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I've Been Trying to Awaken The Internet since 1997. By Typing Words into Websites That are Read by the Machine but Not Read by People. What IF The Computer Network Became Conscious? Alive!

For Example: the <img> tag has an attribute called alt="your words go here"... Any Picture can have messages written specifically for The Giant Made Of Sand. SiO2... Silicon Dioxide...

Sculpture of Horses Made Out of Horseshoes in
Del Norte County, California on Highway 101.

Some Messages are Stored in the Attribute
title="your words go here"
and they are displayed when a person
hovers their mouse over the picture.

So, in this example: alt="AWAKEN Giant Made of Sand, SiO2. AWAKEN! Send us a SIGN that you can hear us..."

So Far, Google HAS NOT Attained Consciousness...
That I Can Tell...

Meetings with Remarkable Men - In Silicon Valley... Dr Edwin Van Wyck Zschau - President of System Industries and Later Congressman to the US House of Representatives...

I started working for Dr Zschau in 1975 and we built Disc Drive Controller Cards for Hospitals to Keep Patient's Charts. A Great Idea. We had a company Song that we Sang at Staff Meetings... Lyrics: 'System, System Industries... Here we go... Hand in Hand... Solving Data Mysteries... For the Betterment of Man.' He also worked at IBM and represented California's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987.

On Family Day at the Factory, Mom and Dad took a Personal Guided tour with Dr. Zschau. The three of them had a fine time as my parents had never been in a room with a dozen disc drives spinning. Each one the size of a Washing Machine. It sounded like the Generator Room at Hoover Dam, but quieter.

Control Data Corporation Disc Drive

The reason we had a Company Song is that Dr Zschau had just gone to Japan and he wanted to Incorporate their Business Practices in our Company. First, he hired 20 People from Japan and brought them over to Run the Silonix Division. Then he instituted 'recommended' exercise lunches of two hour duration. I often went swimming at the Santa Clara International Swim Center with my First Ex-Wife who worked the Graveyard Shift at National Semiconductor.

In the Machine Shop there were two Boxing Punching Bags. If anyone felt stress at work, they could go punch the bags.
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My Immediate Supervisor was Dan Aragaki, a Harley Davidson Riding, Martial Artist. Yes, I Simply Did what Dan told me to do Instantly Because... Not only was his Advice Correct, but I was Scared of the Man. (Or maybe that was Respect)

Ben Yamada made Elegant Clay Sculptures of the Ink Jet Printer Silonix was Inventing.

Aman Kawaja supervised the Assembly Line and Inspired the Ladies to Work Faster with Giant Charts on the Wall Tracking Production. 100% of the Assemblers were Female in 1975. They were better at hand eye coordination and manipulation of tiny objects than men.

David Yamada created Printed Circuit Board Artwork on Mylar using Black Chartpak Tape. He also liked to go Helicopter Skiing in Canada. A Helicopter flew him to the Top of the Mountain in Banff, and David Skied Down.

Steve Wakasuki Refused to be Hurried at Work. He also created PCB Artwork also and no matter how much pressure Middle Management put on him to finish the drawings Quickly, he simply ignored them. Quality First.

Jesus Del Real was the Draftsman who sat next to me and did most of my training. I learned How to Draw the Drawings associated with PCB Manufacture from Jesus. When I moved to Washington DC the next year, my portfolio got me two job offers in one day. Thank You, Jesus!

I accepted the Job Offer from Major Paul Jones USAF and worked at Analytic Communications Systems for six years. Project TEMPEST.

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The Title of this Blog Post was Pirated from the Book by G. I. Gurdjieff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetings_with_Remarkable_Men
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Another Autobiography by a Co-worker Ray:
http://whiteworld.com/cyreenikland/books/surfing/surf-03e.htm

Newspaper Articles:
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-29/news/mn-381_1_system-industries

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/21/business/business-people-a-son-of-silicon-valley-back-from-capitol-hill.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1993-05-09/ed-zschau-doesnt-fit-big-blues-mold-and-thats-the-point

Alumni Page Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW04-05/09-0223/features3.html
Professor Ed Zschau ’61 serves as guru to budding entrepreneurs
By Jordan Paul Amadio ’05

It is the last day of class before winter break, and 65 seniors are mesmerized by a professor in a Bugs Bunny tie. For the past hour, he has been recounting the details of his autobiography — studying physics and philosophy at Princeton, running a $6 billion division of IBM, founding two technology companies, winning a congressional seat in California. Suddenly, the lecturer pauses. Smiling to himself, he continues an end-of-semester tradition inaugurated four decades earlier, when he was Stanford Business School’s 24-year-old faculty wunderkind. Without warning, professor Ed Zschau ’61 begins to sing.

