Lion ponderings

   Another run down to document the empty field after the ground breaking for the new theater & the field wasn't empty.  They're just breaking ground & clearing the field simultaneously. Made a potato quality panorama from the phone.  Not sure why the phone did such a lousy job stitching this one.   Upon further inspection, previous panos were equally bad but didn't have as many horizontal lines.  It's absolutely piss poor compared to manually stitching a video but it provides a documentation grade 2k image.  Vibe coding a pano tool might give better results.  There were unsuccessful attempts to do it with Cinelerra's motion tracker.    Cooler weather & a serious hydration effort led to a much improved run down.  It finished at 72F.  Didn't cramp, though took many breaks to test for seizing.  Still finished with orange urine.    Soul crushing situation.    Bilateral posterior tibialis p...

 Besides senioritis, other trends from college have returned after 50.  Lions noted working part time instead of borrowing was what the over achievers did in college & the path to success.  Working part time after retirement is now being seen as a similar path to success, as if our college phase was starting over again.   The abundance of gootubers worth many millions yet continuing to work after retirement was the 1st big sign that the part time working, college over achievers were coming back for retirement.  Instead of uploading copyrighted music & producing value, they choose to jump all the hoops for monetization, produce rehashed click bait, comply with AI art requirements.  It definitely feels like the desire for a higher standard of living is going to create the same hierarchy of over achievers & slackers in retirement as college.  Working in retirement is going to be a new rite of passage.  At the same time, in the l...

 From the opening AI generated spaceship animations & random AI generated scene morphs, supergirl was a steaming pile of dog turd & lions were lured once again into yet another a marvel movie.  1984 supergirl was so bad, it didn't stay on the hard drive.  The franchise was cursed from the beginning.  IMDB gave them 4.4 & 5.9.   Apparently, according to IMDB, some losers still watch these movies in a theater.  Unlike when lions were 20 & going to theaters because they didn't have any screen, the modern cohort goes to theaters just for the sake of going to theaters.  The comic book adaptations are now based on a medium which has been gone for generations.  The current audience only knows of comic books from archaeology.      Played the 1st 1h36 entirely at 1x because it was quite dense.  Then it hit the brakes & it went to 2x.  After all the panic about saving the doge, they took their sweet old...

 Pondering the idea of a cruise again, it wouldn't be that unbearable, as long as it didn't spend too many days at sea.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiHaCX2i8E     An inside facing cabin would work, since lions were more interested in touring land than the ocean.  It would still be quite expensive to travel to the starting point.   It's slim pickings from San Francisco.  For $3k, they go to a remote port in Canadia by legal mandate & then the very southern panhandle of Alaska instead of Alaska proper.  Too far south to see a real glacier, though Greenspun said they go ashore.  Viking has the ultimate cruise.     $7k & up, not even countable in fiat money.  Cheaper in the dead of winter. This travel thing might be getting out of paw.  Lions have escalated spending over the decades, starting with a dumpy motel in Burbank, 2012, slowly escalating to a super expensive hotel in 2025....

     A most peculiar decline in fitness, as the left hamstring now started seizing up at mile 11 instead of 18.  It was over 90F 36% humidity.  Lions didn't take hydration  & higher humidity seriously & finished it rather dry. Weather records strangely show similar humidity 7 years ago, yet the hygrometer has been consistently pegged over 45% for the 1st time & lions have not needed foot moisturizer since 2025. 11 miles was the typical seize point after the SF marathon & tendinopathy, in 2016.    Have noted the seizing develops after stopping but is masked while moving.  So not stopping abruptly tends to buy some time.  Then, bend over to stretch the hamstring.  Both posterior tibialises have been flared up since the last 18 miler, with a big emphasis on the left one.  It seems problems returned after the speedy days on 8/12 & 8/14, the 18 miler on 8/15 with no recovery day. ----------------------------...

 Not surprising that AI models all discredit government subsidies as the reason for inflation.  What is surprising is that no-one questions AI anymore.  The invisible paw indeed.     That time of the month again.   Lions before the last rent increase burned $43k/year.  $2300/month was rent.  $200 was electricity delivery.  $1100 was the rest.  Healthcare was day job subsidized.  Merely getting a measly 5% from investments would be a dream.  It's been closer to 2%, for the last 2 years.  The 10% of internet fame is fiction.  No-one is 100% invested in the thing which is going up 10%.      Put it all in bonds & face a high chance of rates going to 0.  Put it all in stronk & you know.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  After many months of headlines about the government's reliance on selling short term bonds, the twist was made of...

 Monster Squad was another Ben Heck recommendation, specifically considered superior to Goonies.  Lions were reminded of a time when translating German required finding a bio robot who could speak the language & it was possible to watch a movie in a theater without paying, with binoculars.          Lions were struck by the use of such germane monsters, dracula, frankenstein, mummy, swamp creature, saveitforparts.  Like all Ben Heck favorites, it's a damn boring rehash of known quantities that checks all the boxes of good story telling, but what gets lions going is novelty over academics.  Boring music is another thing he prefers.  Goonies worked because the music was novel.    Noted the Robotech shirt, a very niche show to be in a movie.  Surprised Harmony Gold authorized the trademark.  Noted in this incarnation of Goonies, there were no girls.  The Goonies started a boom in kid club movies during that ...