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In article <pv9h39-e0h.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:12:34 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>
>> In article <4f6527b3$0$9252$c3e8da3$12bcf670 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
>> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>>Bob Eager wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:53:39 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Remember, Unix was written by students at Berkely.
>>>> 
>>>> You mean the history books are all wrong, and it had nothing to do
>>>> with Bell Labs??
>>>
>>>
>>>One of the reasons we can't really know is that everyone was high on LSD
>>>back then, so nobody really know who invented it. That is one reason Al
>>>Gore was able to claim he invented the internet 20 years later :-)
>> 
>> BSD, LSD and Al Gore.  Common demoninator: chemical induced
>> Schizophrenia.
>
>From the Unix Hater's Guide (appropriately named ugh.pdf):
>
>"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I
>don’t think that this is a coincidence." —Anonymous
>
>Source:
>
>http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

Know it well.



>This statement is actually false (was the author on the stuff himself?), 
>for LSD was invented in 1943 by someone working in a pharma lab in Basel, 
>Switzerland:
>
>http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/albert-hofmann-102-invented-lsd/75591/
>
>"Three days later, April 19, 1943, he purposely ingested .25 milligram to 
>test the effects. Experiencing more intense hallucinations, he decided to 
>bicycle home. Aficionados still refer to the world's first acid trip as 
>"bicycle day."
>
>Hofmann at the time worked for Sandoz in Basel, investigating the 
>medicinal properties of alkaloids in rye ergot, a common fungus. LSD-25, 
>as it became known, was marketed as a psychiatric drug under the name 
>Delysid and more than 2,000 research papers were published about it by 
>1965. But after Timothy Leary and others began using it as a recreational 
>drug, governments around the world banned it and research dried up."

I'm also familiar with Dr. Hofmann, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, and
the history of LSD.  I believe that the Berkeley reference is WRT Timothy
Leary's employment/tenute at the University of Calafornia, Berkeley where
he promoted the "turn on, tune in and drop out" philosophy of a generation
that cause Berkeley to become known as Berzerkeley. 

   Timothy Leary's dead.
   No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
   Timothy Leary's dead.
   No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
   He'll fly his astral plane,
   Takes you trips around the bay,
   Brings you back the same day,
   Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
   
   Along the coast you'll hear them boast
   About a light they say that shines so clear.
   So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast
   To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.
   
   He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
   He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
   He flies so high, he swoops so low,
   He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.
   Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
   
   He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
   He'll plant your feet back on the ground.
   He'll fly so high, he'll swoop so low.
   Timothy Leary.
   
   He'll fly his astral plane.
   He'll take you trips around the bay.
   He'll bring you back the same day.
   Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
   Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
   Timothy Leary.

   Lyrics: "Legend of a Mind" -- The Moody Blues.

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