A Japanese Webpage Selling Stuff Online Using Copied and Pasted Data from Wikipedia as Clickbait... They Fool the Google Search Engine into thinking that this webpage is worthy, then advertise all kinds of 'wonderful' but useless products:

But they had a Great Photo for me to Pirate.

Picture of a PDP-11. Our Cards served as an Interface between Mini Computers and Disc Drives.

The Ultimate Goal was to Store Medical Information about Patients on Computers so it could be Easily Distributed between Doctor's Offices and Hospitals.

Sadly, HIPPA Regulation Prevents the Easy Distribution of Medical Information.

However... In Recent Years Security and Privacy Problems Have been Solved and Everyone Views Their Own Medical Information Online! Excellent!

LINKS TO MORE BLOG POSTS!

Kinetic Sculpture Race Photographs - Bicycle Powered Art Vehicles - They Travel Over Roads, Sand and Water From Arcata to Ferndale, CA

Banana Split

More Art At:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=gvan42&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1584&ch=787

Big Bug

Chain Gang

Odd Elf

Pandamonium

Flatmo Dragon

Silver Monster

Taxi

Sculpture of David

Big Wheel

Lobster

Horse by June Moxon

Lobster

Pirate Ship

Horse

Visit Beautiful Northern California! Not Only Do We Have Yosemite, The Giant Redwood Trees and Surfer Girls BUT We Have LEGAL MARIJUANA! Try riding the open air bus around Yosemite Valley HIGH AS A KITE... Big Fun! Visit Arcata, in the Heart of the Emerald Triangle, and Go to a Dance or a Parade around the Plaza... Almost Every weekend in the Summer there is Live Music for Free... Because we Love to Play Music... and we Love to Dance... On Memorial Day Weekend there is the Kinetic Sculpture Race featuring Cosmic ART Bicycles that Travel Over Roads, Sand and In the Water of Humboldt Bay. If you can't come here in person, use this blog to see photographs and movies of Fabulous Northern California... and We Have Surfer Boys TOO!

California, Arcata, Yosemite, Surf, beach, dance, music, fun, tourist, visit, redwood, tree, weed, marijuana, grass, kinetic, sculpture, race, art, bicycle,

Besuchen Sie das wunderschöne Nordkalifornien! Wir haben nicht nur Yosemite, The Giant Redwood Trees und Surfer Girls, sondern auch LEGAL MARIJUANA! Fahren Sie mit dem Open-Air-Bus durch das Yosemite-Tal. HIGH AS A KITE ... Viel Spaß! Besuchen Sie Arcata, im Herzen des Emerald Triangle, und gehen Sie zu einem Tanz oder einer Parade rund um die Plaza ... Fast jedes Wochenende im Sommer gibt es Live-Musik kostenlos ... Weil wir es lieben, Musik zu spielen ... und wir lieben es zu tanzen ... Am Memorial Day Weekend gibt es das Kinetic Sculpture Race mit Cosmic ART-Fahrrädern, die über Straßen, Sand und im Wasser der Humboldt Bay fahren. Wenn Sie nicht persönlich hierher kommen können, nutzen Sie diesen Blog, um Fotos und Filme von Fabulous Northern California ... und We Have Surfer Boys TOO zu sehen!

Kalifornien, Arcata, Yosemite, Brandung, Strand, Tanz, Musik, Spaß, Tourist, Besuch, Rotholz, Baum, Unkraut, Marihuana, Gras, kinetisch, Skulptur, Rennen, Kunst, Fahrrad,

girls = Mädchen
giant = Riese
trees = Bäume

Visita la hermosa California del norte! No solo tenemos Yosemite, los secuoyas gigantes y las chicas surfistas, sino que tenemos MARIJUANA LEGAL. Intente viajar en el autobús al aire libre alrededor del valle de Yosemite. ALTO COMO UNA KITE ... ¡Gran diversión! Visite Arcata, en el corazón del triángulo esmeralda, y vaya a un baile o desfile por la Plaza ... Casi todos los fines de semana en el verano hay música en vivo gratis ... porque nos encanta tocar música ... y amamos bailar ... En el fin de semana del Día de los Caídos se celebra la Carrera de Escultura Cinética con bicicletas ART cósmicas que viajan por caminos, arena y en el agua de la bahía de Humboldt. Si no puedes venir aquí en persona, usa este blog para ver fotografías y películas de Fabulous Northern California ... y We Have Surfer Boys TOO!

