Rollercoaster Rollback worthy?
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The below statement is true.
The above statement is false.
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http://rathergood.com
Let RideMan know... he maintains that database.
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"Climbing as we fall, we dare to hold on to our fate, and steal away our destiny to catch ourselves with quiet grace" - The Stairs, INXS
Wow! Walt Disney and Strom Thurmond were born on the same day???
EDIT: Actually, today would have been Walt Disney's 101st Birthday.
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*** This post was edited by astrosgp on 12/5/2002. ***
astrosgp said:
Wow! Walt Disney and Strom Thurmond were born on the same day???
EDIT: Actually, today would have been Walt Disney's 101st Birthday.
Same YEAR too, I guess.....;). Actually, closer than people might think....
P.S. this is taken directly from Dave: Finally, if you have roller coaster or amusement park related history items you'd like to see included in the Almanac, please email them to me. I try to do updates about once a month. Please note that to be included in the Almanac the event must be associated with a specific date; "July, 1931," for example, is not specific enough, nor is "August 23."
So, if you have something to include, I'm sure he'd appreciate it...:)
*** This post was edited by rollergator on 12/5/2002. ***
astrosgp said:
EDIT: Actually, today would have been Walt Disney's 101st Birthday.
Really? Then why is Walt Disney World advertising the 100 years of magic? And why have all the local radio stations of Milwaukee stated that today would've been 100? I guess that one California Senator was born on the same day.
SFGAmDie Hard,
The 100 years of Magic celebration started October 1st, 2001 and runs through February 28, 2003. http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/waltdisneyworld/parksandmore/parkevents/parkeventrootindex?id=ParkEventsRoot
Here is Walt's biography entry in Encarta. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761576764
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Colonel Sanders said:
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And your point? Back in September I remember seeing the birthdate of Milton Snavely Hershey (Central PA's answer to W.E.Disney) listed in the database. During M.S.Hershey's lifetime, his (much smaller) park only built one coaster.
I think it was simply an oversite. Shocking as it may be... what you read on the internet is not perfect.
After checking the Roll Back, I see that the date of Walt Disney's death is noted; December 16, 1966. In one of those cases of life's irony, the date of his wife Lillian's death is also listed as December 16... 31 years later in 1997.
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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"
*** This post was edited by SLFAKE on 12/6/2002. ***
December 5:
1901: Birth of Walter Elias Disney in Chicago, Illinois. A cartoonist, animator, and visionary, Disney would revolutionize animation, then go on to re-invent the amusement park.
Or something like that, right?
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There's no sense arguing about whether something is "worthy" of inclusion in the Almanac/Rollback. Originally it was a listing of coaster designer birthdays. But it's only as good as the information people send me. And until today, nobody ever sent me Walt's birthday. That's understandable...notice that Walt's birthday is not noted in his Encarta biography (link above provided by redman822).
<geek stuff>
A bit of insight into the Rollback: The master file is a custom database consisting of a data file containing all of the entries as random-length records, and an index file giving the byte position of the first entry for each of the 366 possible days in the year. Given a date, the program looks in the index to find the first entry, then all the entries for that date are linked together. Which is, of course, why exact dates are required for inclusion in the data file: Without the exact date, the data can't be indexed.
In the absence of a database package that would allow me to do this exactly as I wanted, I wrote my own, so the data is maintained...entered, edited, and exported...by several clever little programs written in Applesoft BASIC and running on an Apple IIgs. The main data file is now too big to fit onto a 5.25" floppy.
</geek stuff>
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
And if that wasn't geeky enough, I have to drop Dave's oldest entry to include it in the SQL database because SQL can't handle a date that far back in datetime fields!
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"Climbing as we fall, we dare to hold on to our fate, and steal away our destiny to catch ourselves with quiet grace" - The Stairs, INXS
December 2, 1684: Chief John Compound, his wife, and tribal members deeded the land that would eventually become Lake Compounce Amusement Park, recognized today as the oldest operating amusement park in America.
Why, in this day and age, a datetime field would have to be encoded just to save a few bytes, is beyond me.....
Y'know, Jeff, you could just store the date as a long integer, formatted yyyymmdd, then any date between 01/01/0001 and 12/31/9999 would be legal. You'd have to do some translation to convert current date to longint instead of letting datetime do it, but still...... 8-)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
The decoding and encoding wouldn't be too hard, though:
day = encoded % 100;
month = (encoded / 100) % 100;
year = encoded / 10000;
and
encoded = (day + month * 100 + year * 10000);
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SLFAKE said:
After checking the Roll Back, I see that the date of Walt Disney's death is noted; December 16, 1966. In one of those cases of life's irony, the date of his wife Lillian's death is also listed as December 16... 31 years later in 1997.
Actually, Walt Disney did NOT die on December 16, but rather December 15, 1966, at 9:30am. Sorry to be so picky, but I AM a Disney freak.
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