Lion ponderings

   Alien Romulus directed the series back to its roots: the heroine saving the newt.  This time, the newt was replaced by a child android.  Lions believe it's time for a heroine android to enter the series.    The challenges in these latest sequels are so ridiculous, the suspense is gone.  Sometimes, the only way to win is to write in a new feature where the face huggers can't see you if the room temperature is raised.  It's all stuff lions have seen before, but modern 3D modeling aided by generative AI looks good.  They resurrected the CRT props of the original episodes.  Lions believe they're augmenting manual modeling with generative AI to get higher levels of detail.  There are still no blockbuster generative 3D models, but it can generate 2D elements to fill in areas. Lions imagine the planet rings were littered with face huggers & aliens after the space station collision.  Nothing would kill them.  The entire planet would have to be quarantined.  They finally

Compiling it on native ubunt 24 was a much bigger deal than it was in containers.  Pulse audio had to be dropped to get it to compile.  That needs to be a system dependency, probably along with many other libraries which have stabilized.   The mane problem was slipped compatibility with gnome over the last 24 years. With gnome, it's no longer getting a ConfigureNotify for the window creation.  It can't restore its position in gnome.   The xprop program & the xrandr program can extract the window position information, but they use very complicated algorithms of their own to infer metadata from atoms.  It's really about swapping 1 diabolical algorithm for another. The position issue is being left to rot since lions don't use gnome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  It actually was manely functional on Xwayland without any obvious performance loss but there were problems.  Window resizes are awfu

 Got to 13 pullups on the easy bar & 10 on the hard bar.  Then it dropped to 9 on the hard bar.  Probably easier when warmed up by running or eating.  For something so static, they get the heart rate moving.  Eventually settled on sets of 3, falling to 1 until failure.  The marine corps constantly changes.  Lately, they require 5 pullups without a time limit.  Over or under grip is allowed.  It's unknown if they allow breaks. The maximum marine corp run test is 3 miles in 18 minutes so lions won't be maxing it out. The situp test has a 2 minute time limit. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trophy wife --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another one shucked.   root@heroine:/root% fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 16.4 TiB, 18000207937536 bytes, 35156656128 sectors

  Broke it good. 18 miles without a metronome was a bad idea. 17 last week with a metronome went a lot better.  The big question is how long it takes to recover.  It hurt even when it wasn't loaded. Day 2 had no reduction in swelling, but it hurt less.  It didn't hurt anymore when not loaded.   The last 70 degree day before 6 months of freezing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/@AgeBlocked/videos While lions consider themselves not in the most dire of straights, doomer videos keep them sharp.  They remind lions to not expect to get hired again after 50.  Any employment after 50 would be a very good situation but it's not going to be a disaster to not get any more jobs.  It would be a disaster if lions fell in love, got married, & had kids.  Lions expect housing costs to be at least stable enough to afford a minimum house on their own land without a job.  There's a

  Finished Labyrinth, another highly IMDB rated, lost piece of 80's sauce.  The only pirate version was particularly high quality, which made it 1 of the rare times the 80's looked as sharp as lions remember.  Why this goofy muppet show got so highly rated is obviously a testament of the average middle age single male IMDB user.  There's the 80's mane hair, Jennifer Connely, David Bowie still gootube age.  The victorian house exterior was in the Elstree studio back lot. The way that family dressed was pretty trippy.      Lions don't remember anyone dressing like that in the 80's but it might have been common until 2019 for adults to stay dressed up after working in an office.  Those days are still largely over.  Since the end of the dating years, lions wouldn't know what anyone looks like at home. Everything after the 80's at home scene was just muppets under the bridge.  Suspect the Neverending story in 1984 set off this wave of clones.      Toiling th

When factoring in the possible losses from losing the SALT deduction (1%) & the possible gain from Bide's 401k deduction (1%), the lion kingdom could now be paying 2% more in tax compared to straight democrat rule.  The fact is all the other stuff has to be factored in, like global instability, entitlement program costs, inflation, wealth tax. Calif* is definitely not giving any tax breaks. The last meaningful tax cut was in 2001.  It's been uphill ever since, manely in social security.  It may be uphill from now on, manely in social security & medicare since those are the most politically correct to raise.  Lions predicted the gains would all be in FICA instead of progressive income tax, back in 2001. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lions were as surprised as anyone that Simba returned from exile & are cautiously optimistic about the completion of the circle of life, as always.  Politi