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...Palisades Playland in Fort Lee NJ was originally known as simply Palisades Amusement Park and it was even immortalised in a 1960s song by Freddy Cannon
...here in Portland there used to be a large amusement park on Hayden Island along the Columbia River known as Jantzen Beach (named after one Carl Jantzen of the swimwear company who was an investor) and originally At the time it was the largest amusement park in the nation and dubbed "The Coney Island of the West" . It boasted a number of attractions including four outdoor swimming pools, a natatorium, a ballroom, a large picnic area, and as the years progressed, several rides, the centrepieces of which were the Big Dipper roller coaster. and C.W. Parker four row carousel. After the park was demolished in the 1970s the carousel was the only attraction to survive and was moved to the new Jantzen Beach Shopping mall where it resided until 2012 when was placed in storage during a renovation of the mall.
Big Dipper:
C.W. Parker Carousel.
The park in during its heyday.
May the Cinco be with you... I thought today was the fifth until now... This explains why my daughter asked if The Bad Batch comes out today... also her doing Yoda impressions too.
...Cinco-de-Lime-O?
a fifth? dont mind if i do lol
...sink-O de lime-O en en el coc-O.
...y bebe tod-O.
Happy Birthday if anyone here was born today.
Happy Belated Birthday if anyone was born yesterday..
In the New York tri-state area there used to be a radio commercial for the Palisades Playland that used that music, but was probably a different singer/band... I vaguely remember going there with my step-grandfather twice before it closed.
I'm not sure if it counts as an amusement park or death trap, but growing up in the New York area in the 80s, it was a right of passage to go to Action Park in Vernon, New Jersey... Me and my friends would pile into our beaters* and drive there to get hurt in all sorts of new and interesting ways.
There was actually a documentary on the place called "Class Action Park" (HBO Max) because several people died there and scores were injured... every one of my friends got some sort of injury there and I dislocated one finger and fractured another... on the same day I hurt my hand my friend needed stitches from an injury he got there... yet two or three weeks later we went back.
It was mostly water rides, but there was an American Gladiator thing and a zip line that was janky as all hell... they had even more jankier go carts and racing boats... and the craziest most dangerous wheeled toboggan thing... like a riding a large garbage can lid with wheels down a concrete track down a long hillside.
It closed in 1996 (surprise-surprise) due to numerous lawsuits...
This quote kinda sums it up...
"Many of its attractions were unique, attracting thrill-seekers from across the New York Metropolitan area. Action Park's popularity went hand-in-hand with a reputation for poorly designed rides, under-trained and under-aged staff, intoxicated guests and staff, and a consequently poor safety record. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park, and it was given nicknames such as "Traction Park", "Accident Park" and "Class Action Park"."...
And despite everyone knowing that, it was still immensely popular.
Because of Action Park, I'm positive all of the detractors of the Jurassic Park movies are way off base... their chief argument being "Oh come on, after the stuff that happened in the first movie, who the hell would go to a new Jurassic Park"... Uh, pretty much everyone and their offspring who went to Action Park.
And yes... I would still go if it was still open... and also yes to Jurassic Park too... but maybe only if the opened one in New Jersey... Which honestly would make more senses then in Costa Rica.
*Beater: A Junky old car on the verge of either falling apart or exploding. (for anyone not familiar with the term)
Noo my chief argument was that it was a bit weird how the head zoo whatever guy (the one who's a famous actor, I assume he's an actor anyway, either that or they haven't worked out a way to convince him to not stand in the way of the camera and insert himself into almost every scene) was showing off animal intelligence and "how they could work together and be trained" by flinging rats into a cage. You know, the animals which already work together and can be trained. It's like feeding babies to dogs, but with something cute.
Also why they made it on an island was so no one could ask for refunds. Why they'd want refunds? Simple, because the main attraction was apparently a dinosaur that was invisible.
"Hey look everyone, here's this reeeeeally great dinosaur"
"what you can't see it?!? well thats because it's invisible!! Cool right?"
"What, you want a refund!? Ha, you're stuck on an island!!!".
Also it's something red pandas already do at every zoo ever so no one would care about invisible animals.
kinda glad it failed. i threw 2 8xcore machines in amazon cart and tried to buy it with amazon credit card. it turned me down. was a moment of udder madness.
...non complaint: Put in the order for the 2 TB SATA III SSD and the 3.5 to 2.5 adapter for the drive bay which will hold both the C & D drives as it was "payday" and I had a discount coupon offer good until tomorrow Should be here within the week and finally I'll have a much more zippy content library (getting a lot of wait times lately as the current drive is filling up as a good portion non library/runtime related stuff that will remain on the HDD when it gets moved to the "E" slot.
