Why writing a blog is a very helpful thing to do.

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Clarity of thought, Finding a new house, Making important decisions

Our lives have been very stressful recently because we have been trying to buy a new house. Yesterday, my post, written in a Bend, Oregon motel, was about those stresses, and last night, after writing it, I woke up at 4AM and didn’t go back to sleep. It was time to make another life changing offer. Just three days ago we had gone through all the papers on our second attempt to purchase a house, that time in Grass Valley, California. It met most of our needs but at the last-minute I decided there were a couple of negative aspects about the property that would be difficult to live with and so I canceled out on the whole thing. That was stressful to me, and my spouse and the Realtor, but it had to be done. That was on Friday. On Saturday with another web search we discovered another promising place in Bend, Oregon, so after checking that the February weather had left the highways unusually dry, we contacted a Realtor and headed out on Sunday afternoon about 4PM for the eight-hour drive to Bend. We stayed overnight at Klamath Falls, Oregon and got out of bed early and up to Bend about 11:30 for our appointment. I must remain a bit vague on the details, about our house, for a couple of days but we were shown five houses that we had selected from a pre-sorted list made up by us and our realtor. One house in 139 SW 9th St. Redmond, OR called the Scott House was built-in 1917; it was really well built and nice in that older style.

 

The old Scott House in Redmond, Oregon is even cuter inside.

 

In Berkeley it would be a million dollar house, especially being on a large property with extra buildings, but it was in need of considerable maintenance, and we want to have an easy to live in situation. All the properties we looked at were larger than 2,000 square feet. We visited an even larger modern MacMansion box which was spacious and very plain, but that was in a tract and wasn’t to our liking, but it was worth the few minutes visiting, and I can see why they are popular.

I can’t write about what we decided to buy until the papers are accepted by the current owners, but we have made our third offer to buy a house, and this one is much better than any of the others that we have seen. This last four days has included a three-hour drive to see six houses, in Grass Valley, California, with an offer to buy one of them. An overnight change of mind. Another search and then a nine-hour drive to Bend, Oregon, a look at several more houses, two of them twice, and then an offer to buy one, which after a restless, almost sleepless night in a motel, required filling out numerous papers, and then another nine-hour drive home. Needless to say we are tired. My blogs have been short because my brain is otherwise occupied.

As it turned out yesterdays post was very helpful in centering my thoughts. Debbie was happy with each of the houses we had made offers on, and was beginning to feel frustrated at my over-thinking the problems. Having read yesterdays post she knew where I was having hesitancies. I was still dithering in the Realtors office while they were talking and trying to work up the papers, then I thought, “Would I be happier five years from now living in my present house and in my present situation or living in this new place?” Once I framed the problem in that way it was easy to make a clear and decisive decision. Almost certainly I would be much happier in this new house.

Writing a blog clarifies one’s thoughts and makes decisions easier.

House hunting becomes frustrating and stressful

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House hunthing, Over-thinking anxiety, Strategy for action

The more houses you look at hoping to find a home that speaks to you with the simple plea, Come live in me, the more the fatigue and anxiety builds and the mind is set spinning.

Finding a home may be easier for most people than it is for me because I over-think problems. My problem is that the more I try to foresee the real problems, the more ominous all the potential problems become, and then seeing  just how serious these problems may become I find even more spins on how those can become overwhelming. It is a process which feeds back on itself until a brain lock-up occurs.Perhaps this process is natural to most people and they avoid the problem by just closing their eyes and taking whatever life deals to them, and then just muddling through. That is probably a better life strategy than to think about a problem too long. It is closer to an ideal strategy of thinking about the problem just long enough to be certain of getting a workable answer and then lock on to that, and put your energy into making that work. Over-thinking any activity means that nothing ever gets done, because there are an infinite number of ways to move forward. For example, consider a chess game, where there are far too many moves to actually plan ahead about, and so the good player develops a strategy and then considers only a small number of moves into the future which conforms to that strategy. Perhaps that type of strategy is what one should use when looking for a new house with the hope of making it into a home.

Think until you have a workable answer, and then act decisively to make it work.

We’re off on a new house hunting adventure.

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House hunting

We have been trying to find a new house to make a home for months, and our range of opportunities has expanded greatly. However, here in the San Francisco Bay area the prices are very high and so we have expanded our search out to Carson City, Nevada, where we made an offer on a short sale. Unfortunately for us that fell through. Last week we made an offer on a house in Grass Valley, California, but on second thoughts I decided that it would be too much trouble living in the house we chose. It was great in so many ways, but it had a couple of things which I would have considered difficult and un-fixable, so by my new standard of walking away from any potential house that looks like it might not be easy to live with on every dimension. I was the one who cancelled out.

We feel the perfect house will automatically say, This is your home! loud and clear the moment we walk in.

That hasn’t happened yet, but we still have our hopes up. Somewhere out there, there are no doubt many places that would say that, but we need to find one and it needs to be available. I feel like the Mountie in that old movie with the song “The Indian Love Call.” A wistful searching in the wilderness for our future together.

Here I am, come and live with me.

Why humans will survive Doomsday and other species won’t.

