Lion ponderings

  The sooner you finish these, the sooner you get to throw down another 2 miles & get more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holy hairpieces & lions thought their startups were flea circuses.  Lions never got into the goog, but they got into more legit places than some.  Of course, the flea circuses are lottery tickets.  They can get aquihired.

        Toy Soldiers was 1 of those movies which only made it to the hard drive because of the idea of what it would look like with heroine college & the heroines defeating the terrorists.  The reality was a kind of interesting concept & possibly an accurate depiction of how a hostage standoff would be handled.  Some shaky aerials from the days before DJI could redeem it.    This was another one lions must have seen many times in syndication but forgot.  It's all a bit familiar.    Then we have Marcus Brody reprising his role of incompetent headmaster in Indiana Jones. It was something of an 80's star role call.  Interestingly, Jerry Orbach wasn't credited.   Good old 80's ham radio.  No 5G in those days.   The villain gave manes a bad reputation. R. Lee didn't do much. It sounds like they got all these big names in the credits just to sell the movie without having a purpose, much like most modern startup...

 As expected, the crazy guy confirmed he was still alive & it was some kind of cancer that remissed.  An update of his linkedin image also coincided.  Exaggeration was always his game.  Sadly, the lion kingdom won't have the means to attend another trade show as dreamed.  They always were just a getaway but never were productive.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few days after ending flossing of the crown, the same bleeding observed last time from the injury resumed.  It still raises the question of what flossing really does & what's different about the injury.  There's obviously some removal of debris.  Lions started rinsing with fluoride after brushing instead of water.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dreamed about a fascination with a modern Hi-8 camcor...

The alameda creek run of many years ago was 22 miles.  According to lion memory, the parking lot was behind a church.  According to the goog, there's no public parking there.  This time, the lion kingdom parked on the east side of Mission Blvd.  The south side of the creek is paved.  It would require an early start to eat lunch at the destination, otherwise a lion would have to eat at the beginning.  22 miles later, the last run on that route was done.  Lions don't expect to do it again.  It was a sad farewell to have only made it twice.  Lions had withdrawal when leaving that neighborhood the 1st time in 1988.  When coming back in 2000, it was a kind of victory lap.  Now the time is nearing for lions to leave permanently.  The victory lap was short lived. Funny thing about arthritis, lions can go 22 miles without feeling anything but come down with ankle pain after 2 intense miles.  It may not be arthritis but a very ...

 Lion kind's dreams head for the stars. What an incredible flame. Amazed all 36 engines started & kept going. It's like the last 4 years of engine trouble never were.   As soon as the shockwaves began, something was special about this one. It shot off the pad like a missile. The solid white plume of plasma stretching over 800ft was unlike any flame we saw before.      No-one knew quite what the flame would look like in their artwork.  The lower power & less even thrust of the 1st launch didn't create uniform mach diamonds that spanned all 33 engines as 1.  The visibility of the diamonds varied based on light angle & exposure.   The flame kept going & going. The years of artist speculation on what it might look like gave way to reality. A 33 flames unified into 1 giant shock diamond. Solid plasma with no gaps as if it was 1 big engine.    https://twitter.com/eliassob/status/1725871782186381474   Then there was ...

 A proper ankle exam would involve an  arthrogram, in which they stick a needle in the joint, remove joint fluid & replace it with contrast agent.  Not a pleasant thought.  Osteoarthrosis is the more common term for cartilage loss while osteoarthritis is the term for inflammation.  Long considered wear & tear diseases, they're slowly becoming genetic.  They happen in knees & hips, but rarely in ankles so it might still be a ligament or a 1 off cartilage tear. Lions never pound on their ankles that hard though. Lions aren't smashing their ankles & stopping with each step.  They're conserving as much momentum as possible by pushing back.  In a long effort, they're more speed walking than running. It might be worth capturing the real accelerations felt by the paw by strapping on an accelerometer, then progressively going from walking to maximum speed.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Special mane request      A constant audio presence in the 70's.  It might have been a favorite of the teenagers lions were around in those days.  That time now seems a lot darker than it was.  The lack of technology in those days stands out the most.    Another one that was everywhere in the 80's but lions completely forgot.  Basically, most songs which weren't in the top 100 are lost.