Lion ponderings

  Imagine not knowing if keyboards, joysticks, light pens, mice, touch pads, touch screens, or spoken language were going to be the chosen user interface.  In a time when lions could scarcely imagine reaching a double digit age, it really felt like we'd be drawing with joysticks forever.    That was us before 1984.  To lions old enough to recognize artifacts from that era, that's a blue/green screen.  They were never interacting with a user interface.  It was composited later.     Laid down a bruiser.  1 month after the last 10mph effort broke things down again, went back to alternating between walk & run days to try to increase the intensity.  A steady decline throughout August ended in barely being able to hit 6mph.  The walk/run pattern got back up to a 7m45 mile.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------  After fixing a regression in the keyframe paste function, embarked on fi...

Stories of interest rate cycles ignore the end of the gold standard.  Lions suspect the gold standard was gradually phased out from 1976-2006 instead of suddenly ending.  Attitudes shifted gradually instead of suddenly for 30 years.  That caused the interest rate spike after 1976.  The decline of interest rates since then represented the waning influence of the gold standard & not the downward half of a repeating cycle.  The end game for fiat money is perpetually zero or negative yields. In the mean time, the latest CPI report boxed in even their mightiest attempts to do nothing.  They'll have to raise the rate .25% next week.   Delayed trades from today will make it a super monday.  How will the shift from the doll hair to a new digital currency solve the problem?  Lions suspect any digital coin is going to be issued for twice the price in doll hairs of its official exchange rate.  If the exchange rate is 1000 doll hairs p...

       Didn't realize what a hottie trophy wife bird puppet hottie was when she was discovered in Oct 2024 at Maker Faire.  She was a hottie like all of them on arts & crafts tube, but really popped without glasses.  Definitely got the british version of Jennifer Lawrence going on. Since then, she had a 2 million view full frontal shot.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OAKmaRCPI2o   To afford that much space at her age, without a wedding ring or a cameraman, she's either living with her parents or roommates. She almost exclusively makes paid content.  502 horny old men fund the bank of patreon. British born & raised, but we can fix the accent.  We have the technology.   We have the capability to make the world's 1st bionic british  hottie.  lauramathewsart will be that hottie.  Better than she was before.  Better, stronger, faster, less british accented. https://www.patreon.com/cw/lauramathe...

 Fixed a bug where the integer arguments to Resample were overflowing.  It kept the resamplert plugin from resampling long segments, while seeking still worked.  It might explain why using resamplert to fix synchronization didn't work.  It might have seeked to the right starting sample but drifted during playback. The next features began with a way to find the 1st use of asset in a project.  It's such a rarely needed function, just went for 1 instance of the asset instead of the next & prev instance.     Its mane use was finding a song in a playlist.  It possibly could advance to the next instance if it's currently on an instance, but it would be difficult with frame alignment.  It would be quite rare for an asset to appear in 2 completely isolated edits.  Usually, the edits of a single asset are next to each other.   There are times when editing music where you need to find every place a certain take was used, but all...

 Running some spreadsheets, with 3% interest, no inflation, & no stonk market gains for 20 years, the retirement fund would drop by 25%.  The cash would drop by 1/2.  We all know over 20 years, interest rates are headed down & stonks are headed sideways or up.  3% & a negative stonk market seems plausible for at least the 1st 10 years.  Applying very conservative 3.5% inflation as a renter, the retirement fund would drop by 50% & the cash would be gone in 20 years. The stonk segment needs to average 4% growth for the portfolio to come out flat in 20 years.  There could be no transfers to the cash segment. Rebalancing to keep the cash constant would drain the stonk segment by 1/5, assuming the stonk went up 4% every year.  The stonk now has to go up 5% every year to break even.  Definitely better to not rebalance, but that would leave a 100% stonk weighting in 20 years.  10% annual stronk growth would yield the dream, etern...