Another dream about a supersized version of the college apartment.  They all focus on trying to recapture the 1 time only to discover it being completely transformed.  It's always crammed with far more people.  The rooms are always bigger. 

The lion kingdom is not even considering ever renting an upper floor in an urban highrise again.  Places like that even in rural Fl*rida now cost more than silicon valley.  If a lion did just once though, all it would take is spending a summer building a high end gaming PC, walking to a different grocery store every night after the rain. 

It's not known how often young lion didn't leave the apartment all day.  Most often, there was at least 1 trip to get food.  It is known there was never enough time to go anywhere like there was in the past.

 Really, the happiest time might have been just the 1st week after moving in, before anyone else was there.  The lion was struggling to conjure up an audio amplifier.  The biggest problem with that apartment was the unused living room.  It should have been just 2 bigger bedrooms.  Lions do miss the tall ceiling & the bunk bed.


 


 The 1st time lions ever heard of Arri was this photo, but it was in color.

 

Sadly, all the lion kingdom belongings which didn't go to college were discarded.  All the books & toys are gone, but through the magic of archive.org


the original color photo lives again.  Lions wondered why he used such a no name brand instead of Panavision.

Making software or any product which is relevant to this industry is a different league.  Lions pretended to be relevant, 25 years ago.  It really involves complying with standards, very hardware specific programming, satisfying a very specific need.  Trying to make anything more general purpose requires an army of animals.  Ego Monger's husband hit a home run.  Even then, his only credit in a movie was in a music video.

Maybe there's still some fascination with the industry, maybe from a camera robot, a prop robot, or a piece of software.








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