Buy your girl a cotton candy while you're down on the ground

Got some comic strips on my mathematics blog, so here's your chance to catch up on that.

• About my 2022 Mathematics A-to-Z


• How July 2022 Treated My Mathematics Blog: Romania liked me


• Here's the 157th Playful Math Blog Carnival


• Reading the Comics, August 5, 2022: Catching Up Edition

Also, I have a rather special 60s Popeye: Weather Watchers, and an arguable end to my 60s Popeye Watching in my cartoon reviews. In this one, Popeye has worked for the weather bureau for twenty years, somehow.

You'll want to see more of Indiana Beach yet, though. Here it is.

Sea Dragon was listed as one of the rides not operating today, but it is lit up and I do see someone over there. Anyway here's a look back at it and at the far end of Hoosier Hurricane.

Animatronic outside Frankenstein's Castle, tipping his hat and head at the crowd. This was not the right angle to get this clearly, I'm sorry to say.

Trio of coffins set outside Frankenstein's Castle for people to take their photos. We didn't get pictures inside for some reason.

Support column for the Cornball Express while looking out at the coaster, and Tig'rr Coaster, in the sunset.

Here's one of several metal fountains, illuminated from above to make an interesting shadow.

The Painted Parrot, a face-painting/temporary-tattoo shop, closing up for the night.

Trivia: A map from 1502 identifies Newfoundland as ``land of the King of Portugal''. Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky. (There are Newfoundland locations with names that distantly reflect earlier Portuguese names.)

Currently Reading: The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy: A Critique of the Historiography Of Space, Rip Bulkeley.