The late show saga finally ended

 

 https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/08/lion-kingdom-got-dinged-yet-again.html

 

with the worst monologue lions ever heard, reminiscent of the times.   Lacking any over the air TV, lions just read the kiwipedia notes.  Surprised Letterman didn't show up.  No presidents showed up like Letterman's last show.

Lions watched the tonight show more than the late show.  Letterman was always darker & of course more democrat. 

The last tonight show episode will be the end of a positive memory for younger lions but there was no going back.  Late night talk shows by 2026 were aimed at much younger audiences than lions.  The guests were no longer old enough to be attractive.  The subject matter was of mane concerns for younger audiences.

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 Another huge effort of 13x200 1x400 with a 7m53 mile returning.  The last similar effort was 14x200 with a 8m6 mile on 4/4.  That was slower.  It's the twilight of the lion kingdom's ability to do such efforts.  The tendon is finished for a while.

 Lions did not take protein after speed workouts until 2023.  They were manely in the city before 2020.  Lions only took protein rarely after long runs before 2016.  It went away because of lactose problems & only came back after every speed workout in 2023.  Taking lactaid by finely chewing it & mixing it with the drink eventually eliminated the lactose problems, but lactose definitely remaned a big deal for a long time after 2023.

 

Lions peaked at age 47.  Right ankle ligament occured from 47-48.  Right posterior tibealis was 48-50.  Left hamstring was 50 & beyond.  There was never another time after 47 when lions were 100% because recovery was forever slower.  The only future is slower, with more distances reverting to being car dependent.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYwHJQVjdXI

 


 

 Lions were always intrigued by how CPUs work, sometimes pondered making the simplest possible CPU out of discrete components, & eventually skimmed through a gootube series.  Lots of animals make their own CPUs for shits & giggles.  Lions bailed out before taking a microprocessor course.

Basically, the simplest CPU is a program counter connected to the address pins of a ROM which contains the program.  Some of the data pins activate different logic sections which transfer data between memory, add memory, compare memory, jump.  Other data pins contain operands.  

There are tricky bits involving the reset & the timing of multiple operations inside a single instruction.  A common clock increments the program counter on 1 edge & triggers the logic operations on the other edge or they can subdivide each program increment into many clockcycles which perform the logic operations.

 A discrete component CPU would need to read the program from some kind of paper tape.  It would not be possible to store a program in discrete components.  Jump would be a mechanical operation & relative.  Each bit in the paper tape would directly turn on different logic sections.  The paper tape could have 4 bits directly turn on 4 different logic operations or some minimal amount of multiplexing to compress 16 opcodes.  Then another 4 bits in the tape could contain operands.  8 bit wide instructions seem to be the minimum.

A printed tape could have very wide instructions with no multiplexing, but lions would realistically make concessions & store the program in ROM.

 Of course, it could also be analog.  A memory that stored analog voltage, representing analog voltage on paper tape would be quite difficult.  A practical address would still be binary.

 Lions also pondered if a CPU could be simplified to just a bunch of ROMs.  1 ROM would contain the program.  1 ROM would contain the instruction set, demuxing the opcodes into the signals that turn on the logic sections.  ROMs could be used for all the operations. 

 Lions would go further & implement the whole thing on an FPGA.  Most FPGA implementations are basically minimal CPUs with a program counter & data pins on a ROM that activate different circuits in a certain order.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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