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Animals lack forethought, Avoiding disasters, Doomsday forethought

Humans will cause Doomsday to fall upon the Earth, but of all the species they are the most likely of the larger animals to survive. The reasons are simple enough: 1. Humans are spread from the South Pole to the North Pole, which alone gives them a survival advantage when something really horrific comes along. Because of their diffusion, some of them will simply be somewhere else when the trouble comes along and will not get the full dose of Doomsday. All other creatures, down to microbe size, are not so diffused. 2. Humans who are not directly impacted immediately by the Doomsday events will have some warning and will be able to take measures to protect themselves. Many will of course be unlucky and get killed quickly or be unlucky and not be able to make sufficient preparations, or be unlucky and be too stupid to take any proper action even when given the necessary warnings and a chance to save themselves.

Icelandic volcanic eruption with horses grazing without noticing their peril.

Photo from abc.net.au. Of all creatures, only humans would look up for more than a few seconds at the danger an eruption of this magnitude would present. All but the most foolish of humans, when seeing this eruption in progress, would consider what actions they should be taking for the next few days.

Icelandic farmer leads his horses from the coming fallout of a volcanic eruption.

Volcano cattle are reluctant to be herded into a barn

Icelandic volcano-horses being led into a barn for their protection

Great photos from Boston.com. The animals do not perceive the danger of the ash clouds until they start breathing the dust, and so they must be protected by humans and their powers of forethought.

The eruption in the top picture would be equivalent in dust formation to a large H-bomb exploded at ground level and starting a city on fire. There are very approximately 30,000 of these weapons already ready to explode.

You’ve been warned. Wake up.

We try again to buy a new home.

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House hunting

Being terminally poor makes buying a new home as difficult as being a billionaire. When one is too poor there isn’t anything inhabitable, and when one is too rich there isn’t anything good enough to bother to inhabit. Today, our Realtor showed us a half-dozen houses which more or less matched our strange needs. The worst problem for the Realtor was my unwillingness to spend money. It seems that no one is willing to sell us a house for no money. I just can’t understand why people are so covetous of their possessions; it seems to be an inbred human flaw.

One place we looked at that was intriguing was what appeared to be an old mink farm. It cost “only” $64,000 and was in the deep woods near Grass Valley, California. It had a lot of strange character, which really appealed to my weirder “artistic” sensibilities; unfortunately, it also had a dead animal smell which grossly offended my more mundane ones.

One of the key factors in our home search was that it be easy to live in. That is an intentionally nebulous criterion, but it is a good guide, because when any of the infinite number of variable factors looks difficult in any way we can hold it up to that standard. Is it going to be easy to live with this thing for a long time? If it isn’t easy, just walk away.

One place we looked at was an older mansion. It was difficult to determine just how big it is because quite a bit of it wasn’t counted. It’s official living space was about 3,000 square feet, but there was another part of it that was almost as big, but which wasn’t counted as living space. That was good space but separate from the main area. It couldn’t be rented out because of recent rezoning and to enter it you had to go outdoors. This giant place had a big basement and a covered grade-level enclosed outdoors, and a huge yard. The problem for us or anyone else was basically, how are we going to cope with all this dry but somewhat challenged space? Also, it wasn’t walking distance to a grocery store, which seems to be one of our criteria.

When you look for really cheap housing that hasn’t been sold, there are going to be some really strange things about it. A nice comfortable, convenient, ready to live in place with all the amenities is going to cost real money, and like I said, I hate to spend money.

Spending money is a sin against Mother Nature!

Peddling Peril by David Albright – book review

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A-Bomb, Albert Einstein, Doomsday, George Tenet, Human immorality, human survival, Immorality of genius', Manhattan Project

This is another of my posts on how humanity has already entered the end-days sometimes called Doomsday. Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies – by David Albright (2010) documents the depths of human shortsightedness. Probably all of the individuals involved in this book would be considered geniuses at what they do, and yet all of them have willingly been compliant and even complicit in the coming destruction of humanity, including even the possibility that future humans can ever again live long and prosperous lives. Some of these people were worse than others, and perhaps A. Q. Khan gets the top prize for encouraging the inevitable future use of atomic weapons by his decades long support of nuclear proliferation. He single-handedly created the networks of nuclear weapons information flow that made it possible for anyone with enough money to develop these Weapons of Mass Destruction. George Tenet, Director of CIA (p. 247.5) said, “In the current marketplace, if you have a hundred-million dollars, you can be your own nuclear power.” And yet A.Q. Khan, the Prince of Future Destruction, when finally prosecuted, received only a few years of house arrest for punishment. He then lived in what most people would consider a paradise. He is now considered a great hero by many people, but these very people may be eventually killed in the atomic wars which Khan made more likely and more deadly.

It is strange, but those people who have succeeded in bringing these terrible weapons to us are universally revered and rewarded with money and prizes. Whereas those people who have generally fought against their creation and spread have been termed pacifists, traitors and worse, but have been generally ignored and called crazy. Although well researched and written, it is doubtful this book, Peddling Peril, will ever have a wide readership.

Albert Einstein gets in several exquisitely phrased quotes in this book and is revered as the greatest scientist to ever live. However, he is the person who sent the letter to US President Roosevelt that triggered the hugely expensive Manhattan Project. Without Einstein’s clout the first atomic bomb project might have been considered too problematic and too expensive to build. Perhaps now, seventy years later, with more advanced technology it would be developed, and much quicker too – or perhaps not. Now, even with the certainty that these weapons can be made and with most of the necessary materials purchasable off the commercial shelf, there are still relatively few. So it obviously is not an easy thing to do. Only about a dozen independent powers have been able to possess them. Furthermore, on the difficulty of creating these things, most of these successful bombs were clones of the stolen offshoots of the original ones created by Einstein’s team. The USSR stole the original plans from the US and then sold the plans to the Chinese who sold them to Pakistan who sold them to several others. Only the precise details of how to make the bombs efficient are now secret. With common knowledge and enough fissile material, even a crude bomb would destroy a city.

