About me, Burt Webb:

I dropped out of college after a few years because they were interfering with my education. I decided that I needed to understand more about the world. I moved to Seattle and goofed off for a few years.

Then:

• Was in a rock band,
• did stage lighting and other event work,
• was part of a parapsychology research organization,
• helped run a clearing house for information on alternative energy, agriculture, community, etc
• helped to start the Evergreen Chapter of the World Future Society,
• had a radio show on the future on a alternate FM station,
• worked on a book on alternative energy,
• did special effects for one of the Star Trek movies,
• managed and remodeled rental properties,
• started a computer consulting business, 
• became involved with local activity in nanotechnology and virtual reality,
• got involved with a group of electronic musicians and computer artists
• went to work for a software development firm,
• worked on movie scripts with a friend in the film industry,
• gave lectures at local science fiction conventions
• became involved in local politics
• and a bunch of other stuff.

About the blog:

I usually try to tailor my conversation to the interests of my audience. The problem with starting this blog is that I don’t know who my audience will be. When I was invited to create this blog, I asked what I should write about. The response was that I should just write about what interests me. That covers a lot of territory. 

The first question that had to be answered was what the title should be. I finally settled on the Nexilist’s Notebook. The word “nexilist” is derived from “nexialist”, a neologism coined by a science fiction author named A.E. Van Vogt in 1950 novel called “The Voyage of the Space Beagle”. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Space_Beagle

He defined “nexialist” as “One skilled in the science of joining together in an orderly fashion the knowledge of one field of learning with that of other fields”. I changed the spelling because 1) I think his spelling is awkward, 2) I think my spelling is a better use of the root nexus with the usual “ist” ending of a practitioner such as “chem-ist”, 3) Nexialist was already in wide use and the domain names were taken.

I have been interested in interdisciplinary studies since I was a kid. So this blog will cover a wide variety of subjects including how everything is connected. Politics, society, psychology, technology, religion, myth, dreams, the arts, and winning at the game of life.

Welcome to my blog.