Lion ponderings

https://growmane.blogspot.com/2020/02/transformers-1986-was-released-in-hd.html   Finally got around to watching the HD copy of Transformers 1986.   The cropped movie theater print wasn't that bad.  This was, after all, what audiences saw in the cinedome 7 for $7. Lions hit it with unsharp.  It would have been difficult to unsharp the DVD in realtime, in 2004.  That made it look as crisp as something shot today.  Colors were still a bit more yellow than 40 years ago.         Some scenes were out of focus even in HD.  The A animation tended to be the more crusty print.    Surprised by the scratches in the unicron explosion.  That was 12fps with clonable material. There's no escaping the feeling of looking through a straw, for someone who watched 4:3 many times.  Young lion pondered how anyone knew what button to press in those cartoons.  40 years later, most lion interfaces have minimal to no labels.  ...

 Ego Monger's husband's startup made the big leap into selling a hardware product.  1 thing lions learned is never ever to start a hardware company.  On the other paw, software was once the third rail because it could be copied.  That has largely disappeared with modern subscription plans, dongles, or purely server based software. 1 thing is it's just a bunch of off the shelf parts bolted onto off the shelf machine hardware.  It has just 2 printed parts to hold the buttons, probably ABS.  They're resistive game controller joysticks.  He's only providing prototypes for rent & providing support. That thug guy was in a video about distributed dancing. He looks hard to work with but also like he knows how to stay alive in showbiz. The attraction to a paw held virtual camera is from the current interest in back room vijeos.  Such a thing might be useful for rough camera placement in confuser animation.  VR goggles have gotten really good at de...

 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...

 2 months later, the weekly jawbonings escalated to a collections agency but still no equipment fee or rental fee had been charged.  It may be they just keep jawboning forever.  More likely, the story is the same as the copyright jawbonings which went on for years before they finally deactivated the account.  Hopefully the result won't be an account deactivation this time, because that would mark a truly dysfunctional company. Based on the internet, some animals get scared by the idea of a collections agency.  Lions are at the point of giving zero fucks about anyone & having certain ideas of what the fee is going to be. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lions call this replicating peak bitcoin/Apple/Goog insanity for other uses.  It's not the product but the number of Elon fanatics actually paying $192/year + tax to be a part of whatever the current mission is.  The mission c...

 The lion kingdom's pandemic airline play ended up a dumpster fire.  Going to let it go to 0 since it's not a significant percentage of the general fund. It's 20% below its pandemic low & falling like a rock.  It was a most peculiar trend since the sector generally is in an upturn & berk's exit didn't significantly impact it in the short term.  1 theory is escalating war drove it down.  Another theory is abstaining from layoffs during the pandemic came at a price of future underperformance. Either the airline is going to get bought out or it's going to bounce someday.  A lion could be forgiven for thinking its best days were behind it.  It briefly doubled in 2021, but lions would have had to pay income tax. The current wars might reflect economic desperation as they did in the Obama years.  The peace of the Trump years might have reflected better economic times.  Firehosing the labor unions with printed "infrastructure" money wasn't t...

        Can't afford to live in a yellow state, but never knew any single women who could go 50ft without driving even in the yellow states.  Fl* is really bleak.  Didn't see anyone there who looked like she would be mobile after age 30 & certainly no-one after 30 was still mobile.     No, republicans don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning but it's amusing that Elon is now the gatekeeper of a presidential election.                 

  Never bought the idea that it was an accident.  Animals have grudges all the time.  Animals suddenly disappear.  Animals have grudges against lions dating back 40 years & it wouldn't be surprising if a lion suddenly had an accident.  Showbiz isn't the cush government job that most of us are accustomed to.  Everyone there is lucky to be there & temporary.  The production company disappears after 1 movie. How quickly the votes for an infrastructure bill became votes for a retirement plan the voters will never have.  Anyways, back we go to another debt ceiling circus.  The stonk market will plunge on news reports of a debt crisis.  Then there will be a miraculous deal right before the government shuts down. Eventually crypto will rebound in a big way.  The trick is the government sees crypto currency as more legit than its own.  Suspect the next hat trick after social security, zero interest rate policy, & quantitati...

  Made it back before the mane ate all the food. Heavenly mother can take it all away in an instant. The lion kingdom is getting clumsy as it gets older & will soon be at risk of a similar accident while cooking or soldering. Elon's next mission. Maybe he'll buy a prepaid phone maker like Wiko, TCL, Celero, Schok, fire 3/4 of the employees & make it cost $2000. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596268804413476864 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshN3N0jOng Yes, the lion kingdom once dreamed of making a video of running with Casey, with the camera robot. Now, it's obvious that'll never happen, since the only way it did happen was by winning a contest.

  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-temporarily-closing-offices-musks-154348212.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-elon-musk-asks-twitter-180123355.html "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" "There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," What a dumpster fire that has become. Guess no more starship testing until next year. Starship will eventually wipe the floor with everyone else, with or without Elon. The internet once bristled with horror stories of manufacturing men taking over software shops, the difference between producing the maximum number of widgets per hour & producing the minimum number of features per hour. Most of his success is from producing the maximum number of widgets per unit time. His 2 mane software victories...

 The number of millionaires was 12% in 2019 & probably hit 20% since the inflation of 2021-2022 began.  1 in every 5 animals you see every day is now a millionaire but the median net worth is still probably just $200,000.  Lions pondered how median net worth could be so low. Most millennials accumulated over $1 million by age 40, but houses are well over $2 million.  Most of them bought houses after 2020.  They put most of their wealth in a down payment, borrowed over $1 million, & had maybe a couple hundred thou as an emergency fund.   Their net worth is calculated from equity - debt.  The recoverable value of their house isn't counted, so net worth amounts to just a couple hundred thou despite having over $1 million in equity.  Debt may not have any interest or risk like it did before quantitative easing, but it's still devastating to the numbers.

  Another pirated documentary about Elon, with some bits missing & some episodes already copyright struck. The missing bits are nothing we don't already know. The more salient features were the most coverage of his father we've ever seen. The resemblance between Elon & Errol is extraordinary. They both have the same facial expressions. They both have the same abusive side. Errol talks about car engines the same way Elon talks about rocket engines. Despite his father's abusiveness, Elon still left his mother to live with his father. It might have been the financial aid. Picking the more abusive parent with the higher chance of giving you an edge is something most of us wouldn't do. A common theme was Elon not being driven by a mission as much as a refusal to lose. There was a contest between him & 1 of his ex girlfriends in a meaningless class, but he still had to score higher in it no matter how meaningless it was. Guess the same applies to Twitter,...

  It is now safe to calculate your net worth again.  Pretty dramatic split in the last month between the fed's action & the stonk market.  It's the 1st such split lions have seen.  It may be foreign central banks buying stonks.  It may be the Dave Ramsey movement buying index funds.  There's plenty of money on the sidelines during the dips.  The dips have been speculative selling by short term traders, not structural shifts.  We're now back to where lions started their last round of buying & 10% below the peak.