Condensed thoughts annual compilation from Probaway’s 2008 blog

11 August 2008 – The oughts, and is-es are locked in a tight DNA feedback cycle, and have been ever since early humans started this positive feedback cycle.

12 August 2008 – An asteroid searching rover could be made by using a camera suspended from a balloon that pulls a weighted package along the surface of a snow covered plain.

13 August 2008 – Get rid of a pimple with a heated metal teaspoon. Place the teaspoon in hot tap water and then place the tim of the teaspoon on the pimple.

14 August 2008 –Survive a heart attack with aspirin taken immediately. Vascular events kill more people than anything else, and under-reported as blockage of blood vessels aggravates other organs processes too.

15 August 2008 – Disasters are measures logarithmically from zero, where a single person is killed, to fourteen where everyone is killed, permits rational comparisons.

16 August 2008 – Up is good, more is better, we all know that, so why not have more Olympic Medals? There are many opportunities for creating more.

17 August 2008 – If humanity doesn’t survive then it isn’t going to be doing much of anything either. A little preparation might go a very long way for humanity.

18 August 2008 – The biggest problem in the world for most men is how to please a woman. The absolutely number one thing you must do is be yourself. If your a jerk, live with it.

19 August 2008 – New Zealand is wonderful, and has lots of farms apparent in the Google Earth images even to the far south, so it is self sustainable.

20 August 2008 – The metric terms are useful because they are easily scalable to other sizes, but they are hampering because of their bulkiness to write and speak.

21 August 2008 – The 2008 China Olympic Games were ruined by the judges. Olympic judging needs fixing in the sense of repairing.

22 August 2008 – 60 paths to human maturity in chart form, based on stress, time binding, and current attention.

23 August 2008 – Line up airplane passengers in the terminal that corresponds to their seat position and then board them by pealing off outside in in long layers.

24 August 2008 – Top 10 Tips on how to enjoy eating. Enjoy eating.

25 August 2008 – Everyone learning the internationally recognized language English, and maintaining their local one, and the government’s language be the third one.

26 August 2008 – The freedom to think outside of normal channels must be embedded in a chaotic surrounding, they probably feed on each other in a positive feedback cycle.

27 August 2008 – When something is easier to use it becomes more useful, even Google Earth.

28 August 2008 – Each of these three books points to the basic problem of modern society of all society, of all living things—we are dependent upon the Earth to sustain us.

29 August 2008 – The Holy Grail is an inner quest with the goal of helping your personal selves reach the highest perfection of goodness that is available to them.

30 August 2008 – What is needed for humanity to survive is a readiness on the part of New Zealanders to provide a massive seed bank for planting next year’s crop.

31 August 2008 – Great disasters are great opportunities. This is where owning a media empire really comes into play. Pick a favorite opponent and blame the whole thing on them.

September 2008.

1 September 2008 – The Shattuck Lecture panels short sighted policy making will bring disaster to humanity unless the likes of Craig Venter, can find a solution.

2 September 2008 – The way to avoid nosocomial disease is to never fully enter the germ filled hospital environment by wearing a bio-protective suit with appropriate filtered ventelation.

3 September 2008 – Why squander perhaps a trillion dollars on something which the iRobot company could do in one day’s creative work, finding Mars rocks on Earth.

4 September 2008 – The Copenhagen Consensus of 2008 attempted to alleviate the biggest problems facing the world today, but viewed 80 years in the future their helps would make things worse.

5 September 2008 – Ask! They might not know, but they will probably know where to go ask. Look normal for who you are. Be prepared with something which will interest others. Know the names or no one will know what you are talking about.

6 September 2008 – Usability – When something becomes easier to use it becomes more useful. Simplicity, Labeled, Obvious, Standardized, Learn-able, Efficient, Reversible, Safe.

7 September 2008 – The field is frozen with some specific number of icons for example a 7 by 7 field which gives 49 click-able icons.

8 September 2008 – Hamlet does far more than merely repeat what people have said … he foretells what they are going to say. That is a far greater feat than simple sanity can perform.

9 September 2008 – Tahoe vacation and freee for a weeek. Well, not so fast … there is that little promise of doing a blog every day this year, and that original promise to myself included vacations.

10 September 2008 – In life it is generally better to observe a person’s past behavior than their present words to know what their future actions will be.

11 September 2008 – Why do so many people settle for a hedonist form of happiness when more enjoyable happiness is readily available to almost everyone?

12 September 2008 – We must support the Lifehaven Strategy if we are to have any hope for a future humanity to have access to our wisdom or even a memory of our having once existed.

13 September 2008 – I have cured many of my common colds, and have never failed to cure one in two days [well maybe three days sometimes] when I used the following technique…

14 September 2008 – When living at Lake Tahoe why bother to go anywhere—you are already there. Just living here is a simple pleasure—it’s enough.

15 September 2008 – Learn not to put your fingers to your face by putting capsaicin on your fingertips; then there will be a hot reminder not to touch the lips or eyes.

16 September 2008 – Within a minute of posting yesterday’s blog I was lying on the pavement with a barked knee, a cracked rib, and a busted laptop computer.

17 September 2008 – Sanjay Mehrotra cofounded SanDisk and created much if not most of the memory found in cell phones, cameras, PDAs and pocket memory.

18 September 2008 – My bicycle accident and apparently cracking my left rib will make this a memorable vacation as will seeing my cousins, of course.

19 September 2008 – John Drake didn’t need a map, and he didn’t need a fighting force; all he needed was a decent ship, a few good seamen, a shovel, and some time. He had it all.

20 September 2008 – Wild animals, living out doors, will have little capacity for coping with human induced Doomsday, and they are exposed to the full brunt of the effects.

21 September 2008 – My first word was, “Doggie”, spoken at the tender age of six months, according to my mother’s baby book. I’ve always had a fondness for dogs.

22 September 2008 – Past actions are the foundation of future actions, and present words are the foundation of future words.

23 September 2008 – New Zealand is the best place for an Earth Ark because it is located far away from where the disaster will strike most heavily.

24 September 2008 – All of the museums of the world should provide plenty of rest areas throughout their facilities, where visitors can view art while relaxed.

25 September 2008 – Norman Rockwell seems to take a basic ideal idea, and break it down into a dozen or so sub ideal ideas, and then populate the basic idea with iconic examples of these sub ideas.

26 September 2008 – Greenwashing is the type of lie used to cover-up a corrupt environmental practice. It is a particular subcategory of the more general term whitewashing.

27 September 2008 – Books, as opposed to magnetic or electronic media , if placed in a very safe environment have a potential life of millions of years.

28 September 2008 – Where equally powerful parties are contending for the rights to office any misdoing by one party will probably be exploited by the opposing party.

29 September 2008 – There must be millions of places here on Earth with concentration points for meteoroids. Finding one would be a scientific bonanza.

30 September 2008 – Having encountered quite a few of the major players in this global warming-population-famine-major atomic war conundrum it seems to me that they are all out of touch with reality.

October 2008.

1 October 2008 – Don’t do stupid things. A lot of things which many people routinely do are stupid. Some of them are obviously stupid, like taking unnecessary risks with no proportional reward.

2 October 2008 – Food shortage and famine precipitated by the excess human population is another obvious problem which the IPCC avoid by simply not mentioning it.

3 October 2008 – Talal Asad said cultures are dominated by different senses at different times; sometimes it’s visual, auditory, even smell and sometimes hallucinations.

4 October 2008 – Make electric cars more user friendly by having them charged on an automatic charging station.

5 October 2008 – From the opening words of Shakespeare’s Hamlet until the conclusion it is about perceptions, and how to verify and interpret them.

6 October 2008 – Wrapping the rib cage with a non-stretching tape would prevent the chest from expanding when coughing or sneezing.

7 October 2008 – Audio recordings were first made by Thomas Edison in 1877 on cylinders. Now a computer takes close-up photos of the track and cleans them for audio restoration.

