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Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle Day

Sixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the city probably best associated with the sixties counterculture, Bicycle Day is being celebrated by Alex Grey and his Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors crew with a special event which looks like it will be a lot of fun. Presenters at the event include Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Steve Jobs: Here’s To the Crazy Ones

Steve Jobs did the voice over of the first in a series of commercials that Apple aired in their 1997 Think Different ad campaign. It was just released so I will post the YouTube code below.

I guess I like it because it speaks to me. I may not be a genius but I bit crazy. Hey, that’s one out of two.

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10 Things You Probably Did Not Know About Steve Jobs

I have not been posting much but this story is so good, I had to share it immediately which is close to 4 AM. Like many others, I have been feeling sad about the passing of Steve Jobs. Jobs died at age 56 which is about 6 years younger than I am right now and about the same age as my younger sister. When I lived in Santa Cruz California, I met a guy who became a regular at my Island parties named Dan Kotke. Dan was one of the earliest employees of Apple and told me a story about how Jobs had Read more »

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By Bruce Eisner

Long Time No Vision Thing

In my last post, I said good-bye to Typepad blogging system and this is the first post on Wordpress. I have previously explained my avid interest in web development.  This is an acquired taste for me. When I started my first websites back in 1995, I hired webmasters and programmers to do the sort of things I have now learned to do mostly myself. The experiences that I had with Tyepad that I told you about are common to just about every web experience I have had when I had my websites done by other people and put them on other Read more »

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