Lion ponderings

 Thinking about the problem of taxable vs non taxable accounts, the pendulum started swinging towards moving as much money market fund to IRAs as possible & non dividend paying stonk to the taxable but there are problems.  If more cash is needed than available, you can reallocate back to stonk within the IRA & sell stonk in the taxable.  The capital gains tax would be lower. The problem is timing.  It has to be done when valuation in the IRA is relatively high.  It's definitely not setting a new high now.  That maximizes the principal after transferring to the money market fund.  The IRA won't go anywhere by earning interest & there's no way to get the principal back in this kind of transfer.  It could be quite expensive to transfer during a dip.  Both the taxable & IRA would have smaller positions in their new funds.  If the transfer is done during a high, the IRA has a bigger position in its new fund, yet the longer it'...

  The hotties are always the crazy ones.  Helas, they quickly get married & go off grid after they get famous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a parallel universe, the lion kingdom ran the MCM today.  The weather was pretty good.  In reality, it was a painful 13 miler in a 63 mile week.  By mile 10, the posterior tibialis tendon was having none of it so there was much walking.  There was a vision of 1 more drive to LA & 1 more drive to Vegas to run races.  Doesn't look like the post tib is going to be there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reviewing more of the Chopin Mallorca fiasco, the only pieces he seemed to finish during that time were the preludes.  He might have been working on Ballade #2 there but didn't finish it.  He was in Mallorca from Oct 1838-Feb 1839 & only had a piano f...

 The last place a lion would expect to see a former president, but lions still don't think he'll win.  Most of the country works for the gubment, democrats need a really compelling flaw to lose & Calif* democrats never lose. The rest of the country is going to become a lot more like Calif* under Kamal.  They're going to learn they can't just move somewhere else to escape it.    It occurred to lions that the g forces in these might be less than .5g in order to reduce the cost.  Building large structures inside would be easier with less than 1g but more than 0g.  They could build the whole thing in 0g before spinning it up but structures would still be cheaper in .5g. Building a lunar mass driver would be starship's mane task.  Then, it seems trivial for someone with enough money to just throw enough mass off the lunar surface to build a private space station. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

  Made some more changes to try to get frame rate override working with nested EDL's.  The frame rate override is equivalent to nesting an EDL inside another EDL with a reframert plugin & a different frame rate.  It always has to do 1 more calculation outside the nested EDL, no matter what.  It can't just substitute a new frame rate inside the nested EDL. As far as the nested EDL is concerned, its frame rate is fixed.  Only the reader needs to scale its current position by the override frame rate.  The override position is then treated like it's in the nested EDL's frame rate. Audio wisely doesn't support a sample rate override since it has never been needed & it would be quite difficult to insert a resampling step. The override frame rate allows us to make a lot of edits inside a nested EDL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------...

 Have noted the rise of the ubiquitous subtitle.  They've become essential in every video nowadays, for boosting engagement. The more dynamic & animated the better.  The trend has been animating the current word.  Some just draw 1 word with animation.  The normal way might be auto generating them.  These aren't the kinds of users who are going to manually enter subtitles & keyframe every word. Noted the subtitle track & the amount of work kdenlive had invested in subtitles.  That showed they were important, but the mane way they're being created is automation now.  That's the kind of thing you'd want in a standalone program with an intermediate file format.  Automated subtitles still often suck, blanking without enough time to read them.  The mane motivation for subtitles was scrolling.  You don't want to have audio from every video start & stop while scrolling so scrolling made subtitles the king.  We've gone f...