Dreamed about being in a game startup & asking how a lot of things were done, in order to apply them to BFR. The startup was inside the game & it was kind of recursive. The walls were covered in screens which made it appear to be in space. It was disappointing to not have managed to do a lot of things in BFR that they could do. The mane problem was the lack of a purpose for it. Physics & camera movement were merely difficult but finding a reason to play it was hard. Programming a game today is different than 30 years ago. People don't comb magazines & egghead stores for software offerings like they did 30 years ago. They don't each play a different game & devote their lives to that unique game. There's 1 game written by a big company & everyone plays that 1 game. They spend a lot of money promoting it. Most new games are minimal effort, intended to get enough attention to monetize a gootube video about the game & be forgotten.
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The pungent smell of Myrrh incense revived a memory of a friend's boat we visited several times, 40 years ago. It had a pungent lived in, myrrh smell. This memory is all but gone, except the smell. The lion of the time thought this was what an old boat that's been lived in always smells like. The lion kingdom continued pondering what attracts animals to programming games for vintage computers. It could be the challenge of getting the most out of the least transistors. It could be the low level programming model being more flexible. It's definitely not easier to get good results from a C64 than it is from godot, as hard as godot is. The mane attraction lions believe is a much higher chance of a game for a vintage computer getting played. If petscii robots & planet X3 were written for android, it would have been just another android programming channel no-one watched. They would have been just more android programming examples no-one played. It has nothing to
Noted another gap down as the fed declares victory on inflation. The federal funds rate will peak at 5% without getting anywhere near what it was 23 years ago, since most of the money is printed rather than credit. The mane problem is the stonk market's tight adherence to the fed balance sheet. Where do you think they're getting the money to shrink the balance sheet? They're both down 5% from their peaks. Lions still see a slow meltdown unless the fed backpedals.
Finally watched the 1956 Invasion of the body snatchers. Slightly happier ending than 1978, but not as clear about the mode of invasion. At some point, the plants didn't need to mutate into humans anymore but the existing human bodies started instantly transforming when they fell asleep. The mind transfer while sleeping was always a bit out of left field. What was the range of the mind transfer? Why didn't the plants steel our minds when they were in space? A much better mode of transmission would be if the plants made contact with the victims while they were sleeping. There would have been an escape by sleeping in an armored bunker. Apparently, the book had the happiest ending with the aliens surrendering. The original may have been about seed pods, but it's now all about the cars. The towne square still exists untouched near Pasadena, but it's just 1 corner. Getting serious up there.
The lion kingdom was chewing up moisturizing cream. The hygrometer came online in May 2022, so this is the 1st record of how dry winter is. Good old Fl*rida. No EE degree, no job. It's probably Raytheon. That would be a buster of a commute. Can't afford to live there anymore. What was $50,000 is now $500,000 after 20 years of working. Lions would have to drive all the way from inland.
A movie last seen 40 years ago in a drivein made it to the hard drive. Lions only remembered the airplane scene & it being in B&W. It could have been a trailer or a short, but lions also remember "kick the can". Lots of big names were in it. People without mouths & goblins on the wings are pretty common themes in movies. In this case, the goblin flies off into the sky, as if it permanently resides in the sky. There are no goblins with any intelligence permanently living in the sky. Whenever Scatman Crothers shows up, something supernatural is going to happen. The lion kingdom would be the one who wanted to stay a child, but keep all the memories & bank accounts. What a weird place where everyone is mentally in decline, like the white house. The sound is a lot better on the lion kingdom's home made sound system than the drivein.
