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The late show saga finally ended    https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/08/lion-kingdom-got-dinged-yet-again.html   with the worst monologue lions ever heard, reminiscent of the times.   Lacking any over the air TV, lions just read the kiwipedia notes.  Surprised Letterman didn't show up.  No presidents showed up like Letterman's last show. Lions watched the tonight show more than the late show.  Letterman was always darker & of course more democrat.  The last tonight show episode will be the end of a positive memory for younger lions but there was no going back.  Late night talk shows by 2026 were aimed at much younger audiences than lions.  The guests were no longer old enough to be attractive.  The subject matter was of mane concerns for younger audiences.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    Another huge effort of 13x200 1x400 wi...
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 https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/11/that-grok-applied-ipv6-style-pseudo.html https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/12/4adkycbbe-bordenaro-finally-caved-said.html  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-algorithm-spewed-some-stories-about.html  Continuing the saga of home recordings on acoustic pianos, 1 of the worst was  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWIgvubkk0   That was mono & more out of tune than lions ever heard before.  It reminded lions of the days their own piano would suddenly go out of tune after a humidity change. The idea of ever owning a large music room faded farther into the past. It would be quite difficult to manetain low, static humidity in FL or manetain the level of tuning required for recording.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   https://www.amazon.com/Guirnd-Protected-Memorabilia-Autograph-Protector/dp/B0FBWFR3ZZ     Ba...
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  Set to the task of documenting & preserving the lion kingdom's baseball souvenirs from 40 years ago.  Harder than it looks, without the right gear.  The glare problem came to a head.  The internet advice for getting it right in camera was all replaced in the last 3 years by selling AI tools for removing glare.  Documenting how something appeared in real life has all been replaced by generating images.    The best results were from ambient light, angled camera to maximize the resolution, over exposed 1 stop, F8, 200mm to minimize parallax, ISO 200. Sadly some softness in the edges.  The signatures are actually more visible in the photo than real life.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    The surviving bobble heads need to be reinforced where chips weakened the material.  Otherwise, they can probably be stored with foam stabilizing th...
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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/102857268473278281/7088999167789544093 Continuing the search, in terms of cost, Villages is the cheapest, Titusville is 2nd, & Largo is most expensive.  Titusville has a better location. Villages is the only one with running paths suitable for speed work & is the least dramatic transition from the status quo.  Largo is manely nostalgic, but has a beach & the most walkable destinations.  Titusville has no beach but it does have a waterfront.  Lions lived near a beach for 9 months but only went to it once. Lions would only buy a house in Titusville.  Largo is too expensive & impacted by hurricanes.  The Villages has a lot of downward pressure on home equity.  The big question with Titusville is the noise from daily starship launches.  It's 12-13 miles from the launchpad while the noisy South Padre videos are 5-6 miles from the launchpad.  It probably would be equivalent to an airport. ...
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 The comedy of the fed returns with the PPI coming in at over 15% annualized.  The PPI is manely ignored because it doesn't subtract wage deflation.  How quickly double digit inflation became normalized & 1 time events became ongoing inflation. Came close to selling a small position on Wed, but the lion kingdom's exposure to the S&P remanes very small, especially in an IRA. Selling is only possible in an IRA, which is another reason against having all the cash in IRAs.  The other reason is the need to access the cash.  The long bond expects higher interest rates in the future.   Lions expect the S&P to go lower in the future.  The fed never managed to suppress the yield curve, despite much quantitative easing.  The 30 year cracked 33% higher than the 1 year, despite a massive printing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forever positions come of age  It came to pass ...
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   A walk in the woods was another grumpy male baby boomer coming of age movie.  The big mcmansion, the retirement, the marriage in this genre are now foreign concepts to later generations. A lot of characters came & went, with no payoff.     There was a very sad subplot of Steenburgen living alone with her dimented mother which led nowhere.      For depicting baby boomers as old fashioned, it was overkill to see them sticking to pay phones & paper maps in 2015.  Even baby boomers had moved on by then.      Redford was shown with a 2015 era macbook.  Some bits of the 1998 book obviously were mixed with bits of 2015.       If there was any point, it was to showcase the  Appalachian  trail.  The real Fontana Dam in NC, on the trail, was shown.     The starting point shown was the real starting point in Amicalola falls GA.  The red building since got a bigger...
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