Won't you take me to Funkytown?

Had another week on my humor blog of complaining about Funky Winkerbean. Enjoy!

• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 4
• In Which I Am, Once Again, Thrown Off My Game
• Statistics Saturday: Adaptations Of _A Christmas Carol_ Ranked
• Why is everyone mad at _Funky Winkerbean_ this week? (December 18, 2022)
• I Should Have Stuck With the Rubber Band We Got for Free With the Bunch of Radishes
• Yeah, I Need an Extra Day, Sorry
• What's Going On In Judge Parker? Are you mad at Judge Parker too? October - December 2022
• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 5

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And now my photos get up to Halloweekends Sunday, our last and, must be admitted, somewhat cranky day at Cedar Point.

The traditional leaving-the-hotel-room shot of the park; somehow we always end up on the side of The Breakers that faces Top Thrill Dragster. It was so weirdly quiet with that ride not going. We almost overslept.

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Oh, yeah, uh, you see how we trashed our room.

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And here's the hotel's lobby. Some year we're going to poke in sometime in July and see what it looks like when it isn't haunted up.

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The skeletons on carousel horses were back. Lining the upper level there were pictures of dead amusement parks and abandoned rides and such.

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They have a couple small seats and a TV playing It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on continuous loop. I can't imagine how much the staff comes to hate the show by the end of October. Also, I do want to know what they play the rest of the year. Again, someday we're going to poke in mid-July and see.

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And here's a close-up view of one of the skeletons on a haunted horse. Some of the horses occasionally rattle around, when you get near enough their sensor. We'd really love to know what takes their place during the normal part of the year.

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Trivia: While it developed its own containerized shipping infrastructure in the late 1950s, Matson Navigation Company rented time on an IBM 704 computer to do simulations of the entire business model, studying the technique's effect on over three hundred commodities at every port the company served, studying down to practical questions like whether to have Hawai'i-bound ships call at Hilo and Lanai or to transfer cargo to a feeder ship at Honolulu, or what time of day a ship should depart Honolulu to bring pineapples to Oakland. Source: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson. You know what I'm thinking, retro computing strategy game!

Currently Reading: King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut, Mark Davies.