Lion ponderings

So after some more research, the Comca$t situation this year is an upgrade to Docsis 3.1 & a phasing out of the lion kingdom's $50 modem. The new modem is $90 & won't arrive for 5 more days. The lion kingdom's 1st dialup modem was $90, so we've come full circle.

 This year's Comca$t annual manetenance window began on July 29 & didn't show on the outage map.  Previously, they handed out warnings about the planned shutdown in July.  Then they started shutting down for 2 months/year without warning.  They charge a $300 fee for any troubleshooting so the lion kingdom would wait a week before calling in.

Another erotic dream.  This time it was someone short.

 Dreamed about riding the batman coaster.  It's not going to happen in real life, but in the dream it wasn't as scary as past experiences on rides.  The difference was watching tons of gootube videos so there weren't any surprises.  The lion kingdom remembers when the batman coaster was introduced in 1992.  It was the next generation of extreme coasters containing terrifying chairlift style seats, inverted loops, barrel rolls, & water.  It represented Great America going over the deep end.  By today's standards, it was tame, but the marketing might also have over sold it.  Now we can preview any coaster on demand while back then, we just had commercials.   Then was getting ready to go on the Wonder heroine coaster.  There's actually a clone of Wonder Heroine in Great America.  It's shorter & a mirror image.  In reality, riding a coaster might end up a bucket list item.  The last ride was over 20 years ago ...

 Backing up some more cringy floppy disks from 30 years ago the lion kingdom is never going to read, there is the source code for the very 1st audio editor.  That was the 1st productive thing a lion ever wrote.  That was a time when any random piece of software was guaranteed to get tons of downloads.  It's not like that anymore.  You can make a spectacular game or tool now & no-one will ever care. Lions were even worse jerks 30 years ago than they are now but in hindsight, the lion kingdom was going to die alone & never have any romantic relationships.  It was rightfully a stressful time & there was a lot of cringe coming out ahead of what eventually happened.  At the same time, 60% of men die without having any romantic relationships & lions knew they were rebelling against christian customs.  Can't a lion have some fun? Feeling old Tori Amos after plastic surgery.  They say she's almost totally  synthetic  no...

  Trophy wife convention.  Blondies always struggle while hispanics destroy it.

  Filament Filament goes in front & unrolls sideways. This is distinctly missing from the sales pitches for prusa MK III's & ball bearing filament rolls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma4pF-ePahk Used to think every recording sounded that good.  No, most recordings are boring.   Only 1 lion makes it sound interesting.  You have to visit some dark places to make it sound like that. LA zombie invasion is in full swing.  At least they haven't taken over the space shuttle yet.

 Testing hardware rendering yielded some bugs since at least the addition of checker board backgrounds 3 years ago. This one affected alpha channel playback with a single track.  It dropped the checker board background & composited every new frame on the previous output. Rendering with alpha channels yielded the checkerboard scaled down to the size of the preview window because the GUI has its video mode set to on & it uses the GUI for its opengl context. Its dependency on the GUI for an opengl context caused the rendered output to stop converting YUV to RGB when the user started playback while rendering.  The GUI may need another flag for rendering mode or it may need a dummy GUI for the opengl context. Alpha channels were just never used with a single track.  Fade with a single track was always done without alpha channels.  It could cause problems if there are 2 tracks but 1 track has no media. There are a lot of shortcuts intended to get it to handle ...

  Not sterile but as good as a lion can get it in 1 day. Lions have taken to preventative manetenance every morning. The carpet shampooer is essential against lion shedding. Shampooing the carpet put a lot of water in the air, so the humidifier was off. Never knew how long the carpet shampoo affected the air. Trophy wife Rossguy's subway grate vijeo got 12 million views which he claims paid $12,000 before taxes.  Suspect it got mentioned by a celebrity, but it could have been just the vagaries of the recommendation engine.  He said he makes $50-$120/day on average or $50,000/year on gootube.  He used $50,000 of his gootube revenue to pay off his back rent.  The gootube dream has basically become hitting the jackpot with 1 viral video. The lion kingdom had 1 vijeo hit 1 million views, but it wasn't monetizable.  Rossguy was a kind of motivation to start a new monetizable channel & start throwing in monetizable lottery ticket vijeos for a chance...

