Lion ponderings

  Cracked sidewalls after 9.5 years & 20,000 miles. 1 tire was pristine. There might have been some correlation between the cracks & what side was facing down during the last 3 months. There might be some benefit to driving it to keep the same side from facing down. After 10 years in 3 different outdoor parking spaces, there was no correlation with UV exposure.  Obviously not worth aligning them if they're going only 20,000 miles in their lifetime.  These arrived on Dec 3, 2013.  Michelin says they can last 10 years, but they more typically die after 6 years. The green time of year  

  Another toenail goes to the toenail in the sky.  Not sure why the sandals eat toenails.  The general theory is bare EVA is very sticky & too much stickiness in the toe area causes blisters under the toenails.  You can't moisturize toes because moisturizer causes toes to stick.  Simultaneously, dry toes get cracked & swollen which also kills toenails.   The leading idea nowadays is to lubricate the toe area but not use a moisturizer.  Another idea has been to cover the bare EVA with suede, but suede is heavy.  Suede has provided just enough stick but not too much & it's been immune to rain.

Finally tried the $1.25 ice cream at the dollar store.  It's been hit or miss with those off brand food items.  The cornbread was definitely not food.  The off brand mint chip managed to not be a disaster.  It's not great but not terrible.  It doesn't have any safety seal. Got lucky & no-one licked it before the lion kingdom. Revisited Avatar 1 for some context, but there wasn't any.  The 2 movies were very independent of each other.  There was some slight context for what happened to Sigourney, but the colonel's son didn't have a backstory.  The visuals are always impressive.

  Generation X is on tiktok. Eventually, we're going to the stars because it's the next evolution.  To get there, we're going to need many generations living out their lives in space colonies.  Maybe they'll tow asteroids for building materials.  Maybe they'll spend most of their lives in VR.  They'll recycle & expand their colonies.  They'll be self sufficient. Many centuries after leaving Earth, future generations will look to the stars from their planet & try to spot a planet many lightyears away which their ancestors left many centuries ago.  They'll know they can never go back.  They'll receive signals from that planet, from many years ago. The lion Liszt ended up 2 minutes longer than Sideburn but comparable to Browning & Watts.  Recording spanned 6 1 hour sessions from April 4 - April 24. Schumann sonata 3 was previously the lion kingdom's longest recording at 31 minutes.  That spanned over 4 months but only 4 sessions.  That w

 The lion kingdom managed to grow its stonk weighting to only 38% during last year's bear market.  Most animals today have at least 50% in stonk or even higher.  Lions have a delusion that they can get a better deal in the future.  Once again, another bear market seems to be over despite quantitative easing rolling over.  The fed is matching its sales with retail cash inflows to keep things roughly flat.  The journey began with asking 3 big questions: does inflation targeting manely create inflation or deflation?  How does becoming more productive outgrow debt?  Does the government calculate inflation the same way taxpayers calculate capital gains?  If everyone trades based on inflation targeting, won't a tsunami of early retirements require monetary tightening? Intuitively, if productivity grows, prices should fall & debt should become more burdensome.  What really happens is falling prices of some items create slack which allows other items to rise in price.  The governme

  https://twitter.com/DavidJDPhotos/status/1649869628896604160/photo/1 Scene from an alien planet.  This isn't the world we grew up in.  There's no going back to that place. Scenes from alien planets. The answer is no.  There's nothing in Pensacola resembling the movie.  There are beaches like that in Thailand.

  Another bowel interruption & positive split, but the hottest weather so far.      The lion kingdom chickened out & only recorded 4 pages.   Barring a major malfunction, the last 6 pages should be done on Monday.  

  Largest rocket ever made by the paw of man in all history & it happened in our lifetimes. Dreamed of this day since age 5.        https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1649064002763255808 https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/1649052544755470338 https://twitter.com/i/status/1649097087248891904      

 Most animals envision inflation as a gaussian curve.  In reality, it's a camel just like wealth distribution.  Lots of stuff rises 20% & lots of stuff falls 20%.  The government's job is not to keep the stuff like housing from rising 20%.  It's to balance housing with stuff that's falling like spaceflight.  There continues to be a big enough deflationary hump for the inflationary hump to continue growing forever.   The memory of 20 years of negative interest rates is still fresh in millennial minds as they continue to pile into stonks.  They're not taking the bait.  Lions don't expect positive interest rates to last very long but continue to focus on the fed balance sheet.  It hit a new record in April, sold off sharply & it's not clear which way it's headed.  It's become a new index.  The fed seems to target a 3.5% growth rate in the dow meter & adjust its stonk positions in order to meet that target.  Sometimes it makes mistakes. It co