Lion ponderings

 From the opening AI generated spaceship animations & random AI generated scene morphs, supergirl was a steaming pile of dog turd & lions were lured once again into yet another a marvel movie.  1984 supergirl was so bad, it didn't stay on the hard drive.  The franchise was cursed from the beginning.  IMDB gave them 4.4 & 5.9.   Apparently, according to IMDB, some losers still watch these movies in a theater.  Unlike when lions were 20 & going to theaters because they didn't have any screen, the modern cohort goes to theaters just for the sake of going to theaters.  The comic book adaptations are now based on a medium which has been gone for generations.  The current audience only knows of comic books from archaeology.      Played the 1st 1h36 entirely at 1x because it was quite dense.  Then it hit the brakes & it went to 2x.  After all the panic about saving the doge, they took their sweet old...

 Pondering the idea of a cruise again, it wouldn't be that unbearable, as long as it didn't spend too many days at sea.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiHaCX2i8E     An inside facing cabin would work, since lions were more interested in touring land than the ocean.  It would still be quite expensive to travel to the starting point.   It's slim pickings from San Francisco.  For $3k, they go to a remote port in Canadia by legal mandate & then the very southern panhandle of Alaska instead of Alaska proper.  Too far south to see a real glacier, though Greenspun said they go ashore.  Viking has the ultimate cruise.     $7k & up, not even countable in fiat money.  Cheaper in the dead of winter. This travel thing might be getting out of paw.  Lions have escalated spending over the decades, starting with a dumpy motel in Burbank, 2012, slowly escalating to a super expensive hotel in 2025....

     A most peculiar decline in fitness, as the left hamstring now started seizing up at mile 11 instead of 18.  It was over 90F 36% humidity.  Lions didn't take hydration  & higher humidity seriously & finished it rather dry. Weather records strangely show similar humidity 7 years ago, yet the hygrometer has been consistently pegged over 45% for the 1st time & lions have not needed foot moisturizer since 2025. 11 miles was the typical seize point after the SF marathon & tendinopathy, in 2016.    Have noted the seizing develops after stopping but is masked while moving.  So not stopping abruptly tends to buy some time.  Then, bend over to stretch the hamstring.  Both posterior tibialises have been flared up since the last 18 miler, with a big emphasis on the left one.  It seems problems returned after the speedy days on 8/12 & 8/14, the 18 miler on 8/15 with no recovery day. ----------------------------...

 Not surprising that AI models all discredit government subsidies as the reason for inflation.  What is surprising is that no-one questions AI anymore.  The invisible paw indeed.     That time of the month again.   Lions before the last rent increase burned $43k/year.  $2300/month was rent.  $200 was electricity delivery.  $1100 was the rest.  Healthcare was day job subsidized.  Merely getting a measly 5% from investments would be a dream.  It's been closer to 2%, for the last 2 years.  The 10% of internet fame is fiction.  No-one is 100% invested in the thing which is going up 10%.      Put it all in bonds & face a high chance of rates going to 0.  Put it all in stronk & you know.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  After many months of headlines about the government's reliance on selling short term bonds, the twist was made of...

 Monster Squad was another Ben Heck recommendation, specifically considered superior to Goonies.  Lions were reminded of a time when translating German required finding a bio robot who could speak the language & it was possible to watch a movie in a theater without paying, with binoculars.          Lions were struck by the use of such germane monsters, dracula, frankenstein, mummy, swamp creature, saveitforparts.  Like all Ben Heck favorites, it's a damn boring rehash of known quantities that checks all the boxes of good story telling, but what gets lions going is novelty over academics.  Boring music is another thing he prefers.  Goonies worked because the music was novel.    Noted the Robotech shirt, a very niche show to be in a movie.  Surprised Harmony Gold authorized the trademark.  Noted in this incarnation of Goonies, there were no girls.  The Goonies started a boom in kid club movies during that ...

Baby it's clear outside   Introducing the negative split 1000m. Just kicking the last 100m up a notch. Been rapidly getting more intense since daily stretches of the hamstring tendons & daily knee activations. Vastly more intense than it was before the last marathon, but much less distance. Stretching the tendon just to the point of triggering it seemed to really boost the recovery.   Helas, 18.7 miles the next day ended in hamstring cramp. It responded briefly to electrolyte drink, but it took a lot of electrolyte drink to massage it all the way home.  Stretching the hamstring while standing seemed to keep it alive. It seemed to originate in the tendon. At least the lion kingdom aligned the end with the supplies, based on prior knowledge. 18 has consistently been the bingo point, no matter the pace, the nutrients, or the weather.    That yielded the final photos of the theater demolition. Noted what appeared to be the curtain in the rubble. 1 of th...