Come dancing, just like the palais on a Saturday
It's been another basic week of mathematics blogging. Here's the recent postings:
- Reading the Comics, June 26, 2022: First Doldrums of Summer Edition
- How June 2022 Treated My Mathematics Blog
- Reading the Comics, July 12, 2022: Numerals Edition
- Reading the Comics, July 16, 2022: Brevity is the Soul of Wit Edition
And in watching 60s Popeye: Seeing Double, another Popeye cartoon, another Popeye, and I'm sorry not to have kept track of how many times we get doubles of the main cast in. No sense starting a list now!
So we're done with the animals at Michigan's Adventure. Let's look at the rides and where they've changed any from last year.
Corkscrew --- oldest coaster at Michigan's Adventure --- also got a new paint job over the off-season. Here's the new blue-aqua-white frontage and track theme.
This safety sign is just peeling, but the way it peeled around that bottom center screw made me think someone had for some reason put up a picture of a swan.
This patio, near the lagoon, normally has benches and seats for people eating outside the entrance to the water park. You can see it roped off and closed, and empty. There wasn't any obvious work being done and nothing that seemed obviously wrong about the patio.
Thunderhawk, a coaster moved from Geauga Lake almost fifteen years ago, got a new paint job for 2021, and it stil looks fresh and new. Here's the lift hill.
And here's some of the many head-banging twists of Thunderhawk.
Back to the carousel. The cat holds a fish in their mouth and this picture happens to really get the scales in good shape.
Trivia: The French work on the Panama Canal amounted to excavating about thirty million cubic yards of land, roughly a third of what the Suez Canal had required, by the time the Americans took over the land and project. (Counting only the excavation that would be useful for the United States's plan.) Source: The Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870 - 1914, David McCullough.
Currently Reading: Water Fun For Everyone, Bernard E Empleton, Prudence Fleming, Fern Yates. ``Parties are fun. It's fun to create fun.'' --- lead sentence of the chapter about Splash Parties, emphasis in original. Also there is much more about synchronized swimming than I expected, although it does focus on practical aspects like coaxing young swimmers into trying it by asking ``who here can do ___?'' instead of telling them that's what we're doing now.