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Fun Times From My Life!

I took my SH-101 Analog Synthesizer and Portable Speaker System Down to the Bank of the Potomac River in Alexandria Virginia late at night...

Directly across the river from the DARPA headquarters... I made "Spaceship Taking Off" sounds in the hope of "Freaking Out" the soldiers at that Air Force Base... When you make a loud noise on the bank of a river the sound travels very far. It is possibly that my music could have gone all the way up to the Lincoln Memorial...  It's possible that people would think that aliens were Landing in Unidentified Flying Objects... Flying Saucer Attack! But mostly it was just fun! Here's an example of the sound from the movie Forbidden Planet...

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I spent an afternoon reading the book "Inside Macintosh"...  A huge book about the size as the World Book Encyclopedia...  But it explains exactly what is going on with the software of the computer... And computer code in Pearl is included...

I was at a store called "a clean well lighted place for books" near De Anza College... In Sunnyvale...

That book was designed to be a reference for programmers working at Apple so all the code would work together... And while reading I experienced many "a-ha" moments... Oh! So that's how they do it!

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I read a book called BASIC programming for the TRS-80... Which revealed how to create a "Squiral"... A spiral made of squares... And it looks like this... 

Select an image:
10 make a duplicate layer of the image
reduce size of duplicate by 90% and rotate 12°
go to 10

(of course, this is not actual code - because it's an Infinite Loop - but that's the BASIC concept)

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It seems like many of the Epic days in my life were days when I was high on LSD... For example: I went to hear the Grateful Dead at Winterland playing through the Wall of Sound on one of the nights that they made the movie... And I remember thinking it was odd that all those guys running around with movie cameras were filming a light bulb on the side of the stage... What I realized much later was underneath the light bulb there was a flip  chart with numbers on it and they were recording the reel number of the movie that they were filming... At no point during the evening did I have any desire to stand in front of a camera and be IN the movie... I kinda figured, those guys are doing their trip and I was doing mine and if we happen to meet well, that's cool... And so when you watch the movie you will not see my face... I do remember that after the song "Truckin" I had the realization that if the roof flew off the building and I could see the stars... that still wouldn't be as amazing as what I just danced to... I believe that the musicians really put a lot of effort into that performance because they were making the movie... And the wall of sound really performed well in Winterland because they had a week to fine-tune it...

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I took many LSD trips and some were just amazing. Hiking to the top of the waterfalls in Yosemite & Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, EPCOT, tubing Chico Creek, UC Santa Cruz, Montalvo Saratoga, Spectrum Arena Philadelphia, Merryweather Post Pavilion Maryland, RFK Stadium Washington DC, Camp Campbell summer camp, Butano Forest, the National Art Gallery at the Smithsonian and then a Tangerine Dream Concert, an anti-war protest at the White House - Lincoln Memorial, Witnessing Dawn in a field near Chico and Experiencing True Enlightenment...

Peyote at the rainbow gathering in Pennsylvania, Magic Mushrooms at the New Year's Eve Grateful Dead concert... Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds at the Beach Boys concert at the Washington Monument on the 4th of July with fireworks...

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Happy Birthday to Me! On March 19th I'm going to be 72 years old. That made me remember that I know five people from Los Gatos High School that are already dead.

John Baggerly, Debbie Stage, Rich Field, Doug Stoner and Kurt Fenolio... Maybe there are more but those are the ones that have been reported on Faceborg by my classmates at Los Gatos High School...

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Free Health Advice: Disclaimer: I'm Not a Doctor so take me as seriously as you would take RFK Jr who doesn't know what he's talking about either.

When I was on the swim team, as a kid, I noticed that the chlorinated water was great for my skin and prevented acne... It also cured my poison oak rash... And I got poison oak a lot because I walked my dog up in the Santa Cruz mountains...

I liked to test myself to see how far I could swim underwater... I could easily do 150 ft... But the real trick was to hyperventilate before I started... By breathing really hard I was able to fill my body with oxygen and then gradually release the carbon dioxide as I was swimming along... 

So here I am decades later... And I find that doing deep breathing and filling my body with oxygen is a great way to clarify my thinking... I believe that a brain that's got a lot of oxygen is smarter... I have no scientific proof of that but so what??? Like I said before... I'm not a doctor... And if I give out free advice that's no damn good... well... You certainly ought to check with an actual professional before you believe any kind of crap that you see on the internet! Doctors go to college for like years and years and years and they study medicine... Go ask them! And remember to always Think for Yourself and Question Authority... 

