Lion ponderings

 Barndominiums these days are being recommended for hurricane wind loads.  115mph seems to be their baseline.  Different hits say 130 as the standard wind load & some have said 140.  They need a 30 deg roof pitch & pier foundation going 40" underground.  Windows & doors have to be rated for higher forces. ICF insulated concrete forms are also being recommended.  Lion parents had an ICF house with a wood roof.  Lions 1st saw concrete construction in Fl*rida. It had thousands of prefabricated, interlocking blocks. Most concrete houses are made of cinderblocks.  Nothing in Calif* is made of concete.  It's all wood.   The normal method for houses is to create a form out of insulation & rebar, pouring concrete in the field.  The total thickness is 1ft.  It seems to be 8" concrete, 4" of insulation.  All the plumbing, wires, go in the 2" of insulation.  Only the outer wall is ICF.  There's a series on a...

 Lions have long dreamed of having mom still around after retirement.   The internet abounds in horror stories of old people eventually making a mistake & surrendering all their money to someone posing as a federal agent.  The odds eventually stack up that you'll make a mistake & the only solution seems to be not revealing your wealth. It takes a lot of effort to pull off a scam like this, so they needed prior knowledge of who has a lot of money.  Lions believe the most likely scams are going to be parents requesting access to an account to manage it, parents requesting money in a real estate exchange, someone requesting an account number for a wire transfer.  By age 60, these requests have come so many times, you're no longer going to ponder if they're real.   Most likely, the 1st time lions provided anyone access to an account would be the last time & the money would instantly all be gone.  The odds of falling for a scam increase ...

  Sub million Cedar key condos weren't so appealing anymore.  The quad copter pilot was under some severe limitations & wasn't able to get any wide shots.  He was only able to photograph bits of buildings. While the businesses look comparable to Capitola after a storm, none of the waterfront condos survived.  That row of condos got the maximum category 4 eyewall.  The most affordable ones would have been the 1st floor.   Mobile homes & 1 story houses were washed away. Only stilt houses survived but some stilt houses only 1 floor above ground were washed away.  The surge was 2 feet higher than the record. The highest recorded wind in Gainesville was 74mph.  The airport reported 63mph gusts before going offline, but lion parents were much closer to the eye & probably got 90-100mph gusts. Power in downtown Newberry went out at 10pm & came back at 2pm the next day.  Duke had a map showing all of it back but in reality it took 2 da...

   The gootube spits out a lot of terminal illness videos.  The strange thing is even when preparing to die, they all still rattle off the binder intros & endings.  They're that programmed.  This generation all hooked up online & learned to replicate only what they saw online.  Canadian healthcare is shit.  The outcome was worse than the lion kingdom's classmate, better than Gulker.  Within 9 months, she was predicted to die in 11 years.  The symptoms were dizziness & fainting.  Dizziness has happened to lions with increasing frequency since 2009, but nothing debilitating.  The 1st event was sitting at the day job after lunch.  The 2nd event was years later, on a train after running & taking a lot of sugar.  Then there were frequent falls, in times when lions were switching between shoes & sandals.  Nowadays, lions get dizzy at least once a week, after lunch.  The falls no longer happen becaus...

  Now predicting a Kamal victory & stonk market plunge because of it.  It went up when Trump won a debate, plunged when she was nominated & has gone sideways ever since she'd held a lead.  Lions expect a capital gains tax increase in 2029.  Their last increase was in 2013, wisely after the election.  2029 was once such a distant time lions thought they'd never see.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------   Recycling food containers is not a recipe for happiness in fuckmerica.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------   The lion kingdom's last dollar store pedometer from 2011 emerged with a completely corroded battery & was discarded without its LCD.   They were only bought for their LCD's.  It was a wildly different time, when no-one had smart phones or GPS & pedometers were the primary way of measuring distance.  Lion parents had o...

 Lions pondered the fact that in M.U.L.E. it was fairly easy to monopolize all the food by buying all the land on the river.  Once monopolized, you could charge unattainable prices for it & become quite wealthy.  The result was losing the game because the colony as a whole wouldn't produce anything.  They wouldn't die off like oregon trail, but they would merely not produce.   There are still memories of hoarding all the food.  All the computer players but 1 would stop bidding fairly low.  1 desperate player would keep advancing & give everything he had for maybe 1 unit of food.  Somewhere out in the universe, that 1 desperate computer player is still alive somewhere. Lions long noted a similar phenomenon with stonks.  In times of great shortages of shares, you're better off giving shares to those who desperately need them.  A higher quantity of shares ends up becoming affordable later on. Right now could be considered ...

 Went ahead with an option to disable all the muted video tracks regardless of dependencies.  Then, another option disables all the tracks below the 1st visible track.  The 2 options are independent & should improve the 2 most common use cases. If both options are selected, it can select between 2 tracks by toggling just 1 mute curve.   If only disable_muted is selected, projects can elect to disable tracks by just using their mute curves without worrying about setting disable_muted.  If only only_top is selected, users can select the playable track by stacking edits instead of manipulating mute curves. Full compositing is rarely used enough that these options will probably be on most of the time. It'll break a lot of unusual track routing involving random access & nested EDL's, but it'll generally be a force for good.  The most common workflow involves layering future edits on top of past edits & ending time stretches as soon as the future edit...

      Biggest effort in 4 months. Limited speed based on pain level & used the metronome all the way. Equally painful to know running won't be possible for another 48 hours. The posterior tibial tendon called it quits at mile 10.  The left posterior tibial tendon seems to be gradually degrading to the same point as the right one.  Narrowing in on the posterior tibial tendon being the failure point instead of the flexor digitorum longus.  Definitely some signs the sandals are prime suspects in the injuries.      Hottie trophy wife & minimal shoes     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, that run revealed the best feeling keyboard to be the logitech MK850 with an $80 tag.   That one comes with a mouse which is better than the current one but not great.  It was actually cheaper locally than mail order.  There's a $57 variant with a c...

    DVD subtitles working with mkv, the lion kingdom set to the task of watching Farewell my queen.  Noted the beauty & the beast clock.  Noted how the servants lived out their lives in less improved sections of the palace.  It wasn't lit.  They had to get around with candles.  There are the usual notes about how unsanitary it was.  The note about a clock being a big deal shows how precious such things were in those days.   The trick with telling the story of the french revolution from the POV of a servant is she had no skin in the game.  She wasn't going to be beheaded.  She was just going to walk away.  It's not easy to create suspense.  Somehow, she was a lot more devoted to the queen than any lion would be to his ruler. Lions pondered why the queen wasn't more focused on her getaway.  It implied she was too in love with her lesbian lover to leave.  She seemed too attached to the throne to go to Russia or ...