Lion ponderings

  Another night of chicken, noodles, potatoes, & another morning feeling strong.  Managed 2 sub 8 minute miles.    The chicken diet hasn't always been consistent, but the good days always follow it.  Haven't had very good results from fruit, other than feeling full.  Gently stretching the hamstring has subjectively improved results.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Reacquired What Dreams may come in HD, 1 of those movies you forget you ever saw.  Lions only remembered vague details from watching it 30 years ago, in vastly different circumstances, as if it was in a dream.    While lions remembered the lake scene, it was not lake Como but Montana.     Lake Como was the basis for his rustic cabana.  In hind sight, it would have been logistically inconvenient but it's 1 area where drone delivery could unlock previously unattainable housing op...

 Lions always assumed the father in Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin ended up never having any contact with his son, ever since 1st discovering the lyrics in 2016.  It was 1 of those 1st songs lions heard over & over on AM radio without ever noticing the lyrics.   Finally reviewed the abundant documentation on it & the internet assured us the father did have contact with the son but it represented the growing latchkey kid movement of the 1970's, what became normal in the 80's.  It's certainly normal in a divorce for the father to disappear completely.  The Cats In The Cradle chorus was intended to keep it from becoming too depressing.  Young lion thought it was 2 gangsters saying "we'll get together then, man". It made lions ponder whether staying out west just to get the rule of 55 might be too greedy, especially if they hit the bingo point.  The rule of 55 would provide only 4 years of lower taxes & won't amount to...

 Continuing the Avatar series for the 20th year, lions started Fire & Ash.   It definitely had a theme of stuff burning down.  The premise of the series, humans transmutating into alien bodies through technology, was long gone.  3D screenings were presumably long gone.  The avatar existed in title only.         Cameraman really nailed the aspects of bright lighting, bright colors, big spending to make 3D animation look good in bright lighting & tack sharp focus.   The display of technological supremacy, casually traveling 26 trillion miles, conference calling problems in the age of holograms, was still on the wrong side, with the focus still on traditional environmentalism.    Some nice visuals of bioluminescence.  Such things could have been made into a costume, years ago, with EL wire.  Modern LED strips would be too expensive. The 2nd act was a batshit boring soap opera with canned Cameraman dialo...

 A quick play through of Robotech Shadow Chronicles at 2x was pretty disappointing.  Definitely a westernized addition to the series.  All that canned dialog would be unbearable at 1x. A lot of the original voice actors returned, sadly less recognizable.  Among the changes, the iconic Lisa Hayes voice was gone.  To account for the voice change, they changed invid Marlene's name to Ariel & Marlene referred to just the deceased girlfriend from  MOSPEADA .  It all made it a bit confusing.  They did credit the original Lisa Hayes voice, but it might have been a brief appearance in the ending.  Paw drawn mecha were replaced with dark, low grade computer animation while characters were still cells.  Most of the original shock factor was knowing the complicated mecha sequences were painstakingly drawn.   There was a pirated HD copy long ago whose stills adorned IMDB.  All that remanes is a potato quality copy from gootube whi...

 The key requirement is to run a few commands on the host after plugging it in. mkdir -p /var/lib/lxc/grid22/rootfs/root/usb umount /var/lib/lxc/grid22/rootfs/root/usb mount -o bind /dev/bus/usb /var/lib/lxc/grid22/rootfs/root/usb   On the container, you have to run  ln -s /root/ /dev/bus  This stays around & reacquires the gadget when the gadget is unplugged. The container configuration file /var/lib/lxc/grid22/config might require an extra line  lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 189:* rwm The X server as always requires lxc.mount.entry = /tmp/.X11-unix tmp/.X11-unix none bind,optional,create=dir,ro mkdir -p /var/lib/lxc/grid22/rootfs/tmp/.X11-unix    The mane problem is the container's /dev/ directory is a virtual filesystem not part of /var/lib/lxc/grid22/rootfs/.  Anything in /dev/ has to be created after starting the container.  The only way for the container to see anything in the host /dev is to mount it in the visib...

 15 deg cooler, proper glucose supplements, & things went a bit better than 6 days ago.  If only it could have been due to training. The mounting tendinitis of old age definitely makes it like pushing on a string.  It's causing earlier onset of sciatica.  Started stretching the offending tendon after 6 months for shits & giggles.  They traditionally don't recommend stretching a hamstring tendon.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The current prime demographic is going to outlive the lion kingdom.  It's surprising to find Alanis Morisette is going to outlive the lion kingdom.  Let that sink in. Got some recommendations about parent vs kid wealth & boomers vs genX again.   Gootubers are pessamistic about gen X because #1 engagement but also because the only ones currently online came from the top of the baby boomer wealth.  Chances are they're not doing as well as the top ...

 Finally upgrading the resource window, it became clear that young lion once envisioned storing assets & clips in different bins, which the user could create.  It was to be a complete filesystem of assets, clips & bins inside the EDL.  A lot of dead code handles folders.  Over 30 years, lions never had a need for such a feature & forgot it was ever started.  The most convenient way to create clips & bins ended up being to create nested EDL files in the native filesystem.  Lions use that all the time.  It would have to be a pretty big project to subdivide the assets into different folders in the current EDL.  There was also a complicated mechanism of referencing all the EDL objects from fixed listbox tables & then further referencing a subset of items in the fixed tables from the current listbox.  There was a lot of room for dangling pointers, race conditions, & memory leaks. It was intended for fast navigation between ...

    Who knew SC had higher income tax below $40k than Calif* & SC has higher sales tax than Calif* did 30 years ago.  Lions are dropping to 8% before they leave Calif*.  They already dropped into lower social security tax brackets.  A lion would be better off renting in Palm Springs than a great many other states.  Also, if there were no parents, the entire country was on the table & finances weren't as tight, lions still ponder if they would move to FL.  Influencers seem happy in the rainy northwest, but lions aren't convinced it's real.  Dave Plummer is an indoor guy with 12000 sq ft.  Ray Delahanty travels more often than he's in Portland.  Happy on Monday &  Ms Gen Xodus are definitely indoor women.  Lions were indoor animals 40 years ago. The rainy northwest might have worked for 10 year old lions & created a lot of warm fuzzy memories, but there's no going back.  Lions have to bring back food & ex...

     Pondered uploading the complete, uncut run down nihilistic canyon, since they're not going to open it anymore.  It has joined the bay bridge crossing in valhalla.   It seems there was a peak in bike path engagement, 20 years ago.  It was brought on by generation X's burnout after 2001.  That generation is now gone.  The Elon era has brought in a generation of workaholics.  They're pushing for office space, factories.  All they post are photos of  factories & offices.   Of course, Tesla becoming the largest employer in the last 20 years has changed things. One does not mention closing a road to cars or building any more bike paths.  It's kind of like Detroit without any music.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4cxP__LuVQ    More lost 80's.  Late 80's c...