It was a week, on my humor blog, so please enjoy such diverse things as comic strips and me talking about comic strips:
- MiSTed: JSH: So They Lied (Part 3 of 3)
- Statistics 2021: At Last, How The Old Year Liked Me Writing About _The Phantom_
- Statistics Saturday: Major Bodies of the Solar System in Alphabetic Order, Which Upsets Me Somehow
- 60s Popeye: Me Quest For Poopdeck Pappy (how does he keep getting lost?)
- The Big New Mood for the Year Just Dropped
- What’s Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is Terry Beatty trying to upstage you? November 2021 – January 2022
- Statistics January: Nearly 7,000 People Wanted To See Wilbur Weston Die
- MiSTed: I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO TURN Potatoes into CASH! (Part 1 of 2)
I didn't take many still pictures during the train ride at Crossroads Village. Still, I did try a few ...
And for all that I know the pictures won't come out, I try taking them anyway. Here's an attempt at looking at another train, on a side track, that they decorate all around.
I bet if I had set this in low-light photograph mode there'd be some hope of telling what these creations are.
Here's some hot air balloons going into warp speed. The cool spotty-light effect is what happens when you photograph a light-emitting diode: that's the evidence of the half of every 60Hz power cycle that the diode is off.
I mean, imagine what the Christmas Dragon juggling like this would look like if we hadn't had the towel to wipe the windows clean! (This is a fib. This was through the window opposite us, so we never had a chance to clean it or anything.)
The Crystalline Entity, here to absorb the life-force of an entire planet, which of course the Federation destroyed rather than trying to domesticate it in case it turns out the Borg have a second cube.
And another look at the centerpiece overly-lit tree, with some of the village buildings in the background. The one on the left housed the model railroad layout.
Trivia: Pierre de Coubertin recognized the international winter sports competition held in Stockholm as the ``Northern Olympics'', but this series --- the Nordic Games (held seven times, through to 1926) --- remained independent of the Olympic Movement. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World, Simon Winchester.