Gustav and the McCain, Obama and Bush responses.

There is an old saying:
Great disasters are great opportunities.
Let’s see what the politicians do with this about- to-happen disaster even before it strikes. There is plenty of time for everyone to prepare their responses and their speeches.

Hurricane Gustav

The colors of the chart have been reversed to show more clearly that the water temperature along [...]

A letter to the people of New Zealand.

Your island country is the most wonderful place in the world. This praise is spoken as if from from a distant time in the future because at that time you people in New Zealand will be looked upon as the saviors of humanity. The reasons are fairly direct and simple. In the long run, and [...]

The Holy Grail is your personal ladder to your personal heaven.

This holy grail gives you your personal ladder to Heaven.

© From Probaway 2005 by Charles Scamahorn
The wisdom of the Holy Grail has come down to modern times in a distorted way because what it referred to was intended to be esoteric knowledge known only to the initiated monks and therefore intentionally hidden from the unworthy [...]

‘The Great Delusion’ of endless economic growth

The chart above shows a food shortfall as a precursor to the Doomsday event. What has already happened is a decrease of oil production from its peak in 1980. It was upon oil which modern high tech civilization was founded and upon which it currently flourishes. The absolute oil production remains quite high and the [...]

A Google Earth measurement tool is needed.

Google Earth is the greatest thing on the internet next to X and Y and Z and I love it. However there are some suggestions, not fault finding mind you, but little improvements which would make it easier to use. When something is easier to use it becomes more useful. Some earlier suggestions on this [...]

Berkeley leads America in a downward spiral.

The last fifty years here in Berkeley, California have been dominated by a downward looking bunch of near sighted elite liberals. They have focused our attention not on the many wonderful and productive citizens of this city but on the many absolute human failures. The humanitarian urge to help our fellow human beings is strong [...]

1500 Human languages are great but one common language is essential.

The linguists are complaining that many of humanity’s 1500 extant languages are becoming rarer at an alarming rate and they are racing around frantically trying to capture them before they are extinct. It is like the days of Darwin and Wallace when they were running around collecting butterflies, beetles and other oddities so they [...]

Top 10 Tips on how to enjoy eating.

Consume foods slowly and breathe slowly out through your nose, as this gives the odors in the food a chance to get up to where you can smell them and that’s half the flavor of foods. See the blog on eating foul tasting medical stuff.
Drink in a variety of ways: Gulp some beverages like beer, [...]

Boarding airplanes takes too long and here is the fix.

Commercial airplanes could be filled up in half the time if the airlines were more rational about their boarding procedures. There are several ways this could be accomplished but the simplest way is to arrange people outside in the waiting room before they enter the airplane. This is already done to some extent by permitting [...]

The easy paths to human maturity.

Click for a bigger and better Probaway – Paths To Human Maturity Chart
Example sentence, 1 of 60 . . . . . . When the environment is pleasurably stressful then the immature person’s expressions of ego expansion are taking control of his environment by using the methods of a dreamer fantasizing self-worth by delusional [...]