While bringing groceries in I noticed something exciting among the vestibule clutter: a red umbrella on the ground. I was already writing the story of this happy discovery --- my lost umbrella, with the lost camera attached to it --- and how much sense it made, if this fell out of whatever I was carrying in while the house was blacked out and we didn't see afterward because it was just a bundle of shoes and boots down there?
The opening tells the story. It wasn't my umbrella, it was ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's red umbrella. My umbrella and my camera remain missing.
I guess if anything this answers the question of whether I should buy a new point-and-shoot or deal with the increasing crankiness of my old camera. But where can you even get a point-and-shoot camera anymore?
Can you find one on my humor blog? Because if you can you're going to surprise me. What I can find there, from the past week, was this:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 33
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Immanence versus Vanadium
- Statistics Saturday: Some Things You Might Know About Rutgers and Whether That Is Normal
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Indifference versus British Children’s Shows
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Hotels versus Specificity
- What’s Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? Did Kelly’s Mom order a guy killed? January – March 2025
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Ominous Beeping versus Not Intending Puns
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 34
Since that finally finished off a big amusement park trip you know what to expect next on my photo reel: ... an amusement park trip. This one, on our anniversary, the 30th of June. But as a preliminary to that we went to see ...
The Logansport (Indiana) Carousel's building, there to house an extreme rarity: a Gustave Dentzel carousel and a working brass-ring game.
Our first view of the carousel, in a relatively new building to house it well and keep it safe. And with nice chairs all around to sit and admire the ride.
The carousel in motion. It's interesting that some of the outer horses are posed as leaping, or at least rearing back. I'm used to thinking of that row as standers only.
Ride attendant loading up the brass rings, in the arm. If you grab one, you get a free ride!
Animals racing past in front of the band organ, which I think is a modern Stinson machine but I don't know and don't seem to have a photo that answers unambiguously.
As happens with these older carousels, it's a national historic landmark.
I'm curious what motivates the banning of balloons from the ride.
The full list of carousel rules, so you know what's required and what's forebidden.
We got four tickets, two rides each. I believe the back side of the tickets were blank so we didn't photograph them. Also note the sponsor-brick walkway.
There's this cute hanging sign on the outside of the building.
Slightly better view of the sponsor bricks. Apparently a Holiday Inn/Super 8 motel franchisee supported the project.
And here's a picture of the ride as centered as I could do by hand. ... I could have done better.
Trivia: In the public meeting of the New York City Board of Electrical Control on the 16th of July, 1888 --- the first public hearing about the dangers of alternating versus direct current --- George Westinghouse noted that his company and licensee Thomson-Houston had installed 127 AC stations, 98 of them operating and a third of the operating ones having already installed, and no Westinghouse central station had yet had ``a single case of fire of any description''. Meanwhile, of 125 central stations for the Edison company there had been numerous fires, including ``three of which cases the central station itself was entirely destroyed, the most recent being the destruction of the Boston station'' and among customers a fire destroying a Philadelphia theater. Source: Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Jill Jonnes.
Currently Reading: One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession, Birch Bayh.
