Lion ponderings

 Pondering how the Vanderbilt fortune was tragically spent away in 3 generations, lions also recognized the only reason anyone ever heard of the Vanderbilts was the mansions.  The 1st descendant grew the fortune.  Then the 2nd descendant converted it into the mansions rather than truly spending it away.  Similarly, Hearst was only remembered because of his castle & Carnegie was only remembered because of his institution.  If the vanderbilt fortune was kept intact, they would have sacrificed fame for wealthy descendants.  In the case of a lion, the fortune just isn't big enough to buy anything that would be remembered.  A house lions could afford might be remembered by the next owner, before millennials tore it down & turned it into a grey Frank Lloyd Wright.    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For a good time, compared the 8 day forecast with the actual te...

    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...

 Gootube dropped way off in the last 3 years.  8 bit guy, retro guy, retro recipes, LGR, either disappearing or downsizing were part of a bigger trend of the juice not being worth the squeeze.  It's almost entirely converted to AI generated junk, AI generated thumbnails, & revenue mining formulas.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Ayatollah Kamanei dropped the hammer with a new round of price increases which lions don't believe are going away, so it was time to bring back the methuselah, the $58 80ozer.  It should last until mid Oct. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    The IMAX 70mm projectionist 6 miles down the road is a god.   Another big hit movie,  2 months after Hail Mary, but lions just don't see the magic.  What sold young lion 40 years ago on the Odyssey were the giant creatures. ...

  The last gootube downloader immune to goog's latest countermeasures finally got taken down.  Not sure how they disabled it or how it worked before.  It was a cash cow.  It ran too fast to be screencapping.  It could have been using logged in accounts or running a browser which constantly reloaded the approved player.  Nowadays, using a burner account is the only way to do it practically.  It seems watching a lot of music videos on the same IP address as the downloader reduces the occurrence of the login requirement so they're measuring the ratio of approved accesses to unapproved accesses.  Started opening every video to download in an approved player & letting it play commercials in the background.  While this did improve results, it seems to require many approved plays for every unapproved download.     Another functioning gootube downloader popped up, with lots of reset connections.  https://app.ytdown.to/en27/...

  More exercise brings home more food, which requires more exercise to burn off. Such is the fundamental crisis lions face.   Weather continues to track the 7 day CO2 oscillation.  Very good alignment with the work days, this week. CO2 levels are down because there's no middle east oil.  That's the most significant factor in our late season boost in rain.                        

 The X algorithm spewed some stories about wealthy but low status men in silicon valley spewing $50k & beyond to match makers after getting told to get lost their entire lives.  By 50, most of us have all the answers & not enough time for any more dating.  There might be some guys who still don't get it & resort to the big bucks  out of desperation.   Match making in silicon valley sounds like the mafia.  It's exclusively coercing & hustling women to notice men they give 0 fucks about.  They hire a female staff to impersonate best friends, create fake events, fake job interviews which are really dates. It's very rare for men to find any heterosexual relationship here.  They usually move out & find someone elsewhere, bring them in from elsewhere, or have an LDR.  The public figures usually have no problem.  The lottery winners hook up with lower ranking coworkers. Leaving a legacy is a big motivation ...

 Must confess fruits have stabilized lion body mass without extreme hunger.  The ASMR speakers & the evening naps of the last 2 years wreaked havoc with appetite.  The mane problem was being awake during the 16 hour gap between mane feedings. There were some pretty extreme weight gains in early 2026, as the mane demanded sugar & grain at midnight.    The mane problem with fruits is lack of variety & lack of storage time.   Can't believe this guy's brother wrote Angel of the morning.  #johnvoight  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOl4cU_BR4    Surprised to find the Woz sounding as attentive as he is at 75, even if his voice is gone & he has an obesity problem.  Normally, anyone who developed a confuser in 1976 is now either dead or just about gone.   China's high-speed trains cross each other near Hangzhou - YouTube    Never forget, China has very few immigrants & none in the workforce.  S...

Good news for those of us dreaming of synthesizing choc in space. https://www.foodandwine.com/hershey-products-no-longer-use-milk-chocolate-11911049  Synthesizing choc in space many never be possible because cocoa requires trees, but apparently synthetic choc exists. It seems though the palm oil & shea oil used in choc substitute still require trees. Either the smell of wood or the structure of wood is coming from a key ingredient in choc.    The smell of wood is from pure Carbon benzene compounds rather than any particular element. Palm oil is the dominant form of vegetable oil in the world & it's quite difficult to produce in space.  https://apnews.com/article/west-africa-cocoa-farmers-ghana-chocolate-crash-dfd5acb32de1e9b52a92329d1045d970  Another story had a choc crash. The Mane can get on top of that.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     50 year old George Lucas & his powe...

  Cheese surprise.  This was a failure.  The meat needs condiments.   Tried adding mayonnaise after toasting but it really needs to be toasted with the bread off for that to end well.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Galloway died at 80 from a stroke.  It was believed to be caused by agent orange in Vietnam.  He previously had a blocked artery at 75.  It's generally accepted his exercise regime extended his lifespan beyond what it would have normally been.  Corony artery blockage manifested itself a bought of dizziness after exercise, rather than the traditional chest pain.    Lions had boughts of dizziness starting in 2010.  They came ever more frequently, ever since.  They normally come during episodes of mental stress, sitting at a desk, rather than exercise.  Then there was evidence of high blood pressure in a retina bleeding.  It could...