started with even more animal-like behavior, like with a story where Albert literally tries to eat Pogo, and that legacy continued a good while. So a lot of the tone here feels like Hale sharing his many, many thoughts about how vore could be just fine, really, and think of all these cases. And, like, yeah, it is all stuff drawn from the comic but it also feels like someone wondering why all the Rorschach ink blot cards are of maws with awesome tongues.
