Lion ponderings

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfTU38O7YV4 As soon as anyone uses copyrighted music instead of that crummy gootube audio library stuff & even their own compositions, it kicks the video up to a new level.  Look, if your own composition was as good as anything copyrighted, you wouldn't be making gootube vijeos. We might get to a point where everyone just abandons adsense & relies of paytreon.  Kind of not surprising that passive aggressive Retro Recipe guy would be one of the few besides Mclionhead who screwed adsense in favor of quality music. The John Goodman look still trips up lions.  Not sure why he picked an actor from 1998 though. The lion kingdom suspects he's gotten larger in the last 4 years.  He continues to work in Hollywood outside of Gootube & owns a large house in Calif*.  His recent credits are narrations for the visually impaired. That vintage UNIX workstation monitor was intriguing.  It's quite out of place.  Forget a...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPlMyvzAL8 Another legendary lost 80's sound.

  The lion kingdom revisited The Haunting after over 30 years & found it fascinating.  The original widescreen 1920x800 is like seeing it for the 1st time.  The real house,   Ettington Park Hotel in Warwickshire, England, was shot in IR at night to make it look more ghastly.     This movie created all the "in the dark" memes. The real thing isn't as medieval.  It was renovated in 1862.  Bits of it existed as early as the 1600's.  Times were tough for hill house, during the lockdowns of 2020. The distorted, wide angle shots popped for the 1st time. The complete interior sets visible for the 1st time popped. It seemed cozy with them hunkered down in the living room for the night, but the snoring & body odor would have been brutal & if someone had to go to the bathroom, it was a scary trip down past the nursery. Despite all being shot in old England, we're led to believe the mansion was "in the most remote part of New England he...

  The day finally came to expend it.  In the scheme of things, it was a meaningless amount of money compared to $3000 of rent, but it shows how much the cost of transportation affects mobility.  What followed was a 10 mile journey around the city. When lions drop $20 on food in the city, it normally takes another $15 just to get to the city.  Despite the cost of rent, the psychological motivation of a free ticket is huge. The lion kingdom pondered what motivated an animal to wake up & go to the loneliest underground train station shopping center to sing very bland arrangements of xmas carols. They weren't very uniquely arranged xmas carols like what lions used to play.

  Made it back before the mane ate all the food. Heavenly mother can take it all away in an instant. The lion kingdom is getting clumsy as it gets older & will soon be at risk of a similar accident while cooking or soldering. Elon's next mission. Maybe he'll buy a prepaid phone maker like Wiko, TCL, Celero, Schok, fire 3/4 of the employees & make it cost $2000. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596268804413476864 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshN3N0jOng Yes, the lion kingdom once dreamed of making a video of running with Casey, with the camera robot. Now, it's obvious that'll never happen, since the only way it did happen was by winning a contest.

  The internet completely froze at 4pm today. Black friday deals hit & everyone got off work at the same time. The fed finally threw in the towel with the long awaited pivot & the stonk market roared to within record territory. The 28 handle is long forgotten. Quantitative tightening is the next shoe to drop. The big question is how the government is going to explain away or obfuscate any continued inflation. The narrative has shifted from transient to lagging. The gootube finally allowed audio in the thumbnail previews that everyone watches to avoid commercials. Previously, the cost of watching a thumbnail without commercials was the audio, but obviously big data has shown adding audio to not cost any revenue. Gootube videos are so overwhelmingly trash, it's rarely worth watching anything in higher resolution. Community, shorts, & thumbnail players are the big new features which they're not monetizing. They might be making more money by increasing traffic t...

The lion kingdom reviewed Notting Hill for the 3rd time out of desperation.  It was truly mesmorizing the 1st time, 20 years ago, in 720P, long before the rest of the world had HD.  The 2nd time, it seemed bland.  Nowadays, it's damn tacky but not as bland.  The fact is lions never liked Julia Roberts.  The only movies of hers lions saw were Pretty Woman & Flatliners.  She was too serious & down.   The 1st encounter in the Ritz was the peak, where Hugh Grant carefully pierces the veil of infinite stardom. & the bald guy keeps him from fully crossing over. Being older & wiser has made the dinner scene a true disaster.  There's no way someone that high in status would waste any time going to a plebeian family dinner.  The mane thing lions remember from that scene is the "I will become some sad middle aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous" line.  Doesn't that apply to the gootubes, except the cutoff is now a...