If nominated, I shall certainly serve.

Pointing this out without making one mention of how cool a permanent account would be, nor mentioning how I need the money for my new teeth.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jpallan/477899.html

Happy birthd.. woah! 12 foot tall crickets! Cool!

Father of LSD Celebrating 100th Birthday

GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday in good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic.

"I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said, recalling his first accidental consumption of the drug.

"I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he told the Swiss television network SF DRS. "What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared."

Happy Birthday, Herr Doktor-Professor Hofmann! Your little discovery set off a revolution, and LSD remains the one drug that I'd actually take again, under the right circumstances.

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson

I want my flying wings and art deco cities!

Through the good graces of fellow members of the Traveller Mailing List, I've been directed to Tales of Future Past, an excellent collection of pages that describe the future that SF writers and "futurists" were prediciting fifty or sixty years ago.

Fun read, and great gaming fodder.