Lion ponderings

  Lions downloaded 2 lane blacktop in continuation of the 70's car movie series, only to discover it was Warren Oates's magnum opus. 12 years before he managed astro division, coining the phrase "when you're walking on eggs, don't hop".       10 years before he was sergeant Hulka.     There were higher rated Oat movies: The Wild Bunch, In the heat of the night, Badlands.    2 lane blacktop was rather aimless, shot during a real road trip with no script.  Gathered Warren was driving aimlessly, telling hitchhikers imaginary stories.  He was the only professional actor.  The cops were real. No-one wore makeup.  The director reminded us the imaginary stories were based on what Warren saw in the hitchhikers.  The cemetery scene reminded lions of the trophy wife, dealing with the death of a parent at age 18.  Going to a cemetery despite the rain heightened the sadness for lions.     There was s...

 Lions do miss the way programming was done when they 1st entered the industry.  Not sure most of the AI pundits praising the last 30 years of advancements are doing anything but chasing engagement. There was nothing but O'reilly textbooks, Kerninghan & Ritchie, numerical recipes in C.  There was very little example code.  Most animals got in the industry because they were attracted to a way things were done & a certain type of output.  There was a process of discovery & a value in a hard earned solution that just did what it had to do.  The complexity of designs was constrained by animal intelligence & the capability of the tools, which was less than animal intelligence.  Not convinced someone like 8 bit guy who spent years programming 6502 assembly with a vintage environment really enjoys making AI movies & software as much as he says he does for engagement. Biology majors once called the industry fast paced in the 90's.  Now...

 Hiring for us since the AI shift is now strictly in on-site QA testing, product management, & no more language based jobs.  https://www.youtube.com/@Lessononcoding  A guy who does nothing but reading case studies finds programming to now be good work if you can get it.  The rare paths above $500k get multiple offers paying much more than 2 years ago.  Positions from $100-$300k are just about non existent.  Manual testing, data labeling below $100k are in demand.  It's the same hollowing out as the day job & what we saw in every previous downturn. Anyone who previously had work delegated to them is basically gone while the delegators have moved up in value.  The current lease expires in summer 2027.  Lions would be surprised if they were still employed by then.  The move would need to happen in June, though there is an expensive monthly lease. Lions still find the language models hit or miss.  It's less certain how long...

 With inflation hitting 3.7% in September, the real yield has now been negative for 26 years.  No doubt the rate is going to 4% in 2 weeks, but still the way government works, they're only doing it because inflation is going to 4%. If there was any danger of an interest rate winter, the government would have surely raised interest rates above inflation at least once in the last 26 years.  To now be letting 3.7% inflation slide with only 3.7% interest, there's little chance of anything changing.  -------------------------------------------------------------------- So after biting the bullet & self pleasuring despite a nasty chafe, a most unexpected thing happened.  The lion kingdom woke up hornier than ever, after having a super erotic dream.  It goes against the traditional lore of self pleasuring defeating libido.  What probably happened was the imaginary imagery turning into a super horny dream.  Lions are never returning to teenage hormone ...

 Pondering how the Vanderbilt fortune was tragically spent away in 3 generations, lions also recognized the only reason anyone ever heard of the Vanderbilts was the mansions.  The 1st descendant grew the fortune.  Then the 2nd descendant converted it into the mansions rather than truly spending it away.  Similarly, Hearst was only remembered because of his castle & Carnegie was only remembered because of his institution.  If the vanderbilt fortune was kept intact, they would have sacrificed fame for wealthy descendants.  In the case of a lion, the fortune just isn't big enough to buy anything that would be remembered.  A house lions could afford might be remembered by the next owner, before millennials tore it down & turned it into a grey Frank Lloyd Wright.    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For a good time, compared the 8 day forecast with the actual te...

Young lions were so intrigued by the dominant heroine in Spellbound, they actually bought the DVD.  26 years later, an HD print arrived.  Young lion initially saw only fragments while channel surfing.  The higher resolution definitely revealed a hazier, softer view of 1945.   Unsharp only worsens the grain.  The heroine's towering 5'9" tallness & dominance popped with young lion, but he didn't know it.  She was the superstar heroine from Casablanca.  Lions wonder if anyone that tall & dominant would become a superstar now. Young lion thought Hitchcock left it up to the viewer to decide if she was doing competent doctoring or succumbing to female hormones.  Young lion wanted to believe the former but the show in middle age definitely showed the latter.   Ingrid Bergman had affairs with all her costars, in an age before polyamory of the rich was the way intelligent life would survive.   Polyamory of a female zillion...