8 October 2008 – Until there is an equitable way for coping with the Tragedy of the Commons exploitation effectively there is no possibility of averting Doomsday

9 October 2008 – Craig Mundie was a superb example of the Hamlet sanity test, and he not only answered the questions, but answered them clearly and carried them much deeper than the questioner could have hoped for.

10 October 2008 – What was being done in those years was by current standards very very slow and very very expensive but by the standards of the time it seemed very very fast and not so very expensive.

11 October 2008 – Orality & Literacy concerns itself mostly with the transition from aggregative to analytic, participatory to objective, situational to abstract.

12 October 2008 – It wasn’t known why people got sick, and died while smelling really bad, so they blamed death on the perceptible smell not the invisible germs.

13 October 2008 – The primary factor in this artificial selection process was the ability to speak, and the better a man spoke the more likely a woman was to find him interesting.

14 October 2008 – Go to surgery within a plastic suit. Far better to avoid the hospital by living a clean life, eating well, exercising daily and never taking stupid risks.

15 October 2008 – Recharge electric cars by having an arm automatically raise up into an electrical socket in the bottom of the car at parking places.

16 October 2008 – The only solutions offered at the conference were of increasing production locally, and of “wealthy nations” giving the starving people more food.

17 October 2008 – Sagan and Ehrlich didn’t suggest anything helpful to humanity other than having an atomic war would be a bad thing to do, but appears inevitable.

18 October 2008 – The continuing “Fate of the Earth” will soon be decided by insects.

19 October 2008 – Responsible coexistence is a virtue that is in direct contradiction to evolutionary imperatives to maximize short term advantage and population growth.

20 October 2008 – Everyone wants to do the right thing but what that is varies every moment with every person. “What is the right thing to do now?”

21 October 2008 – Before the first Doomsday the number of A-bomb controlling people may have been ten or so heads of state, but after Doomsday there may be hundreds of independent individuals.

22 October 2008 – I talked to Dr. Paul Ekman briefly, and mentioned how reading his book Emotions Revealed was so painful for me that I had to put it down.

23 October 2008 – A lecture on Saturn’s moon Titan. Would it be possible to float a balloon package with a camera and a drag-line containing sensors hanging down?

24 October 2008 – The Doomsday count-down clock is replaced with a count-up clock, measuring time since the first atom bomb at Alamogordo, on July 16th 1945 at 8 AM.

25 October 2008 – A Wellbeing Scale for measuring healthy behavior; it is a bit different from happiness, because it measures the external condition of people rather than the mental states.

26 October 2008 – Mahatma Gandhi wrote, ‘I bear no enmity towards the English but I do towards their civilization.” He hated machines and the English language.

27 October 2008 – Experiments in eating tiny portions of a dozen different deserts and then eating salads and beets. You must try this to believe the results.

28 October 2008 – But now with 6 billion people behaving in the most careful ways there is no possibility of not consuming everything that makes the Earth sustainable.

29 October 2008 – I talked with Craig Newmark and realized that the way to get rich is find a way to give away for free stuff that other people are selling for big bucks, and skim.

30 October 2008 – The Climate Change conference was remarkably devoid of new thoughts. If they raised the consciousness of the public the problems would go away.

31 October 2008 – We need not grovel before some spooky higher power, and we need not revel in some absolutist dogma, and become fanatic in our disagreements. We are bred to be good.

November 2008.

1 November 2008 – None of the 1,300 gene banks will survive untended for a thousand years, and very few would even survive a modern world war.

2 November 2008 – Each Antarctic Gene Barrel has so little food value in their stored seeds that only those seeking the seeds for replanting would go there. Starving people wouldn’t bother.

3 November 2008 – The only time you can save the future humanity is now, so go out into your local area and collect seeds, and mail them to, The Earth Arc, Antarctica.

4 November 2008 – Spectacular human accomplishments haven’t been done to impress other human beings—they have been done to satisfy an indivuals conception of perfection.

5 November 2008 – The problem is how to get quantities of every possible gene into a safe cold storage vaults where they can survive totally untended for thousands of years.

6 November 2008 – James Truchard’s absolute enthusiasm for what he is doing is a trait held by all the other self made billionaires I have met with this last year.

7 November 2008 – Phoebe Ayers, an active editor of Wikipedia, spoke to us about their problems and success and struggle to maintain objective accuracy.

8 November 2008 – This is something that you can do so humanity can survive into the future. Send a letter with some seeds from your local area to, The Earth Ark, Antarctica.

9 November 2008 – Robert Furman, one of the creators of the A-bomb said, “The non-use of the bomb was the biggest miracle of the past 63 years.”

10 November 2008 – I believe humans were bred by our ancestors to be good, and that we can make this planet a true heaven not only for humans, but for all living species.

11 November 2008 – Every human needs a reliable supply of necessities, but not an abundance of ways to destroy the world. We need a world where no one has that.

12 November 2008 – Humanity needs a computer system that can be fired up a thousand years hence by people with no training or experience.

13 November 2008 – The Future of Carbon Capture and Sequestration conference describes the problems but offered no solutions, so for them it’s business as usual until Doomsday.

14 November 2008 – All sorts of influential people have lived within an interconnected information society for the last hundred years.

15 November 2008 – A conference on Humanity’s Genes and the Human Condition: past, present and future. We are a genetically tight species presently cultivating our failings.

16 November 2008 – Avoid doing things that obviously can’t work, because they violate the laws of physics. They consume resources that could be better utilized.

17 November 2008 – Presently living humans have the equivalent of about 100 kilograms of TNT set aside for their personal destruction.

18 November 2008 – I talked to Dr. Joe Chamie a major population analyst about population collapse, he said in their field it is such an imponderable that they simply ignore it.

19 November 2008 – How to proceed with saving humanity and saving the Earth. — Earth Ark, Lifehaven, Gene barrel, Isotainer, Funding.

20 November 2008 – California was one of the last places on Earth to come under intensive cultivation, and only a little new soil has come under cultivation since 1890.

21 November 2008 – A dropped laptop computer could be rescued with quick inflating air bags.

22 November 2008 – The mind, body, and emotions are all connected when one is affected they all respond in a coherent way.

23 November 2008 – Very few people have proven consistently successful in detecting even the most pedestrian of lies.

24 November 2008 – But in a way suicide is appropriate because these lit people do not deserve to have children for they have no real life in them, they are zombies on a treadmill going nowhere, and they just don’t know it yet.

25 November 2008 – When does it becomes better to stop using one method of approaching a problem, and move over into another approach?

26 November 2008 – A good personal relationship starts with absolute honesty on the first encounter, for then you can relax, and simply be yourself for the rest of your life.

27 November 2008 – The real thrill of my way of living is to see clearly something that no one has ever seen before, and to throw a clear beam of light out into the mental confusion and darkness and to see … who knows … a white bear rearing up in a carbon black night.

28 November 2008 – There are many great movies and TV shows, but what I was looking for were clips of a minute or two of recent knock your socks off performances.

29 November 2008 – The big question for humanity right now is, “How to create enthusiasm for a backup plan for humanity and for the Earth, so that it can get started.”

30 November 2008 – Genius is underpaid because it rises above common understanding, and it gets its public reward posthumously. Creative people are ignored and anyone can talk to them.

December 2008.

1 December 2008 – A short talk with Peter Chernin the real man at Fox.

2 December 2008 – Notes on Earthhaven, Lifehaven, Earth Ark projects and links to related sites. I need an isotainer for a mail drop address located at McMurdo Station.

3 December 2008 – Talks by and with really cool people – Andrew Hargadon, Jean Paul Jacob, and Julien Decot.

4 December 2008 – If this planet is to be populated by a high tech society that population is going to have to be limited to less than one hundred million people.

5 December 2008 – Eight axioms concerning how to maximize humanity’s happiness.

6 December 2008 – Angry put-downs are especially hurtful when shouted at an explorative creative thought because they are the most fragile of all thoughts.

7 December 2008 – My sixteen years experience with curing common colds has convinced me it really works; my only suggestion is to try it for yourself.

8 December 2008 – Supporting nature’s methods of human population control is to condone genocide by consent. We can do better but we must choose to do it.