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Now, Trump Opposes the Second Amendment. He Blames the Murder Victim, Alex Pretti... Because He Had a Legal Gun in a Holster... Not in his hand... That was a phone!

Apparently, the Second Amendment is only valid if you're a MAGA Moron... Normal People are Forbidden from Legally Carrying Firearms. 

Second Amendment GUN CRAZY FREAKS ARE THE PROBLEM. The Solution? Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns... Charlie Kirk Quote: "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

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And Just Like That, Nobody's talking about Epstein Anymore... That's mighty suspicious... The Charlie Kirk Murder has finally Distracted the Attention of the Mainstream Media... 

FACT CHECK: Charlie Kirk once said some gun deaths 'worth it' in order to have the Second Amendment... TRUE! HE REALLY SAID THAT!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gun-deaths-quote/

Charlie Kirk 2A Quote: "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gun-deaths-quote/

( sung to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm)

Jeffrey Epstein had an island…

T - r - u - m - p

And on that island he had some girls…

T - r - u - m - p

It's a hoax hoax here,

and a hoax hoax there.

Here a hoax, There a hoax,

Everything's a hoax hoax…

Jeffrey Epstein had an island…

T - r - u - m - p

FBI photo of the "Person of Interest" 

I wonder if this is the Actual Murderer 

or just a convenient Patsy...

Apparently the "Person of Interest" 

was a White Man wearing 

an Eagle & American flag graphic t-shirt!

And the FBI says it found the gun... 

A high powered, bolt action rifle popular with professional snipers... 

I wonder if it has a serial number?

Can they trace ownership???

Eagle and American Flag T-Shirt graphic image.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/314868899893

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PROVE ME WRONG:  Easy Access to Guns Makes Murder Frequent. NOW Would be a Great Time to Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns and Melt Guns...

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And Last Week I Said... FREAK with a gun kills two children at a church in Minneapolis. Then he kills himself... Why couldn't he kill himself first and save everybody else all that trouble?

and still no laws outlawing guns... All three of the guns that that guy owned were purchased legally... Really obvious that the laws are wrong!

Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school Mass... 

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/annunciation-catholic-school-minneapolis-shooting-08-27-25

Madman with a gun kills five in New York City. Blames High School football injury for brain damage and insanity... Don't let it happen to you!

The man who opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building, killing four people and wounding a fifth, appeared to be targeting the NFL headquarters and had a note claiming he suffered from CTE, police sources told ABC News. 

CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is a brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head, often seen in military veterans and athletes, including football players, hockey players and boxers.

Shane Tamura drove across the country with a semiautomatic rifle and then carried out a mass shooting on Monday in the building that's home to the NFL's offices, officials said. He died by suicide in the building.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/midtown-shooting-suspect-left-note-mentioning-nfl-cte/story?id=124163966

HEY KIDS! Never Play Football - Injury is Not Fun - Remember: Pain is Nature's Way of Telling You Something's Wrong... 

There are PLENTY of Sports that Don't Involve Doing Harm to Your Body... Swimming, Running, Tennis, Surfing, Basketball, Baseball... 

Concussion leaves you LESS SMART... Damage to Your Spine Causes Chronic Pain When You Get Older... and Many People Become Addicted to Opioid Pain Killers Due to Endless Back Pain... 

I Wonder... 

Is Football is a Form of 

SELF HARM?

How to Deal with Self Harm... 

We all need healthy ways to cope with the hard stuff. We’re here to help you find a healthy alternative to self-harm.

https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/self-harm/#what-is-self-harm-1

Cutting and Self-Harm: Warning Signs and Treatment...

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/cutting-self-harm-signs-treatment

Suppose You are Pressured to Play Football by the Society You Live in... Remember: It's Possible to Think for Yourself and Question Authority... 

I was on the Football Team for Three days in 7th Grade... Once I Found Out that Practice Involved Great Pain I Quit... It Seemed Like an Insane Way to Spend my Afternoons... 

and Here we are 50 Years Later... and the Captain of the Football Team is a Cripple and He Rolls Around in a Wheelchair... While I'm Dancing!

If you are reading this in the Future... This post was Motivated because a Football Player got Injured and it was a BIG DEAL on all the TV News... 

