Burning flame, full of desire
It was a cusp week on my mathematics blog! I cleared out a bunch of old stuff before starting on a new project. Take a look, please.
- Reading the Comics, June 3, 2020: Subjective Opinions Edition
- Reading the Comics, June 6, 2020: Wrapping Up The Week Edition
- How May 2020 Treated My Mathematics Blog
- Reading the Comics, June 7, 2020: Hiatus Edition
What about cartoons, which we all like? Let's look at 60s Popeye: Popeye's Trojan Horse and what it can teach us, which mostly is, ``don't go kidnapping Olive Oyl if you don't want Popeye to punch you in the face''. You'd think you'd have learned that before now, really.
And here's pictures from our Sunday at Halloweekends, back in October 2018.
Flower bush outside the Breakers hotel that caught my eye as we were checking out.
View of the other side of Top Thrill Dragster, on one of our rare rides of the roller coaster.
In the gift shop here's the section dedicated to stuff they took out. Cedar Point is selling a lot of nostalgia pieces, such as for fascination (look at the grid of holes on the left) and other closed rides.
bunny_hugger's hat keeping the Kiddie Kingdom carousel ostrich warm.
So here's a good album cover for you, or maybe a children's book. Child looking at the animatronic ogre threatening to eat them.
It was a rainy day. The woodworking shop on the Frontier Trail was selling rain ponchos and also, hey, it's the very chatty wood carver there.
Some of the carved wood stuff inside the shop. The carousel horse there is a fake, in that it was never on an actual carousel, if I remember right (it's been years since I heard the explanation). It was created as decoration in the Philippines(?). The woman in red above it is a reproduction of the central ride feature on Schwabinchen.
Carved dragon that's been there, in that same state of finish, for years.
Awwww! Wooden tri-doggo! I don't know what purpose the cerberus is supposed to be put to
Pudgy little reading dragon carving. Cute, tiny figure.
Pumpkins! Though Cedar Point (now) has a lot of plastic pumpkins for decoration, they also get a fair number of real ones which, you can see, get pretty bad by the end of October.
Adorable little bunnies in the candle shop that we'd never buy because who could bear to use them as candles?
Patchouly? That's my favorite candle ssent!
Ghoulish parade of performers going to the haunted houses for the short Sunday session.
More performers going to their haunted houses. The pigs in butcher's outfit are for a, well, butcher-shop haunted house that happens to be near the petting zoo.
And some last haunted house performers making their way to work. There's, each day, a gathering at the stage where Wildcat used to be for the performers to gather and dedicate themselves to the night's haunting, after which they go to their stations. It's a fun, silly start to the haunts.
Trivia: The word ``umpire'' traces its origins to Old French, and meaning ``uneven''. Source: A Game of Inches: The Story Behind the Innovations that Shaped Baseball, Peter Morris. (EtymologyOnline offers it as starting from ``nonper'', an odd number, as in a third party observing the other two, and going from ``a noumpere'' to ``an oumpere''.)
Currently Reading: The Gem Collector, P G Wodehouse.