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Where I been ...

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. Continue

Added by Gary Chapin on July 14, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

Flapping Yourself

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 Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on April 3, 2009 at 3:27pm — 2 Comments

1 March

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

Added by Bill Sharp on March 1, 2009 at 1:06pm — 3 Comments

Google Contest: Is There Something Here For You?

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

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on September 26, 2008 at 1:06pm — 3 Comments

Chain Reaction

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 Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on July 31, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Holtzman - On Vision and Art

I remember very well the influence Harry Holtzman had on changing my fundamental “visual habits” of perception (GS, summer seminars, Millbrook, 1948, and Great Barrington, 1949). He would draw a simple “straight line” with charcoal on a blank white piece of artist’s sketching paper, and then asked us to describe what we saw.

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Added by David Linwood on July 11, 2008 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Another nice quote from A Word A Day

I confess to getting many of my favorite quotes from A Word A Day, a wonderful daily ezine that does just what it says--sends a word a day, with definition, example and bonus quotes. I learned a few new words and word histories, but I would keep up the subscription for the quotes alone. The majority of the quotes seem to speak directly to my understanding of humanity, language and culture. Here's today's: No one means all he says, and yet very few say al… Continue

Added by Nora on June 16, 2008 at 12:50pm — No Comments

Wieviel Uhr ist es ?

I wanted to display analog clocks here so that I could easily know what times it is "over there". This Ning post does not seem to handle correctly the code I copied and pasted because I can only see the names of the towns I chose. By clicking on them it will still give you the time for the town in question...
From the site > http://24timezones.com/

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Added by l'm on June 9, 2008 at 4:00am — 1 Comment

μουσική Music Musik Musique Müzik Muziek Tónlist Música موسيقى 音乐音楽 музыка etc.

To me, one of the highest expression of human minds. (partly because it goes beyond verbal limits)
I will try here to make some of what I like to listen to, available to others (and to me). It seems to work out fine! And I suppose it complies with the music broadcast regulations, doesn't it? Bye the way, I edit this post as I asked Ning support team how it was working about uploaded mp3s
Hello, If I bought a cd and extracted some songs in mp3 do I have the right to put it… Continue

Added by l'm on June 9, 2008 at 2:00am — No Comments

What's Words Got to Do With It?

This morning I had a flurry of email exchanges with my friend and mentor, Ed Bailey, a psychiatrist, researcher and all-around clever guy. One of us happened to say the phrase above--I don't recall who said it first. A few minutes later, this appeared in my inbox. I think it's brilliant. What do you think? "What's Words Got To Do With It" You might understand That the sound of your words Makes my brain react That it’s only the thrill My brain meeting yours Words seem to attract It’s physical… Continue

Added by Nora on June 7, 2008 at 10:16pm — 3 Comments

Two new quotes today

I came across both of these just today and find them both quite succinct and astute, although completely different in sense and purpose: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924) They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.… Continue

Added by Nora on June 5, 2008 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Talkin' 'Bout MY Generation....

I learned a new word today, and saw a great video to drive the meaning home. In reverse order, here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY
If you can still see through through the tears streaming down your face, here's the word:
Zimmer, as in "zimmer frame". I think it might be largely a British term--at least, that's what all the links seem to point to. Here's a link to a picture of same:… Continue

Added by Nora on June 4, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The 13th Floor Elevators

They came out of the Texas inspired by Korzybski and L.S.D—one of the first of the psychedelic rock bands of the 1960s. They had a singer Roky Erickson, who had the vocal range of a Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger rolled-into-one. Tommy Hall, who—inspired by his study of Nietzsche, Gurdjieff, Korzybski, and others—wrote many of the lyrics, played an amplified jug (that strange rhythmical 'tooka-tooka-tooka' sound you can hear in the background). Here's a quote from the liner notes—th… Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on May 29, 2008 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Email notifications

I'm sending out the following announcement to about 100 GS friends today: I wanted to give you a quick update on what I've been doing this year, and to tell you about a couple of online resources you might want to check out. First, I continue to teach my GS course as an adjunct professor here at TCU in Fort Worth. I had 46 students this semester and had to significantly alter my teaching approach due to the large class. I incorporated more structure, more Powerpoint presentations, and used ove… Continue

Added by Steve Stockdale on May 29, 2008 at 11:44am — No Comments

Time-Binding Bound Too Tightly

Time-Binding Bound Too Tightly by David (Levine) Linwood I received the following piece from a former colleague, Professor Karla Foss, indicating when the “Bindings” might be a little too tight. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ “The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is four feet, eight-and-a-half inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they buil… Continue

Added by David Linwood on May 25, 2008 at 1:01pm — 12 Comments

Glimpse

Thought you all might find my non-Ning blog of interest: check out Glimpse. http://glimpse.blogspot.com/ I started it in part as an attempt to recreate some of the whimsical sense of the original Glimpse, a periodical published by the International Society for General Semantics back in the 80s. Jeremy Klein has told me several stories about the work he and Russ Joiner did to get issues out: manual paste up, xerox-reducing illustrations from uncopyrigh… Continue

Added by Nora on May 22, 2008 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Ben Jonson's Time-Binding Testament

Will Shakespeare's friend, Ben Jonson, knew a few things about human evaluating. Here's a quote from his essay ,"Discoveries Made on Man and Matter: "If in some things I dissent from others, whose wit, industry, diligence, and judgement, I look up at and admire, let me not therefore hear presently of ingratitude and rashness. For I thank those that have taught me, and ever will; but yet dare not think the scope of their labour and inquiry was to envy their posterity what they also could add and… Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on May 20, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

The Growing Outside

I recently got an email from Gary Chapin, gs-er and accordionist extraordinaire, asking about the changing of the ETC guard. After filling him in a bit on my experiences over the past couple of years, I suggested that those of us on the "growing outside" might get something together to carry on where we left off on the "inside". And sure enough, here's Steve, leading as always, with a New Idea for how we can get on with it. So let's get on with it! Continue

Added by Nora on May 19, 2008 at 6:59pm — 6 Comments

Robert Heinlein was at Summer 1949 Seminar in Great Barrington

HEINLEIN PHOTOS.doc Continue

Added by David Linwood on May 19, 2008 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Why Ning? (say it quickly)

I first heard about Ning.com on the Diane Rehm show on NPR last week. I had heard all about MySpace (had space there for awhile) and Facebook (Stacy's been after me to get a page there, and when some of my students this semester asked me why I wasn't on Facebook, I didn't know how to answer other than "because.") But one of the founders of Ning said they were hosting over 260,000 different social networks after just being in business less than f… Continue

Added by Steve Stockdale on May 18, 2008 at 5:14pm — 1 Comment

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