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I put off doing a Reading the Comics post on my mathematics blog again because I found the chance to talk about drawing stuff instead. Here's the recent set of posts from there, if you missed my RSS feed.
- You Could Help Make an Educational Kickstarter More Successful (but not anymore. They're okay, though)
- How August 2022 Treated My Mathematics Blog: Romania Has Tired Of Me
- Some Fun Ways to Write Numbers but Complicated
- Have You Considered Spending Next Month Drawing Mathematics?
A handful more pictures here of Sylvan Beach nestling in for the night. The rides are closed but we're still hanging around.
Carello's Arcade closing up for the night, a nice counterpart to their opening for the evening (seen earlier).
Somehow that's my only photo of the main ticket booth! The midway games place with the weirdly dated posters is just out of frame to the right here.
On the left, an ice cream shop; the right, a pizza place we didn't eat at. The Sylvan Beach carousel, Galaxi coaster, and Rotor are down this aisle and closing up for the night.
And ... oh! Something or other going on with the Bomber. We watched them doing some kind of maintenance trying to get things going. I really hope it's not my lost pens causing all the trouble.
It seems serious. They would start the machinery up to move the cars a bit again, but I don't know whether they got the problem sorted out.
I don't think that guy was just planning to hit the ride with that stick until it wasn't broken anymore, since if we've learned anything from Roller Coaster Tycoon it's that you fix rides by having the mechanic punch the exit gate.
Trivia: During World War I, under federal pressure, the steel industry adopted the eight hour day ... nominally. In practice, this meant paying workers time-and-a-half for the last four hours of a routine twelve-hour shift. Source: Behemoth: The History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, Joshua B Freeman.
Currently Reading: A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstration the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvia Donmoyer.
