You and you and you and you, the king in the palace and the princess too
Here's your chance to catch up on my humor blog.
- Everything There Is To Say About The History Of Tying Shoes which was last week's big piece and some easy-to-write nonsense.
- Statistics July: What Was Popular and How So Here, Recently the statistics review.
- Statistics Saturday: Eight August Holidays so, celebrate.
- What’s Going On In Mary Worth? Special Zippy the Pinhead Edition, May – August 2018 Note that Zippy did not meet Mary Worth this past few months.
- Looking Back: I Do Not Have A Cold for a wonder.
- The Popeye Two-Reelers: Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves but no Ali Baba to speak of.
- Yes, I’m Still Trying To Work Out ‘Graffiti’ And It’s Not Going Well as one of those pieces that's funny because I obsess on a completely inconsequential thing relating to a comic strip most people would deny even exists.
- Everything There Is To Say About Landing On An Asteroid, this week's big piece and more easy-to-write nonsense.
Here's your chance to look some more at Gillian's Wonderland Pier.
Overhead view of Philadelphia Toboggan Company #75. Gives you a chance to see the cabling holding the top of the ride to the center pole.
Overhead view of the Trabant on Gillian's Wonderland Pier's main midway. In the far background you can also see the bumper cars.
Swinging ship ride and the drop tower, plus off in the right the Ferris Wheel and the Runaway Train roller coaster.
More of the main midway as seen from above. There's also an upper deck of a handful of rides, but those were closed the day we visited and so I didn't get any good shots from that by the way.
Slow night on the Moby Dick and the drop tower ride.
Ride operator totally not pouting at how people aren't taking the chance to ride the Moby Dick. No, he's just fine with that. Shut up. Maybe you're the one who's pouting about not enough people riding the Moby Dick, did you ever think of that?
Glass House, Kite Flyer, and Musik Express as seen from the Frontier Express monorail above Gillian's Wonderland Pier.
Bear Affair, a spinning bears ride at Gillian's Wonderland Pier. This ride is usually dragons. I don't know how much bother it was getting the different cars for it.
The Tilt-a-Whirl at Gillian's Wonderland Pier, also seen from the Frontier Express monorail.
Trivia: In the late 19th century about 45 percent of New York City's population kept provisions in natural-ice home refrigerators.
Source: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold, Tom Shachtman.
Currently Reading: The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War, Alexander MacDonald.
PS: Here's your chance to read my mathematics blog. Reading the Comics, August 4, 2018: August 4, 2018 Edition closes out last week in time for the next to start.