Damar Hamlin in critical condition after collapse during Bengals game. Here's what we know... 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2023/01/03/damar-hamlin-suffers-serious-injury-during-buffalo-cincinnati-game/69771881007/

Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin remained in critical condition Tuesday after collapsing on the field during the Monday Night football showdown with the Bengals.

The game was officially suspended about an hour after the incident and about 30 minutes after Hamlin was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The NFL said Tuesday afternoon the game would not resume this week.

Medical center officials had not given an update on Hamlin's condition as of Tuesday afternoon, but the Bills said Tuesday afternoon Hamlin, 24, spent Monday night in the intensive care unit and remained in critical condition.

I Write a Lot of Emails to Employees at the EPA... Making Ecology Suggestions... Here is a Website Where You Can Find Thousands of Employee's Email Addresses... Including Andrew Wheeler... The Head of the Enable Polluters Agency...

It's Called The Staff Locator for the EPA... Just Type in Three Letters of A Person's Name and... BINGO! https://cfpub.epa.gov/locator/index.cfm

The Wonders of Capitalism: Monsanto, RoundUP and The EPA... "Somehow" the EPA has Concluded that RoundUP is Safe and Should Remain Legal and Yet... The Courts are Awarding Huge Fines for CANCER... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-wonders-of-capitalism-monsanto.html

Let's Close All Nuclear Power Plants. It's an Obviously Failed Technology... It's Super Expensive to Decommission... $9.2 Billion to Clean up SONGS and Diablo Canyon in California...

It Creates Atomic Waste that Remains Radioactive and Dangerous for Thousands of Years... AND... the Waste Has to Be GUARDED to Prevent Terrorists from Stealing It and Building a "Dirty Bomb." GO SOLAR, Wind, Hydro or BIOMASS... Imagine if all the People Employed in Nuclear Power GOT REAL JOBS WHERE THEY MADE WONDERFUL THINGS! Nuclear is a HUGE WASTE of Engineering Talent. Remember: The Best Place for a Fusion Reactor is 93 Million Miles From My Back Yard. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/08/lets-close-all-nuclear-power-plants-its.html

Bicycle Power Generator converts human fat into electricity. Simply Use an Exercise Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/01/bicycle-power-generator-converts-human.html

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...and on a different Subject... a Page from My Autobiography...Here are a Few Words About my Ancestors... READ MORE AT:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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Grandpa Malek worked as a carpenter (general contractor). He would build entire houses. Mom's family would live in the houses while they were being built and then move on to the next house when grandpa sold it. Our family house on Hedding Street in San Jose was built by grandpa. We had to move because it was under the flight path for airplanes to the San Jose Airport and the entire neighborhood became uninhabitable when JET airplanes were invented. We moved to Los Gatos and the house was put onto a truck and moved to Almaden. The house was valuable enough to justify moving it instead of simply tearing it down. Grandpa became a carpenter right after the 1906 earthquake. He was living in Oregon when the call went out for all able bodied men to go work rebuilding the city of San Francisco. He also built a house on "The 17 Mile Drive" a neighborhood of palatial mansions in Carmel. Mom, Dad and Grandpa built a Redwood Deck on the back of our house in Los Gatos in 1960. The deck is still there today. https://www.pebblebeach.com/17-mile-drive/

Grandpa Vanderlaan worked as a minister. During the 1930's the people that attended his Church had NO MONEY to put in the collection plate. Ministers feed their families with the money from the collection plate. Grandma, dad and uncle Marc went camping on the Trinity River because there was good fishing, hunting and NO RENT. Dad and Uncle Marc were very good at fishing and hunting during the 1930's because that was a major source of food. During the great Depression Grandpa came to the realization that God did not exist. So he quit his job with the Church and became a math teacher. He also was a founding member of the Humanist Society. It's an alternative to Christianity. My dad was an atheist until the day he died. My brother became a Unitarian and I became an Acid Head. Grandpa Vanderlaan wrote a book about Religion... I tried to read it a couple of times but got bored in the early chapters and never finished it.

We went to Christmas parties at Dorothy and Leland Lea's home in the hills behind Oakland. My cousin Gary and I would play guitars and sing. Gary also played the family piano and the drums in a rock band of his friends from high school. Leland had a huge collection of tiny liquor bottles. The size they give you on an airplane... Surprisingly, after Leland passed away Gary sold the collection to someone on the internet. Before he shipped them to the customer he emptied all the bottles and poured the booze down the sink. It's illegal to ship liquor across state lines but empty bottler are Legal...

