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So between getting some errands done, and getting four different calls from two different recruiters for this job that I already signed with a different recruiter to apply for, and writing up what I know about the end of Funky Winkerbean, and going to Silver Bells in the City, and warming up after Silver Bells in the City, I didn't have time to write anything further today. Here's pictures from Cedar Point from September, instead:
More carp happy at being fed and also wet, which is very relatable.
A ride on Gemini! Unfortunately my pictures are too few to say for sure whether both sides were running. (There's some impossibly wonderful person blocking the view of the blue side's operator's booth which would have a person in it if that side were running.) I think they were and we were surprised because there were so few people riding, when few people riding was a problem in the past.
Cedar Point celebrating five years of the 75th anniversary of their fresh-cut fries (using a recipe they swiped from the original fries licencee back in the 70s). Anyway, as you can see, today's fries were proudly from ... (indifferent shrug).
Picture of Magnum, with a smudge on my lens giving a magical smear of light on the middle of that tree's silhouette.
And hey, those trees! They had been cut down to bare trunks in May and we thought, well, how are they going to survive? And it turns out they look great, so, I guess grounds management knows what they're doing?
Top Thrill Dragster, I think not yet officially announced to have ended the ``Dragster'' phase of its existence, standing in the cloudless sky.
The rather permanent-looking temporary construction fence around Top Thrill Dragster.
Peeking over the fence is some of Top Thrill Dragster's station stuff. Iron Dragon flies behind it.
And here's Dragster's greatest rival, Corkscrew, getting ready to launch another train above the Halloweekends decorations.
One of the two remaining Corkscrew trains making its way to the lift hill.
Another part of the theming to Top Thrill Dragster; I think the Finish Line was gone by the time we visited in late October.
Tracks outside the construction fence suggest this is where they Top Thrill Dragged it away.
Trivia: AT&T experiments on keypads done in the 1960s suggested the fastest dialing could be done by setting the buttons in a semicircle mimicking the conventional rotary dial, and that the most preferred arrangement was two horizontal rows of five buttons each. Source: Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design, Henry Petroski. (The three-rows-of-three-plus-one design was judged to make a simpler design for the initial application and better fit the phone cases already in use.)
Currently Reading: Circling The Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line, Avraham Ariel, Nora Ariel Berger.
