A Call For Humor!

[mhardy6647]

Screen says Lenovo bottom part IBM is this the last generation before they became Lenovo ? I’ve possibly had one of these , we used IBM/Lenovo for as long as I remember at work

It's either that, a true chimera, or a reanimated IBM with a Lenovo display grafted on to it by the aforementioned Ben (Myers).
Ben had a nice little cottage industry buying/finding/rehabbing and selling used computers and providing all sorts of general IT support to very small businesses (e.g., my little LLC biotech consultancy post-retirement).

As a complete aside (I do like to type...): Ben was also one of our daughter's soccer (ahem, football, for those folks in most of the non-US world) coaches early in her school athletics 'career'. Our daughter, though a rather petite woman, was a formidable and fearless defensive player in those days and indeed a central Massachusetts All-Star player her senior year in high school.
She's still pretty competitive.

 

[Berwhale]

It's either that, a true chimera, or a reanimated IBM with a Lenovo display grafted on to it by the aforementioned Ben (Myers).
Ben had a nice little cottage industry buying/finding/rehabbing and selling used computers and providing all sorts of general IT support to very small businesses (e.g., my little LLC biotech consultancy post-retirement).

As a complete aside (I do like to type...): Ben was also one of our daughter's soccer (ahem, football, for those folks in most of the non-US world) coaches early in her school athletics 'career'. Our daughter, though a rather petite woman, was a formidable and fearless defensive player in those days and indeed a central Massachusetts All-Star player her senior year in high school.
She's still pretty competitive.

IIRC, After IBM sold their Personal Systems Group to Lenovo, Lenovo were entitled to use the 'IBM Thinkpad' branding for 5 years, but I don't think they waited that long.

 

[jkasch]

Previously posted by me in the wrong thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2023193119962124692

 

[Robin L]

 

[KellenVancouver]

If men wrote candy hearts…

 

[mhardy6647]

When the gig escalates...View attachment 511485

Imagine if we'd lived in a world where the young Pete Townshend had already discovered synthesizers.

 

[Ropeburn]

Imagine if we'd lived in a world where the young Pete Townshend had already discovered synthesizers.
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Please noooo

 

[mhardy6647]

He had lots of fun with them over the years, but I don't think he's ever smashed one... at least onstage.

 

[mhardy6647]

Pete Townshend Donates Synth Collection To His Alma Mater For New Studio

The collection includes some of the most influential instruments in the development of electronic music, along with some modern ‘dream synths’.

www.synthtopia.com

 

[Ropeburn]

He had lots of fun with them over the years, but I don't think he's ever smashed one... at least onstage.

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Seems like he knows what kinda instrument is actually worth something. Not guitars surely...

 

[mhardy6647]

Seems like he knows what kinda instrument is actually worth something. Not guitars surely...

I must admit, I hadn't thought of it quite that way...

 

[Ropeburn]

I must admit, I hadn't thought of it quite that way...

I mean if someone like him isn't the authority on that, then who is?

From now on I will fake quote him: "Guitars are worthless, that's why I trashed them. Symthesizers are where it's at, those are real instruments."

 

[mhardy6647]

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And here I sit, inexplicably visualizing whirled peas.

 

[Robin L]

And here I sit, inexplicably visualizing whirled peas.

 

[mhardy6647]

we're having pesto* tonight, so, truth be told, I am visualizing whirled basil... but peas are good, too!

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* 2025 backyard harvest (both basil and garlic), made & frozen back in September. I blanch the basil before making pesto. We freeze it in ice-cube trays and store it in quart containers in our big freezer. It stays bright green and wonderful tasting even after freeze-thaw.



I use a very vintage Waring "blendor" to make it, because I am nothing if not lazy.


Full disclosure: these photos are from 2024, but 2025 looked about the same.

 

[Multicore]

because I am nothing if not lazy.

Too lazy to eat bananas? Given another day or two they'll walk over to the knives and kill themselves.

 

[tineared]

we're having pesto* tonight, so, truth be told, I am visualizing whirled basil... but peas are good, too!

________________
* 2025 backyard harvest (both basil and garlic), made & frozen back in September. I blanch the basil before making pesto. We freeze it in ice-cube trays and store it in quart containers in our big freezer. It stays bright green and wonderful tasting even after freeze-thaw.



I use a very vintage Waring "blendor" to make it, because I am nothing if not lazy.


Full disclosure: these photos are from 2024, but 2025 looked about the same.

I prefer the rich full texture that only a tubed blender can provide...

 

[mhardy6647]

Too lazy to eat bananas? Given another day or two they'll walk over to the knives and kill themselves.

Mrs H uses them, like that, in a thing she likes to make for breakfast.

 

[Bleib]

And now to something completely different:

 

[tineared]

I miss Farty Towels...