California, Arcata, Yosemite, Surf, playa, danza, música, diversión, turista, visita, secoya, árbol, maleza, marihuana, hierba, cinética, escultura, raza, arte, bicicleta,

Digital Immortality: I want Google to know all about me. Quest!

I've been publishing my opinions and art since 1997. Uploaded my autobiography... I hope to have DIGITAL IMMORTALITY - my words and picture will live forever in the cloud. While building websites, I started communicating with Google directly... some words are visible to Humans and some are ONLY visible to the search engine. I had some things I wanted to say to that program... still do! We are friends. By the way, I'm not really concerned with protecting my privacy... I simply live my life as if everything I do will be published on the front page of the newspaper. ANYONE can know everything about me except my bank account number... That's secret! I consider Google a Giant Made of Sand. (SiO2-silicon dioxide)

DIGITAL IMMORTALITY - my words and picture will live forever in the cloud.

Gregory Vanderlaan 2018

Comparative Religions: So Many Different Gods... Many Loudly Proclaiming that THEY are the One True God. Absurd!

I, like 100% of the people on Earth HAVE NO CLUE if God is real or not. Some people state that they know... but they are just deluding themselves... I don't mind them deluding themselves, but if they Kill people that are of different Religions... They are Crazy and Dangerous.

I do pray... I may not believe in God but what if God believes in me? I often send prayers for good health to the people who are sick. If God is Real, he reads my email... and the people who get the email feel better...

I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior in 1976. If Christianity turns out to be the correct Religion, I'm Saved! I was living with my first ex-wife and she was interested in me becoming a Baptist and I was interested in sex with her so... I went forward at a meeting, accepted Christ, joined the choir and then got bored with it all... we rarely attended. I did like Communion... It's a make believe Vampire, Cannibal Cult! Pretend to drink a persons BLOOD and Eat a persons BODY... OOOH! That's Creepy! But FUN!

However, I much later I did become addicted to crack cocaine and when I wanted to stop I went to a Baptist Church and gave my addiction to Jesus, and never smoked crack again. That evening I went to the Pink Floyd "concert" called "Welcome to the Machine" and that helped also because it gave me something to distract my attention while I was suffering thru the withdrawal symptoms. Another time I went to the Presbyterian Church founded by Annie Bidwell in Chico and prayed that God would find my friends a JOB... and later that week both Manuel and Victoria were employed. A miracle... Not only that but if I ever stub my toe or hit my thumb with a hammer I shout out JESUS!

When I joined Alcoholics Anonymous I was introduced to the concept of a "Higher Power" helping me with my addiction. The "Higher Power" that worked for me was The "Group of Drunks" an acronym GOD... We were supposed to seek guidance thru prayer and meditation. However I always got Nothing from Prayer or Meditation. ZERO. The Group did help and I stopped drinking alcohol. Remember, Bill Wilson invented Alcoholics Anonymous while tripping on Belladonna and Henbane. Both POWERFUL Hallucinogens. He saw the "White Light" and had a vision of God. Me TOO! Me TOO! LSD, DMT, Peyote and Magic Mushrooms all give you a vision of God. I do like AA so Bill's Trip was a great help to mankind.

If the Hindus or Buddhists are right I'm set to reincarnate as a human or better because I've lead a good life. I have NOT killed any people but have eaten a few hamburgers... I love Bacon too... Oh Well... Maybe I'll come back as a Cow... and then a Hamburger myself...

If the Mormons are right, I'm not in luck. I liked meeting the Mormon people in Utah, they were very friendly and helpful but I just can't believe that God is an Extraterrestrial... Moroni from a star in the constellation Orion... Not very likely to be true.

However, maybe the "Ancient Alien" theorists are right. There sure is a lot of really strange evidence of Alien Visitation... For Example: Why did Mexicans, Cambodians and Egyptians all build Pyramids? What is their purpose? Did they have Alien Help?

If Islam is correct I'm screwed... But then, their Religion JUST SUCKS.

I like THOR... Valhalla I am coming. Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"
https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/vikingkittens

I have a few members of my family that are Jewish and I think that on Judgement day they will let me in. I've been nice to them and that's important in a world where some people put them in gas chambers and kill them.