Gary Lea taught me about the Visual Mantra he used to quit smoking tobacco. Whenever you had an urge to smoke, think of the O'Neil Surf Shop Logo and remember that if you don't smoke you will have a longer life and more opportunities to go surfing... Good Idea!

We went to Sacramento on Thanksgiving to Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg's home. They had two daughters, Robin and Jill. Uncle Marc became a criminal defense attorney in Sacramento and Aunt Peg was a Social Worker. Jill became a lawyer and moved to Seattle and Robin went to work at Uncle Marc's Law office. One time a client of Aunt Pegs did a Bank Robbery and was holding hostages. The police called her and said that the only person he felt comfortable talking to was his social worker... She negotiate the release of the hostages.

Autobiography: Some trips with my parents.

We went to Banff/Lake Louis and visited the Fabulous Canadian Railroad Hotel. Mom and I wandered all over and got stuck out on a balcony... Why would they have a door that automatically locks? After much beating, someone let us in. Dad and I went searching for Bigfoot. We had binoculars and we walked along the Lake trail looking for signs of life. We DID see a lot of Big Horned Sheep. Way up on rocky mountains they jump around... Dad had a thing for Big Horned Sheep... I don't know why. Maybe it was his astrological sign, Saggitarious. The old goat. On another trip we went to Victoria and the Buchart Gardens. Dad stood on the road on the north end of town and said... "Look, There is Alaska!" We had Formal TEA. Every business in Canada has a Photo of the Queen on the wall... Queen of ENGLAND...

We also visited the East Coast of the USA and saw the Mystic Connecticut Sea Port, Yale university (I bought a Yale Sweatshirt) and Quebec. Dad made a point of speaking French to the Waitress at a Restaurant. We went to Washington, DC and saw the Smithsonian Castle. Everyone separated and wandered around on our own. I explored the ground floor and saw everything and then I explored it again... and again... at the last minute, I noticed that there was a Second floor that i missed entirely! But it was too late to see it because we were leaving. I was very disappointed and then years later I vowed to look at every room in every building at the Smithsonian. I lived near DC for 12 years and COMPLETELY Saw the Public part of that Museum. A friend of mine worked there and she told me that there was 90% of the Museums objects are IN THE STOREROOMS and not visible to the Public. For some unknown reason I never asked her for a Behind the scenes tour... We did go for special traveling shows like Chippendale's Dollhouse... furnished with scale models of Chippendale Furniture... And I saw all the IMAX movies at the Air and Space including the Japanese 3D animated film "We are Born of Stars" - and I heard a GAMELAN Orchestra playing in the New Wing of the National Art Gallery. Indonesian Bells and marimbas... Very good echo in that I M PEI designed building... All marble with sharp angles. I also saw a Mirrored House that we walked inside and experienced the infinite reflections. The Hirshorn had a Sculpture Garden with Rodin Metal Doors with people exploding out of them. There was also an Andy Warhol Movie of a woman's face projected on a mannequin... so she was three dimensional... and she just made "faces" showing different moods and emotions... Buckminster Fuller had a show of Tensegrities. Large sculptures using shiny aluminum beams held together by stretched wires... they formed freestanding tall pyramids. Sigmund Freud's SON did some very disturbing paintings. They looked like what I see when I look in a mirror while high on LSD. I Guess he was naturally tripping all the time.

Dad took a two week vacation every year and we drove all over the West Camping at Parks. We saw all the classic places. Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Lassen, Zion, Glacier, Canadian Glacier, Grand Canyon... Cedar Breaks, Colorado. That was a very high elevation and My brother brought a air pressure gauge and he calculated the elevation using that Barometer. I guess there is some standard Math formula for determining Elevation... the air pressure gets weaker the higher you go until in outer space, it become zero... no air at all...

We went to the Seattle Worlds Fair and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle. Rode the Bubbleator to the World of Tomorrow exhibit. "Step to the Rear of the Sphere." said the guide... 

and Then 40 Years Later I Went to The Space Needle Again... ate Two Cannabis Cookies, Drank some Really Strong Coffee and Played the Musical Toys at The Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. EPIC!

READ MORE AT:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html