Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland

GENEVA - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971.

For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.

"I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people abused it," he once said. more

Vegas Baby Attire

O.K., I just came back from visiting my freshman college student daught in North Carolina. Her first words to me were "Dad, get with the program, your embarrassing me dude". So, I'm not hip on the 'whats hip' thing.

So, I have my 'long white tube socks with red stripes on top', a 'tank top t-shirt', a 'beer belly', and 'cut off short-short blue jeans' (that shows my plumber crack). Is grey hair in style now?

RAC'man the new Survival Guy Show!

After reading some current posts, and watching RAC'ster showing us how to properly eat white snow, (but suggests that we eat the yellow snow for taste), I would feel much safer under his command if 'Big Brother.' takes over.

I see two potential new TV shows coming out of this blog. 'Survival Guy' beaten out by 'RAC'man, the Survival Guy', and 'High School Reunion' beaten out by 'Dean's Circle goes Vagas Baby' in the ratings!

Perfect Spam

My Yahoo email account usually does a pretty good job of filtering out spam from my inbox. However, this morning an obvious piece of junk mail made it through the filters. This message was unusual in that instead of a link to their web site, it directed you to a Google search string. Knowing the link would be safe my curiosity got the best of me and I clicked it. Sure enough, it took me to a Google search page with a single returned entry - someone selling fake Rolex watches. Brilliant I thought! Now if only we could get these people to put that ingenuity to good use.

Here you go Doug

Car accident...and perspective

I was in a car accident on Monday..exiting the bay bridge in SF, when a lady in a Jeep slammed into me from behind..pushing me into the car in front of me...good news is I walked out of my car alive....

lucky because 1. I was in my Jag..(super heavy car..protected me from being crushed) 2. wearing my seatbelt (they said it saved my life..my ribs aren't happy, but they're alive so they can stop complaining) 3. had a good 2 car lengths between me and car in front (also prevented the aforementioned "smashed like a bug" syndrome.

Off work/travel for a couple of weeks....while docs figure our how to repair me...waiting to find out if I'm super lucky once again and just have a bruised back, or if I have a slipped disc, or a cracked tailbone..so far..lots of drugs and sleep.....lots of pain, lots of drugs...

Last week, same time I was in Hawaii for work...walking on the beach every morning before work..feeling pretty grand about life!

To put it in perspective....still feeling pretty grand about life! great family, good friends, fun job,
alive and walking, albeit slowly...will definately be dancing at the reunion..god continues to bless me.

cheers everyone! Kelley

Donny and Marie Osmond sign for new show on Vegas strip

Hey Larson’s, how about hookin’ us up with some tickets to the Donny and Marie show? Being cousins and all I thought you guys could get us some front row seats. Backstage passes would be cool too if you can swing it. Thanks.

Food Fight

It appears that panic has set in. My wife just returned from the grocery store with reports there was no milk and only 2 bags of rice on the shelves. She said people were buying large plastic containers in which to store their food supplies. A woman in line told her people were practically fighting at Costco's the day before. Of course it doesn't help when the Wall Street Journal fans the flames by recommending we "Load Up the Pantry."

So I've decided not to join in the panic. Rather than stock up on food, I'm going to stock up on bullets. They say a well armed man can find something to eat anytime day or night. ;-)

Thoughts on Consciousness

I've spent a great deal of time over the past few years trying to wrap my mind around the subject of human consciousness. Over time I've come up with some of my own ideas as to the inner workings of the mind. I recently found similar ideas beautifully expressed on the blog of Anthony Peake, author of "Is There Life After Death."

If we consider, for a moment, Niels Bohr's 'Copenhagen Interpretation' of Quantum Mechanics which states that all energy (including basic particles) exist as a wave, and only on observation by a conscious entity does this wave "collapse" and become a particle - Electrons, Light, Atoms etc all behave in this way - then I suggest that Consciousness also behaves this way. If Collective Consciousness is indeed a wave then I think we all, as conscious beings, collapse that wave and create particles of Subjective Consciousness, which is, in effect, ourselves; our experiences and our empirical life. In essence, that we are all one Consciousness experiencing itself Subjectively.

Sunset of the Week

Was out for a swim again, didn't see much but thought I'd share a sunset with you all.

I did see 5 turtles (1 of them with only three legs, second one in this area) and 2 small barracuda.

Sign of the Times

A new Wal-Mart greeter just couldn't seem to get to work on time.

Every day he was a few minutes late but, because he was a good worker, rather than fire him outright, the boss called him for a talk.

"Dick, I like your work ethic, and you're a smart guy, but your tardiness is becoming habitual."

