On my mathematics blog I did a Reading the Comics Post, and a gathering-of-recent-content post. Here's that recent content, gathered:
- Here Are Past Years' Pi Day Comic Strips
- Let Me Remind You How Interesting a Basketball Tournament Is
- Reading the Comics, March 14, 2022: Pi Day Edition
- What I Wrote About In My Little 2021 Mathematics A to Z
You know what I'm ready with now? Picture from the pinball league finals back on Tuesday! Well, after two quick puzzles.
The first puzzle, another jigsaw that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger assembled, of classic/retro gaming stuff. When I was a kid we had something in the Tele-games line although I'm not sure it was Super Pong.
A dollar-store puzzle, a mere 500 pieces and small (note the iPod on the right edge, for scale). bunnyhugger quite liked it --- those dollar-store puzzles offer really good value for money --- despite the asymmetry in puzzle pieces (they're all wider horizontally than vertically) making the puzzle easier to do than it could have been. Also, the puzzle held together when she picked the whole thing up, a pretty good accomplishment.
Now to pinball league! Here's the trophies set up for finals. The glass ones were given out to the winners today; the two plastic trophies with figures holding wreaths in the center are for the Zen tournament in two weeks. The deck of cards in the middle was promotion for the novelty-act tournament we're holding this coming Tuesday. And the green ribbons read LOSER. The gnomelike bunny figure in the middle was a gift from MWS.
And the distraction! They've got a band playing league nights, and starting at 7 pm, just like league does. They're fine enough but it would be nice if they started later so we could do most of league without the distraction.
Now imagine five hours of this and you have a pinball tournament. They're playing The Mandalorian, which finally arrived, something like five months after it was originally scheduled for delivery. Stern's been having some problem with its manufacture.
After a couple rounds in our nice neat organization of tournament stuff has gone all to pieces.
Trivia: The Civil Works Administration approved 122 projects for Indiana alone the 20th of November, 1933, and approved 109 more the next day. (The CWA had been created by executive order only the 9th of November.) Source: American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put The Nation To Work, Nick Taylor.
Currently Reading: Across The Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift.
