Care and Feeding--Volume 1

Care and Feeding--Volume 2

 Afterthoughts Part 1

Afterthoughts Part 2 (photos and videos)  

Rejoice!  If these links are active, it either means I've finally died or, just maybe, I'm still kicking but in such an obscure place in the world that you will most probably never run into me on the fly.  Either way, you can now download the pdfs of my autobiography. As you can see, it's in two volumes (1200 pages were too many for a single book). I've made a few dozen hardbound copies for friends and alums which you, too, can have for free if you email me or my agent in time.  All I'll need from you is a place to send the books. In any case, I hope you enjoy the ride.  It certainly was a kick for me to write.

As a small addentum: In each of the hardbound books, I've included a short message. I won't be in the pdf's, so I'm including it here.

Four things to keep in mind:

1. As you read, you will notice that I am quite fascinated by the way things work underneath the surface.  Don’t be distracted by this.  If something doesn’t make immediate sense, just keep reading.
2. I’ve been keeping a secret all these years.  Nothing bad, but you’ll know it when you see it.  When you do, you may wonder why I haven’t done better.  All I can say is that I did the best I could.
3. Although the book is a comprehensive autobiography, it is not an ego trip.  Though anyone who wants to read it can, it was written at the request of and primarily for the E.Phil students I tended to over the first 25 years I taught at Poly.
4. I suspect what I have to say about computers and, by extension, AI, may be alarming in a very new way.

 

As for Afterthoughts, which you really shouldn't entertain until after you've read the autobiography, this is exactly what it implies, things I've written about and fun photos and videos I've stumbled across after the autobioghraphy was finished. I suspect this will change with time, but there is nothing wrong with that . . .

Eastern Philosophy for Western Minds; A Search for the Jewel in the Lotu 

The E.Phil book was written primarily for the Polytechnic students who took my eastern philosophy and eastern metaphysics activity from 1979 to the early 2000's. The activity was not intended to convince anyone that a particular philosophic view was better than any other (though it was presented from the perspective of an advocate). It was designed to build for the students a framework from which they might better understand some of the more non-western ideas that had come out of the east. It was, in other words, for people who knew very little about eastern precepts and thoughts. If you are on this page, you will hopefully be looking for the autobiography, but if you get done with that and want to see what Poly students were running into during that twenty-five year period I presented the class, this link will take you to that book.