"Yeah, I know, boss. I'm working on it," said Dick.

"That's good. I hope you succeed. But I must admit: I'm surprised. You're retired from the military. What did they say when you came in late?"

"They said, 'Good morning, General'!"

DC T-Shirts Last Call

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F.Y.I. Google Earth Fans

Google Earth has updated there system. Just not to long ago if you went onto google earth to look at Guam, you were not able to view Yona. Now you can view the entire island.

The Bestest & Funny Guam Promo i've ever see!

(Check out when the kids yells 'what's for dinner mom?')

p.s. - plus...when she picks her nose and scratches her fafa!)
(as seen on the ISM blog!)

Hafa Adai And a Hello everyone from Chris in Guam hope to see everyone soon in Las Vegas this summer I was just reading the blog about Red Rice in Vegas there is a couple of places that do serve the Island quisine from Guam I'll keep you all informed about it. If anyone reads the PDN on the internet you'll see that Guam has gone through some drastic changesin the past 25 thru 18 years. hope too see everyone soon.!!!!!!!!!!!

Have We Talked About Spam???

I was talking to Chris Franquez the other morning and he was having Spam for breakfast. I had not thought about Spam in years!!! I used to like it just on a sandwich with lots of mustard.

According to Wikipedia, in the United States, the residents of Hawaii and Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands consume the most Spam per capita. On average, each person on Guam consumes 16 tins of Spam each year. Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature Spam on the menu and Burger King now offers Spam on their breakfast menu as well.

Gas Prices

So...reading the PDN website I see where Mobil raised the price of regular to $4.20 a gallon. Just out of curiosity what's it running in your neck of the woods?
Signed,
Oil addicted slave to the global energy conglomerate.

Millions of us

By Logan and Ivey (age 8 and 7)

There is millions of us in the whole wide world. We can do anything we want to do. Cuz there are millions of us. This planet is filled with us.

Millions of us live here. We are all in this planet together. We love this planet filled with millions of us! This is the best in the whole wide world!

We love this planet SO MUCH! We love this PLANET! We love this PLANET! THERE ARE MILLIONS OF US!

Danica Patrick wins Indy Japan 300

MOTEGI, Japan (AP)—Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history Sunday, taking the Indy Japan 300 after the top contenders were forced to pit for fuel in the final laps.

The 26-year-old Patrick won in her 50th career IndyCar start, taking the lead from Castroneves on the 198th lap in the 200-lap race.

Singing Tesla Coils

No Red Rice at Vegas Baby

Global food crisis looms as Asia's rice bowl empties and world price soars

THE crisis over rice showed no signs of easing yesterday as the price of the world's benchmark jumped 10 per cent in just one week, fanning fears that millions across Asia will struggle to afford their staple food.

In a clear sign of the strain on output after major exporters began to curb exports earlier this year, a tender from the Philippines, the world's top importer, attracted offers to sell only about two-thirds of the half a million tonnes it sought.

In Bangkok, Thai 100 per cent B grade white rice, considered the world's benchmark, hit $950 (£482) per tonne, three times its price at the start of 2007.

"There's been a popular misconception that the world can produce as much food as it likes. Well, it obviously can't. And Asia can't feed itself at the moment," Gerry Lawson, the chairman of Sunrice, a major Australian rice producer, said. continue...

From Joanna... Viva Las Vegas Baby....

Almost time to fly....

STAMPEDE!!!

I was reminded today of something my youngest son said when he was about 4. Even at this age he was already an expert on the ways of the wild. He had seen enough Animal Planet to know what was going on when a herd of wildebeest suddenly takes off running in a panic. It was from this vast store of knowledge that he warned us one day to watch out because his toy animals were about to "STAND IN PEE!!!"

In the Family Way

Consuelo, a Mexican maid announced to her boss, Mrs. Blanco, that she was quitting.

When Mrs. Blanco asked why, Consuelo replied, "I'm in the family way."

Mrs. Blanco was totally surprised and shocked, and asked who the father could be.

"Your husband and your son," replied Consuelo.

Mortified, Mrs. Blanco demanded an explanation.

"Well," Consuelo explained, "I go to the library to clean it and your husband say, 'You are in the way'. I go to the living room to clean and your son say 'You are in my way'. So I'm in the family way and I can't do the work you hired me to do so I quit."

YOMM (Yet another Manta Movie)

I went out last night (Thursday 4/17) and spotted plenty. I took the new camera out so it looks different. Swam with 7 Mantas, 2 Spotted Eagle Rays, 2 Turtles and the Barracuda from Tuesday.



Enjoy