Lion ponderings

 A proper ankle exam would involve an  arthrogram, in which they stick a needle in the joint, remove joint fluid & replace it with contrast agent.  Not a pleasant thought.  Osteoarthrosis is the more common term for cartilage loss while osteoarthritis is the term for inflammation.  Long considered wear & tear diseases, they're slowly becoming genetic.  They happen in knees & hips, but rarely in ankles so it might still be a ligament or a 1 off cartilage tear. Lions never pound on their ankles that hard though. Lions aren't smashing their ankles & stopping with each step.  They're conserving as much momentum as possible by pushing back.  In a long effort, they're more speed walking than running. It might be worth capturing the real accelerations felt by the paw by strapping on an accelerometer, then progressively going from walking to maximum speed.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 After 4 consecutive days of being able to run pretty hard, relative to the last 6 months, it seemed whey protein was having a significant improvement in quality of life.  Lions managed to defeat the lactose by chewing lactase & mixing it with saliva before drinking whey.  The problem is $22 of it only provides 1 week of daily use.  10 years ago, lions only took it after particularly hard efforts.  $11/lb is the floor these days.  There were contamination stories for cheaper ones.  It could be taken just after speed work, longer distances, & injuries to shock the cartilage. 2 cups/day might be excessive when not defeating an injury or it might be necessary to live with arthritis.  It tasted pretty bad after 1 week.  There might be super powers to be gained from burning 2lbs every week but the same limitations as eating a pure egg diet or a pure chocolate diet apply.

 The lion kingdom would give whey protein a tentative paws up.  There were promising signs that it was improving the ankle, when taken with lactase.  It definitely needs to be taken with lactase or it just flows right out.  Unfortunately, it's never gotten as good as it was a year ago.  There's always an obscure loading which flares up the bone on bone pain. Another tentative observation is the whey protein reducing appetite.  There are plant based proteins for double the cost of animal based protein.  Those might solve the lactose problem.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://pagesix.com/2023/11/10/parents/grimes-chased-elon-musk-around-12-different-locations-to-serve-custody-papers/ Grimes chased Elon Musk around 12 different locations to serve him custody papers Fighting population decline is a dirty job but someone's got to do it.  Another time when l...

  A much higher quality reading rainbow copy was uploaded recently, so the lion kingdom was caught up again in the paint program.  That has remaned an enigma since lions 1st saw it in 1983.  It was a 1 off program written in the New York Institute of Technology computer graphics lab. Most of the hits for Images Paint System are a 1985 program for Amiga called Aegis Animator. Maybe it was derived from the 1983 program.  Then there's 1 hit for a siggraph presentation. https://dac.siggraph.org/pioneers-digital-art/ After some heroic network capture scraping & transcoding, a live stream was on the hard drive.  Helas, it was more about the art & the artist rather than the tool or what it ran on.   At 47:00 she revealed the program only achieved animation by cycling the color palette, hence why the oars looked like they did.  There's a video of clearly palette based animation in realtime. This one said it was marketed commercially, but still no scree...