You can go outside and polish your car

[austin_dern]

[ I'm still having trouble. Does anyone else use iJournal --- I know, they don't, since it was last updated in like 2008 --- and can they report on connection experiences the past couple days? I'd like to know if it's me or them. ]

And this closes out my pictures of the Bug Carousel. This may be a lot of pictures, but I was pretty dilatory about getting to them, so it works out.

	I'm more confident that this is a static shot, based on how much less blurry things are, but do note the Talosian Hulk on the left edge of the photograph.
	Here I'm just being arty. I have a weakness for extreme camera angles; I can't help it.
	I believe this was an attempt to use a flash in a partly shaded building during a fairly cloudy afternoon. I do many strange things.
	Beetles. Just very, very glossy beetles.
	I suspect this wasn't a flash picture after all, since the color balance looks about the same as the one above. Still, gloss.

Trivia: Charles I D Looff opened a factory to build carousels in Riverside, Rhode Island, in the 1890s. Source: Rhode Island: A History, William G McLaughlin. McLaughlin goes on to say the town got the name ``the Coney Island of New England'', although since the subject is such a tiny part of the Rhode Island Story and it's about a recreational subject I don't expect that it was as carefully vetted a topic as, say, the Dorr Rebellion was.

Currently Reading: Riding The Torch, Norman Spinrad.

Comments

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Goodness, that is a lot of beetles.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It does seem like there's some unaccountable fondness for them, doesn't there?

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Park_Amusement_Park is rather why it was rated so, though I'd argue Rocky Point was the more important Rhode Island Amusement park.

[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

> I'd like to know if it's me or them.

The LiveJournal web interface hasn't been a model of reliability lately either thanks to another wave of DDoS attacks. (Vladimir Putin and friends apparently don't like this site and play games with it every time there's an election.) I had to try three times to post my unfunny link about meat-based astronomical phenomenon the other day.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/12/05/russia-election-day-ddos-alypse/

http://status.livejournal.org/

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I know they're struggling under the DDoS attacks, and I try to be sympathetic to them for that. And, well, the attacks just make Livejournal more likable, what with the quality-of-one's-enemies effect.

But here I honestly don't know if the problem is me or them, since the Internet at home has been rotten the last couple days, with sluggish performance to FurAffinity, which might also just be them, and DeviantArt, same issues, and WordPress, which is a little less likely to be their doing, and so on.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Hm. And that article by the way says Looff moved to Crescent Park in 1905, suggesting that the story was more complicated than McLaughlin's book suggested or that it got garbled in the transmission. (I'd be inclined to guess that my book put cross-checking the details of one sentence about merry-go-round manufacture on a low priority. Yeah, yeah, in principle everything deserves critical examination but life is short.)