The very very very last 8 minute mile before the big day was really solid, except for the usual sciatica.  The big unknown is maximum speed while managing sciatica.  Managing it with an eccentric stride has been able to keep a sub 9 minute pace of some sort.  It needs to be way below 9 minutes to hit all the water stops.

Helas, whatever the time is, finishing will be equally momentous.



The weather continued trending wetter & colder.  It's going to be 2 days of aimless walking without the truck.  That's when the tours are going to happen.  The truck is only going to be useful on race day & night for some walks.


The Thu night forecast was drier & colder & justified bringing the truck.  It's important to cover the camera in a ziplock bag as soon as it rains.  Any water is going to corrode the flat flex connectors right away.  There will be tools for accessing & drying the inside.  There were never any tests of the effect of a minimal waterproofing tape on cooling.  It would obstruct the ports & button.



Lions pondered BARFing all the way from Walnut or parking in Millbrae again.  BARF from Walnut is always 70 minutes BARF + 30 minutes driving.  Driving to Millbrae is 45 min driving + 20 minutes BARF.  Driving from Millbrae during rush hour is 20 minutes BARF + 2 hours driving.  


BARFing all the way would be 5 minutes less, in total.  35 additional minutes on the outgoing trip & 40 fewer minutes on the return trip, assuming worst case traffic.  Traffic could be better or worse.  The price difference is negligible.  

Lions are somewhat nostalgic for the 1st time they took that long train ride, 17 years ago.  Lions are generally in more of a hurry on the inbound trip, making the extra driving time more painful than the extra BARF time.


New dance




The problems of the past feel like nothing compared to the problems of the future.  Lions would happily reset to any point after 1997, with prior knowledge of what was coming.  The shawshank sewer was really before 1997 but even then only pockets.  The hardest part would be not changing the outcome.  Applying prior knowledge would send the past down an unknown path.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

snow white

Image
    It was time to take on the lion kingdom's 1st 1 star movie. It honestly wasn't as bad as the Dictator, Bedazzled, Monty Python.  Most of the hate was from comparing it to the classic.  Visuals were good for animals who are into castles.  Wonder Heroine as the villain was a good twist.  It was bat shit boring.  Tedious jobs like dialog writing are all automated now & that's definitely not as bad as other movies.  Automated 3D model generation has made modern visuals very lavish.  If only that level of detail could be done in realtime for VR goggles.    Zegler was back from her previous engagement in district 12.   The mane redeeming factor for lions was evil Wonder Heroine.     & finally the Joan of Arc scene everyone hated.    & the ending just fizzled.  It seems they're trying to depart from the physicality of past heroine warriors & make them more like housewives.  It's h...
Read more
Image
  The lunar eclipse situation. Diced tomato spagetti 2.  Plain noodles shining through the diced tomatos, meatballs, oregano, pepper, & cheese still has what it takes.  It's better than watered down sauces with tiny bits of meat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once again pondered if the S & P is another Nikkei 225. The nikkei is back where it last collapsed, 40 years ago, with a similar rate of increase in the last 25% but slower in the preceding years.  Maybe the index fund play has worn out or maybe it hasn't. Both the S&P & the Nikkei doubled in the last 5 years.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Read more
Image
 Finally tracked down the Sun bootloader font from many decades ago & put it in Cinelerra as gallant12x22.  Put Sun Gallant Demi into the goog to get useful results. https://github.com/dim13/gallant/tree/master/ttf   It's a fixed point font in an archaic format.  Some guy converted it into a TTF with a lot of antialiasing.  He has a PNG image showing no antialiasing.  It has to be set to size 22 & requires a threshold to get rid of the antialiasing.  Freetype might be shifting it 1/2 pixel vertically. It had a kind of curiosity value, but lions have had no need for any fixed point fonts besides the 24pt Sony of CAEDM fame. Another hit said it was 1 of the fonts available in kernel framebuffer mode.  Lions haven't used kernel framebuffer mode in decades.  It could possibly replace 24pt Sony if lions wrote a fixed point converter. As for the other Sun lore, there's some potato cam footage of the Sun flight simulator, Aviator.  You ...
Read more