Lion ponderings

 Lions do miss the way programming was done when they 1st entered the industry.  Not sure most of the AI pundits praising the last 30 years of advancements are doing anything but chasing engagement. There was nothing but O'reilly textbooks, Kerninghan & Ritchie, numerical recipes in C.  There was very little example code.  Most animals got in the industry because they were attracted to a way things were done & a certain type of output.  There was a process of discovery & a value in a hard earned solution that just did what it had to do.  The complexity of designs was constrained by animal intelligence & the capability of the tools, which was less than animal intelligence.  Not convinced someone like 8 bit guy who spent years programming 6502 assembly with a vintage environment really enjoys making AI movies & software as much as he says he does for engagement. Biology majors once called the industry fast paced in the 90's.  Now...

   Big news for copter crashes, in lion opinion, because it happened on air.  The crew took up a lot less space after the fire.  Might have survived the impact but not the explosion. https://x.com/PCALive/status/2100045804782145880 Skin curdling video with the final words of the crew.  The engine can be heard spooling down.  Then pilot can be heard yelling his final word "fuck!" when he realizes he's too slow & low for autorotation.  The incompetent talent's last words were "you can't pull up?"  A human's last moments are not their most glorious.  From the camera bobbing, the pilot was trying to auto rotate but the blades stalled.  Noted they switched from orbiting to static hovers in the last 20 years, placing more trust in the more reliable eurocopters.  He probably always knew his final moment would be an engine failure in a static hover. He seemed to get the collective down right away, but didn't have enough energy to f...

       Didn't realize what a hottie trophy wife bird puppet hottie was when she was discovered in Oct 2024 at Maker Faire.  She was a hottie like all of them on arts & crafts tube, but really popped without glasses.  Definitely got the british version of Jennifer Lawrence going on. Since then, she had a 2 million view full frontal shot.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OAKmaRCPI2o   To afford that much space at her age, without a wedding ring or a cameraman, she's either living with her parents or roommates. She almost exclusively makes paid content.  502 horny old men fund the bank of patreon. British born & raised, but we can fix the accent.  We have the technology.   We have the capability to make the world's 1st bionic british  hottie.  lauramathewsart will be that hottie.  Better than she was before.  Better, stronger, faster, less british accented. https://www.patreon.com/cw/lauramathe...

     A most peculiar decline in fitness, as the left hamstring now started seizing up at mile 11 instead of 18.  It was over 90F 36% humidity.  Lions didn't take hydration  & higher humidity seriously & finished it rather dry. Weather records strangely show similar humidity 7 years ago, yet the hygrometer has been consistently pegged over 45% for the 1st time & lions have not needed foot moisturizer since 2025. 11 miles was the typical seize point after the SF marathon & tendinopathy, in 2016.    Have noted the seizing develops after stopping but is masked while moving.  So not stopping abruptly tends to buy some time.  Then, bend over to stretch the hamstring.  Both posterior tibialises have been flared up since the last 18 miler, with a big emphasis on the left one.  It seems problems returned after the speedy days on 8/12 & 8/14, the 18 miler on 8/15 with no recovery day. ----------------------------...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVMf-oUlwhc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-cIn_5VBI  Interesting look at the colombo market from 1953.  The house still stands at 712 Lisbon St.  Who would imagine a common laborer once lived there.  After colombo market & his job disappeared, that neighborhood went through quite a decline during the urban decay of the 70's, but now is many millions. Someone actually spent the last 7 years developing a colorizing model which does a lot better than the open source model that rounded the internet 7 years ago.  Sadly, language models are now the big thing & no-one gives 3 shits of a fuck about colorizers.  ----------------------------------------------------------- Noted the claude CLI is a vibe coded, oversized, minimally viable dogshit sign of the times.  No tab completion.  No compatibility with traditional X11 mouse input.  You have to override it with shift.  Why couldn't they mak...

 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. ...