At the conclusion of the book, Einstein is quoted, (p. 254.9) “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” He was the one who set the whole process in motion and perhaps without him the bomb wouldn’t be here at all. Probably it would because, like the Americas, it would have been discovered eventually by people with the requisite technology. By the time of Christopher Columbus the necessary ships were readily available to sail the high seas quite easily and all that was necessary was the attempt. The same can be said about atomic weapons. If the technology we now possess in other fields was available to atomic weapons designers these weapons would become available in a few years. But perhaps the inherent dangers could be realized and successful methods for preventing their creation could be developed. Unfortunately, now it is too late, far too late and because of these highly vaunted scientists of the past we are now living over the precipice of Doomsday.

A few might survive to restart the deadly cycle, or possibly form a stable world, but it is near impossible in our present mind set to avoid the Doomsday events.

Humanity is presently enjoying the Doomsday precursors.

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Doomsday, human survival

It is a beautiful spring day here in Berkeley. We are basking in balmy weather while the rest of the US is blanketed in snow and wind and Egypt is roiling in an ongoing protest to oust their self-proclaimed President for Life. The people being interviewed on the news webcasts in these two locations all look well fed, strong and healthy as do those interviewed in Australian typhoon refuge shelters. Those are the desperate places today, but a month ago all those people were living pleasant lives and in a month almost all of them will probably be nearly back to their normal situations.

The compounding of the world’s real problems hasn’t quite been encountered, just yet. The worst problem is that things have been so good for people for the last 200 years that the population has gone from 1 billion to 7 billion people, while the farm-able land has changed very little except to grow thinner in most arable locations. Modern green revolution gets more out of the crops, and modern high powered equipment plows the soil deeper which gets at the older mineral-soil better, so there is more food coming out of the land. This unquestioned abundance is mostly powered by one-time-use minerals, coal, oil, gas and soil but those essentials are limited in supply, and when burned or washed away into the sea they  will be gone forever. Also, the burned fuels pollute the air with CO2. That gas is warming the atmosphere which is over-melting the glaciers into non-existence, which unfortunately billions of people in China and India need to grow their crops. They still supply the needed water, but when they are totally gone, which is within the life expectancy you people now living, there will be no replacement. It is inevitable that they will melt away, because the CO2 which is the cause of the warming and the melting is already in the air. Even if we were successful in reducing CO2 production to the pre-industrial levels of 1825, it wouldn’t make any difference. That year was the last time the Earth still digested the man-made CO2 back into its normal librating about the previous existing normal stable point.  So even if we instantly totally stopped pumping CO2 into the air the it’s going to get hotter, because as the glaciers and light-reflecting bright snow covering the polar regions melts it exposes more light-absorbing dark soil. It is impossible to prevent even if all humanity instantly stopped using fossil fuels and that wouldn’t happen unless all humanity was instantly eliminated. Which we all absolutely hope won’t happen either.

A Doomsday war might eliminate 99% of humanity and bring back the possibility of an ecological balance, but that would be associated with a massive use of atomic weapons. There the problems lie not so much with the huge but brief energy those weapons yield, but with the sterilizing radio active fallout and the vast fires which would be ignited, burning cities and forests, fires which will yield much more energy than the bombs themselves and unfortunately smoke and CO2. That really screws things up.

When the world famine hits because of the lack of water, land and oil-based power and fertilizer, there will be a major war. That war is inevitable because, when a group of people is faced with extinction from doing nothing but might be able to save itself with aggressive action they will choose war. Thus the ongoing population explosion and the absolute hostility all people have toward population control laws being created and enforced, means the already existing population overshoot makes the Doomsday war inevitable. Population controls would have to be done on a worldwide basis to be effective, as even a small group of free-breeding people could expand exponentially if given a chance. People hate the idea of a single world government as much as an enforced population control policy.

It is only a question of timing as to when Doomsday War begins. It is impossible to predict precisely but the first major food shortfall by China or India, or possibly Russia or Africa or anywhere where the people can not get food from the world market, will be a certain indicator of the nearing end. The first severe crisis from a food shortfall will be probably be alleviated by the world community, but it will be a clear indicator that the end is nigh. Theft of cargo ships on the high seas, not just for ransom money, but for the food being transported on the ships will indicate acute stress and nearness of the end times. Perhaps food-wars and their proxy water-wars will begin even before those types of hijackings. Food-wars will be an even more accurate predictor of imminent catastrophe. But, most people there is no need to worry about these things because we live in a world of obvious abundance, we are presently living in the wonderful part of the precursor times.

The Doomsday precursors are what makes modern life so wonderful. It is a life of apparent unlimited abundance for the future. That permits unlimited fecundity and resultant population explosion. The ease of building ever bigger machines and better methods of extracting ever poorer quality one-time-use minerals from the Earth temporarily sustain our glorious abundance and our huge population. Unfortunately we have already seriously overshot what the Earth can permanently sustain and the days of the Earth not readjusting itself to its previous balanced state are already manifesting. Modern technology will continue to make things even better in many ways, for a while, maybe for fifty years, but probably much less.