  Democrat survival tip: use your shirt as a grocery bag to avoid paying the grocery bag tax. Started Resident Evil 2016 with middle aged mane tuft Jovovovova & middle aged Larter.  Sadly, final cut pro was new so they had to use the largest number of short edits possible. The lion kingdom noted stonks had a boom week from 31k to 32k while at the same time China dumped a lot of US's bonds.  Maybe they bought stonks.  Traditionally, China buys bonds to increase the number of Bide bucks & make it easier for US to buy their crap.  If they sell bonds, it should be like reducing quantitative easing.  The fed balance sheet took another step up, though the long term is still expected to be down. Lions are still pessimistic in that 32k is the point where most 401k's automatically rebalance.  We had a similar melt up in June before the fed rate hike & that pummeled stonks.  Of course, lions are undeniably overly conservative & believe ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1pnLV037h4 The lion kingdom inferred from a deleted live stream that Ross Guy turned down an original offer from his Austin billionaire buddy, then accepted a counter offer at a higher price.  Lions have heard horror stories about accepting counter offers.   The other thing is that in order to accept the counter offer, has has to move to Austin.  The whole thing sounded like a desperate act to escape NY.  Austin is definitely not New Hampshire & more like NY nowadays.  It was a bummer to stop getting bike ride videos from NY, but the New Hampshire phase was a kind of step up for Ross. What will be amusing are his dating videos.  Austin is a lot more like Calif* in being a boom town full of men seeking instant wealth.  The Austin live streams are all men.  He's going to have a lot less access to women in Austin than NY, but lions suspect he'll hit it off more in Austin just because it's not NY.  Despit...

 Leon Fleisher had extreme bruxism. His teeth looked like cigarettes.

  The desk lowers to TV watching position. Finally adjusted the monitor.  It would need m6 45mm bolts to go through new holes.  The longest in US are 40mm.  The easiest solution was clamping it inside an existing hole.

 Made it to Resident Evil 2012, starring the trophy wife  Sienna Guillory.  Very dominant.  She was actually the brunette in Resident Evil 2004 but might have appeared softer in her younger age.   A few decades of marriage do the trick. By 2012, the guns had unlimited ammo which greatly simplified logistics.  Having made it this far, it makes lions wonder if they could survive the Nightmare on Elm St series.  The lion kingdom already saw most of the  Friday the 13th series in childhood.

  A full day of rewiring & killing hundreds of spiders yielded the standing desk. The last 2 folding tables from 20 years ago look real shabby. There's a real desire to replace them with another standing desk, but it's 2 full days of work. The standing desk is super heavy while anything else is much easier to move. The window desk really needed 4 bolts since a lot of force has to go through the legs to move it. It also needed 3 sliders on the sides since that's where the legs go. The sliders all sunk into the carpet. It would be a lot more practical if the audio amplifier, headphone amplifier, USB hub were bolted or clamped under the desk.  The monitor stand has to stretch all the way for lions to see it.  It has farsteners for drilling 4 holes instead of going behind the desk.  It's just a 1 way trip.  It's a hair too big to fit through an existing grommet hole. The desk goes no closer than 1" from the wall.  The legs protrude 1".  That's as c...

The lion kingdom was surprised how high the TWTR bounce got on that stupid lawsuit.  It surpassed the 37 support level which it held for most of its life.  It might bounce back to 50.  There was absolutely no reason for the lawsuit to matter, but the media hyped it & there wasn't any other news headline.  It's the epitome of gambling.  That stonk had no long term value.  Its only reason for existing was Elon's buyout offer.  Maybe twitter could become an essential communication medium, but at $25 or $55?  Individual stonks only work for lions when they're heavily beaten down & have clear future value. The lion kingdom tried several times to access truth social, but the email confirmation never worked.   Rossguy quote of the day: "Better to fuck up as a teenager when the costs are low than fuck up later when the costs are high."  The lion kingdom really last fucked up at age 20 in a way that could have had high costs in ...

  Another Rossguyism is he won't bang women from another country.  He may not be aware of the importance of higher status, but he does know the difference between wanting to get out of a shithole & really being in love.  Lions just know of the clashes from different cultural experience & the desire for survival being mistaken for love. Anyways, the mane's favorite ice cream now being $7 & the mane's favorite cookies now being $5 was a big jump from June.  There will be a big inflation reading in August if these prices don't go down.  Interestingly, the mane's favorite lettuce decreased in price, so we might be seeing a concentration in grain & animal products rather than plants.  That could be because of Ukraine being destroyed.   Lion body mass decreased back to its happy place, mid 160's.  It's very noticeable when climbing hills.  The mane problem is the increased awareness of different foods & decreased opportunit...