Still thinking about a second matching display to the one I purchased a while back and moving the old ASUS display to the second machine. This leaves me with the non IPS display that I can use to hook up to my 13 year old notebook on which the display went out. I still keep it as an archive for older files like a massive freebie collection (including from the old Daz Freebie Vault) which has many items which that no longer available (several of the DVDs I originally used for the freebie backups [back in the day before USB sticks were commonplace & inexpensive] became corrupted).
...cooking up a batch of shredded BBQ pork for hot sandwiches that I let marinade for a day and a night in the fridge, . Also hae a pot of baked beans simmering as well.
Already smelling really good.
I should download the new version of Daz Install manager. I need to find the download link first.
edit: I guess I need to install Daz Central instead.
Nooooo! There is a way to get DIM!! I think you can go to your product library and click on a DIM ready file. If DIM isn't installed (so uninstall your old one first-hopefully you have an old backup installer for it though, just in case), then it should bring up a prompt asking if you want to install DIM. It should install the latest one.
Personally, I wouldn't touch Daz Central with a 10ft pole.
Or use this link: https://www.daz3d.com/install-manager-info
Good morning!
I'm finally thinking of changing my avatar. But not today. Time for a nap!
No, it will NOT be a cat. It will not wear a hat. It will not be a kitten. It will not be named "Mittens".
It probably will also not be a dog, frog, clog, bog, or blog. That last one would make for a very boring avatar. I hope nobody makes avatars out of blogs...
...dinner was very good indeed. Have enough left of everything for two more nights, so into the freezer it all goes. A total of three dinners for less than what it would cost to go to a restaurant for just one of the same.
Can't do the latter anyways right now as restrictions here in Oregon have been tightened again due to a recent Covid surge (no indoor dining). Our situation even made the national news the other night (nothing to be proud of though).
Nice on the new drive. Now, since I'm the "backup loon", I have a tip to share with you and anybody who might use the backup program Macrium:Reflect. This could apply to other backup programs too, so whatever backup method you use, take a moment here.
Whenever you add a drive, move partitions from one physical drive to another, change drive letters, or hide/reveal drive letters in your partitioning software, you should ALWAYS go back into your backup program afterward and make sure that your backup "jobs" still point to the drive letters/partitions that you expect them to.
Many many times, I've made drive changes to one of my systems with ultimately NO DIFFERENCES at the end of the process. For example, my C drive is still my C drive, but it just sits on a different physical drive now than it did before. Or my P drive is still my P drive and still contains my DAZ library, but it's not at the end of physical device 2, it's at the beginning of physical device 3.
And I'll go into Macrium:Reflect and will see that my C drive backup is now backing up F drive instead. And P drive backup backs up drives J and K instead, while my F drive backup job is pointing to a drive partition identifier that doesn't translate to any valid drive partition, meaning that that job will fail upon next execution.
It's easy enough to fix this, and I do. But that's always a step I do whenever I just messed around with physical or logical drive partitions: Check my backup jobs. Or else I might no longer be backing up C drive, a content drive, or my documents drive. Yikes!
It's a simple "best practices" check and may only take you 5 minutes to complete, depending on the backup program you use. But I highly recommend taking that time and doing it right.
Good luck with the data transfer and getting your new drive up and running.
Complaint: My doctor's nurse always asks me to verify my current prescriptions and reads the list to me and I simply say "yes" to each one. But she always pronounces my cholesterol medicine "Simvastatin" as [Sim-VAS-ta-tin] not the more obvious and medically correct pronunciation, "Simva-statin"
My thought every time she does this is: you're a nurse. It's a common cholesterol drug. It's a "statin" class drug. "Statins" (for better or worse) are used to control cholesterol. It has the word "statin" in it. The drug's name can be said in two syllables instead of four. And again. you're an experienced nurse. You're a born American English speaking person. You're in your middle ages, you should know these things by now. And I'm letting you inject things into my body?
Same thing with New Jersey... "You want a refund? Ha, you're stuck in New Jersey!!"... Literally. Have you ever tried to leave New Jersey? It's free to enter, but if try to leave it's like $16 depending on how many axles you have... The trick for the park would be that all souvenirs are novelty axels making it too expensive to drive out, so visitors would either have to pay for a helicopter ride out of New Jersey or use the park's catapult system.
Are you implying that the red pandas are responsible for the whole invisible/nocturnal animal scam?... It figures those little grifters would be responsible for that... I fell for the whole "Nocturnal" woolly mammoth and dozens of other "rare" or "medium-rare" animals at Nocturnal Park a few years ago... apparently everything was in their burrows "sleeping" because it was daytime... I knew I should have been suspicious because, One- the "guy" who took my money looked suspiciously a lot like a Red Panda as did all the park employees... and Two- the "park" was in a Home Depot parking lot and the animal enclosures where just roped off parking spaces with cardboard boxes in them marked "Woolly Mammoth Burrow" or whatever animal it was supposed to be... it seemed suspicious as hell, but it was a Thursday so I was a little more trusting.
