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Becan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becan

I've used nothing but ThinkPads since I discovered them in 2002. I've got newer ones to do more serious work with. A 2002 computer just doesn't have enough power and memory to handle a lot of modern programs. But on stage all it has to do is play mp3 files, display rtf files, and load Encore for notation. The computers ride around in the van all day, quickly cool off or heat up on the gig (depending if it's indoors or out), bounce on a keyboard stand for 4 hours, then back in the van. Only to do it again and again and again. The replacement arrived today, and I'm charging the battery (they recommend to charge it 8 hours before running - that's probably not necessary but I've got a lot to do anyway, I'm in the middle of making a new Band-in-a-Box style). The zucchini/lentil mac and cheese looks OK. Notes

I got my lunch. So what are you all going to eat?

Whole Lotta Love - Dread Zeppelin

"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" - Tex Williams From 1947 - could it be the Western Swing bands invented Rap way before our generation?

You had to elbow in here with that - tormenting a guy on a low carb diet. ? Notes

I've got plumbers in the house today, so I'm listening to men talking, tools rattling, and motors. I'm having the underground pipes relined. Getting back to the roots. I'd rather be listening to music. I'm bored as hell, so I'll probably be on this forum a lot today ;) Notes

From a guy who started going bald at the tender young age of 24, any hair is a good hair day "Shaker Song" - originally Spyro Gyra, words added and sung by Manhattan Transfer lyrics association: He finds a joint that's jive Guys are spinning girls like 45's. (With a nice sax solo by Richie Cole)

The last Mac product I had was an iPad. I liked it OK but getting files from my PC to the iPad and back was a major PITA. With the Galaxy/Android I just use USBtoGo. I've had Macs from the old Classic II using OS6 through some version of OSX (I love the marketing, making everybody say Oh Ess ***** instead of Oh Ess Ten). I sold the desktop Mac when Band-in-a-Box got to the point where I no longer needed it. I have nothing against Apple except that they seem to go through great pains to keep you in their 'ecosystem' and not letting you talk to those Windows, Linux and Chrome people's computers. But as far as the OS is concerned, some things are easier on Apple, some things are easier on Windows. I let the software choose my OS. Since my 'moonlighting' job is writing aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box, and since the StyleMaker app for BiaB has many more features on the PC version of BiaB, it puts me firmly in the Windows camp. I can make styles that work better on all versions of BiaB if I make them on the Windows app. On stage (gigging is my primary job) I use ThinkPad computers. They are built like tanks, flat black and without a glowing Apple logo for my audience to see. I'm just retiring one that I've been using on stage since 2002 and was built by IBM. 17 years of hard service is very good for a computer. It still works, the CMOS battery died, or so I thought. I replaced it and it still exhibits the problem. I have to manually enter the date before the computer finishes booting up. Well I can't have something on stage that isn't 100% so out it goes. I got my money's worth. On the PC I still use Master Tracks Pro MIDI sequencer, even though it orphaned, Band-in-a-Box, Encore Notation, Power Tracks Pro Audio, and now Cakewalk. I have a bank of hardware synths and samplers that I've been adding to since the 1980s. The TX81z still has some nice FM melodic percussion sounds in it that the ROMplers and plug-ins have never duplicated (it also has some sounds that need to be forgotten). That's my oldest synth module. I make a living doing music and nothing but music, so I'm a happy guy! Insights and incites by Notes

"Tighter Tighter" - Alive and Kicking

I agree. Until recently, there wasn't 100% compatibility between Band-in-a-Box style for Windows and Mac so I had to own both. I prefer Windows, it gives me more control over what goes on inside my computer, has more compatibility with other computers, and in the long run I find it a little easier to use. Now that I can make styles on my WinPC and sell them to Mac people without actually owning a Mac, I no longer have one. Unless there comes a piece of software that I need that only works on the Mac, I can't see myself switching. Notes

groan (I'm jealous I didn't think of that one) ;)

Sorry about the double post at the end.

The best Zep cover album I know:

I'm appalled

Assaulting the racoon? Wait 'till PETA hears about that.

Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

I liked it too! This has got to be one of the weirdest Zeppelin reinterpretations. Rock and Roll - Whole Lotta Bluegrass: A Bluegrass Tribute to Led Zeppelin

Hot Wings! Yummmm.

But with the real Paul or the Faux Paul?

Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics

And the raccoon said, "What a croc! I'm supposed to be navigating here."

I think it got goosed.

The Hanging Garden - The Cure

Fat Man - Jethro Tull