Lion ponderings

  Finally hit the 26.5 mark without cramping, for the 1st time in a while.  Marathon day is going to top out in the mid 4 hours.  It's going to take a downhill course to attempt 4 hours.  1 clif block piece every mile seems to do the trick.  Went through 12.  Skipped the 1st 2 water stops.  Temperature started in the mid 70's & finished in the mid 60's.  Walking every other day & eccentric stride break through the barrier.   Power usage was really high on that one.  306mAh/mile for the 1st 15.6 miles. 360mAh/mile for the last  11.4 miles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gootubers got busted.  Good idea: vote liberal.  Bad idea: actually pay the taxes you vote for.  Maybe they just plowed everything into their next build videos.  Someone else leaked their address.  That's so common for high profile gootubers, it's not a ...

  The satellite photo of the vanwives cabin in Sep 2023 was kind of tragic.  A lot of work they did  was gone.  The lawn & board walk were gone.  The trampoline was gone.    Working through every episode starting from July 2021, pondering how they got from that to the satellite photo, it looks like they dug another trench from the deck to the solar farm.  That required ripping most everything else out.  The rain collection system disappeared.  The hot tub & sauna are on the left of the greenhouse & covered in trees.    They are definitely the tell not show crowd.  They show very little & normally just show their faces or parts of something.  Most of the time, it's just aimless filler to get above 10 minutes. They seemed to be creating a Michael Jackson wonderland with all the sponsored stuff.  The trampoline disappeared.  They abandoned their own excavator & doing their own site prep...

There was briefly support for multiple video channels in the early 2000's.  It was a brief chapter in the interest of supporting multi display concerts.  It took a lot of effort.  There were settings for 16 X servers.   Never mind the practicality of sending 16 uncompressed video streams over a network or even the PCI bus of the time.  Young lion was nowhere close to being able to afford more than 1 monitor, let alone the kind of projectors that would have needed.  The complexity of keeping that support around in the OpenGL age, the widening of video aspect ratios, & the lack of any envisioned use quickly canceled it.  There were a lot of triple pointers.  It never got to the point of sending different tracks to different video outputs with a panning tool, so it was never close to being functional. Multi channel output was manely a very specialized player feature.  Cinelerra had a big future as a player, but not that specialized....