Month: January 2006

The other day I attended a symposium in honour of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD. He is an alumni of the University of Zurich and just turned 100 years old. He looked like it was about 85.

Last night Anne & I were whomped 12-0 in foozball by a slightly overweight Swiss man who sported a fashionable too-tight sweater, tacky gold chain worn on the outside, a porn-star mustache, and an enormous mullet. He played the second half of the game with one hand behind his back.

Sometimes it’s fun to work in a chemistry department.

I just saw a woman walking down the hall holding a styrofoam box with blue smoke billowing from beneath the lid. Her gait said “I transport harmlessly smoking boxes all the time,” but the look on her face said “I better get these baby alien nodules back into stasis before they reanimate.”

Also, there are occasional explosions.