This week my humor blog saw me accidentally invent a fun trivia game. Plus, comic strips! Here's the eight things posted there most recently; hope you enjoy.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 3
- I Just Want to Confirm This Thing (about that whole weird way Jack Benny had of saying ``xylophone''. It's all linked there.)
- Statistics Saturday: 1980s _G.I.Joe_ Character Or Roller Coaster Names (and this doesn't even count ``Barrel Roll'', because that was a 90s G.I.Joe character name.)
- Further thoughts along the zillaphone line (as I wasn't done with that yet and might still not be)
- What's Got Me on This G.I.Joe Character Kick (it is, unsurprisingly, dubious writing on a Wiki)
- What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Is Mike Curtis ever coming back to Dick Tracy? June - August 2024
- One more Charles Schulz mystery solved
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 4
And now ... let's wrap up the Wonderland of Lights and get on to more Christmas stuff, eh?
Lion here enjoying the Feline and Primate House's warm indoors. Also a giant foam ball.
Theio's Restaurant is long gone, but their sponsored bench endures. The Apple CRT monitor that used to hang overhead is gone.
Part of the Feline and Primate house is this nice little waterfall prop. I don't know that it does anything besides be pleasant to see.
Back outdoors! Here's the trail leading into the Sensory Garden.
And over there's a gazebo that looks over a small pond that, some years, is frozen over and reflects all sorts of fascinating lighting.
But it was warm enough we were only in our autumn coats, so here's trails of light wending through the Sensory Garden instead.
Flat-component metal sculpture of a leopard-or-jaguar class cat in the sensory garden.
This is the wall of rainbow lights, but it's far more interesting tilted to the side like this so let's take that instead. Place your bets which way is down!
No, those aren't dinosaurs of light in the background. Just trees with lower-limbs wrapped up and looking neat for it.
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bunnyhugger sitting beneath one of the snowman figures. We traded picture posing. You can see mine on her Flickr.
Last look at the Feline and Primate House seen from the distance, with the nice damp concrete giving us plenty of reflections.
And a farewell look at the zoo; it's past the closing hour of like 3:35 in the afternoon so we're all shuffling into the dark of night.
Trivia: In 1961, when the United States federal budget was under $100 billion, noninsured pension funds held stock worth $17.4 billion and were making new investments at about a billion dollars a year. Source: An Empire of Wealth: The Epic Story of American Economic Power, John Steele Gordon.
Currently Reading: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, S C Gwynne.