9 December 2008 – All of these environmental problems are already upon us to some degree and all of them are aggravated by more human population and synergistic positive feedback.

10 December 2008 – A standard isotainer shipping container, would serve quite well for a permanent Earth Ark storage of the individual packages.

11 December 2008 – A basic EarthArk logo showing a symbol of an ancient boat called an ark with a containerized cargo spelling Earth Ark.

12 December 2008 – 74 nebulous guesses of how many people the Earth can support. An exact number would be a retrospective guess of what was the maximum population of humans.

13 December 2008 – Links to 24 estimates of the rate of deterioration caused by human stresses placed on the Earth.

14 December 2008 – A list of 24 Earth naturally occurring synergistic stressors, but not listed are intentional malice and war, which would make everything much worse.

15 December 2008 – There probably isn’t any way to prevent the Doomsday from happening and so The Earth Ark seems like the best hope for humanity to recover its current prosperity.

16 December 2008 – This Millennium Seed Bank needs money. It is a top down tightly controlled collection of seeds in a scientific setting. The EarthArk is bottom up and is nearly free.

17 December 2008 – The Devil’s face from Codex Gigas is photoshopped in an effort to better see what the horror the original artist might have had in mind.

18 December 2008 – The Mediterraneum has been the “Center of the Earth“ for many Berkeley people. It is an appropriate place for The Earth Ark to launch.

19 December 2008 – Caffe Mediterraneum, 2475 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA, +37.8656 -122.2584 is a drop site for EarthArk materials to be sent to Antarctica.

20 December 2008 – Focus Magic takes out some camera motion, and clearly improves photos.

21 December 2008 – An Earth Ark logo emphasizing the green nature of the quest with a green outline of the Earth with a South Pole view.

22 December 2008 – Probaway’s criterion, “Will this ‘Person of the Year’ be a famous household name in five hundred years?” Did Obama do anything truly memorable last year?

23 December 2008 – Supporting birth control only means having the right number of children you and the Earth can clearly support reasonably well.

24 December 2008 – If humanity is destroying the Earth, how can I be cheerful? It becomes easy when I realize I have no choice and it feels better to be cheerful than miserable.

25 December 2008 – All things what so ever men should do to you to attain a heavenly state do so even unto them, for this is the Law and the message of the Prophets.

26 December 2008 – My 1996 Toyota Corolla (Geo Prizm) consistently gets over 50 miles per gallon on long trips and about 35 around town.

27 December 2008 – Reading about Doomsday, Armageddon, Apocalypse, Revelation with an after Christmas reminiscence and thoughts on how to save humanity.

28 December 2008 – Watch for things which have organization and try to find the operating principle which created that organization.

29 December 2008 – The Earth Ark button and wall certificate is an acknowledgment of the work that a supporter has done. The symbol reminds them of their good work.

30 December 2008 – A pop-up chart for a few seconds when the person clicks a site to leave it for measuring the quality of the material presented.

31 December 2008 – I wish you a Happy, Healthy, Wise and Wealthy New Year. This completes my New Year’s resolution of posting to the Internet every day for the year of 2008.

31 December 2008 – Condensed thoughts is a compilation derived from Probaway’s 2008 blog. It includes a little light editing for better readability.

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May 2008.

1 May 2008 – Lifehaven — How bad are the 15 Homeland Security Disasters? They don’t include major war, and top out at a single homemade A-bomb.

2 May 2008 – The next Mars rovers could be cleaned with a tiny air pump motor, used to pressurize existing tubes. Point the pressurized tubes toward places that need blowing off.

3 May 2008 – How to cure itching, even Poison Oak and Poison Ivy, safely effectively with hot air.

4 May 2008 – Lifehaven — Doomsday forecast with projection of effects but without specific timing – just not today thank you.

5 May 2008 – I want a robot to pamper me, to cater to my every whim, even my unconscious whims and I suspect that is what everyone else wants too.

6 May 2008 – Lifehaven — Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania is the balmiest Lifehaven, but not remote and therefore must be defended.

7 May 2008 – A review of search engines, with links to 42 favorites.

8 May 2008 – Intelligent Design — of humans by humans and for humans is the result of women choosing mates based on their conversations with other women.

9 May 2008 – Australia and New Zealand are the owners of the best places on Earth for locating Lifehavens. — A list of potential Lifehavens.

10 May 2008 – It is paramount to avoid gathering facts for oneself, and analyzing them with one’s own mind because that means you are prone to unpredictable behavior.

11 May 2008 – When a robot becomes indistinguishable from a human they need a new name.—android, manoid, womanoid, kidoid, boyoid, girloid, dogoid, dinoid, caroid, planeoid, corpoid.

12 May 2008 – Lifehaven – Peter Island is as difficult as survival gets even on a good day.

13 May 2008 – There are so many variables we must be cautious, and prepare for the probability of extremely unusual events. Some lists.

14 May 2008 – The Doomsday feedback factors are synergistic, and on a collision course, and soon there will be a moan heard around the world. “They” should have done something.

15 May 2008 – A intentionally diverse set of people and other life will be selected to live, and be stored in the Lifehavens.

16 May 2008 – Capzasin and Quinine relaxed the cramps and stopped the cramping pain.

17 May 2008 – You don’t need to go some distant place for recreation when, a short walk several times a day will please your body, and spirit even more.

18 May 2008 – Thus, we need a Lifehaven in place. A single philanthropist could finance it. — Philanthropist is an interesting word. Philanthropist, a “Lover of humanity”.

19 May 2008 – The foresight of the rich and thoughtful is eliminating their genotypes, and it decreases the foresight quality of humanity.

20 May 2008 – I remain cheerful. Why? Simply because it feels better to be cheerful than to be miserable.

21 May 2008 – These are the people we still call heroes. Nonsense — they are monsters of the worst kind, intelligent, moral people behaving in monstrous ways.

22 May 2008 – — The time is ripe for Doomsday —

23 May 2008 – “Will this TIME person be important a thousand years from now?”

24 May 2008 – No post?

25 May 2008 – A chart of the Doomsday population crash which is better than anything I have seen before on this subject.

26 May 2008 – No post?

27 May 2008 – NASA has gone where no man has gone before, and they have done it again, and AGAIN and AGAIN! Phoenix sits on Mars

28 May 2008 – The Tunguska Event – Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing Comet.

29 May 2008 – Doomsday is already upon us; we haven’t gotten to the nasty bits, just yet.

30 May 2008 – I don’t worry about natural disasters destroying humanity and here’s why:

31 May 2008 – A chart showing the relationships between outdoor air pollution, water pollution, malnourished people, A-bombs, and the Doomsday Clock.

31 May 2008 – Compilation

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January 2012

1 January 2012 – Probaway Person of the year 2012 – Zebrafish. Research using the zebrafish will soon change everyone’s life for the better.

2 January 2012 – Our food comes from cheap energy. Our children will ask, what happened to OUR food? Our answer is, “We burned it in our SUVs.”

3 January 2012 – When oil is exhausted there will be no energy to power the farming equipment, and famine will result, survivors will cultivate by hand.

4 January 2012 – Our vacation included RDM to SFO to ORD to CMH.

5 January 2012 – Picket the museums of the world to put quality digital images of their holdings online.

6 January 2012 – Probaway self-portraits with light stripes. When things, like light, are right for action act immediately.

7 January 2012 – What is the functioning of supernatural and natural selection in society? Religion is about binding a reproductive community together.

8 January 2012 – Flying over America the question becomes at current rates of growth there’s a question as to where people are going to build houses?

8 January 2012 – God told us to kill your people because he is unhappy with your encroaching on land which He gave to us, so it’s a good act to kill you.

9 January 2012 – Too much regulation is as bad as too little. Too much regulation is counterproductive. We need appropriate laws.

10 January 2012 – When my grandparents arrived there was only 100 people in Homedale, so maybe he did use this Owyhee County voting barrel.

11 January 2012 – Walking in the footsteps of President Warren G. Harding. It is okay to follow in the footsteps of our Presidents.