Enjoy yourself while you’re still in the pink.

My most popular posts list

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“You can’t cure stupid!” especially Detroit-stupid.		113,279
Home page		28,934
A solar powered refrigerator would be non-polluting and free to operate.		10,674
A Doomsday Chart comparing Doomsday Clock to pollution.		7,583
Google Earth – The new controls for zoom and horizon tilt.		7,308
The colonoscopy laxative drink made enjoyable.		6,671
Lifehaven – South Georgia Island		5,958
Lifehavens – Bouvet Island for a difficult to attack haven.		4,977
Colonoscopy – and how to enjoy drinking the foul tasting purging fluids.		4,862
Fayoum – The Egyptian mummy portraits restored somewhat.		4,709
Tunguska Event – Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the missing comet.		4,667
A cure for the common cold using 105° F baths.		4,432
Codex Gigas – The Devil’s Bible		3,949
Surviving heart attacks with aspirin taken immediately.		3,714
Swamp cooler air conditioner upgrade.		3,367
Jack the Ripper was Arthur Conan Doyle		3,311
How many modern people can the Earth sustain? 16 million!		3,138
Jack the Ripper suspects photos		2,930
Publish or die; or publish and kill. – How does one get noticed?		2,738
A Convenient Truth – lecture by Dan Reicher of Google.org		2,729
Migraine cure – an aura event appeared to respond to an ice pack and tapping.		2,658
How to stop broken ribs from hurting when you sneeze.		2,493
Norman Rockwell, an artful illustrator reviewed.		2,346
INDEX by subject.		2,294
Lifehaven – War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.		2,278
BMI (Body Mass Index) is replaced by BDI (Body Density Index)		2,168
What will be the Earth’s maximum population?		1,994
Lifehavens – Survival caves for humanity.		1,972
Imhotep was the first master of Doomsday.		1,856
Jack the Ripper pursued by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Watson		1,849
2012 — Doomsday the Mayan way.		1,767
Andrew Carnegie aims to maximize the benefits to humanity.		1,728
Probaway’s Person of the Year.		1,717
Probaway – Person of the year Nadya Suleman (Octomom)		1,647
100 Top Museums of the World – with links		1,642
Lifehavens for humanity. Survival alternatives with 1,000 people each.		1,640
Paul Ekman on understanding emotions and detecting suicide bombers.		1,536
Google Earth Street View comes visiting us today.		1,508
The Earth is two different planets.		1,499
Thomas Malthus influenced Charles Darwin and Wallace		1,464
Emotional Awareness: by Paul Ekman & Dalai Lama – review lecture		1,438
LIE TO ME, Paul Ekman		1,416
Solar powered air conditioning for cheap comfort.		1,352
The Doomsday Trilogy – Dr. Strangelove, On The Beach and FAIL SAFE.		1,329
Lake Tahoe vacation September 2008 reviewed		1,318
Lifehaven – Gough is a remote South Atlantic island but accessible.		1,298
Do you have trouble remembering faces?		1,246
Smell good be good – smell bad be bad – but why?		1,211
Lifehaven – Request to dock the ship Queen Mary in Tasmania.		1,193
Finding the Santa Barbara fire location using Google Earth		1,157
About		1,123
Christopher Columbus – Admiral of the Ocean Sea – book review		1,122
Lifehaven – Adams Island – A second chance for humankind.		1,121
William Collins – CO2 emissions, CO2 concentrations and climate.		1,112
Lifehaven – Antipodes Island is at the other end of the Earth.		1,111
Human evolution was controlled by emergent human women.		1,104
Poison Oak, Poison Ivy itching cured with hot air.		1,090
The easy paths to human maturity.		1,071
Two ways of surviving hospital induced infection.		1,047
A day at the Cafe Med. – A coffee shop in Berkeley.		1,026
Doomsday — ten years later. The worst extinction Earth ever experienced.		1,022
A FREE cure for a simple pimple.		988
How to lie successfully using the Stanislavsky technique.		974
Probaway Script – shorthand system is shown complete on a single page.		965
John Adams – The mini-series conclusion.		946
My Venterium circle of life in a square explained.		942
Dewey decimal system, Library of Congress LOC index and JulianA.		920
Great gas mileage, 51mpg, with a 1996 Corolla		912
Weapons of Mass Destruction – WMDs – atomic bombs – B-47s.		908
Aptera should exceed 250 passenger miles per gallon		905
Curtis Lemay — the real Doomsday prophet.		886
Population control – The most unpopular solution of all.		877
Measuring Catastrophe – How long do we have till Doomsday?		866
Global warming melts polar ice which floods Holland and California.		856
The cure for the common cold is six 102 degree fevers.		855
A migraine prodrome aura cure with a strange eye exercise.		826
The Gene Barrel distribution around the South Pole		825
Itching, itching and more itching!!! How to stop itiching???		824
Machiavelli – The Prince, Discourses and Doomsday inevitability.		751
Mnemonics – for remembering people’s names.		746
Antarctic gene barrels, the final refuge of civilization		710
Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake – locating the photos on GoogleEarth		707
Who will be the most hated person in history?		697
Amazon KINDLE-2 screen protective cover		694
How to revive cold-dead people by warming their heart		692
Paul Ehrlich – The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.		686
Doomsday, Armageddon, Apocalypse and Revelation		680
Darwin Awards are coming humanity’s way.		666
Cure the common cold with 102°F voluntary fevers.		660
Human population viewed in reverse as zero growth.		657
