Just want to update friends, it's been an extraordinarily busy year, and I know I've been absent from this circle. I'm hoping that will change now that I've found new employment. I am Curriculum Coordinator for Maine Regional School Unit 16, which comprises Mechanic Falls, Minot, and Poland, ME. This is a great move and just the sort of thing I've been hoping for as I moved through my degree program and my autodiadactic GS studies.

How do you flap yourself? What does it have to do with 'general semantics'? Read my latest Korzybski Files blogpost to find out.

http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2009/04/korzybski-and-parable-of-flappers.html

Curious that on this date my mind turns to Korzybski. It was on this date 59 years ago that his life ended. For some reason I get around to remembering it every year.

I don’t hear much on this site and to be honest I’ve been busy too. When I retired I realized that I could answer the question: “What would you do if you could do anything you wanted to?” For the past year I’ve been thinking about an economy going pretty much where AK said it would: out of its mind. For some time before that I’ve… Continue

Google to reward those who do good

If you have an idea to make the world a better place, Google wants to hear about it, and - if it's deemed worthy - provide the money to
bring it to reality.

The $10 million project, introduced Wednesday, is a competition that will end with the Internet giant picking five winners. "These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple - but they need to have impact," Google said in a statement.

The criteria for picking the winners wi… Continue

On my Korzybski Files weblog I've got a new posting on a dramatic demonstration that Korzybski used in his seminars in the late 1940s. There's a neat video of a similar demo that I included. Jump to the link below to view it. http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2008/07/chain-reaction-dramatic-demonstration.html