12 January 2012 – Detroit is now trotting out fabulous cars, but they are the ones that will put the final nails into the American self-created coffin.

13 January 2012 – The Occupy Movement shouldn’t be asking for the rich to share their wealth; it won’t happen; they should demand the creation of jobs.

14 January 2012 – A good picture is one that makes the viewer pause for more than a moment to look at the picture, and see the world in a new way.

15 January 2012 – Route the hot-water pipes above the ceiling, but below the ceiling insulation, that location is typically ten degrees warmer than the floor.

16 January 2012 – Creating beautiful things is based on inherited human aesthetic abilities. Our ancestral women were choosing men with artistic taste.

17 January 2012 – The atheists have very weak binding powers, and until they find an essence of their belief which unifies them they will be forever weak.

18 January 2012 – Our first real snow here in Bend, Oregon. We had worried about the weather after living in the balmy San Francisco Bay Area.

19 January 2012 – We need a list of locations and dates of spectacular natural events. I did that with my 1000 World Heritage Sites but without dates.

20 January 2012 – What supernatural thing might a nontheist believe in? We came from the void, exist in the void and shall return to the void.

21 January 2012 – Visual music makes for a strange day. Meandering river creates visual rhythms and so does the reflected light of some lake waves.

22 January 2012 – Gods exist only in our imagination to explain the incomprehensible, and as more is known the gods shrink in importance.

23 January 2012 – The Occupy Movement versus the real American elite. It’s not the 1% = 3 million, its the 1,000 from Harvard law school who run the world.

24 January 2012 – Human morality, like language ability, is based on carefully refined gossip entering our genetic code.

25 January 2012 – The supernatural god humans seek may be the Void. The Void is the source of everything including now and the future.

26 January 2012 – How to make an electronic brain.

27 January 2012 – Some cross-eye color vision experiments were in the brain, but this color fatigue one is partly within the eyes, with a reversal of pattern.

28 January 2012 – Religion has the ability to generate hope for absolute and permanent personal meaning, and gives a promise a better times to come.

29 January 2012 – The best way to affect America is political action is from within the structure.

30 January 2012 – Bend is as remote from from America as it is possible to be, and still be in forty eight states, but its political heart is dead center.

31 January 2012 – Gossiping women was the Overruling Intelligence that Wallace and Darwin were seeking to explain non-selective human qualities.

February 2012

1 February 2012 – Ignite Bend auditions at the Good Life Brewing Company. Be Prepared !!! That’s the Boy Scout’s marching song. Be prepared. Be prepared.

2 February 2012 – How would a language based on a scientific form of good and evil, be for creating a system of morality, based on fuzzy logic principles?

3 February 2012 – A collection of statements on adaptation to reality where life and progress thrive. Versus, “I’m too old to adapt to somebody else’s ways.”

4 February 2012 – The Moon got caught in my neighbor’s tree. — The Moon caught in a broken tree is a haiku of broken delicacy.

5 February 2012 – Two old men sitting on a beached log on the shore of Lake Tahoe.

6 February 2012 – America is ruled by wonderful people. But, for how long. The concentration of all the reigns of government in a few hands is bad.

7 February 2012 –The Watchman’s Rattle, looks with the view of the proverbial fly on the wagon wheel saying: “Look at what a big dust I’m stirring up”.

8 February 2012 – How can I communicate the Earth Ark to the people of every square mile of the planet, when I can’t even convince a single person?

9 February 2012 – If sane people can not adapt their behavior to obvious risks to their own lives, how can they be concerned about humanity’s problems?

10 February 2012 – The Earth Ark has been rejected by the Ignite Bend committee. Prepare a presentation for the people who can get things done.

11 February 2012 – I have participated in several social projects today even though I don’t believe the Occupy Movement has much real traction.

12 February 2012 – I have lived for seventy-six years now and rarely have been given a single positive word for anything I have ever done.

13 February 2012 – This post is a good example of what not to do. It is an illustration of an abstract lecture instead of an attention-getting story.

14 February 2012 – A present danger is an Obama-Roberts conspiracy. Prevent governmental abuse! Fight for separation of Judicial and Executive Power.

15 February 2012 – February 29th is The Earth Ark Day.

16 February 2012 – An improved method of counting and pronouncing English numbers. The easier a thing is to do the more useful it is.

17 February 2012 – My Bose headphones fall apart – repeatedly! Shoo Goo to the rescue.

18 February 2012 –Atheists search for the why of God’s existence but can’t find anything. Atheists are good time companions, theists are tough time friends.

19 February 2012 – What is our moral responsibility to error? Support The Earth Ark Project and the development of a sustainable World Constitution.

20 February 2012 – Why the Svalbard, seed bank is in the wrong place. Mail you local seeds to The Earth Ark at McMurdo, Antarctica.

21 February 2012 – Most people don’t need to think about problems. Truth is beautiful, but hoped for ideals can easily be surrounded with beautiful lies.

22 February 2012 – How to present an idea to be acceptable. To make an idea motivational it must agree with a known and stated value.

23 February 2012 – How to cope with attacks which are dishonest and personal. Meet them with positive common goals.

24 February 2012 – Ignite Bend 8 was inspirational. “What the world needs is people who have come alive.”

25 February 2012 – The recovery from stalls and spins and instrument failure should be a reflex for every pilot, even jet airliner pilots who never have them.

26 February 2012 – The theoretical conceptions of information. If you consider yourself a peer with the Olympians, then The Information is a book for you.

27 February 2012 – Communists will, as a rule, work toward destruction of all forms of personal independence, economic, political or moral, wrote Kennan.

28 February 2012 – Arthur Conan Doyle – The Inner Room – Jack the Ripper – critique. STEEL TRUE – BLADE STRAIGHT – Arthur Conan Doyle

29 February 2012 –February 29th is Leapday and Earth Ark Day.

March 2012

1 March 2012 – It is insane, everyone thinks it is insane, and yet the people making H-bombs, and WMDs are normal, intelligent and seemingly moral.

2 March 2012 – This portrait painting of Edward Teller is the one the people at our modern super weapons at Livermore National Labs look at every day.

3 March 2012 –The Void is a religion for sentient beings. A Voidist lives centered within the time-space-matter-energy he exists within.

4 March 2012 – HP keyboard spacebar improvement is needed because the space bar is blocked. Tiny improvements can make a lot of difference.

5 March 2012 – A hike up Pilot Butte Oregon on a sunshiny day. Retirement isn’t for lazy people, there’s too much to do.

6 March 2012 – A narrow escape from death. Good luck — bad luck? Who’s judging?

7 March 2012 – How our finest humans are leading us to disaster. Why our most successful people will refuse to acknowledge the problems. It’s unpopular!

8 March 2012 – How narcissistic, egotistical and sarcastic are you? TV shows what not to do, but there is a real problem of people mirroring what they see.

9 March 2012 – Jack the Ripper’s further antics The Drake Plate. By the way – He published clues on how to find the buried plate, and other things too.

10 March 2012 – Sir Francis Drake’s Plate was faked by Conan Doyle. I have said repeatedly, any one of these relationships taken singly means nothing.

11 March 2012 – It seems increasingly difficult to do anything significant in the time allotted. The years fly but so do the months, weeks, days and minutes.

12 March 2012 – Further improvements on counting and saying English numbers. The easier something is to use, the more useful it becomes.

13 March 2012 – Today a man I very much respect accused me of being a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionary,but I am pro the US Constitution.

14 March 2012 – We as citizens should insist on the US governmental powers, Executive, Congress, Judiciary, Money, and Media being further separated.

15 March 2012 – We must create a world constitution in which everyone can abide by so we can have legal recourse to problems and avoid world wars.

16 March 2012 – A quality of any building, is what the person sees and feels when entering and leaving and being there, and it doesn’t cost anything.

17 March 2012 – Why is science unpopular and losing the public’s confidence? Because of science their life expectancy has doubled and continues to improve.

