Lion ponderings

 Another idea boiling to the top has been an option to scrub with time stretching instead of sample dropping.  The window size for the time stretching would be the playback buffer.  It's not ideal but it would work & be vastly simpler than a custom scrubbing window.  The windows would be overlapped & crossfaded.  It would need a tail buffer. To get 4x, the overlap would be 3/4 of a window. Variable scrubbing speed has so far been envisioned as a preferences option.  The fact is, lions have never used slow scrubbing speed.  There's never been a GUI button for it.  It's only existed on the number pad.  It was created when slow speed scrubbing was envisioned as the primary way of editing audio.  The reality for the last 25 years has been use of the waveform for any precision that would have entailed slow speed scrubbing.  Every time slow speed scrubbing has been used, it's accidental & taken some doing to figure out why pla...

 Lions have been guilty of over spending in order to get a discount.  Amazon prime shipping, case in point.  Ordering bare chips from Digikey ended up so much cheaper than ordering widget boards from bezos, even with the flat shipping cost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After so many years of demanding more gun control laws, democrats suddenly call imprisoning all those evil gun owners who would have been legal years ago a waste of taxpayer money.  Guess it only applies to the bottom 99%. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Another 2 headed inflation reading. In inflation targeting in a 2 headed economy, you can be rich enough to afford all the stuff ever made on the bottom & none of the stuff on the top.  Usually, all the stuff ever made on the bottom is enough to survive.  It creates an intriguing dynamic with less i...

  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...

  Either skin cancer or a spider bite.  The original cyst formed up to 10 years ago.  It got inflamed during the last infestation.  A spider could have bit it.  Cancers are normally dark.  Spider bites normally have an entry point marked by a scab, so it seems to be an unlikely bite on an existing cyst. Although single men have a shorter lifespan than average, no-one knows the cause.  Lions suspect the biggest risk is a loss of mobility or an accident alone. 

Imagine what it was like in 1905 to see airports for the 1st time & ponder the idea of someone showing up at 1 of these air places to take a ride in the big machine.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The big question is what eventually happens to Xena & Gabrielle after their gootube careers end.  1 option is they break up & dump the cabin.  Another option is they live happily ever after there.  Their gootube careers will end by 40.  Without a way to produce income as the vanwives, they'll probably break up like the Fabulous Baker Boys, in order to leave Nova Scotia & chase widely spaced corporate careers in the cities. They'll probably move to US, like all Canadians.  Lions find still being in the cabin together at age 50 the least likely option because their relationship won't serve a purpose anymore.  By lion age, they'll probably fondly remember their...

  1st heatwave got the spiders pouring in. New scenes of the 21st century

   Next tower is encased in steel from the beginning.  The 1st one started as bare concrete. Like the German flak towers, the concrete starship tower foundations will be around in 100 years, reminding us where man's 1st step towards Mars began.  The lion kingdom's rediscovery of the air raid recording was in 2018.  By then, there were finally higher quality pirate copies of it.  The internet said the explosions were coming from zoo tower.  The location of the explosions can be heard in relation to the concert hall.  Zoo tower was demolished.  All that remanes is a kiwipedia pin.  Other towers were too expensive to demolish & left in place.  This will be the fate of the starship towers.    The recording was made in the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft building, a grand old art decco building.    The RRG building was far west of zoo tower, so the audience had to be facing south.  Limited interior views sh...