Big Dipper riding

I had a relatively slow week for mathematics blog writing. But if you missed any of it, here's the posts.

• Reading the Comics, November 21, 2015: Communication Edition, so named because it mentions some symbols.
• The Set Tour, Part 9: Balls, Only The Insides, another set that gets to be a domain fairly often.
• Reading the Comics, November 27, 2015: 30,000 Edition, commemorating my 30,000th page view on the mathematics blog. And I owe the specific date on which this happened to Apartment 3-G of course.

Et cetera, the usual, Friends page, miscellaneous appeal to RSS feed, on to pictures of Quassy Amusement Park:

This is just the sort of fix you'll get into with giant ceramic snakes, you know. As I said before, this is the part of the park where kids can develop complicated feelings they won't fully understand even when they're grown up.

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Because Quassy park is in New England, they have Fried Dough stands, which is why the park is covered in a thin layer of confectioner's sugar, and the ground can rip your sneakers off if they're not tied tight.

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View of the control panel at the Wooden Warrior roller coaster. The train behind was, I believe, the last cycle of the night.

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The Wooden Warrior roller coaster has a roughly T-shaped layout, and this is a view of the crossbar. The main lift hill is the vertical track on the left.

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View of one of the turnarounds of the Wooden Warrior roller coaster. In the front is track of the surprisingly fast miniature train ride.

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Trivia: In 1870 exports accounted for about 2.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States, about 4.9 percent of France's, and about 12.2 percent of the United Kingdom's. Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped The World, William J Bernstein.

Currently Reading: Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool's Gold, David Rickard.