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I keep thinking that my humor blog has even more comic strip nonsense than usual each week, and yet this week I think it's true. If your RSS reader didn't serve it up let me give you this chance to catch up with a lot of very silly nonsense:
- MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 2 of 12)
- Again, I Earned a PhD in Mathematics
- Statistics Saturday: US States Spelled Using Only Their Postal Abbreviations
- What I Thought About All the Larry Harmon Popeye Cartoons
- In which my thoughts are with Andy Capp
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Did *anything* happen in The Phantom? June - September 2022
- What My Very Dumb Reason for Being Angry at Crankshaft This Week Is
- MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 3 of 12)
And now let's get back to Sylvan Beach Amusement Park for some pictures, particularly of one noteworthy ride.
The cars of the Tip Top, which have a center post you can use to spin or brake your spinning, depending on how nice your seatmates are.
The control panel for the Tip Top; we love this sort of chunky machinery with switches and stuff.
The maker's plate and various registration stamps for the Tip Top. I'm intrigued that it has this Ontario registry plate even though the ride's been in new York for like forty years at minimum.
Here's the Tip Top tipping its top.
Kiddie Whip ride that the park has; they don't have a full-sie Whip.
Bumper cars in-between bumps.
Trivia: In 1737 Jonathan Hulls patented a steamboat, using a single-acting Newcomen engine with no rotary motion. He proposed to drive the stern wheel with ratchets. Source: Engineering in History, Richard Shelton Kirby, Sidney Withington, Arthur Burr Darling, Frederick Gridley Kilgour. The authors are of the opinion that this could not possibly have worked. Not enough power in the Newcomen engine and not enough transmission of power. Hulls thought it might be a tugboat.
Currently Reading: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolotics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945 - 1999, Erik M Conway. OK so wait, the ozone hole first became general public knowledge in 1985 (one of NASA's satellites had detected it earlier but, because nobody had a theory about the upper stratosphere that explained how there could be such an ozone shortfall they figured it was a bug either in the sensors or in the computers processing data and spent years trying to find the flaw), and the Montreal Protocol was agreed to in 1987, that is, two years later? So we went from ``discovering a massive problem'' to ``taking the action which fixes it'' in less time than it took for us a generation later to go from ``there's a new pandemic'' to ``yeah, whatever, stop harassing the people who refuse to wear masks because the sooner all the genetically inferior die of it the sooner we can forget about them''?
