Never mind the mathematics blog; I barely do anymore. Instead I have more news about Sunshine. It's not the worst it could possibly be, but it is still grave.
( Trimmed as it's a discussion of pet health. Nothing gruesome. )Let's get back to pictures; here's photos from the Open Pinball Championship again.
Here's what the streaming rig looks like, set up over Barracora. It's allegedly easy to ignore once you get into the serious gameplay. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger will be able to say with authority.
PH watching BK play Target Pool, one of very many pool-themed games out there.
We'd missed this! CST playing te video mode of Fish Tales, in which you use the plunger to shoot torpedoes at water skiers. A fun, silly, cartoon-mayhem mode.
Want to rickroll a pinball player? Show this picture. o/` Rock rock, rock and Rollergames! o/` (You can listen to the whole of it and will likely agree, it's rather good especially for the era, but it's also extremely earwormy since the game plays the vocal chorus every 18 seconds in attract mode.)
So you say Rollergames was made in the late 80s, huh? You wouldn't know it. You can maybe make out the advertising placement for Slice in the upper left corner of that central grid there, to the left of the Pepsi logo. The lower row are GamePro, Thermos, and ShareData. The lit parts above those are team names: Bad Attitude, Maniacs, Violators, Rockers, Hot Flash, and T-Birds. (Over the course of the game you 'compete' against as many teams as you can, which is usually one, maybe two.)
Wow, that's like the highest Whirlwind score I've ever seen! 11 quadrillion! (But in earnest: a single score above ten million on Whirlwind is astounding and to have both competitors hit that is unbelievable.)
Trivia: Most of the energy Jupiter radiates --- about two and a half times what it receives from the Sun --- seems to derive from gravitational contraction, the planet's steady shrinking. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel.
Currently Reading: Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center, Henry C Dethloff. NASA SP-4307.
