Lion ponderings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgWy2ifX5sUS In US, the couch potatoes are the ones with families while the ones who go outside die alone.  Given the alternatives, dying alone & becoming a grease stain on the floor shouldn't be feared.   We just need better options than a family or a government to clean the mess. If cars lasted 100 years, the streets would now be filled with Duesenbergs & Packards. 25 year olds in 1935 were a lot easier on the eyes than now.  They were also a lot shorter.

It still compiles but doesn't run. In 1995, the only practical way to hear full CD albums was the original disk & a program called workman. There was mp2 encoding, but the hard drives were too small to keep entire albums. In 1998, still with only a 4 gig drive, lions dug up their Titanic CD every day & ran workman. The l3enc encoder, free version limited to 112kbit, arrived in 1997, allowing some compressed files of individual songs to stay around. The licensed version was $250. By 1999, the lion kingdom was still listening to Loreena McKennit on workman. Not until 2000 & the mighty 60GB hard drive, did the storage of full CD albums begin & workman disappear into history. l3enc can still be downloaded, but no longer runs. Too bad there are so many reviewers of 8 bit computers & historic Windows software, but nothing about historic Linux software. Will video editors go the way of workman, if live streaming replaces prepared content or video is replac

The gnarly victorian & the cowheroine made this movie a thing of beauty.  The house was a bit overdone, but that's what a house should look like. The government inflates credit so much, anything passes as a house, nowadays.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/microsoft-ending-windows-10-mobile-says-switch-to-iphone-or-android.html A remarkable story of a huge platform going away. It was everywhere in 2011. They redesigned Windows 10 to look like the phone. We don't often hear of platforms going away like we did 30 years ago. The stories of OS/2, VMS, A/UX, used to abound. It takes so much more work to make a modern platform than it did 30 years ago, they can't be rolled off an assembly line anymore. The surface tablets are a similar product. Who uses surface tablets? They look so outdated by today's standards. It would take a lot longer for Android or IOS to go away, but they could if they didn't constantly place new requirements on developers to upgrade their apps. That's why lions always preferred directly programming a free system like Linux instead of one sustained by a corporation.

Kind of a surreal futurescape photo buried in the r/SpaceXLounge, with the launchpad under construction in the foreground & its giant ship in the distance. With so many people working on the launchpad as well as the ship, it's a huge operation, possibly 10% of the company. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/aegh8r/nsf_nomadd_work_on_the_boca_chica_launch_site/

It was the 5th dream about a colony landing on Titan, in BFR's of course. They were the latest in a series of ill fated missions, trying to find out what happened to the previous missions. It was an eternally foggy land. The 1st mission built 1960's style public school buildings not equipped for the task to come. Once inside, it was another duck in a barrel alien attack as squid-like aliens arrived outside. They easily slithered their way through the moldy, green louvered windows, devouring the humans. The humans ran through foggy classrooms & locker rooms trying to close all the open windows & find all the places the aliens could get in, while slowly getting picked off. When 1 building was invaded, they ran to another building where other humans were similarly getting picked off. There was an element of intrigue as 1 human seemed to be trying to leave a door open to let the aliens in. The pneumatic door closer of public school fame ever so slowly closed behind hi