Lion ponderings

  Ego Monger employee.  She's making more than the lion kingdom as a boss, with a $1.2M house & CEO husband.  Pretty sure she'll pay as much as allowed, but $26 for a BA is piss poor migrant labor.  Lions make a comparable fraction of their boss, but he's a decamillionaire so it's more than minimum wage.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st hard drive failure in the last 40 years.  There were unplugged drives killed off by static electricity & altitude changes but this was the 1st live drive.  It was making increasing vibration noises over several months & gradually became too hot to touch. Managed to back it up on the 18TB.  Note this created 2 copies of Xena on the 18TB.  Lions deleted the original backup of Xena so the contents of /hmov only exist on the original overheating drive & once on the 18TB. Definite copper oxidation from the heat.  It was...

  Took a few weeks after Warsh came on board, but now we know the balance sheet charges upward despite the talk.     Contrarian opinion: interest rates are only going down until the national debt is back below 100% of GDP.  The game continues to be jawboning the markets with inactivity.   It...can't...be   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   https://www.instagram.com/reels/DbEJdStifPB/  Should pay more attention to the city center concert series.  They had some big names this year instead of the usual cover bands.  David Benoit was there.  Lions played the living daylights out of his xmas album & wrote a program to try to transcribe his recording of xmas time is here.  After the last performance, 74 year old Lee Ritenour, saw a really serious looking, black guitar player coming off stage.  They used 1 of the many empty stores as a dressing room.  He had 2 r...

 Wrapped IT movie #2, heavily 2x through a lot of filler scenes.  So basically, IT 2017 was a heavily reworked version of the 1st half of IT 1990.  The kid battle was now set in 1989 to capitalize on 80's nostalgia & they compressed the hauntings to every 27 years.  The adult battle was meant to be in the 2019 sequel.     The heroine was now some kind of tomboy.  They really belabored the kid romance development.  The heroine originally picked the fat kid in the 1990 version.   Long story short, the heroine now ended up picking the stutterer instead of the fat kid, after a ponderous exposition involving the fat kid & true love's kiss reviving her from zombie state.     We got a lot of random, unrelated creatures, less scary at 2x with a timeline & audio compression.  Lions appreciated the increased investment in visuals compared to 1990.    The remote sewer building was replaced with a haunted house i...

 Bald eagle adventures continued with some potato quality footage from Duke Blackwood.  The Goog showed him as the Ronald Reagan library director but could find no original copy of the footage.  Strange that he would take an interest in eagle spotting.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WX9ayTQiUs    There were some more fragments of a longer video showing Jackie getting pinned down.  It was her time to go & be replaced by the younger bald eagles, but being in an overpopulated area full of humans changed the outcome.  Still programmed purely for life in the wild, she must have been thinking she would never fly again, settling into 1 final perch on a strange boat shaped tree.  Anemia & kidney inflammation were discovered.  The bald eagles got scared away from the nest from July 4 fireworks.   They went back by July 6. Reviewing what limited footage hasn't been blocked or gone paid, Jackie last entered the nest on July ...

 Horror cycle continued with IT.  Lions saw bits of IT 1990 but it got boring fast & wasn't visually moving.  The downloader got the 1990 & the 2017 version over the last several months.  The IMDB gave the 2017 version a higher rating, though IMDB has no nostalgia for 1990.  The 3 hour 1990 version got rescanned in glorious 1440x1080, as a low budget TV movie.    4:3 really looks glorious in the age of vertical video, if only humans had the imagination.   Reminds lions of outerscope II's murky 16mm & kid cast.   Good idea: 13 year old hottie clenching fists & shooting a slingshot.    Bad idea: 13 year old hottie 35 years later.     Paper boat in the rain was as far as lions got into the book.  The sunny rain on TV was when lions tuned out. Skimming through the 5 hours of TV grade production, the 1990 version had a rematch between the antagonist & the kids in adult form.  The 201...