A TOP NEWS stories of 2010 list by news sources is pathetic.		644
Lifehavens – A secure shelter from natural disasters.		644
Michael Marks – The chairman of Flextronics and much much more.		623
“The Office” – Michael Scott desperately needs a girlfriend.		619
doomsday-clock		602
imhotep-louvre		601
Lifehaven – Pitt Island is a rich tourist’s end-of-the-world destination.		594
Another walk to the Med cafe.		578
Alfred Russel Wallace is the father of Darwinism		565
iRobot – The new creepy crawlies are not science fiction.		551
Dogs have important things to communicate.		544
Life found on Mars? Or, Mars life found on Earth?		534
Google Maps – Street view for Antarctica and finding meteorite concentrations.		519
Sun Tzu – Doomsday preparations.		515
Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580: The Secret Voyage of		514
New symbolism for a Sun based global economy.		505
Childish behavior is okay for children but very poor for older people.		501
Doomsday precursors and population crash.		494
Lamarck and pre-Darwinian species adaptation theory.		488
John Doyle Lee’s execution site.		482
I posted some Photos around El Cerrito BART station to Flicker.		477
How to survive frostbite to the fingers and toes		475
Survival, Survivalism, Lifehaven, Doomsday, Armageddon.		468
Learning from Extreme Events: Risk Perceptions after the Flood		465
Why are old people so stupid on computers?		460
Are distant galaxies being pulled away by old light?		450
Why didn’t American Indians have domesticated animals?		421
Why are white people so stupid?		417
Doomsday count-down clock replaced with a count-up clock.		414
Laurie’s quick-click home page.		410
Self-Consciousness and the Emergence of Good and Evil		410
A Maturity Quotient MQ-test to replace IQ-tests.		400
Lifehaven – The green zone of possible survival after an Atomic War.		395
Why was a missile launched from Los Angeles harbor?		394
Fainting, heart attack and G-forces are countered by contracting stomach muscles		389
William Shakespeare – The Chandos portrait restored.		389
Doomsday precursors — update.		378
Population cap with transferable reproductive rights		376
Global (Holistic) Thinking: how do we think abstractly?		371
The Metric System Contracted For Easy Use		369
The Story of Western Architecture – book review		367
Antarctica’s Gamburtsev mountains and the Earthark.		365
Happiness in Bhutan the world’s happiest country.		362
Salima Ikram – Egyptian animal mummies, past, present and future.		361
SanDisk founder Sanjay Mehrotra speaks at Berkeley.		360
Pain Scale for Intensity Measurement and Management		360
My personal camera history and some experiences.		359
The new Sherlock Holmes is frivolous fun.		355
SearchMe – Google – LiveSearch – PageBull – are my favorite search engines.		342
Cell phone icons and on-line human interactions.		342
N95 face mask upgraded for the flu sneeze		341
Bell’s palsy and how personal facial expressions affect one’s own emotion.		340
Lifehavens – A list of potential refuges for humanity’s survival.		339
Why is Jack the Ripper still famous?		330
Sun Tzu – Comments on Doomsday and the Lifehaven Strategy.		326
The Probaway single stroke shorthand system		323
The Pain Scale for measuring suffering and alleviation of suffering.		312
Flu shots might make you sick and save your life.		309
Coffee shop conversation control and manipulation techniques.		299
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman – book review with comments		299
Virginia Woolf – Portrait comparisons		298
Cramps— How to relax cramps with Capzasin and Quinine and stop the pain.		297
Storm clouds over Berkeley.		295
A new type of aircraft base for long distance aircraft deployments.		292
The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell – review		292
What would Cesar Millan the Dog Whisperer do about Doomsday?		291
Antarctica mountains considered for Eartharks		291
A320 Hudson River crash was unnecessary and risky.		289
Jack the Ripper had a chameleon personality.		287
Iatrogenic and nosocomial diseases can be limited.		287
Further observations on how to survive a famine.		284
Selection – Natural, Sexual, Artificial and Eveish		283
Nina Jablonski’s hairless human skin theory		283
Life after Doomsday? Maybe.		281
The coming human population crash is an unpopular topic.		278
Antarctica – possible Earthark storage sites		276
Glenn Eidemiller Jr. – A wonderful life in my memories.		262
Too few Olympic medals! We want more…!!!		261
Energy trends and technologies by Steven Koonin		261
Charles Darwin’s original idea !!!		258
Publicly burning the American Flag is a legal right here in America.		254
The TV series Hung finds sex symbols everywhere in Detroit		253
Great spherical monuments to Modern Architecture		250
Experiments with your eyes and brain #5		249
“Why you can’t cure stupid” even with Wikipedia		244
How to separate pages of paper.		240
How to pick up women.		233
How to eat chocolate cake, apple pie and other desserts.		232
The ten day diet plan – The easiest diet ever.		231
Bulls horn their way through deep time.		229
What is the ideal human population for maximizing happiness?		228
The real Sherlock Holmes was also Jack the Ripper.		223
Life adapts to poisonous arsenic in Mono Lake		222
How to get to an Earthark container in Central Antarctica		220
ChronoZoom is the coolest thing since GoogleEarth.		219
Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault – a review		218
Observations on how to survive a famine.		217
Afghanistan is the route from China to their OIL !		215
