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And on to another busy week at my mathematics blog. What might you have had on your Reading Page if you added this to it?
- Reading the Comics, August 9, 2017: Pets Doing Mathematics Edition
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Gaussian Primes
- Reading the Comics, August 12, 2017: August 10 and 12 Edition
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Height Function (elliptic curves)
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Integration
- Reading the Comics, August 15, 2017: Cake Edition
Plus, What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? May - August 2017 So that should clear some things up. And now the big moment ... our last ride on Mean Streak!
Catching the sunset behind Mean Streak as the green train makes one of its last ascents.
Finally! We waited for a front-seat ride and here we are, ready to get it when the green train pulls out.
Ride operator taking a picture for the people in the front row.
Our chariot awaits! The gold train approaching the station for what would be our final ride on Mean Streak. Note the hill it drops down, a bunch of gravitational potential energy that couldn't be put to some entertaining use.
The pall-bearers gathered as nearly off-stage as possible. The eulogy for Mean Streak was being delivered here, even as the ride was still, you know, crowded and running two trains. (The third had already been taken off and set up as a prop in the ride graveyard.)
o/` People take pictures of the summer ... o/` The funeral ceremony for Mean Streak, guarded by people recording or photographing the whole thing. Behind it, Mean Streak rumbles on, heedless of the jokes about how rough it supposedly was
Trivia: Light bulbs became a comic strip standard for representing inspiration only in the 1930s. Source: American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny, Christopher Miller.
Currently Reading: A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game, Jenny Uglow.
