What Pipe or Pipe Tobacco Did You Smoke Today? [pics]

[deluxestogie]

Still life in slow.

My 1991 Gateway computer was the most powerful, fastest desktop computer you could buy. It sported the brand new Intel 80386 CPU (the Pentium began with 80586). That 33 indicates its premium clock speed of 33 MHz, which is about 1/100 the clock speed of my notebook computer (though 33 times faster than my 1977 first computer--an Intel 8080a 1 MHz). The last time I cranked up the Gateway (about 6 years ago), it eventually booted its Windows 98, and thereafter ran just fine. The amusing thing is that applications were so much less CPU intensive back in the Gateway's heyday, that it doesn't seem to run much slower than today's newest computers. It's fast enough to easily run the first StarCraft game as well as WarCraft III and its World Editor.

Today, like Christophe's Citadelle laferrière, it stands idle, impressive, and hopelessly obsolete.

Bob

EDIT: the Citadelle will reach its 200th anniversary in 2020.

 

[Youn]

Once upon a time there was an old Greek song of T.Demetreades at 1927 named ''Μισιρλου'', later another Greek the N.Roumbanis sing it in America at 1941.
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019) aka Dick Dale took it and made a revision, the ''Misirlou'' at 1963 which all of us listened it at 1994 in a movie, was the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8


I am smoking Seasons Spring time while hearing all the versions.

I love this one, with a pipe :
Maria Karela and Spyros Stamos

View: https://youtu.be/GTG1q8e1gnI


… and this one, with a cigar :
Belmonte & His Afro Latin 7

View: https://youtu.be/ossYKb8oXJ0


… and, as we are in the 'What Pipe or Pipe Tobacco Did You Smoke Today?' thread, I confess I'm smoking a blend I called "Grincheux" (Grumpy) in a small homemade pipe with a tequila/orange juice :
10% VA Red
10% VA Lemon
10% Oriental (Basma)
50% Latakia
15% Black Cavendish
5% Perique
(all from WLT except Black Cavendish and Perique from C&D)

+ 100% blue agave from Mexico

 

[Charly]

@deluxestogie : I have always been impressed to see how nowadays computers are not much faster than 30 years old computers...

@Youn : ça donne envie !
(it makes me envious !)

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Solani Grün Blend 127.

@Youn : Thank you very much!

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Good morning from Greece and the cloudy Athens with 14 °F. I was ''out of forum'' in vacations due to the celebration of our 1821 Independence War against the turks, i came back with some Cafe pipe smoking and country photos.

Amphora Full Aroma.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

One side of our beach as it looks now.

I am smoking Peterson De Luxe mixture in a Vauen, double Greek coffee beside me.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Poul Winslow No 3.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Vanilla Caribic.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Hello from Greece, we have sun and little bit of wind with 59 °F here in Athens.

Balkan Sasieni.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Due to the strong wind and reflection of the glass a sparrow struck to our home. For a little while he started to fade and then he stayed motionless. I was afraid he was injured but thankfully after a while he manage to fly again to find his buddies.

I am smoking Briar Patch Black Velvet, double espresso beside me.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Mac Baren Classic Loose Cut.

 

[TigerTom]

1977 Dunhill Red Bark Billiard, packed with McClelland Orient 996 from a 2008 tin.

I love the sweet aroma of Syrian Latakia...

 

[Sid.Stavros]

''Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach''

Above is a part of our beach waiting for the swimmers in few months to come. I am smoking Bill Bailey's Birthday blend.

 

[deluxestogie]

Sid, The only other place in which I saw tree trunks painted with white paint was the crab apple tree in my grandmother's back yard, in the 1950s. And of course, she grew up in Greece at the turn of the 20th century.

Bob

 

[Sid.Stavros]

'Dayyy from Greece, we have sun here in Athens and 61 °F

Pipe Shop.net Black Cavendish No4.

Sid, The only other place in which I saw tree trunks painted with white paint was the crab apple tree in my grandmother's back yard, in the 1950s. And of course, she grew up in Greece at the turn of the 20th century.

My dear friend it is not white paint, it's like ''lime builder lime'' for protection, heat reflection and beauty. People from villages [mainly in islands] do it, it is a part of our tradition.

Every spring we had ''asbestoma'' which means we cover many things [trees, walls, pots etc] with ''asbesti'' [ασβέστη].

 

[deluxestogie]

it is not white paint, it's like ''lime builder lime''

As a child, I never considered the composition of the white stuff painted onto her tree. And yes, "mainly in islands", she grew up in Rhodes.

As an adult looking back, I have assumed it was white house paint that contained lead. It could certainly have been construction lime. Unfortunately, ασβέστη transliterates into a word sounding a lot like "asbestos", which would be scary.

Bob

 

[Alpine]

The correct translation is slaked lime. It’s still used in south of Italy for many purposes.
Ostuni is called “the white city” because all the buildings are painted white every year with slaked lime
https://www.neverendingvoyage.com/ostuni-puglia/

Pier

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Peterson Irish Oak.

deluxestogie : Yes you are right, when someone reads the word ''asbestos'' his mind goes to this terrible thing. ALL the houses in the Greek islands and the majority of village houses in the country are painted every spring BEFORE the Easter with Lime (material)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(material)
for many reasons. It is a ''must'' and except the brush some ''high tech'' use pumps to cover large areas as walls faster.

Alpine : Greeks established colonies back in 800 BC in the today's South Italy, it's called Magna Graecia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia
The majority of cities have Greek names and still there are Greeks which live there and speaking ancient Greek language.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ασβ...0#imgdii=btnkCWH40mg4QM:&imgrc=cA6u-BR4FkXdyM:
You can see even ''black & white'' photos from people using this material, even now at 2019 here in Athens we use it in some cases. It's not visible but the trees in the above pipe smoking photo from my house are painted.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Planta Danish Black Vanilla.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Mother Nature snapshot from my birthplace.

I am smoking Savinelli Punto Oro Cavendish.