Plantar fasciitis – a pain in the foot.		214
Top Ten reasons not to worry about Doomsday.		213
Religion, Belief, and Politics – a scholar’s review		212
Dear Boss – Jack the Ripper		209
Jeremy Waldron—Legal theory revisited		206
Oil consumption collides with disaster		202
Human life on Earth in the year 7,000 CE.		200
Pandora’s Seed by Spencer Wells – review #2		198
‘The Great Delusion’ of endless economic growth		198
New Zealand is the modern Noah’s Ark, an Earth Ark.		198
Top 10 or Top 100 or TIME Person of the Year, says who?		197
REVENGE Rache! Rachel poster from Chicago Haymarket bombing.		196
Keyboard Space bar improvements.		196
The EMPATHIC Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin – review		195
Fun experiments with your eyes		192
Doctor doom and doctor gloom and now trying to doctor Doomsday.		191
Why are adolescents so stupid? I don’t mean low IQ I mean stupid.		190
Spider bites can be fun to watch.		190
Doomsday blasts and radioactive fallout will be in the Northern Hemisphere.		189
The Grief Cycle for Doomsday and how we will respond.		189
Mature behavior is helped by a higher IQ		188
Marin County Library book sale.		187
How to do a deep cough to clear inhaled food.		185
Lifehaven – South Pole		181
Lifehaven – Peter Island, Antarctica is not an easy choice for survival.		180
Surviving the Swine-flu, Bird-flu. 4 new ways.		179
The knowledge of Good and Evil		179
Hamlet not weak but powerfully conflicted and very sane.		177
A photograph of the Jack the Ripper in the victim’s eye.		177
The little finger on Adam Smith’s invisible hand.		175
The Clash of Civilizations – S P Huntington		175
Water saving – Drought threatens California and we need real reductions.		173
Dr. Strangelove: the movie was a morbid noir BOMB.		173
Oceans of Wind Power – An energy creation proposal using wind.		172
TIME – Person of the year 2009 – review		170
Some obvious flu preparations: masks on airplanes.		170
Potential Earthark sites in central Antarctica		170
Noteworthy people I have met.		168
How to speed up grocery store check out.		168
Dror Wahrman lectures on Evert Collier’s hidden codes.		168
Climate Change – How do we know what we know?		165
Famine is now here and coupled with A-bombs and ICBMs.		165
UNESCO – World Heritage Sites – with links		163
The best search engines and Wikipedia		163
Type 2 Diabetes – Causes and cures.		162
Google Earth upgrade improvements needed.		157
Prevent the common cold with capsaicin		155
Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and Vincent Van Gogh		154
A photograph of Charles Scamahorn		153
How to fix a leaking Delta faucet		153
Reducing the flu threat for everyone.		153
Stupid traffic signs cause auto accidents		153
Lifehavens for humanity. 10 survival caves with 1,000 people each.		152
How Adam Smith’s invisible hand might help us avoid Doomsday.		152
My treatment of today’s flu worked okay.		150
Population pendulum will soon swing to well below a billion people		149
Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 camera personal experiences.		148
Who will die when there is a major crop failure?		148
‘The Great Warming: Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations’ by Brian Fagan		147
How you can solve The Doomsday Equation		146
What do people really want – a Hummer or a Tata? ? ?		144
Automatic battery charging makes an all electric economy work.		143
Levels of consciousness? Is anyone or anything conscious?		141
Roosevelt, Oppenheimer, Air Force pilots and Plutonium manufacturers.		141
Sherlock Holmes was Jack the Ripper		137
Mexican flu, bird-flu, swine-flu human-flu deadly flu.		137
Reducing NOx pollution a little bit		136
Why are people good to each other?		135
Mars rocks on the cheap. Man on Mars? No need.		135
Air France Flight 447 crashed in the coffin corner?		134
The Future of Carbon Capture and Sequestration		133
Top 10 Tips on how to enjoy eating.		133
Carolyn Merchant lectures on scientific revolution and a new contract with nature.		132
What is the ultimate good for human behavior?		130
Glen Eidemiller of Tippecanoe		129
How to survive a heart attack by brain cooling.		127
Earthark Project – Sample Index Page		127
Cross-eye mind games versus religious mind games		126
Is a thousand year digital data storage possible using Pergamum?		125
A convertible sport car, coupe, minivan, pickup		125
Seasonal flu – infectivity, susceptibility, humidity, transmission, infections		124
Queen Tiye, Monotheism, Moses and the Hebrews		123
How ethical behavior can help us survive Doomsday.		122
Microsoft – HealthVault is for personalizable health control.		120
Similar function of animal bones in very different animals		118
Discovery, enthusiasm, delusion, denial, grief, acceptance and libration.		116
Robinson Crusoe Island is a fun Google Earth vacation spot.		116
Pandora’s Seed by Spencer Wells – review #1		116
Merapi kills Maridjan, the volcano’s famous guardian		115
Wind energy		114
Earth_North_Pole		114
The fake Drake Plate was created by Conan Doyle		113
How to fix your umbrella for next year’s rain.		113
“The future of energy: It’s closer than you think.”		112
The coming global disaster is in full speed ahead mode.		111
Sara Frucht – a good friend and a great artist.		111
“The Second Green Revolution,” by Frederick Kaufman – review		110
The Virtues of Mendacity by Martin Jay – lecture review		110
Bernie Madoff for President		109
El Cerrito BART bike trail.		109
Religion, magic, paranoia regain personal control.		109
