2025-06-27

On my humor blog I continued the experiment of mostly letting Robert Benchley write it, but I did find time to let Flash Gordon rumble through the schedule. Hope you enjoy! CW: fur-bearing trout!

Now something I don't let Robert Benchley do is share pictures of the Calhoun County Fair from last year. Don't thank me; I believe that's my duty.

Now on with the ducks, enjoying some water.

And turkeys, here for bunnyhugger's delight!

He may not be up for head-petting but negotiations aren't yet closed off.

Here's one partially phased through the bars to look stunned at us.

bunnyhugger coolly confident that her camera isn't about to get pecked.

Head-petting negotiations continue but do not resolve in bunnyhugger's favor.

He wants to know if I'm still here and why. All right, then! We're off to ...

The midway area and the start of the drone show. Which is all right, but if it lets places do more with their fireworks budget is worth it.

Here's some sheep and pig drones in the sky. It seems different from what I see on FurAffinity.

Turns out it was a blue-ribbon-winning drone show, though, that's nice.

And here's the world's most floating Ferris wheel!

We had time for a few rides and the carousel was the first priority.

Trivia: (That) Thomas Hobbes wrote against the use of symbols in mathematics, arguing, ``though they shorten the writing, yet they do not make the reader understand it sooner than if it were written in words. For the conception of the lines and figures ... must proceed from words either spoken or thought upon. So that there is a double labour of the mind, one to reduce your symbols to words, which are also symbols, another to attend to the ideas which they signify'', and goes on to note the ancients never used them in geometry or arithmetic. Source: A History of Mathematical Notations, Florian Cajori. Hobbes did admit that they could be useful scaffolding of thoughts.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 64: Olive Oyl's Dilemma!!, Ralph Stein, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.

2025-06-27

Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?