I have a callus on my finger and my shoulder's hurting too

And how's the humor blog going? If you havne't been reading it yourself, here's a fresh chance. The Statistics Saturday post turned out to be quite popular.

• In Which I Discover A Way To Make A Modest But Respectable Sum Of Money
• Some Dubious Things To Do With Robots
• Statistics Saturday: Which Side Of The Road Various Countries Of The World Drive On
• What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? October 2017 – January 2018
• In Which I Ask For A Favor
• The Seventeenth Talkartoon: Teacher’s Pest
• In Which I Am Haunted By Music Of Days Past
• How To Not Be Overly Organized

And how close would we get to the virtual reality roller coaster? Watch.

I forget what queue this is for but I so rarely get amusement park photos from above something that I'm tickled by it.

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Park squirrel! Didn't spot a chipmunk at this park but that's all right. We love catching wildlife who do the best they can with this weird scenario.

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The now-retired queue for the Chaparral Antique Cars ride. The sign, annoyingly, says that the entrance ``has been relocated back to it's [sic]original entrance in the Texas section near the New Texas Giant'' and don't think we were not upset about that.

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We did not use the Virtual Reality goggles on Shock Wave and so do not know what about the experience makes it inappropriate for those under 13 but I guess we have to conclude it's Cinemax-grade light porn.

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Spot the kid clinging to the Shock Wave bars who can't see the Virtual Reality! Also spot the kid in the background far right rolling her eyes into Oklahoma.

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Shock Wave is a fairly average ride, probably why it was suitable for a Virtual Reality experiment to draw interest. But it does have this nice segment where it runs at ground level, and that's exciting for everyone. Roller coasters put a lot of stock in speed but don't often enough appreciate that it's faster if you're near something.

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Trivia: Astraea, the fifth asteroid discovered, was found by Karl Ludwig Hencke in December 1845. He had begun searching for asteroids in 1830. Two years later he discovered the asteroid Hebe. Source: In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe, Richard Baum, William Sheehan.

Currently Reading: The Complete Peanuts, 1997-1998, Charles Schulz. Editor Gary Groth.

PS: Wronski's Formula For Pi: Two Weird Tricks For Limits That Mathematicians Keep Using.