It's interesting to compare the history of the Babbage difference engine to the history of the telegraph. Could the Babbage difference engine have used electricity instead of mechanics? The 1st difference engine was made in 1819. Mechanical calculators were being made all the way until the 1950's because they were cheap, but lions are intrigued by whether Babbage took the shortest path when price was no object. Electricity in 1820 was really primitive. They just discovered electricity could move a compass needle in 1820. It took until 1828 to make an electromagnet which could move an object. It took until 1835 to go from that to the 1st relay. So no, the 1st difference engine couldn't have been electric. The ones made after 1835 probably could have been. It makes lions wonder why difference engines didn't transition to electricity after 1835. They could have used relays & advanced so much more. The 1st relay computers were made in the 1930's. Many rel
Never bought the idea that it was an accident. Animals have grudges all the time. Animals suddenly disappear. Animals have grudges against lions dating back 40 years & it wouldn't be surprising if a lion suddenly had an accident. Showbiz isn't the cush government job that most of us are accustomed to. Everyone there is lucky to be there & temporary. The production company disappears after 1 movie. How quickly the votes for an infrastructure bill became votes for a retirement plan the voters will never have. Anyways, back we go to another debt ceiling circus. The stonk market will plunge on news reports of a debt crisis. Then there will be a miraculous deal right before the government shuts down. Eventually crypto will rebound in a big way. The trick is the government sees crypto currency as more legit than its own. Suspect the next hat trick after social security, zero interest rate policy, & quantitative easing is going to be printing crypto. The battl
Finally watched Creepshow, 40 years after rereading the comic book many times by flashlight. The highlight visually might have been the now vintage Apple II which was cutting edge in those days. Nothing utterly terrifying. Better writing than anything current. Only slightly deviates from the comic book. The highlight emotionally might have been when after feeding his wife to the warewolf, the now liberated man sits down to doing anything he wants. The big deviation was the warewolf escaping in the end, while the comic book kept him trapped underwater. The zombies might have been easier on the eyes than the single women. The original comic book is now on archive.org with a 1 hour free trial. With a 4k monitor, all you need to do is screencap it while turning the pages. The raw images are very high res but a 4k screencap is still higher than any animal would actually read it in. Helas, the center page crease is cropped off. There's enough in a 2850x1890 screen cap to remember w
Safe to say the remote work opportunities are now back to where they were 4 years ago. The day job actually encountered a serious need to have more people on site, working on physical hardware. No-one is getting forced to be in by a certain time every day like the old days, but they're not hiring any more people who can't drive in. As before, the remote work opportunities are few & for only the highest skilled. It's going to be a lot easier for job seekers to get something on site. As for how this impacts future needs for a head mounted display, even if the commuting is flexible & allows sitting on the train, city jobs would still have a need for something runnable.
What a game changer for commuting. For the longest time, AR glasses maxed out at 640x480, but 1920x1080 is a breakthrough. Even today, 1920x1080 is real high for a laptop. The other mane enabler is the ability to see through them. Just 1 of those, a raspberry pi, & a keyboard worn around the waist & you finally have a useful computer while standing up. If the lion kingdom was still commuting by train, it would drop the $400 for those & make the system work. Helas, there's currently no need for even a laptop so the AR glasses are definitely out. The only other killer application might be watching a movie while running, but they require a cable & a lot of gear for generating the image. They might make a better music display than a monitor, but if you're making a video, the glasses are going to hide your face. They could be good FPV flying glasses, if lions were still into that. It's the kind of thing a 10 year old lion would lust for because of the p
Lions just never felt the magic from Jim Cameraman's blue smurf characters. Maybe mocap really had obliviated the need for real animals or he went down George Lucas's path of extreme technology endorsement at the expense of common sense. He could have picked more relatable models besides the smurfs. He's at the point in a showman's life when he's successful enough to do whatever he wants & the audiences just hit like because he's the Cameraman. Constant rain didn't allow any runs to the theater when it was on. Lions won't be reduced to driving to watch a movie in a theater, unless it's in a real schmick theater like the Oakland dome theater. The already brutal task of sitting through 30 minutes of trailers before generally sitting for 2 hours is only made up for by the run to the theater.
The news cycle for last week was Lisa Marie Presley dying, but the lion kingdom noted how she looked exactly like Wonder Hussy. Lots of women go out of their way to look like 1 celebrity & Hussy's celebrity idol was definitely Presley. With celebrities, the cause of death is normally drugs so 54 is a long time by celebrity standards. The other one was a gootuber who tried to look like Karen Carpenter. Lions don't see the same celebrity imitation with men. There was just the goattee craze, then the full beard craze.
Some of the nicest houses lions lived near in Fl*rida were $50,000. That was so much money for an area with very few jobs. Fl*rida isn't a viable retirement destination anymore & the money you made 20 years ago is worth nothing. Fl*rida is now comparable to silicon valley 20 years ago. What a loss if the lion kingdom ended up retiring in unincorporated Calif* & ended up paying state tax on those IRA's since there was no longer an economic advantage anywhere else. The cheapest parts of Calif* are still in the central valley where 6 months are too hot to go outside & 6 months are in tule fog. Bakersfield is now cheaper than Fl*rida.
There have now been 3 attempts at sequels to an XMas story. The lion kingdom missed the 1st 2 & the IMDB shows a pretty awful description. The 3rd was the 1st to contain most of the original cast. The answer is no, XMas story XMas doesn't contain the original cast, but it contains most of the original cast. Darren Mcgavin is of course dead. The original mother retired. Randy Parker, Flick, Schwartz, Scut Farkus, and Grover Dill are the original cast members & that's basically what makes this version work. It's bland, but it's manely a way to reunite the original team. As usual, most movies today are made for TV so the lion kingdom saw nothing about it until after XMas. The mane problem is the original was based on the best of Gene Shepard's works. The rest were made up on demand. It's not clear how many new plot points came from Gene Shepard's B material. Ralph & Randy reunited. Scott Farkus reincarnated as a cop. Noted how they still ga
