It's been a second week of this summer's A To Z on my mathematics blog. Bit closer to an ordinary publishing schedule, too. Here's what you were missing:
- Reading the Comics, August 5, 2017: Lazy Summer Week Edition which I published a day late by accident and nobody said anything? Well, that's not worrisome.
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Diophantine Equations which was a fun little A To Z article and then ...
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Elliptic Curves which I thought was the most challenging A To Z I've had to write and then ...
- The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: Functor which has definitely been the most challenging A To Z I've had to write.
- Reading the Comics, August 9, 2017: Pets Doing Mathematics Edition
And on the comic strip side of thing, have you wondered What's Going On In Dick Tracy? June - August 2017 is at your easy read now. It's got more Chumbawamba than you would have guessed if you haven't been paying attention. Meanwhile eleven months ago in Mean Streak's last day of operations:
I told you Mean Streak Henry was in high demand. We never rode with him, what with not being single riders.
Mean Streak's ride photo booth, which I never saw in operation all the time I've been going to Cedar Point. It still wasn't operating. When we visited Cedar Point in June we saw the photo booth was still apparently untouched. Underneath the overhang on the left is a table set up; this is where they were giving away souvenirs to the riders for the last day: pins commemorating our presence there and Mean Streak keychains, one of which I'd already had.
The exit queue for the Mean Streak, and some of its massive structure. You can spot the green train partway through the loop there.
Now there's a line. Queue spilling out of the Mean Streak queue --- none of the switchbacks that hide the queue length were open --- and onto the midway.
I told you there was a line. People waiting on line extended past the train that separates Mean Streak from the rest of that region of the park, and threatens to reach towards Maverick (the red loop in the distance, center right). We rejoined the queue, supposing that if we were on line we wouldn't get kicked off before a second ride.
It's Alkali! Well, no. But it is ... I'm guessing some high-level park official, dressed up as U.R.Dade and ready for Mean Streak's eulogy.
Trivia: Syncom III, which transmitted television from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics to the United States, carried only solar cells, with no batteries. It could not transmit while in shadow. Source: How The World Was One: Beyond The Global Village, Arthur C Clarke.
Currently Reading: Under A Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894, Daniel James Brown.
