tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post683090904087716911..comments2024-03-23T08:58:00.291+11:00Comments on Flying With Hands: I'm Not Gone, I'm Just Thinking ...Pipistrellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-23762452375688476822021-09-11T23:44:21.684+10:002021-09-11T23:44:21.684+10:00Haha ….. very good !!!!! XXXXHaha ….. very good !!!!! XXXXJacqueline @ HOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154045482594773377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-14586603460119614452021-09-08T09:58:10.780+10:002021-09-08T09:58:10.780+10:00Apricot jam is divine, dear Jackie! And glazing ov...Apricot jam is divine, dear Jackie! And glazing over is welcome anytime, with or without the help of Bonne Maman :) xxPipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-61819788840751712722021-09-07T23:11:00.773+10:002021-09-07T23:11:00.773+10:00I’m reasonable on the computer but, anything mathe...I’m reasonable on the computer but, anything mathematical and I glaze over !!!!!<br />I love apricots especially fresh and French apricot and almond jam. I buy Bonne Maman Apricot Compote …. Delicious. XXXXJacqueline @ HOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154045482594773377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-4212568474655988392021-08-30T13:12:27.696+10:002021-08-30T13:12:27.696+10:00Dear Ur-spo, you are a man of many monikers, it se...Dear Ur-spo, you are a man of many monikers, it seems! I rather hope you don't wander around the workplace in your dressing gown, however charming it is on AD to wander about the universe thusly.Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-33023377448599726072021-08-30T13:08:39.079+10:002021-08-30T13:08:39.079+10:00Dear Susan, yes indeedy! For inst. the prospect of...Dear Susan, yes indeedy! For inst. the prospect of 3D-printed custom joints for all will be just around the corner, hopefully just as the ol' frame starts to seize up.Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-20233988135064467052021-08-30T10:44:09.534+10:002021-08-30T10:44:09.534+10:00I was glad to see you posting
At work I am nicknam...I was glad to see you posting<br />At work I am nicknamed Arthur Dent, as I am known to wonder about looking for the tea.Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-20634327135158621272021-08-30T01:58:49.320+10:002021-08-30T01:58:49.320+10:00Nothing wrong with contemplation. In retrospect, g...Nothing wrong with contemplation. In retrospect, geeky computing projects were always challenging and enjoyed. I also liked the CAD/CAM industry followed by medical instrumentation. Let's walk down geeky lane...Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473063249106111719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-77835292648131369062021-08-28T09:54:20.974+10:002021-08-28T09:54:20.974+10:00That does sound delicious, dearest Britta! Yes, I ...That does sound delicious, dearest Britta! Yes, I remember even rooms dedicated to enormous banks of computer equipment - so very Sci-Fi - but I only got to work with punchcards once when I went on a Mathematics Summer School as a teenager at a nuclear facility, of all places.Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-62533686949420629542021-08-27T21:13:07.537+10:002021-08-27T21:13:07.537+10:00Dear Pipistrello, I glaze the apple-tart with apri...Dear Pipistrello, I glaze the apple-tart with apricot jam - delicious. <br />The first computer I ever met stood in a bank where we students had to sort things - the computer was as high as the wall, and sooo huge! it worked with punchcards (if that is the right expression :-) Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-36670269579335749872021-08-25T19:19:59.092+10:002021-08-25T19:19:59.092+10:00And yet this is the season for them in your neck o...And yet this is the season for them in your neck of the woods! What disappointment, dear Rosemary. A fancy conserve is just the ticket then. I've recently resorted to a jar of preserved apricots as I had a fancy for making some sort of cake or flan with them and that's all to be found in the off-season. Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-22206039003440319962021-08-25T18:28:02.766+10:002021-08-25T18:28:02.766+10:00I like my Apple but give me apricots any day. I tr...I like my Apple but give me apricots any day. I tried to buy some this week but they were poor imitators of Adriaen Coorte's luscious offerings. A delicious French Apricot Conserve will be the order of the day if only I can find some.Rosemaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03814070177137076757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-79233223463748689542021-08-25T10:03:32.779+10:002021-08-25T10:03:32.779+10:00Haha!Haha!Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-20296480476144124492021-08-25T10:01:47.299+10:002021-08-25T10:01:47.299+10:00Thank you, dear Mary, we are all hale & hearty...Thank you, dear Mary, we are all hale & hearty, and I'm very happy you've been able to start gallivanting about again! <br /><br />You have my sympathy for enduring those tedious and short-lived exercises in futility required of we workers at the cusp of the computer revolution. As a Life Skill, they hardly rate on the worthiness scale :)Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-88237610177506938792021-08-25T09:49:14.770+10:002021-08-25T09:49:14.770+10:00You are too kind, Lady Pipistrello. After all, as ...You are too kind, Lady Pipistrello. After all, as from now I can explain Lady J. and others that it is the light that has me avoid thinking.