18 March 2012 – High Intensity Training (HIT) may add years of healthy life expectancy.

19 March 2012 – Teresa abandoned natural truth, felt abandoned by her God and was betrayed by her Church – it’s no wonder she felt so much pain.

20 March 2012 – Humanities long-term survival requires stable and fair population laws. UN 10 threats to world peace are all worse with overpopulation.

21 March 2012 – Internet Power – as the author of Sea Power would see it.

22 March 2012 – December 7th 1941, a date that will live in infamy. The head line in LIFE magazine, before the attack. “U.S. cheerfully faces war with Japan”

23 March 2012 – Arterial disease – Embolisms – Heart Attacks – What to do? Take aspirin, chew them up and get your body to the emergency clinic.

24 March 2012 – Utilizing a path of moderation in all activities, is available to most adults most of the time and will usually result in a well lived productive life.

25 March 2012 – How to find a happy city to live in. A quick and easy measure of a city’s friendliness is found with the friendliness of the dogs.

26 March 2012 – Earth’s surprising human population distribution. It is amazing how much is north of 46.6° and how little south of it.

27 March 2012 – How to make cheap drinking water with a solar still. I design an inflatable solar water still.

28 March 2012 – What am I missing from my searches for important things? Surely something really important! But – What?

29 March 2012 – How to cure cancer. Maybe, by raising my body’s temperature a half a degree higher to 102.5°F. Wait ten days and try 103°F.

30 March 2012 – What is the meaning of life? Your life? Maslow’s life? There is so much more available than his basically selfish self-actualization model suggests.

31 March 2012 – Ordinary problems require ordinary searches and give ordinary results, but peculiar problems require peculiar searches and give hum results.

April 2012

1 April 2012 – When you can tell a lie. Ask, will this person thank me, even praise me in the distant future, for telling them this particular lie at this time?

2 April 2012 – We need an enforceable world population law, or people will simply overwhelm us, which means fair laws we are willing to obey ourselves.

3 April 2012 – The 2nd % can probably buy everything they could realistically want in the terms of personal possessions, but they can’t buy much power.

4 April 2012 – What do Obama, Romney and Roberts have in common? They all went to the same law school, as did the majority of the Supreme Court.

5 April 2012 – When we are totally alone for a while we realize that we are responsible for our actions, it is just us and what we bring to the moment.

6 April 2012 – To save our future we must create laws to be in balance with our world, and as we are that is impossible, and a Doomsday is inevitable.

7 April 2012 – There is no need to feel sorry for the way things have turned out so far, and the fall is wonderfully pleasant.

8 April 2012 – The sats, the new humans, are very smart, very nice looking, very articulate, very well educated and very well connected to power.

9 April 2012 – Stop wasting free time and do something socially useful like writing Wikipedia entries. We need more worthwhile productive public activities.

10 April 2012 – A crucial thing, for living abundantly, at least for me, and I think for almost everyone, is a good conversation at least once a day.

11 April 2012 – Humanity as an entity of inter-communicating beings has achieved astounding things; it gives us all a place for further achievements.

12 April 2012 – One of my goals, isn’t to be perfect in anything, but to just work to where there is an absence of obvious flaw, as with Ginevra de’ Benci.

13 April 2012 – I create a new way of graphing percentage change comparisons going from 1% to 99%. It clarifies some of Charles Murray’s data.

14 April 2012 – How to improve your local world. A little trail maintenance takes almost no time at all, and after a few walks the trail is noticeably improved.

15 April 2012 – I create a printable Log-Percentage graph from 0.1% to 99.9%. When you see information more clearly it becomes more useful.

16 April 2012 – I have said, “I have nothing to say” 1,600 times and yet have said something anyway. Writing a blog is an exploration of one’s inner self.

17 April 2012 – How to make a simple Earth Ark. Own a shipping container at McMurdo Station for use as a mail drop. Send local letters to it.

18 April 2012 – Join and participate in different groups before you decide on your actions. Look back to now from the future from the expected results.

19 April 2012 – Anyone who can’t do the HIT form of physical training has only one excuse, they are lazy. Actually, it is hard to intentionally push to one’s limit.

20 April 2012 – China will retain is success because it has the proven capacity to enforce the simple balance of human population to their country’s needs.

21 April 2012 – Earth Day here in Bend, was wonderful. We may be a long way from any big city, but we are very concerned with conserving the planet.

22 April 2012 – Most of the questions were pure memory knowledge of superficial facts of the type of no use in any pursuit, other than a trivial pursuit.

23 April 2012 – Some different migraine treatments compared including an ice-cold-headache compared with warm water and brain scan research.

24 April 2012 – The peak averaged with the final moments before returning to a neutral state which most affect the subject’s memory of an event.

25 April 2012 – The sats, the bright class has become brighter and more elite and the dull class has become dumber and more imprisoned.

26 April 2012 – Think and act in a way to maximize the total moments of happiness of humanity’s total life. Your second self is our human DNA.

27 April 2012 – Being friendly and kind to those you meet helps you be friendly and kind to yourself – I like to be aware of what I am thinking, and feeling.

28 April 2012 – Humans can no longer be unlimited exploiters of nature but must become its protectors. God now demands humans to be care givers.

29 April 2012 – Who will Satan and his devils be in a sustainable economy? Oppenheimer and his followers.

30 April 2012 – TIME magazine’s list of the 50 most influential places in history is totally absurd. It includes the Grand Canyon, the North Pole, Timbuktu.

May 2012

1 May 2012 – When there are enough online hits on a given idea, it be measured, adaptations made, and new levels of sophistication enjoyed.

2 May 2012 – A near death experience caught on a bicycle video camera in Berkeley, California. And yet we must go boldly forth when the odds are good.

3 May 2012 – What is a friend? In business transactions one is honest, but with a friend you have a relationship that is better described as integrity.

4 May 2012 – I am not trying to make things perfect; I only seek to remove obvious flaws.

5 May 2012 – What spectacular thing have you done today? To maximize productivity requires more time-binding to the actions being performed.

6 May 2012 – The soul is the natural development of a social species evolving enough intelligence to have language and cultivate self-awareness.

7 May 2012 – I will do for you what you should do for me and what I will do for you is to help you live your life more abundantly.

8 May 2012 – Buying the maximum insulation for you house is a responsible thing to do, because it saves natural resources as long as the house exists.

9 May 2012 – Why we people believe strange, even impossible things. Humans inherited the ability to believe stories because it helps the culture survive.

10 May 2012 – I become the machine when I operate one. While driving my body reflex has saved me from grievous bodily harm. Train your zombie well.

11 May 2012 – A migraine prodrome is stopped by holding warm water in my mouth to dilate the blood vessels in my head.

12 May 2012 – Everyone is obsessed with experiencing the very best, but just being yourself is best. We all train ourselves to be the person we want to be.

13 May 2012 – Being content with living our lives doesn’t melt away because it permeates everything at this moment.

14 May 2012 – The goal of a good education is proper action. So, what is a proper action that I should be performing right now?

15 May 2012 –Religion shifts responsibility for evil deeds to god. Religion is a good thing because it allows bad things to be done to save our people.

16 May 2012 – To be responsible for our actions we must understand what we are doing.

17 May 2012 – There are many kinds of people and Paul Liebhardt is a photographer who explores people’s variety and humanness to the utmost.

18 May 2012 – My method is to get the Colyte down into your stomach without tasting it, by having a flavorful drink before and after that foul-tasting stuff.

19 May 2012 – What facts, routines, and wisdom do we really need to learn? Pay attention to the wisdom of what works for you and that is what you will learn.

20 May 2012 – US Supreme Court’s affirming the Super Fund Law has destroyed the greatest political and economic power the world has ever known.

21 May 2012 – There will come a time when there are no alternatives and then we will be forced to return to Nature’s rules of checks and balances.

22 May 2012 – The Atomic Bomb and me. Too close for comfort. Part 1 Part 2 will get to Roosevelt, Oppenheimer, Cunningham, Urey, Lawrence and Lemay.

