Look out, here comes tomorrow

We have another sick goldfish, from that same tank. We moved it to the hospital tank but, jeez, we've saved so few fish that ever came down with anything. Fish with physical injuries we've rescued, but sick fish we have basically no wins. There's the one with the ovarian cyst(?) and that's it.

Meanwhile, my futile job hunt took a weird direction today. Two different recruiters e-mailed me, asking if I were open to a position with the state of Michigan. One told me up front what kind of job it might be --- .Net/C#/Javascript/GIS work, very like what I had been doing; also that it was hybrid, two days in an office in Lansing. I don't much like that but once I have a foot in the door maybe I can get my feet out of the door again. The other was more mysterious, and finally pressed me into calling, letting me learn a bit more about who it's for and what the job is about. This also left me convinced these two agencies are both trying to recruit me for the same position.

I imagine there's something I should be doing, in case they both decide to advance my application to the state, but I don't know what. In any case it offers a fascinating new way for me to get rejected in stereo, which would at least be different from what I have been getting.

Here's some more pictures from the free play area at Pinball At The Zoo. Today, it's 90-year-old games. Tomorrow, it's 90-year-and-a-day-old games.

The playfield of Gottlieb's 1932 Whizz-Bang. The scoring holes are guarded by semicircles of pins, with a smaller hole inside. With Skee-Ball-like scoring, the higher-valued hole is the harder to drop in. No flippers; the game is all in the plunge and the nudging.

Goofy, from Bally (note the Bally Hole up top), again from 1932. This one you plunge and the ball does a complete orbit around the playfield before dropping in to the holes you might score. You can see how well I had this game's number.

Again from 1932, this is Field Manufacturing's Hit The Deck Play Cards. Field was a manufacturer in Peoria. The Internet Pinball Database notes it's a converted game, likely from Bingo Novelty's 'Bingo Play Cards'. The circles of pins divide each hole into a slightly-lower and slightly-higher value hole.

Trivia: The Atlas missile family was named when in 1951 Karel J Bossart, head of the design team at Convair, decided the MX-1593 missile project for the Air Force needed a popular name. The staff came up with several possibilities before settling on Bossart's suggestion of ``Atlas''. Source: Origins of NASA Names, Helen T Wells, Susan H Whiteley, Carrie E Karegeannes. NASA SP-4402.

Currently Reading: Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 6: Clean As A Weasel, Walt Kelly. Editors Mark Evanier, Eric Reynolds. It's a subtle thing but there are differences in the regular cast between the weekday and the Sunday strips and this book has one of the cutest and quietest. The Sunday strips introduce Naturally Violet, a purple cow. Who, of course, we don't see in the daily strips because how would anyone know she was purple then?

PS: Something Neat About Triangles, Again as I repost an ancient trifle in lieu of writing new material.