Lion ponderings

 The problem lions have had is the divergence away from solving problems to purely winning engagement. 30 years ago, there were a lot of late night efforts to just play an audio waveform longer than 3 minutes or a sequence of frames longer than a minute.  It was problem solving that would forever fill a need.   Today, spectators want clickbait of no value to provide a few months of  entertainment & to never be used again. Lions had a good run in audio software & then video software development.  Now the problems all center on how to win engagement in the useless.  There could be more work in de-essing & background noise removal, effects gootubers have praised.  It might be a good clickbait flick.  The problem is this stuff is never going to be used in Cinelerra.  The limiting factor is support & platforms.         Lions have pondered what made the golden age of the UNIX workstation happen & ho...

The goog recommended some better recorded samples of the mighty Fazioli F308.  Several recordings in, in different rooms, it's 11ft still sound thin compared to the Steinway.  It might have louder bass, but a very thin bass.   Roberto Plano is a genius but the F308 isn't up to snuff in this one.  It's got the Young Chang plastic sound in the mid range. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ X knows who did it.  A case of another high net worth individual in a suit in a rough town or a case of runaway healthcare inflation? Not sure a lion would have run away or attacked the gunman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The hard drive farm was finally completely brought up.  Hard to believe this journey began with a few 160x120 quicktime movies on floppies & mod files.   It was decided to have them all online & continue liv...

      Biggest effort in 4 months. Limited speed based on pain level & used the metronome all the way. Equally painful to know running won't be possible for another 48 hours. The posterior tibial tendon called it quits at mile 10.  The left posterior tibial tendon seems to be gradually degrading to the same point as the right one.  Narrowing in on the posterior tibial tendon being the failure point instead of the flexor digitorum longus.  Definitely some signs the sandals are prime suspects in the injuries.      Hottie trophy wife & minimal shoes     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyways, that run revealed the best feeling keyboard to be the logitech MK850 with an $80 tag.   That one comes with a mouse which is better than the current one but not great.  It was actually cheaper locally than mail order.  There's a $57 variant with a c...