IP: computers and mushrooms..explained..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:33:00 -0800
> To: dave () farber net
> From: "Suzanne M. Johnson" <sjohnson () pobox com>
>
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> The Bay Area has a peculiar reverence for mushrooms. Under their gilled
> umbrellas, two of the region's most famous obsessions — eating and the
> outdoors — converge.
> ...clip
> Yet another strange Bay Area subculture, one that unites the area's
> computer culture and the mushroom geeks, was also out in force.
>
> The relationship between computers and fungi was explained by John Lennie,
> a retired computer scientist. "They both depend on lots of little things
> connected together," Mr. Lennie said.
>
> An Internet consultant who would not allow his name to be used because he
> illegally collected hallucinogenic mushrooms described the appeal as
> "eating and enlightenment."
> .....clip
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/national/25MUSH.html

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