It's like my step-grandfather used to say before he died... "Never buy watermelons from a Red Panda!... Avenge Me!"... I'm still not sure what he meant, but it's clear watermelons had something to do with his demise.
Statins also have a certain amount of negative association with some people, perhaps she's trying not to emphasise what the drug is.
So, you're suggesting that this nurse doesn't want to let people know what kind of drugs they're taking? That she's deliberately obscuring facts? I think you give her too much credit or maliciousness.
Non-complaint: Music to DAZ by. Soothing, beauty. The "Pavane" by Gabriel Faure. I was looking through my music library for the Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel but clicked on this one by accident. I'd forgotten how beautiful it is. Five minutes of trance-like comfort. Also, despite the squashed image, this is the best sound and camera angles that I could find on YouTube. I like to see each instrument as it comes into play, the flute, clarinet, violins, oboe, bassoon, etc. Even at a live concert you don't get the educational value of close up views of the active instrument being played and the emotional involvement of the muscian.
Gabriel Faure: "Pavane in F-sharp minor"
And speaking of muscian emotional involvement..., I remember a performance of Schubert's Symphony #9 in C major ("The Great Symphony in C") at the Kennedy Center where I was able to notice the oboeist, really getting into his solo. I don't know if oboe has to be played with emphatic gyrations but it seems to be common. Here's a 1 minute sample of the oboe solo in the Great C Symphony by another muscian. He's not nearly as energetic as the guy I remember in Washington, but he does look like he's making love to the instrument.
Edited to note, if you're not familiar with orchestral instruments, the oboe and the clarinet look similar but the oboe is the one with the short straight "straw" mouthpiece the muscian blows through, the clarinet has more of a "duck bill" mouthpiece. And in the video clip, the big instruments with the long curved "straw" behind the oboeist are bassoons.
Fortunately I personally have no axles on my person, instead relying on bipedal motion or the use of a separate car/taxi/hovercraft, but I can see how that would be of great difficulty and expense if you were some kind of car/person hybrid. Does the spinny bit on a helicopter count as an axle if you put a wheel on the top? Or what if you're transporting a cache of toy cars? That could get very, very expensive. Must have secret border runs for those.
I have been to several zoos, more than any normal person could count on 2 or 3 fingers, and basically all of them have had red pandas. When I say they "had" red pandas I mean an enclosure for the animals. One even had a special viewing infrared heat something device to help you see the animals. I have never once seen a red panda. However, I do have a feeling now that the cause of this isn't merely zoos passing off empty enclosures as something exciting, but that the red pandas are actually criminals who escape during the day to run scams. Interestingly, though that depends on who you ask, there also is fairly often a "red wolf" enclosure, that is also completely empty. So maybe "red" animals are some weird zoo in joke, or being "red" is something to do with invisibility. Evidence for the obvious invisibility conclusion is how "red" butterflies are orange. As the red ones are invisible the orange ones have to cover for them. Though that might be down to being colorblind, like "blue cats" and "purple" being basically anything that isn't purple.
Now as to your grand stepfather's final words. I gave it some thought (I didn't, but it sounds better if I did) and the meaning is actually pretty obvious. Watermelons are symbolically a symbol of fertility and wealth, so I can assume he bought into some kind of chocolate oyster business or some weird mushroom tokens. Then "Avenge" is a synonym of "Redress", so I can assume he was using a literarary joke and actually saying "Redress me". So the Red Pandas likely stole his socks which he wanted you to replace.
I'm starting to wonder if we come from the same cloning facility... You didn't grow up in Astoria/Long Island City in Queens N.Y. did you?
But yes, all good points... especially the stolen socks part... but my step-grandfather didn't pass away for quite a while after that... he was just prone to shouting to be avenged and he had a animosity towards red and purple pandas.
That game was called Oregon Trail. Pretty much everyone who played it "died of dysentery." So no, it wasn't you. It was just a hard game.
The next time your phone's storage is too full, try closing some chrome tabs and deleting your unused apps. A reset is overkill. You can also delete unwanted photos and transfer the ones you want to keep to the cloud.
Complaint: My arm hurts like hell. Feeling very crappy all over as well. Don't want to get out of bed today.
I'm trying to pronounce Simvastatin (which is one of my meds) with 2 sylables, but I can't. For me it's 4 - Sim va stat in.