Lion ponderings

    Walnuts crushed.  11 minute pace with a very slow cadence has been manageable on a daily basis for the tendon.  11 minutes was what lions manely managed before 2016.  5.5 hours would be the tail end of what would finish an organized marathon, but an organized marathon wouldn't be concerned with preserving the tendon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       Just like that, the 2 hour marathon was broken in an official race.  It's all about carbon plated shoes.  Kind of like Barkley, no-one winning & suddenly 2 winning in a year.  Interestingly, the super shoes weigh as much as racing flats 15 years ago, 3oz.  It makes lions wonder if a CF plate should be sandwiched in sandals. No-one has documented the shape of the CF plate in their 10 year existence or how they achieve springiness.  There's no money to be made in showing a western...

 The 2023 telling of Boudica was an interesting viewing.   After discovering Boudica 25 years ago & many documentaries, it was the 1st telling of the story in movie form.  Lions watched it at 1.5x, getting just enough of the scottish dialog.    Things stay manely true to history, except perhaps how easy on the eyes she was.  Reality was a bit hideous on the eyes.   Mr B didn't last long.  He was apparently drafted by the Romans & killed battling another tribe.    Boudica discovers the barbarians at 13 minutes.      Decapitation is the preferred kill method.  Anyone who talked the talk in favor of the Romans was instantly decapitated.  The barbaric tactics of the less civilized natives are revealed early on.  It was the barbarian tribe which converted Boudica to a warrior & showed her the ways of decapitation.   The magic bronze sword was revealed at 21:05 by Mr. B, forged by druids....

After long dreaming of running around the Apple campus, it was revealed to be for employees only.      Every entrance is gated with guards.  All that space is just for the boys club of involuntary office commuters making over $300k.  Kiwipedia clearly states "The Visitor Center is the only part of Apple Park which tourists are permitted to visit." Indeed, Steve Morris, Marc Merlin, Jerri Ellsworth, Curious Marc & the gang may own houses in the center of everything, but it's all gated office campuses now.   They're just tourists in their homes.  It was formerly an HP campus & accessible to the public.  Lions visited it in 2000.  There are no photos of the interior but it was comprised of a huge cube farm with a tall ceiling & power drops from the ceiling.  Lions went there during rolling blackouts & the intercom was playing warnings about it. It might have been a converted factory & quite outdated by 2000, with im...

 Waterproof grocery bags would be nice.       Is it too soon for BRK to become an AI datacenter?  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v8o8vmZBObk   The 2nd refrigerator death of the lion kingdom's renting career came to pass.  They were both separated by roughly 22 years.   This one spoiled some $50 of food.  Fortunately, it was manely storing electronicals which would not perish in a short term outage. Refrigerators are no longer designed to be repaired, cleaned, or recharged.  They're just recycled straight away.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Started pondering the fee implications in the rule of 55.  Keeping the current 401k intact entails paying some manetenance fees.  The fees could be greater than the tax penalty of waiting until 59 & jamming everything out before 70.    Starting distributions of the current 401k at...