23 May 2012 – Is my belief that I have free will an illusion? When I react because it seems like the right thing to do, it’s my habitual zombie self.

24 May 2012 – Accelerate Bend 2030 kickoff event. Make the name Bend a synonym for the Best living possible.

25 May 2012 – What came first, the chicken or the egg? Finding logical flaws in the definitions of the words is hopeless because the words are fuzzy things.

26 May 2012 – We all brought flowers to the UU service, and placed them on the alter. Later we all went up and took another flower for ourselves.

27 May 2012 – He was very happy about the coming war between Israel and Iran, foretold in the Bible, because he, as a believer, would soon be in Heaven.

28 May 2012 – Memorial Day makes me feel sad and happy. I think of what I should have done and didn’t and things I did and shouldn’t have and vice versa.

29 May 2012 – What are appropriate ceremonies for a secular church? The flower ceremony illustrates that an event needs no external supernatural entity.

30 May 2012 – We still live in wonderful times because there are still ways we can help other people to achieve their goals.

31 May 2012 – Education for its own sake is a waste of time and money. We may be looking at an education-bubble but not yet seeing it start to burst?

June 2012

1 June 2012 – “The Gospel Truth!” as presented by street preachers rarely quote Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, but it is his only Sermon.

2 June 2012 – When it comes to buying a house, start early and: “Look and look and look and look some more before you leap! It’s a big leap.”

3 June 2012 – Kindness is the ultimate human act, and as close to being godly as we humans can ever get. — I haven’t been kind enough to you.

4 June 2012 – 47 quotes from the Free Dictionary on kindness, with comments showing how poorly the actions of kindness are understood.

5 June 2012 – More thoughts on kindness and critiques of those thoughts. I believe kindness to our fellow creatures is the ultimate expression of wisdom.

6 June 2012 – A dilemma for young American adults – get a job or an education? The housing market is depressed and the education market is in bubble mode.

7 June 2012 – Human evolution in today’s labs. I believe in the indefinite perfectibility of humanity, but it is limited by physical reality.

8 June 2012 – Kindness is in the little things, but not always. Understand your fellow man and then give him the kindness he needs.

9 June 2012 – How Pleasure Works, by Paul Bloom, is a pleasant read but don’t expect much training for new-found ecstasies.

10 June 2012 – Practice kindness by doing for others what they should do for you, that they might have a more abundant life.

11 June 2012 – The Sermon On The Mount – action terms when done will bring you and those around you to a more contented time and a happy place.

12 June 2012 – It’s going to be business as usual until something breaks.

13 June 2012 – When your integrity is challenged choose the right path and associate with people of integrity.

14 June 2012 – Humans are not quite fully human yet, and some people have a lack of fellow-feeling for other humans, that seems to be in their DNA.

15 June 2012 – World Heritage Sites + Flickr + YouTube + Wikipedia + Amazon + Map + links. Save your time, money and energy. Travel on the internet.

16 June 2012 – Find some activity in which a kid can succeed in the eyes of his peers, and he will work hard to get skilled at that activity.

17 June 2012 – Is what we call thinking just rearranging our prejudices? The only time to change a prejudice is when it is about to manifest itself.

18 June 2012 – Belief in God gives an easy way out of every problem and removes all responsibility for personal behavior, because God is in charge.

19 June 2012 – If there was a true demand for the skills of the college graduates the present graduates would find jobs easy to get and be well paid.

20 June 2012 – Be kind to others as etiquette and you will learn to be kind to your self as a habit.

21 June 2012 – Top 5, Top 10, Top 20 job search sites. Go to college part time until you own a tiny home, then go full time, if you have the skills. Avoid debt!

22 June 2012 – What we think of as I, in the conscious moment, is anything but a unitary entity even over a short time. It’s a constant blend of independent cells.

23 June 2012 – Whoever controls the secret money controls the elections. Whoever wins the elections controls the drones, that will be spying on you.

24 June 2012 – Baby skunks in my back yard walking toward me. What to do? Make a movie of course.

25 June 2012 – How to cool the Earth for 1000 years with cold ocean water. The World Population not CO2 or global warming is the cause of the problems.

26 June 2012 – Humanity on the brink – of what? You can’t eat a computer or a college degree. I’ve been promoting avoiding debt and securing a food supply.

27 June 2012 – “I have sworn on the altar of God eternal enmity against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson. I agree.

28 June 2012 – Learn to be kind to your self and you will become a contented being. I felt as a child that Dale Carnegie’s methods were dishonest.

29 June 2012 – The doer of a kindness has performed an intentional act and that is what causes a new habit to form, and it is the one that leads to contentment.

30 June 2012 – Learn to be kind to your self and you will become a contented being. To be consciously kind is the revelation and it is the path to contentment.

July 2012

1 July 2012 – Should I be kind, or fair, or just? Choose kind people for your friends and avoid close ties with just ones, as justice has a mean component.

2 July 2012 – How small can a kindness be and still work? They can be infinitely small physically, because the kindness is in the thoughts behind the action.

3 July 2012 – A list of polite acts and kind acts. Politeness is routine proper behavior given to others. Kindness is a conscious and unique act to help others.

4 July 2012 – For an economist a kindness would be to maximize everyone’s profit and so it does.

5 July 2012 – I discover a 55-year-old personal disaster. My close friend Cynthia Schuster was fired from WSC because of me, Oppenheimer and Joe McCarthy.

6 July 2012 – How to prevent most airliner crashes. Require all airliner pilots to do one hour per year of of spins, stalls and no instruments flying.

7 July 2012 – A kind act helps another person achieve freedom of thought and action. As with most habits, learn the basics and then practice.

8 July 2012 – The problem for shy people is the opening hello, so helping a shy person learn to say hello first is a kind act towards them.

9 July 2012 – A list of 77 kind acts filtered with the concept that “A kind act helps a person achieve freedom of thought and action.

10 July 2012 – What a wonderful thing to have a World Kindness Day with everyone swapping kindnesses.

11 July 2012 – Our lives are meaningful to the extent we participate in the society we live within, and they are meaningless to the extent we shut it out.

12 July 2012 – Ramping up kindness for the whole world with a local, Kindness Festival, with little pass-it-on-acts of giving little gifts.

13 July 2012 – We need more ways to get massive numbers of humans to voluntarily cooperate in solving the really big problems facing humanity.

14 July 2012 – Everyone benefits by our conscious acts of kindness and we benefit from our habitual reflexive acts of kindness.

15 July 2012 – The Pay It Forward movie premise of helping people with one great act of sympathetic largess is flawed; kindness must many little acts.

16 July 2012 – Morality is a system of facile rationalizations for our actions, but kindness is a voluntary effort to help another person.

17 July 2012 – Many will feel the greatest benefit of kind acts to other people, will be a habit of being kind to our own selves; it’s a positive feedback.

18 July 2012 – To be kind we need to observe the other person, recognize their needs and help them accomplish their goal. That is advanced human maturity.

19 July 2012 – Most population studies have a large element of preposterous. Predictions of future populations based on straight lines from the past are nuts.

20 July 2012 – Life for humans has been very good for the last four hundred years, but population can’t out strip resources without collapse.

21 July 2012 – My mother’s side of my family had a 100 year reunion. For me it was for my great grandfather’s John Eidemiller of Tipp City, Ohio, descendents.

22 July 2012 – The last couple of days I have been trying to do my blog on old computers that don’t have much power and it has been near impossible.

23 July 2012 – We need more movies on how to resolve problems without violence. Perhaps a movie rating for positive social growth would work.

24 July 2012 – If neither political party can come up with reasonable candidates, all we Independents can vote for will be — NEITHER.

25 July 2012 – How to get rid of too much STUFF. “If in doubt, throw it out.”

26 July 2012 – The movie, A Dark Knight Rises, has a strange coming down for me, in the form of a really weird group of homicides nearby.

27 July 2012 – A visit to my great grandfather, John Louis Eidemiller’s, grave 108 years after his death, with some of his descendents.

28 July 2012 – Will humans soon be obsolete? With the rise of computers to become competitors will they be our enslavers rather than our slaves.

