Lion ponderings

  Are animals aging faster than they used to or are lions better at detecting age differences than they used to be?  Most of the animals we ever see are 20-30.   For the record, this lens adapter from July 2022 didn't work.  Sometimes ideas don't work & it takes years to finally realize it.  The problem is none of the lenses were narrow enough to mount on a tripod.  This mount was never tried on the pan/tilt head, but it didn't attach there either.  The original idea was some lenses would be narrow enough to use.  There was no way to add an extension to this which was superior to what the commlite already had.  The original commlite was the only working solution.

 Next experiment Not terrible & not spectacular like pepperoni & yellow death.  It could use more spices, even with louisiana sauce.  Lions expected more, based on black leppards. Lions can imagine the reason they use an angle sensor instead of a binary sensor is to gradually dim the screen based on the angle or to turn it off when it's too far away from the sensor.  The problem is it needs calibration for manufacturing deviations & the calibration is only possible with a proprietary tool.  These kinds of repairs just depend on someone hacking an alternative software tool. The free party is over.

  The answer is yes.  Physics hottie has a sister.   There's no mistaking why one became a gootube star while the other one as they say ended up not as easy on the eyes. This is much easier than the keyword searches we've done for the last 30 years. It's like the feeling lucky option on the goog, but it condenses all the results into something more specific.  It shows how little progress the goog made in searches once they had a revenue stream.  It's up to small companies to make progress & get bought out.  

  mane New umbrella with lion for scale. Retro guy basically wrote 1 song & rearranged it for 30 years.  

  James Bond in a nutshell has always been long periods of boredom punctuated with brief action scenes for lions.  The lion kingdom settled on finally watching Skyfall.  Guess the series has gone low tech.  The gadgets are gone.  The villain has taken the standard route of being a computer hacker. The only original visual was the villains lair.  It's interesting to see how the props were made of obsolete computer parts & recycled LCD panels just like lions use.   The answer is yes.  You can print a smaller car key grip out of PETG.  The locksmith attached a gigantic grip.

  An inspection of the farm revealed a bathroom on the east side, open from 10-4 on tue-sat.  The west trail goes nowhere but a fenced off ending.  The only animals are on the north side behind a fence.  The south side has static displays.  There was no sign of goats.  There was a sheep acting like it was about to be eaten by a lion.

  There might be more hot inflation reports & stonk market flinches, but the fed is done tightening.  A new world record for printed money is upon us.  With interest rates near the maximum sustainable level & the treasury collapse, the lion kingdom finished its planned bond fund expansion.  More expansion may happen if panic continues. The lion kingdom downloaded & printed out a lot of final fantasy pieces which were lost to time.  They might have been too easy to bother with.  Most of them arrived in March-April 2011.  The pdftoreader program desperately needs support for a configuration file which describes more parameters & a list of files. Debating what to do after the current round of pieces.  There's a definite need for the notation entry program. The final fantasy pieces were written in 2001, a time so long ago it feels like the absolute stone ages. Very high sunspot activity, hence auroras & extreme rain. The search is on for Tulare lake, using GOES, VII

 Homeless Despot was empty & excess lumber was stacked up outside.  Lions never expected that again, after 2020.  The stonk market is absorbing massive amounts of quantitative easing again, in the backdrop of massive selling by individuals.  The end result is a melt up, as we've seen for 20 years.  The big question is is this round of quantitative easing going to continue to the next leg up or is it heading down below the bottom. She's really bitchy on instagram, so this was kind of an eye opener.  Doubt she ever uses anything in that house.  It's just an investment.  Her british accent is brutal.

The 2008-2022 playbook seems to be back.  We seem to be at the pivot point for the current tightening phase.  The big question is when or if inflation pivots.  It's really a gamble either way, but the government is obviously not focused on inflation & probably never was.  5-6% has been a comfortable target for a lot of economists. The thing about tightening is we were in a tightening phase from 1987-2001 which accompanied a boom.  It eventually crashed, but to avoid the 33% drop in 2000 you had to miss 300% of growth after 1987.   There might be momentary loosening during a very long term tightening.  The big question may not be whether you're going to lose everything in the stonk market, but whether the stonk market is going to yield as much as interest rates in the short term.

The Monday melt up was on schedule.  The fed balance sheet is still an insurmountable force despite the new element of inflation.  It's a contest between productivity, money printing, & panic.  Neither one is a sure thing.  If money printing wins, we get higher interest rates.   If productivity wins, we get lower interest rates.  If panic wins, we get lower interest rates.   Panic is a very powerful tool to lower inflation.  History shows productivity winning.  It's not like marriage where everything is against the marriage succeeding, the couple is kicking the can down the road & there's only 1 possible outcome of divorce.  There are 2 sides to monetary policy. The lion kingdom bought into the idea of an easy money era that would eventually end, but was the easy money artificially inflating prices above fair market value or was the easy money just keeping up with productivity?  Inflation targeting causes prices to rise in 1 sector when productivity increases in ano

  Fireheart was a relief after the anxiety of Fall.  The big question in "daughter becomes undercover male firefighter" movies is how the uncomfortable gender reveal is handled.  In this case, the daughter is proactive about revealing her gender & the resolution is over in exactly 5 minutes.  There's not much too it. She had a definite Amelia Earhart look. The villain was a dominant hottie.

 The tyranny of inflation targeting: The government only cares about the core CPI.  The core CPI is the average of a lot of stuff that increases in price & a lot of stuff that decreases in price.  The government doesn't care if 1 thing goes up 50%, as long as something else goes down & the average is 3.5%.   Human productivity is always increasing.  Something is always getting cheaper, so in order to avoid deflation, the government converts debt to cash, increases the money supply & raises the price of something else to hit 3.5%.  The more productivity increases & something gets cheaper, the more something else has to go up in price to hit 3.5%.  Productivity is the basic fuel which feeds the government.  What typically went down in price for the last 100 years was electronics.  What typically went up to compensate was housing.  Inflation targeting creates a paradox where there's an incentive to produce less in order to reduce prices.  If the price of electronic

 Who knew a 50 basis point increase was good news, but that was the tape & that's why you can't time the market except for maybe the nikkei 225.  Watch out for those delayed trades, though.   Quantitative easing has returned in a big way, hence the large melt ups last week.  The melt ups might have been powered by the fed while the crashes might have been powered by individuals.  The latest $300 billion printing brings us nearly back to the peak.  There was a time when $300 billion was a major stimulus package.  It might have been the bailout of SVB.  We'll never know. Safe to say the fed is no longer fighting inflation & is decidedly in stimulus mode.   It wouldn't be surprising if they lowered the fed funds rate. It would be a mistake to monetize $300 billion & not cut the rate. We'll have to see if productivity alone or panic overpowers inflation.  Lions believe a down market now would be a buying opportunity & the script to shift towards infla