Lion ponderings

 The lion kingdom's 3rd or 4th rewatching of The Martian, not including the book, brought more questions than answers. https://heroineworshiper.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-martian.html     Surely, an explosive air lock event would have been confined to just the airlock & not damaged the mane greenhouse. The cycle fatigue would have manifested itself as a slow leak long before.  The book had him restarting some food growth after the explosion.  We now know a lot of bacteria can survive in space for a long time & we now have far more capability to send a resupply payload.  The business of traveling across the country to have every single dialog seemed overdone in 2025, but might have been more justified in 2015.  It was manely for dramatic effect. 10 years on, the clueless executive assistant is a world class hottie.  She's now 52. After 50 years of Mars movies, it's pretty boring.  Young lion 1st noticed how boring a purely red landscap...

  Besides showing ads after the video because you're less likely to click out after a video, gootube shows "1 day ago" for 3-4 day old videos because you're more likely to click if it says "1 day".  1 of those things you always notice but never take seriously enough to document.       The latest problem tooth gradually acted up again, over the last 5 months, until it was just about unbearable again.  It seems they're just going to keep cracking in the order of the amount of stress they experienced long ago.  The less stressed teeth on top are starting to get more sensitive.  ------------------------------------------------------------------      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmGJcFd3650  Made lions ponder Mommy Dearest as someone older than most fathers.  Could only imagine a motive of trying to rub out some step kids & blaming it on the weather or dreams of climbing everest being dashed by having kids.  W...

2nd blown power supply in 3 years happened.     https://growmane.blogspot.com/2023/06/no-one-over-20-need-bother-applying.html  Another change of plans into a long night tinning 16 leads & moving 4 connectors to the penultimate ATX module in the apartment.  The very last ATX module is the 2nd one lions ever got.  It has a noisy, constant speed fan from the days before economy modes.       Lions still insist soldering novel connectors is superior to having multiple power bricks.  Years ago, it was possible to connect into standard hard drive connectors.  Modern ATX power supplies no longer have those, but have a different style of connector every year.     This was an enermax lions obtained in 2008 & started using after 2019 for powering raspberry pi's & a battery charger.  Instead of a dramatic capacitor explosion, it quietly shut down after a few minutes of use.  The caps were better than usual. ...

  They did seem to cook faster   Phone server farm. Just need NFS via phone wifi. Phoneproxy really showed you can synthesize any desired protocol on a phone, through tunnels & user space IPv4. IPv4 may get a boost from vintage computing fans.  19 mile range regained. As slow as it is, it's way beyond what lions could do 10 years ago. It used to be a real crash at mile 10. After 9 minutes/mile on the way down, lions would suddenly be stuck at 11 minutes/mile after mile 10 & their paws would hurt like crazy in those padded shoes. Being able to keep moving while eating was a game changer.  Just need 30 miles per week to break 3000.    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Funny how having kids has become a traditional christian activity for only the rich & extremely pious. 40 years ago, access to women of child bearing age was a privilege. Men below the top 1% were doing the world a ...

 https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/investing/article/as-the-average-retirement-age-continues-to-rise-will-passive-income-be-the-solution-162047139.html Cutting through another load of AI filler, Boston College & Grok say the retirement age is rising yet all the gootube commenters say the retirement age is falling.  Always bad news from organized media.  Always good news from the internet demographic.  Suspect the internet is still manely the geeks, technology professionals, high earners with the means to be online most hours.  So the stonk market melted up when the government shut down & crashed when the government reopened.  Only the government can make the stonk market crash. It wasn't government pension funds but government borrowing. --------------------------------------------------    https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/02/s-bear-market-being-what-it-is-apple.html Then lions realized the natural spoken language interfaces ...

 Dreamscape was a fascination to young lion because the ultimate super power was always being able to enter someone else's dream.  It never happened, but young lion continued to imagine it for a long time.   Here Dennis Quaid is preparing to enter the hottie's dream. Contrary to memory, there was no nudity, but it was provocative like most movies in the day.  Helas, she ended up hitting it off with Steven Spielberg.  As bad as this movie was, lions can only imagine Kate Kapshaw enjoyed making it more than Indiana Jones. It was a dark movie, but most dreams are dark. All the witty Dennis Quaid lines immediately came back.  Like Voyagers, surprised how much lions remembered from just one viewing.   Lions always vagely remembered the father scene but not exactly that he was eating.  That seems to be a common theme in dreams.  A lot of what makes it work are the common themes we all dream about. There's a gradual descent into darkness as we disco...