Lion ponderings

    Got the very last one at .63 per ounce. Now .88 per ounce. Allah 4ever.        Funny how the blue ones  contain  the  knowledge based  stuff which became automated since 2023 while the red ones  contain  the manual labor which is in demand.  Where have you gone, dot com boom?  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoring ancient audio software    Again set to the task of reconstituting the lion kingdom's mac 68k environment of 30 years ago.    When this journey began, the only emulator was super expensive ARDI.  After years of unsucessful basilisk installations, new to the chat was Mini vmac.  https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/    The problem seems to be the large number of bits they require assembling from scratch & the strict enforcement o...

  Particularly proud of having sub sample zoom again, after 30 years.  It was last seen in 1996, possibly on sound sculptor & definitely soundedit 16 for 68k mac.    https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2514-soundedit-16  Soundedit 16 jumped from 1x to a single sub sample zoom.  Cinelerra was based on that.  The early waveform editors didn't pile on tons of functionality through context menus & handles, which makes sub sample zoom quite difficult now.  There is still no manual drawing of the samples because it would be pointless.  Ctrl+arrow dragging of single sample edit works.  Single sample edit handles work.   Context menus & arrow dragging without CTRL don't work because the edit handle hit point overlaps all of the single sample edit.  Single sample zoom could be increased further or the hit point could be shrunk.  Bigger zoom would make it harder to see the context.  A smalle...

 Surprised to find IMDB had the audio as mono.  Tried downloading a bunch of alternates to try to get stereo.  1 thing they're not doing with AI restoration is converting mono to stereo or converting 2D to 3D.  You could probably do the audio with generative separation of the voice, music & sound effects.  The music could be fixed with separation of the different instruments & delays.  Helas, generative separation always sounded like shit. There's just no money to be made in restoring a movie anymore.  Lions remembered Silver Bullet as a confusing, boring movie that they saw many times in the 80's, either because the parents did, because of the catchy title, or in vein attempts to figure it out.  That memory presented it as another cozy escape. 20 minutes in, nostalgia was complete & it was up to 2x.  The contrived conflicts & canned dialog were as bad as remembered.  Lions remembered absolutely nothing until the great hu...

   Big news for copter crashes, in lion opinion, because it happened on air.  The crew took up a lot less space after the fire.  Might have survived the impact but not the explosion. https://x.com/PCALive/status/2100045804782145880 Skin curdling video with the final words of the crew.  The engine can be heard spooling down.  Then pilot can be heard yelling his final word "fuck!" when he realizes he's too slow & low for autorotation.  The incompetent talent's last words were "you can't pull up?"  A human's last moments are not their most glorious.  From the camera bobbing, the pilot was trying to auto rotate but the blades stalled.  Noted they switched from orbiting to static hovers in the last 20 years, placing more trust in the more reliable eurocopters.  He probably always knew his final moment would be an engine failure in a static hover. He seemed to get the collective down right away, but didn't have enough energy to f...

  Feel the pain of 30 million rejections.  Truth be told, polyamory & cohabiting replaced most of that.  The percentage of truly single men is much higher in silicon valley.  60% is a more likely number here.    ------------------------------ As expected, the delayed trades after Friday's inflation miss executed over the next 2 days & then we were down 3% from the all time high in August. Then the fall accelerated after the interest rate hike. Now they're saying to expect 4% by year's end.  It could be more jawboning to lower long term yields.       The retiretube permabulls of the last 5 years are now bailing out of the S&P index fund because for the 1st time in 20 years they can get a bigger return from bonds than stonks.  The Dave Ramsey plan just about died in as much time as it grew. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The day job completed a long awaited...

  Another Alamo run went a lot better than the one on 8/22. Weather was much cooler.  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/08/most-peculiar-decline-in-fitness-as.html  Managed a 9 minute pace for roughly 14 miles, which was a hair longer than many moons.  Took a food break & succumbed to unilateral posterior tibialis degradation after 16 miles.  It's still pretty bleak, considering the last competitive marathon was 1 year ago.  1 year ago, lions were throwing down 26 miles like no-one's business but very much alternating between walk & run days, doing nothing above an 8 minute pace.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dreamed about  having the talk after 7 years in the same place.  The CEO was now a really young, shirtless, & clueless pacific islander.  "So you're not doing anything related to the company"  "The AI automation has that effect"  "You got that right"  L...