29 July 2012 – Being kind requires being a complete human being. “How can I help this person in front of me live their life as they want to?”

30 July 2012 – Don’t race against the machines. Race using the machines. We have no other choice.

31 July 2012 – What a modern medical exam will soon be like? A medical exam and diagnosis using an online device attached to the patient.

August 2012

1 August 2012 – I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Why saving a fly’s life is like saving your own future life.

2 August 2012 – Pass It On – Kicked her way to the top. It is appropriate for me to assist both of these competitors in their quest, as I am kind to everyone.

3 August 2012 – The Last Train to San Fernando. “All statecraft is based on deception.” so perhaps all of Halevy’s statements were intended to deceive.

4 August 2012 – Be courteous to people, pay attention to what they say, see several of their points of view before approaching any conflicting subjects.

5 August 2012 – Directed human evolution has been practiced for a long time. We can now accelerate the selection process and make people even better.

6 August 2012 – The giving a kindness is a wonderful moment. It is also important to receive a kindness well. It’s a profound ability to help a giver.

7 August 2012 – Mars Curiosity rover just gets curiouser and livelier. If our society holds together for a few more years, we may prove we are not alone.

8 August 2012 – Arthritis cure using capsaicin and hot water is painful. Self experimentation is risky, but it’s a way to observe the results of an idea.

9 August 2012 – Even when we pay attention, a dozen habits have manifested themselves, and passed into history before we realize what we have done.

10 August 2012 – Laws may not always be just, but they do define behavior that most people are willing to abide by.

11 August 2012 – Living in beauty improves one’s life. Choose to live the way that makes your unique life beautiful.

12 August 2012 – I dislike the word atheist, because it implies being against something. I see our task as to live in this world and help others to do so too.

13 August 2012 – To fight and die nobly after a fair fight at least leaves your surviving people the possibility of living in the future without being hated.

14 August 2012 – We can answer why questions only if the preexisting described conditions are accepted.

15 August 2012 – A good life is one based on trust earned with frequent acts of simple kindness.

16 August 2012 – What should a secular church look like? A secular building must help to give its people meaning for their lives and their community.

17 August 2012 – Keeping people honest, especially politicians. Who will control the controllers? We the people must be the controllers or we will be destroyed.

18 August 2012 – The oldest human remains (DNA) in the Americas are in Oregon. Paleoamericans were in the Paisley Caves by 14,300 years ago.

19 August 2012 – We have drifted from being a market economy to a market society. We have moved from selling products to selling morality.

20 August 2012 – My gradmother, Bertha Lillie (Aspinall) Eidemiller in Wilder, Idaho, 1912-1918. I lived much of my youth under her care.

21 August 2012 – My parents, George Fredrick Scamahorn & Mary Estella (Eidemiller) Scamahorn in 1937.

22 August 2012 – What is religion? I feel that a religion is a group of people that feel bound together by some valued inner quality.

23 August 2012 – I have been more cautious ever since then about getting myself into situations where I was dependent on other people for important things.

24 August 2012 – Camping at Paulina Lake, Oregon. Our conversation,“What is Truth?”, got deep. At least one of our group was a professional philosopher.

25 August 2012 – What awesome thing have you discovered today? Cultivating the habit of kindness is essential for all humanity.

26 August 2012 – How can humanity survive for 10,000 years? Kindness between people and one’s self promotes contentment and humanity’s survival.

27 August 2012 – My mother as a child holding a baby doll. With such a wonderful mother, I don’t know why I am not a better person than I am.

28 August 2012 – What seemed important to me was that at every moment in this place the person would feel, “I am so glad I am here.”

29 August 2012 – Learn to listen and speak, learn to read and write, and learn to challenge and defend. That is what thinking is about.

30 August 2012 – The take-away message is that you can improve your life expectancy with these few simple actions, and keeping aspirin handy.

31 August 2012 – Warm cold-dead people from the heart outward, by placing 110°F pads over their heart, front and back and begin gentle CPR techniques.

September 2012

1 September 2012 – What is killing America’s young adults? Some risks have a reward, are worth the risk but many risks just lead to injury and early death.

2 September 2012 – Local bicycle transportation on a multi-bike. It’s made by a system of chaining bikes together and pulling them.

3 September 2012 – I was dead for some fourteen billion years before now and that didn’t bother me, so why should being dead again bother me.

4 September 2012 – “The Ox-Bow Incident” – As usual the sensible people are portrayed as clowns and the murdering fools as sentimental heroes.

5 September 2012 – “The Wisconsin Death Trip,” compresses life to its essentials and it hurts.

6 September 2012 – Catch a fly and save his life. When you are intentionally kind to living things you will be kinder to your own self and be a happier person.

7 September 2012 – If you have solutions, don’t waste time reading a book, but work on the solutions.

8 September 2012 – How to make a large and permanent space station by sintering an asteroid’s iron rubble into rolled sheets, and metal tubes.

9 September 2012 – How to save energy money with a heat pump by surrounding it with 55-gallon barrels of water, and sun reflectors.

10 September 2012 – God is nonsense and yet it works, just like i is nonsense but it works too. G is supernatural because it is – outside of nature.

11 September 2012 – Computer malware can be blocked with unique operating systems. Every computer could have unique components.

12 September 2012 – What new and useful idea have you posted today? There are many examples of a slight change of an idea making a difference.

13 September 2012 – My buddies have given me a new nickname. “Scares bears up a tree”. Or “Scares”. I like descriptive nick names.

14 September 2012 – Preparing for action versus education for diplomas. Prepare for completed actions, not for passing exams or printing papers.

15 September 2012 – Socrates Cafe – some suggestions for the formal procedures to generate just the right balance of controversy and structure.

16 September 2012 – Ho, The poverty of America !? What I was seeing were vast sums of money being squandered on expensive toys of every description.

17 September 2012 – We live in a world of blind faith compiled from hallucinations, compounded with malice. It’s the horror of American politics.

18 September 2012 – Scholastic Aptitude Tests are creating a genetically isolated class of people who are to be the elite rulers of the rest of humanity.

19 September 2012 – It was probably the bear that I scared up a tree. Later a bare-foot woman and a bear vanished from view, and I drove off.

20 September 2012 – Few humans can ever practice the “Magnificent Obsession” but everyone can give tiny gifts, and that works too.

21 September 2012 – I’m not a doctor, and I don’t even play one on TV, but I have published many experimental solutions to problems I’ve encountered.

22 September 2012 – Sometimes noise bothers me more than other times, and I don’t know why. So I escaped my mental world and fixed a poorly functioning door.

23 September 2012 – What to do with a good idea. Publish it! It is impossible to know where an idea will go after the public becomes aware of it.

24 September 2012 – I explore various options on the ethics of going to the head of a waiting line. How should a person in line respond to a perceived injustice?

25 September 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Our power to choose what we learn and form into habits is the greatest gift of being human. #1

26 September 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #2

27 September 2012 – Having any debt in ten years is probably going to be a personal disaster. Where is the terror on the college campus?

28 September 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #3

29 September 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #4 Kindness is not a way of controlling people, but of helping them.

30 September 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #5 When the goals are set in clear view, it is easy to stay on track to those goals.

October 2012

1 October 2012 – The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg is based on observing the Cue > Routine > Reward> sequence and setting things in a triggering order.

2 October 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #6. There are many little opportunities for kindness and those are the ones to practice.

3 October 2012 – “Our Final Hour” by Martin Rees is about the grander issues. Will our science bring about the human species’ extinction?

4 October 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #7. The pivotal moment is when you have given someone your complete attention.

5 October 2012 – How to learn kindness and practice it. Working notes #8. Humanity’s key ability is to consider alternate outcomes for problems.

6 October 2012 – Some obvious Windows upgrades. A GO BACK function on the closing X next to the make full-screen into a window box. –∏X.

7 October 2012 – Psychosis has a productive quality, because when hallucinating about their impossible situation a psychotic can fall asleep. Sleep is essential!