<br />And tomorrow I shall check if the C64 is still alive.<br />Sean Jeatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978285783271305489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-57611714801088043752021-08-25T09:43:38.077+10:002021-08-25T09:43:38.077+10:00How curious, dear Jim, to have such a gap in your ...How curious, dear Jim, to have such a gap in your fruity market. I'm surprised some canny entrepreneur hasn't resurrected the apricot before now. Opportunity knocks for someone one day ... Those computers of old, what quaint machinery we lived with! But, for my money, so utterly unimaginative and spartan in the industrial design department.Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-45517533393489547512021-08-25T09:27:31.964+10:002021-08-25T09:27:31.964+10:00A mere trick of the light, Sean, to have us think ...A mere trick of the light, Sean, to have us think (or avoid thinking) one thing and type (or not type) another. But I rather fancied it was the concurrent referencing of olde computers that pushed the trickster Linus to the fore, as his namesake gave us the open-source operating system Linux.Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-9952379702732841592021-08-25T07:40:35.581+10:002021-08-25T07:40:35.581+10:00Uff, of course! How cometh instead the name of the...Uff, of course! How cometh instead the name of the Beethoven-loving I wrote Linus?<br />Suppose my subconsciousness did not wish me to type the name of a certain Ex-Chancellor whose only merit within four years turned out to be a "No", when transatlantic warmongers, officially represented by a moron claiming to have every morning breakfast with his God, hustled others to become part of Sean Jeatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978285783271305489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-72488802058841887472021-08-25T06:47:23.382+10:002021-08-25T06:47:23.382+10:00I was placed in front of my very first computer ar...I was placed in front of my very first computer around 1990 when I took a job with a state government agency (Deaf & Hard of Hearing). It was a PC and I was sent to classes to learn DOS and all that crazy stuff. Within a few months they changed to Apple products - loved them so much more and have never used anything else since!<br /><br />Hope you and yours are well my dear.<br />-Mary<br /><Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11915239653283205065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-33716716140580224222021-08-25T03:36:58.307+10:002021-08-25T03:36:58.307+10:00Hello Pipistrello, I love apricots, but although t...Hello Pipistrello, I love apricots, but although they originated in Asia and China, I have never seen them in Taiwan, and apricot-related products (dried, jam, etc.) are almost non-existent. My former life was as a computer analyst and programmer; I did not work with those early models you mention, but my first ones were primitive indeed compared to current models.<br />--Jim<br />Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-71678404899894434442021-08-24T18:26:42.325+10:002021-08-24T18:26:42.325+10:00Ho! It would be the last thing you ever taste befo...Ho! It would be the last thing you ever taste before you keel right over, so do pick your timing if you ever get that chance, dear Cro!Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-56379581037209475572021-08-24T13:43:03.712+10:002021-08-24T13:43:03.712+10:00I'm still waiting to sample one of Adams's...I'm still waiting to sample one of Adams's 'Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters'. Maybe I never will.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-51572868221145853562021-08-24T09:36:11.221+10:002021-08-24T09:36:11.221+10:00A very close remembrance, dear Sean. Lucy was mad ...A very close remembrance, dear Sean. Lucy was mad for Beethoven-loving Schroeder but even the googol-to-one odds against marriage could not quench her burning love for him!Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-56110265709303010362021-08-24T09:26:27.211+10:002021-08-24T09:26:27.211+10:00Thank you, dear Contessa! xxThank you, dear Contessa! xxPipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-31130305906120686122021-08-24T09:25:24.294+10:002021-08-24T09:25:24.294+10:00Ha! And food for thought, dear Hels. I rather expe...Ha! And food for thought, dear Hels. I rather expect, like any skill mastered, there's much fun to be had when you play around with painting, like getting the light right on the velvety surfaces of our delectable apricots. Pipistrellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07904613196101010022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8161026132284731386.post-52090644863794056352021-08-24T06:40:13.878+10:002021-08-24T06:40:13.878+10:00And did not once Linus tell Lucy their odds to get...And did not once Linus tell Lucy their odds to get married were one-to-googol?Sean Jeatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978285783271305489noreply@blogger.com