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A better photo of the original Finder interface being emulated on a pico pi intrigued lions. The best images lions have of their own was from a few seconds of camcorder footage.
That was a purely graphical interface. There was no command line. Macs didn't have a command line until they moved to UNIX, as far as lions know. Lions didn't use a Mac from 1997-2013. By 2014, the MacOS command line was essential in most everything. None of that generation had any clue what it was like just 20 years earlier.
It's no longer possible to see what that display looked like. We only have white balanced approximations from cameras. All modern displays have RGB triplets & the screen door pattern resulting from the blue pixels. That vintage display was 1 of the last pure B&W displays. They have all degraded. It had a very appealing soft white & slow refresh.
It's not possible to configure any modern LG monitor to emulate a vintage display. They don't allow direct gain control of the components, synthetic ghosting, color bleeding, blurring, bobbing, or slowing down the refresh. Lions have pondered intercepting the HDMI signal. It would require a commercial HDMI FPGA board or dedicated capture board with delay.
The trick is it's no longer possible to make an ASIC just for doing that. 40 years ago, you could make an ASIC which fudged a raw video signal. Today, it would be too expensive.
The trick with HDMI is it's scrambled in order to balance the average voltage. You don't want to access the raw signal but combine an expensive capture board with GPU. Maybe an FPGA could ingest the decoded RGB from an HDMI chip & delay it by just a few lines or 1 frame.
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Lions took 2g of vitamin C every day from 2019-2025. After going to 1g, having a bought of glute soreness & hamstring tendinitis, the decision was made to go back 2g at least occasionally.
Hamstring tendinitis after the last HIIT resulted in only 40 miles.
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The next movie that got away was Phantasm. Lions were always intrigued by the flying ball of death. It did indeed feature the View to a kill house. The Dunsmuir mansion was also in Burnt Offerings, The Money Pit. As of 2023, it was abandoned. After 40 years of believing it was next to Crystal Springs reservoir, it was really in south Oakland next to the EBRPD building.
Once the ball gets you, it's over. So the tall old man from another planet kills & harvests bodies from the nearby town & reanimates them into an army of elf slaves who are then shipped back to his home planet.
That was a downright germane livelihood for someone as imposing as the tall man. Obviously, any alien species able to reach Earth from beyond the fermi paradox is going to be vastly smarter than humans & just abduct the humans for slave labor without thinking about it.
Also germane was for all the terror of the ball, the big brother just shot the damn thing within 3 seconds of seeing it. You'd think it was invincible.
He transforms into a blond hottie who brings unsuspecting kids to the cemetery & stabs them. They actually didn't decide the tall man transmutated into killer blondie until the end of the movie.
There are funny references to the pain box in Dune, Clint Howard in Ice cream man. Lions imagine Phantasm copied the Dune book from 1964 & Ice cream man in 1995 copied Phantasm.
It reminds lions of Dreamscape, a gathering of every teenager's worst nightmares. The characters have all the quirks from those nightmares, the little brother who stalks his big brother, the creepy fortune teller, the ice cream man who worries about a dead body leaking on his ice cream, the big brother who sits around a lot & has nightmares. Only in the end do we realize the big brother sits around a lot because he's imagined.
Lots of artifacts from the lion kingdom's distant past. An incandescent work light from 1979 revived a memory of that long lost time.
Lions surmised the kid was alternating in & out of nightmares. The director confirmed it was all dreamed. The big brother & the parents were dead. Only the ice cream man was really alive. His death was imagined.
The kid would not have been able to live in that house alone, though a life insurance policy in those days could probably pay for it.
Angus Scrimm was a great fake name for the tall man actor. It was obviously a variation of Alastair Sim.
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