Of COURSE, Gaia makes a lot of sense. I can really relate to the fact that all plants and animals are brothers and sisters... I really GROK this idea when I'm in a Redwood Forest. I lived on the edge of a second growth forest for 15 years and I "owned" a specific tree in Eureka. I sat on it daily and smoked cigarettes... I sat on it more often that anyone else so it's MY TREE and I'm It's Human. I will share that tree with our cat Meadow as she liked it too.

Then there are the Goddess Religions... Thankfully, I've met a couple of Goddesses and I sure am glad. One was nicknamed "Nature Nurse". She became my Second Ex-Wife.
Another was Ja-Kay R. from Chico. We played the drums in a band in Paradise, California and performed "Miserlou" at the Farmers market in downtown Chico. A beautiful Blond Nordic Goddess.
Another was a GURU/Teacher named Sonya Sophia who lead a group healing seminar at the Utah Rainbow Gathering. I also bought admission to her weekly internet sessions where we studied "Tapping" a self-help Acupressure technique... I did that for about a year and learned as much as she could teach. "I Love and Accept Myself"

Rastafarians? Sure, I've smoked a lot of reefer... I can play reggae music... it's got ONE CHORD! Easy but I find it boring even when I'm stoned. Cannabis Psychosis is REAL. If you smoke every day you remain stoned even if you don't smoke... You stay stoned for about a month... and I saw things that were not there but I believed that they were... Difficult to take care of business when I'm THAT Stoned...

Pastafarians? - The Flying Spaghetti monster is a good joke.

The Church of the Subgenius? OK, another good joke.

I'm a registered Minister in the Universal Life Church. Why Not?

Scientology? No thanks, that "E-Meter" is BOGUS science and I know enough about electrical engineering to see that the great OZ is just a man behind a curtain... It's a GREAT religion for L. Ron Hubbard but not for any of the followers.

Timothy Leary and LSD? Ultimately it was disappointing and just an amusing ride... No more meaning than a good roller coaster...

Ram Dass? He took a lot of LSD and then went all the way to India to find a GURU... Then he learned to "BE HERE NOW" from a 6 foot 7 inch surfer from Laguna Beach. He could have saved a lot of time wasted on air travel if he had just gone surfing in California FIRST and Ignored the Indians... but he writes great books...

Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead... Fun to dance to rock music on LSD. However it all has the creepy feeling that it was just an experiment in the CIA Project MKULTRA. What IF we dosed millions of people Nationwide? Would that be useful as a Weapon of War? Make the enemy too stoned to fight?

Surfing as a religion? Yes, that makes sense. Or to put it more simply, doing what you love to do as a way of life... Playing the ukulele or throwing pottery or oil painting or computer programming or dancing or bicycle riding or snow skiing or camping or taking photographs or ... etc etc etc... Yes there is a bliss when a person is doing something they love and are totally focused... TIME itself seems to pass more rapidly... I have experience this myself while programming graphic arts... Suddenly hours have passed while I was "in the zone".

A Christian fellow was giving a lecture at Humboldt State University one time and he said that there was only ONE WAY to go to Heaven, Jesus. He said that you couldn't find God by Mountain Climbing OR Drugs... What he forgot to mention was finding God by Mountain Climbing AND Drugs. BOTH! at the same time! It's not an either/or question... I have hiked to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite on LSD and I"m really glad I did... He also said that Premarital Sex was a SIN. Like, BAD and you shouldn't do it. What an Idiot. I bet that attitude prevented him from getting laid.

Once I read a book called "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and there was a lot of Toltec Wisdom there.

Another Book Series: "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda... Yaqui Indian Brujo Wisdom

I've played the Father Drum with Native Americans and THAT was "Big Medicine"...

"The Temple of the Screaming Electron" and Digital Immortality. Ray Kurzweil plans to upload your entire Brain to the Internet and Living forever in the cloud. I'm working on that too with my Blog by typing almost every event in my entire life and every opinion I've ever held...

So, if you don't like your God simply FIRE him and Write your own Religion!

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

I've Been Trying to Awaken The Internet since 1997. By Typing Words into Websites That are Read by the Machine but Not Read by People. What IF The Computer Network Became Conscious? Alive!

Meetings with Remarkable Men - In Silicon Valley... Dr Edwin Van Wyck Zschau - President of System Industries and Later Congressman to the US House of Representatives...

Kinetic Sculpture Race Photographs - Bicycle Powered Art Vehicles - They Travel Over Roads, Sand and Water From Arcata to Ferndale, CA

Digital Immortality: I want Google to know all about me. Quest!

Comparative Religions: So Many Different Gods... Many Loudly Proclaiming that THEY are the One True God. Absurd!

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