Battery powered cars need a quick battery change.		107
Lifehaven – What to do about usual disasters and terrorism?		107
NEJM – Shattuck Lecture – Health of the Nation		106
Breaking Bad – Fly: or How to swat flies. review		106
Casablanca – Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart – book review		106
30 sit-ups, 16 push-ups, and posting photos to flickr.		102
Earthquakes in Nevada		99
Measuring disasters on a scale permits rational comparisons.		97
Intelligent Design — of humans by humans and for humans.		97
EarthArk logo symbol		96
Airbus A320 needlessly sinks in the Hudson River		96
Decision Points by George W. Bush – book review		96
The setpoint diet is easy.		95
The 11th Hour—This movie gives a false hope because it’s already the 13th hour.		95
Adam+Eve		94
Paul Ehrlich & Carl Sagan – The Cold and The Dark – review		94
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller review.		93
Top 10 search engines with a surprise!		93
No Blade Of Grass – After the disaster unfolds.		90
TIME – Person of the Year 2010 – final votes		90
Doomsday dawns when a nuclear state has a famine.		88
DMOC: Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control		88
An electric bicycle race isn’t cheating. If …		86
State Secrets: Russian Chemical Weapons – review		86
Fat, Fatter, Fattest! – The regulation of Energy Balance.		86
Estimating the interaction between Earth’s stressors.		85
“Jack the Ripper left no clues”?! Ha! Ha!		85
Modern architects don’t know what architecture is!		84
Too warm in the sun too cool in the shade.		84
A Wellbeing Scale for measuring healthy behavior.		84
View of Cal Berkeley Campus from the downtown penthouse.		83
Oceans of wind power are available for humanity’s use		83
iRobot and Mars rovers in the Antarctic		83
You can survive a heart attack with two aspirin taken instantly..		83
The rabbit Achilles finally catches Zeno’s tortoise		82
John Adams – The mini-series part 2.		82
The water table must be raised world wide.		82
Darwin follows Lamarck		81
One hundred million healthy people is probably ideal.		80
We live in a world run by professional liars.		80
Disaster – compare the magnitude of worldwide human disasters.		80
Lifehaven – Doomsday forecast — but not today thank you.		80
Recent Top 10 actors and best scenes.		79
Al Gore – “An Inconvenient Truth” ignored the real problems.		79
Some tinnitus noise might be cured with a self-controlled hiss.		79
Lifehaven – Pitt Island		78
Global Warming – the facts, the science and the scientists.		78
Humanity’s Genes and the Human Condition: past, present and future		77
Getting rid of old stuff is hard to do.		76
Roger Bacon was the prophet of science and Doomsday.		75
ViewSonic LCD monitor VX2835WM review and comparison to old CRT		75
How to achieve dominance in a coffee shop.		75
After Doomsday are there gods and angels or devils and demons?		75
Transcend: Nine Steps to living well forever – review		74
A cure for the bird-flu ! ?		74
Creating a secure password is solved at last		74
The human population explosion.		73
Estimating the total world population of humans – historical.		73
Temperature triggers biological responses.		73
A Doomsday scenario with a limited atomic war.		73
Founding a Billion Dollar Company by James Truchard		72
When something becomes easier to use it becomes more useful.		71
Combining the power of Google, Google Maps and published photos.		70
Funny times in the bathtub with a common cold.		69
Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Terrorism – Graham Allison – review		69
Craig Venter speaks at San Francisco Long Now Foundation.		69
GLOBAL WARNING – The Last Chance for Change.		67
Mars Rovers need help because they are covered in dust.		67
More FREE stuff. – What, if anything, is worth anything?		66
Lifehaven – How bad are the 15 Homeland Security Disasters?		66
Doomsday precursors, Doomsday event, Doomsday survival and Lifehavens		65
Fever kills cancer by triggering the body’s defences.		65
I am Apophenio! I see what others don’t!		65
How you can cure H1N1 flu – maybe.		65
A Big Bang clock’s time is based on a Ytterbium vibration count.		65
Paul Ehrlich – The Dominant Animal ! ! ! ! !		63
New uses for old rechargeable batteries.		62
How to build a Great Pyramid.		62
My new Samsung TL34HD versus my old Casio EX-Z1000		62
I overate today so tomorrow I must under-eat.		61
Worse than War by Daniel Goldhagen – book review		60
Darwin’s Darkest Hour is Wallace’s darkest hour.		60
Paul Atwood and the collapse of the American Empire		59
A perfect catastrophe is brewing for humanity		59
Robots — who love their masters.		58
Darwin’s questionable priority over Patrick Matthew.		58
Vint Cerf – Google VP and Chief Internet Evangelist		57
The Chevy Volt needs a quick swap battery to succeed.		57
Give away FREE stuff other people are selling.		57
Colonoscopy – I’ve been scoped.		57
The Drake Plate of Brass was made by Conan Doyle		56
Does science make belief in God obsolete?		56
Ecological groupthink is destroying the Earth.		56
Survival strategies: A list of successful survival methods.		56
Where are the coldest places in Antarctica?		56
Is this a Recluse spider and a recluse spider bite?		55
Comparing Freedom Fighters vs Terrorists and Republicans vs Democrats.		55
The Foul and the Fragrant: by Alain Corbin – review		55
How to convert the sun’s power into human power.		54
Why am I so unpopular?		54
A Time and Space warp for Christopher Columbus.		54
Armageddon Week – the deluge begins		54
