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1st saw really crusty bits of Legend in syndication. The HD copy was less crusty but still quite grainy.   Peter Pan Cruise was pretty terrifying. Peter Pan Cruise was as dystopian as it got. Reminiscent of What dreams may come. 18 year old Ferris Bueller hottie in her biggest role.    As the playhead ground along, the 7 dwarves, the bratty kids, & the unemployed actors guild showed up.  The trademark legend bathrobe went on.  It was supposed to be a hero's journey.    The slime started piling up.      Yet lions kept it at 1x because of horrendous audio & it was a visually intriguing bit of lost Tom Cruise lore.       The british pixie was a hottie lost to bad lighting.  She was actually 25.    They got more flesh in the climax scene.   She was supposed to be weak or something.     The villain's lair was quite the set. All practical in those days.   The heroine bare...
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   Another 4x1000 just 9 days after the last one.  While the bowel started to activate, managed redemption on the 4th.  An 8m8s mile for the return while the previous one was 8m13s.  9/18 # dist sec min/mile 1 1001 270 7:12 2 1002 271 7:14 3 1005 272 7:12 4 1005 283 7:32 9/27 # dist sec min/mile 1 1013 269 7:11 2 1010 271 7:15 3 1000 271 7:14 4 1003 271 7:14  Following up on  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/07/dropped-way-off-in-last-3-years.html The 1st 80oz only lasted until Sep 27, hardly mid Oct.  It beats paying for a protein drink after every hard effort but it seems lions aren't benefiting from every single dose.  Hard efforts are much rarer than 10 years ago.  Lions are back to 40 mile weeks, despite the protein.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Following up on https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/02/ultimate-language-model-in-lion-minds.html  Lions ha...
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Metropolis, sky captain

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    Was reminded of Metropolis by the night starship stacking photos, 1 of the things 1930's futurist art got right.  Managed to skim through the gootube downloadable copy.  What young lion found unwatchable went down in 1 hour at 2x-4x.  Silent movies have an unexpected benefit of being watchable at high speed & paused on the subtitles. Young lion watched a low quality VHS tape at 1x, couldn't understand any of the themes or decipher the hazy images.  Only remembered the guy turning the clock & hours of static scenes.  The restored version was much clearer, about as engaging as any classic from the 80's, a complete reversal from the VHS copy.     There were a few visuals predicting the metallic towers & spotlights of the modern era.   Even the crosses in the catacombs had to reach for the stars.    Clock guy, as remembered.  Imagine a world where a manual laborer was required to do the job of ev...
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General Magic

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 Pondered how a lot of retail investors on the sidelines since 2008, on the cusp of 1M, jumped in the stonk market during the dip in 2020, at the same time, then instantly crossed 1M.  Then based on stonk market returns, they all hit 2M 6 years later & now are getting the hell out at the same time.   Investment behavior is like a row of metronomes that all synchronize over time.  Large events of selling & buying eventually tend to line up.       Military defeat was not on the lion kingdom's bingo card.  Defending a shipping channel was pretty important for bond prices.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Magic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34dAyDUglrI  From the department of stuff you didn't know.   No open source/stack overflow/claude. Just bookshelves.   No sampled audio or captured video. Just text ...
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