Gordon Pask

24 Jan 2024 - 08 Sep 2025
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    • One of many odd figures in cybernetics . I met him once (via Ted Nelson) and he offered me a little pink pill which I assume was LSD. Unfortunately at the time I was pretty straight (this was when I was still in high school in Chicago) and so I flushed it.
    • Sometime during this period, Pask met George Spencer-Brown who became a lodger at the Pask family's home while working at Stafford Beer and Roger Eddison's operational research consultancy SIGMA (Science in General Management) via strong recommendation from Bertrand Russell. It was here where Spencer-Brown is said to have written his Laws of Form for long hours whilst inebriated in the Pask family's bathtub. According to Vanilla Beer, Stafford's daughter, Pask is purported to have claimed while reminiscing about Spencer-Brown's time at his and his wife's household, that "When [Spencer-Brown] bathed, it wasn't often. He used my gin, to wash in."