Lion ponderings

   Ruby was the point where lions realized programming languages were an industry based on engagement rather than the pursuit of any particular goal.  Some languages were required to support a device.  They all require wrappers in previous languages. They all have some form of memory safety. Lions were only briefly entranced by the merits of different languages in the beginning, but even then, they needed a practical rationale.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    Another day, another sequence of earthquakes.  These seem to have been triggered by another big one near Japan.   The ones on 11/8 maxed out at 3.8.  Today's maxed out at 3.6.  Construction on a new apartment complex began closer to 11/8.  It seems the rumbling noise is coming from the laundry machines.  They start making noise long before lions can feel anything.  We have 2...

 Into the wild came up on the goog's recommentations & has historically come up on the off grid tubes so it was time for some fast forwarding.  The real bus was airlifted out in 2020 because too many animals killed themselves trying to reach it.  It's fascinating that the original Chris McCandless reached it through aimless wandering, only to die of starvation, while so many animals died just trying to reach it. The last photo of him before death.   The last route he took.  Everyone dies crossing the Teklanika river, but he managed to get across in April.  He made it roughly 18 miles from the trailhead, maybe 26 miles from civilization.  In lion minds, hardly an escape from civilization at all.        The most interesting shot of the movie was the power of 10 pullback from his composited head in the real bus to a wide shot of the real bus.   The 2 hours of aimless wandering, garbage filled hippie camps,      ...

   Updated man cave views from Ross Guy.  It's lined in sound panels.  It seems to be a listening room.  He made those sound panels from scratch.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaking of houses, the Goonies house was bought by an investor in 2023, after 40 years of being off limits.  It's currently uninhabited & used as only a museum. Behman Zakeri (~48) became wealthy from the runup in gold prices after 2008. His highest education was an associates degree. His childhood friend from 1985 bought the south neighboring house in 2023. Interesting story about the generation which grew up watching the movie becoming wealthy enough to buy the locations in the movie.        -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The lion kingdom got  1 hour into Tar, manely f...

  The last run of 2024 was a slow 11.6 miler in the usual rotation.  2024 ended with 2408 miles, crippled by degraded tendon function but better than 2022 because of the leash.  Development of heal striking, metronome, & an optimum rest day frequency led to a rapid escalation after june with no regaining of tendon function.  2023 was the year lions traversed the circumference of the Earth. 2024 was the last year any HIIT was possible.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The last candycanes for a whole other year but we have to get through July 4 & everyone loves July 4.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the last OpenGL wish taken care of, the lion kingdom was at another impasse where really the only desires were the C64 work & possibly the abando...

 Blazing fast 9 miler today will be the last run of the week.  That's long enough to complete 1/2 of the Allo Palto run.  The rest would be walked.  The flexor digitorum longus seems to have maxed out at 1 run every 2 days & the metronome is offering a fixed improvement.   Lions have pondered the plan for next year's marathon.  It's going to be done with the metronome at 12-10 minute pace.  There's going to be a 2 week taper without any running.  There will be much walking near the end. The mane goal in deferring it is going to be discovering new workarounds.  It's become clear the tendon is not going to recover but each workaround provides a fixed improvement to a constant baseline.     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    Whenever pudgy Russguy shows up in the feed, lions are reminded that he became richer than god by plugging away ...

  Ross Guy's most hideous sunglasses yet.  Good reason for deleting this live stream, but he deletes them all.  That's not the same car he had when 1st moving to TX.  It used to be white inside.     His 1st car was wrecked in NYC somehow & he said the insurance got him a new car.  His 2nd car had some kind of wheel damage on an icy road in TX.  He never revealed if the car was replaced but either that wreck or another one got it replaced.  He sounds like a terrible driver. Definitely the bad sunglasses channel.  You know he spends a lot on those.  They're not the dollar store specials lions use for science experiments. He revealed he's single again, during a deleted livestream.  Lions pondered how long the last one would last, being an LDR with her in LA.  Besides his prestige as a wealthy gootube star business owner, the house, what else did she gain?  It sounded like he was exiting his business & his FU...