Lion ponderings

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...

  https://x.com/geerlingguy/status/2022105811955462631/photo/1  A better photo of the original Finder interface being emulated on a pico pi intrigued lions.  The best images lions have of their own were from a few seconds of camcorder footage.   That was a purely graphical interface.  There was no command line.  Macs didn't have a command line until they moved to UNIX, as far as lions know.  Lions didn't use a Mac from 1997-2013.  By 2014, the MacOS command line was essential in most everything.  None of that generation had any clue what it was like just 20 years earlier.  The Phintage Collector said Macs 1st got a command line in 2001 with  Mac OS X.  There were various UNIX emulators & BASIC interpreters which provided a command line on top of System 7.  Any graphical mode was always a separation from bare metal, since it required software character drawing routines.  Text mode was considered bare metal but the ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/there-s-no-happy-ending-for-movie-theaters-no-matter-who-wins-warner/ar-AA1T9KFm  Lots of headlines about the demise of movie theaters.  When lions were in school, they watched a few movies in theaters because there was no way to watch anything at home.  They got well ahead of the curve after 1998, quickly being able to watch DVD quality at home, on a 14" monitor.  Theaters still offered cheaper, higher quality viewings & didn't go away. After 25 years of gradual improvement in the home viewing experience, the latest breakthrough being rapidly switchable playback speeds, lions have watched movies in theaters roughly every 3 years, gravity (2013), the martian (2015), apollo 11 (2019), top gun (2022).  It's not clear if the delivery medium is entirely responsible.  The home experience is still a relatively small screen with only 2 speakers, level compression, no LFE.  They have to be a certain type of mo...

The walnut crusher returned to its roots with the wheels falling off once again at mile 24 & a long slow 4 mile walk.  Took 5 water bottles + electrolyte before the cramping began.  Then took another water bottle after the cramping, which didn't make any difference. It's possible the lion kingdom got behind on hydration, but it could have been the diet of shortbread instead of refined sugar.  Kicked it up to 8:30/mile for the 1st 23 miles.  The shortbread might just not get ingested fast enough.  Kind of impressive that it still made it past 22 miles. Temperature peaked at 71F.  The April 19 effort hit 74F but was taken at 9/mile.  Time to get a new water bottle, since the Nathan leaks & serves no purpose.  The food is going to be in a shoulder strap.  The watch is going to capture GPS. The arrival of the Timex R300 for marathon duty was another epiphany moment.   It was the 1st fancy watch lions had in 40 years.  The l...

  It's generally accepted that gay men have the lowest divorce rate, from many different studies.   At the same time, the numbers are generally not searchable because they discriminate against lesbians.  It's kind of anti climactic that the most viable human relationships would be the least appealing by any standard.  Humans don't do anything appealing. Young lion actually noticed the trend down in hetero & up in gay men over 30 years ago.  At the time, young lion imagined relationships creating emotional stability, higher productivity, greater wealth by sharing capital expenses, & a higher chance of overthrowing the ruling class.  So it would be in the interest of the ruling class to limit the number of relationships.  The best way to thwart the lower class was to limit relationships to just gay men.  If you didn't have the taste for it, you couldn't benefit, & most of us didn't have the taste for it. Old lion finds the benefit compli...

  The killer VR app would use the depth camera to pass through everything within 3 ft & replace everything beyond 3ft with a virtual environment.  It could overlay your keyboard & mouse on a 360 video from somewhere else in the world. That would disrupt real estate.   It could render a virtual monitor.  The mane problem could be the depth camera not having enough resolution to produce a convincing outline.  Maybe 3ft is too close for the cameras to pass through any more than paws. There could be a green screen under the keyboard & mouse to aid the overlay.  Lions believe even a blurry outline from the depth camera would be acceptable.  Without the depth camera, it would have required green screening the entire room. A tiny home with no windows wouldn't matter anymore.  The mane reason they're not doing it could be the target customer being rich enough to travel or exactly that they don't want to disrupt real estate. ...

  Most striking for lions was how the foam ballast was haphazardly stuffed in with no shaping to save space.  Maybe that's how it's always done.  Obviously, the carbon fiber is no more.  The batteries must have been the orange cases.  Everything is randomly thrown together. Some blurry transcoding of transcoded CBC footage shows other bits.  The front window area was intact.  The front window was obviously blasted out when the carbon fiber imploded.