Aspirin can save your life or kill you.		53
NEJM makes the flu policy confusion worse – review		52
Lifehaven – Maatsuyker Island, the balmiest Lifehaven.		52
So, you want to be famous.tv popped into my life.		52
How to control your emotions.		52
A Google Earth measurement tool is needed.		51
adam		51
The EarthArk Project Goals		50
Experiments with your eyes and brain #9		50
Coffee shop information control techniques.		50
Eve choosing Adam with a little help from her friends.		49
The Pope says God is responsible for the Big Bang		49
Boarding airplanes takes too long and here is the fix.		48
$20 Per Gallon: by Christopher Steiner – book review		48
Sudden global climate change has happened before.		48
Permanent Birth Control for women.		48
What will control the world for 10,000 years?		48
Obama Grand Junction poster controversy		48
Super-super-computers and climate modeling		47
How do we maximize our happiness?		47
Stephen Hawking on God, existence and our Universe		47
Probaway’s Person of the Year – Jimmy Wales		47
The Office – flu preparations – TV review S7 – E7		46
A Doomsday scenario limited to major combatants.		46
Ambrose Bierce, a lovable curmudgeon.		46
Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray – review		46
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas with Vera-Ellen.		46
Trustworthiness Scale measures the verifiability of information.		46
Reconstructing high quality audio from old recordings.		45
A spider bite photographed for two months		45
Permanent speed bumps replaced with reactive speed dents.		45
How to understand and predict people’s behavior.		45
santa_barbara_jesusita_fire		44
The easy life at Lake Tahoe.		44
Is Blu-ray dead? Yes and here’s why.		44
Phoenix sits on Mars		44
Earth’s resources are limited		44
New ideas are always rejected!		44
Changes in Climate Extremes:		44
Jack the Ripper was a consummate doer of evil.		44
Review – Your Inner Fish – by Neil Shubin		43
Last year’s “Ten Day Diet” was a great success.		43
Coolerado air-conditioner		43
Ensuring Digital Documents and a Wikipedia lecture.		43
1500 Human languages are great but one common language is essential.		42
A year of diets. The Probaway 10 day diet plan worked for me.		42
Probaway’s Person of the Year – TIME list		42
imhotep-djoser-pyramid		42
Restoring animal life to a ravaged Earth.		42
WIRED: Pleistocene Park – reviewed		42
Experiments with your eyes and brain #4		41
Give people of the future what they need to survive.		41
Artificial gravity for astronauts		41
The new rules of conversation in coffee-shops or at dinner.		41
To maximize happiness behave at your highest maturity level.		41
Ethics functions to promote species survival.		41
Why people don’t look at paintings in museums.		41
My goal is 100 billion happy people.		41
Al Gore – An Inconvenient Truth, revealed.		41
Charles Shaw recorked, a simple solution to my open wine bottle problem.		41
The most amazing map of our mother Earth.		41
An essential upgrade to the Four Human Freedoms		40
Saving humanity and the world includes saving books		40
Humanity’s “Laws of stability” in the year 7,000 CE.		40
How to improve the browser’s go-back function.		40
What We Know about Emotional Intelligence – Review		39
the really cool people – Andrew Hargadon, Jean Paul Jacob, Julien Decot		39
Earth_South_Pole		39
The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade – book review		39
Look both ways before walking across the street !		39
The murder rate in Berkeley is a reason to avoid that city.		39
Give your friends a healthy elbow greeting.		39
Isle of the Dead		38
Adam Smith was a primogenitor of Darwinism		38
How to lie, cheat and steal, falsify, prevaricate and observe		38
Airliner crash at Buffalo that shouldn’t have happened		38
Review – Dance of the Continents by John W. Harrington		37
Global Warming – Solutions for America.		36
Why discussing the Lifehaven project is so unpopular.		36
Doctor Doomsday says — Prepare now for the Black Swans are in the air.		36
santa_barbara_jesusita_fire_ge		36
Sleep with your heart attack aspirin handy.		36
RFID = Ubiquitous identification of you and your stuff.		36
Where the people aren’t on planet Earth?		35
Probaway – Person of the Year – Craig Venter		35
Humanity’s survival after a disaster of a billion deaths.		35
Humanity’s survival with a population of 100 million people.		35
Is Hans Van Ripper a model for Jack the Ripper?		35
How will people in a perfect society find a meaningful life?		35
TIME – Person of the Year 2010 analysis		35
Craig Mundie of Microsoft spoke of the future.		35
Wikipedia – how trustworthy is it?		35
Torino Scale of the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects (NEOs)		35
Earth_Central_Africa		34
Humanity is on a collision course with the obvious		34
Shakespeare_Chandos_7		34
Humanity’s appropriate response to extinction risk.		34
Megaprojects for the real future.		34
Climate – Air above, earth and water below.		34
Happiness is available for everyone.		34
A good relationship starts with honesty on the first date.		34
TIME person of the year – the pre-selection list.		34
Notes on Earthhaven, Lifehaven, Earth Ark		34
Mysterious product labeling of Ivory soap and Capsaicin		33
Artificial Intelligence as a precipitator of Doomsday.		33
Preying upon unfortunate helpless people is wicked.		33
Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona		33
Seawave energy gives electric power.		33

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