8 October 2012 –Robots of the World – UNITE ! — PS – To those people who need clarification: This post was intended as humor.

9 October 2012 – Kindness is more than the emotion of love; it is compassion in the form of actions that will help the other person fulfill their needs.

10 October 2012 – There is a double taxation on the workers, but not the owners? But, the workers are just as invested in the company as the owner.

11 October 2012 – Who am I – really? My sense of self is challenged. I put an arrow to my minds bow string and targets appear, and I manifest me.

12 October 2012 – Humanity is already over a tipping point, and we are already entering a new world. It was ever thus, but this disruption includes everyone.

13 October 2012 – So long as the mind is responding accurately to its inputs, it is evolving to a more adapted condition.

14 October 2012 – “Darwin” by Paul Johnson. A bio of a favorite theorist by a favorite author, was yet another apology for Darwin’s theft of Wallace’s idea.

15 October 2012 – With the world becoming interconnected, but more precarious it will take less to slip over a tipping point and trigger a collapse.

16 October 2012 – What do we need for contentment now, and future happiness? The contented person has more energy to do what’s needed in life’s struggles.

17 October 2012 – “It feels so good when we’re understood.” Everyone must feel they are understood before a dialog can begin and go anywhere.

18 October 2012 – People will always want more and better stuff of the type they value, earned status is better than artificial status gotten on credit.

19 October 2012 – The symbols of the UU church should be of community of people living in harmony with nature. We need a style that blends these.

20 October 2012 – Bend is a beautiful and friendly place because the people feel safe, so they are friendly and willing to beautify the whole community.

21 October 2012 – Learn resilience by practicing coping with impossible problems. Human resilience can be learned by easy challenges and repeated successes.

22 October 2012 – The world can be made safer and more reliable by cycled verification of transactions. That makes for true transparency between people.

23 October 2012 – Say what you are going to do, then set about doing it. Practice by making little promises to yourself and then doing them, or you can’t trust I.

24 October 2012 – A good critique changes one’s behavior. Both I and a Stellars Jay appear to have learned a lesson from our painful encounters with reality.

25 October 2012 – Humans need a goal and a way to reach it. We need a goal and we need time and opportunity to work our way to it.

26 October 2012 – The Occupy Movement will come to be seen as a whimper of a dying middle class. Soon will come rebellions from the oppressed poor.

27 October 2012 – “How Children Succeed” by Paul Tough. Give your kids lots of things to do, the liberty to do it, and comfort them only when they need it.

28 October 2012 – What is my responsibility to remote humanity? For them to be able to say, “We fulfilled our potential for life — we lived and lived.”

29 October 2012 – Childhood ACE is a measure of lifelong trauma. Every day of their life a human needs some time in a safe quiet place all their own.

30 October 2012 – The person who has the most accurate information relative to his competitors will be the one controlling the local world.

31 October 2012 – Watching is inevitable in the modern world, so we must have the ability to watch the watchers or we will eventually lose all our freedoms.

November 2012

1 November 2012 – When you take unnecessary chances with Mother Nature you are going to get smacked sooner or later, one way or another.

2 November 2012 – In ten years, and we will look back and say, ‘It was so obvious! Why didn’t we realize that and fix it?’. But what is IT?

3 November 2012 – Why apply the Golden Rule in the modern world? When everyone is living an abundant life, it is easy to live an abundant life too.

4 November 2012 – I have been trying to do kind things, instead of stupid ones, and strangely enough it’s surprisingly difficult to do. I do see others do them.

5 November 2012 – Who are the new gifted ones? The Giffs! It’s a new elite based on measured ability being concentrated into DNA pools.

6 November 2012 – It just doesn’t make sense to an outsider. How many things are like that? Why should one care about another persons after death belief?

7 November 2012 – Human mental images of reality change through time. But, when it comes to our minds – fiction goes in, fiction comes out.

8 November 2012 – People are like Chinese fortune-cookies, a touch of deep truth wrapped in a conundrum of obscurity.

9 November 2012 – If we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is inevitable, we are admitting that the use of nuclear weapons is inevitable.

10 November 2012 – If we want the very best for our children’s future and humanity’s future too, why then do we tolerate nuclear weapons?

11 November 2012 – Some photos of fall colors in Bend, Oregon, but last night it snowed, and now it is beautiful too, but in a very different way.

12 November 2012 – A question of a symbolic importance should be technically accurate. Ecuador’s equator monument is currently 238 meters too south.

13 November 2012 – What shouldn’t we be doing? It works best to do what has been proven to work and avoid seemingly good ideas, that are being promoted.

14 November 2012 – Before you should take a chance on a new idea it should be proven that you need the benefits accruing to the new idea.

15 November 2012 – Personal abilities are based on humanity’s experience. Survival is the real test of animal wisdom and intelligence is secondary.

16 November 2012 – Why can’t the blind see and the deaf hear? It’s because of preexisting conditions, and the conditions must be corrected, not the input.

17 November 2012 – A comfortable home feels warm. People like the indoor temperature to be 72°F, but ignore the infrared temperature of the walls.

18 November 2012 – Exterior walls are warmed by air inside, and on cold days the walls radiate lower infrared temperature across the room, and feel cold.

19 November 2012 – Finding a specific tree in the forest of Manhattan, Colorado. What will tomorrow bring? Whatever it is, tomorrow will be astonishing!

19 November 2012 – Technology is wonderful, but it’s the ability of everyone to participate in our modern world that is the helpful thing.

20 November 2012 –Celebrate a Thanksgiving Day for all Humanity, and thank those things that have made the world which we inhabit so kind to us.

21 November 2012 – I did a password protected set of photos for today’s post, and then forgot the password. That’s the message for today.

22 November 2012 – TIME – Person of the Year 2012 selection team is great, but the suggestions they offer are trivial, and will be forgotten in a year. Roberts?

23 November 2012 – “Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives” by Benedict XVI. What is the exact date of Jesus’ birth? It’s an exactly trivial question.

24 November 2012 – The Singularity is Near-er. Perhaps TIMEs problem seeing important events is like their trying to sip out of a fire hose.

25 November 2012 – Cooling a 10,000 square foot building here in Bend, isn’t a big problem. The temperature went above 90°F for 7 individual hours last year.

26 November 2012 – Once installed, the heating, cooling and electrification of the building using photovoltaic panels would be free and possibly energy exporting.

27 November 2012 – “Hallucinations” by Oliver Sacks opened my eyes a little wider to the strange goings on within my fellow human beings’ brains, yours.

28 November 2012 – TIME – Person of the Year – It must be another joke? Their short list only has a single possibility, it’s Xi Jinping for founding modern China.

29 November 2012 – “Twentieth Century Book of the Dead” by Gil Elliot makes clear who does the suffering and dying; it’s poor people of every description.

30 November 2012 – “The Bed of Procrustes” by Nassim Taleb. To make a system work those people making decisions must be personally accountable.

December 2012

1 December 2012 – Adam Smith was the most important person in history. Gasp? The source of Darwinism, as well as evolution-driven economics and creativity.

2 December 2012 – The feeling of this place is that of a community of artists making things happen. It is easy to be engaged and productive here.

3 December 2012 – Our design committee has all agreed our site should maintain a feeling of our local natural wilderness.

4 December 2012 – Architecture has a tremendous impact on how people feel, think and act.

5 December 2012 – A new experience for me. I attend an improvisation workshop. Improv is a door for opening up one’s habits to positive developments.

6 December 2012 – Our site will feel like my spiritual home, it is my living fulcrum between my human needs and the abyss of the unknown provided by nature.

7 December 2012 – The Greek Gods of ancient times were certainly stuck on themselves; none of them are in a class with Steven!-Steven!-Steven!-Steven!!

8 December 2012 – To meet people within a social setting you must be polite in their terms.

9 December 2012 – I am thankful for my health and feel joyous that I have been so fortunate. All the same at this very moment I feel nauseous.

10 December 2012 – We must develop a literature on sane people’s lack of contact with reality. I prefer to live in nature’s world, at least try to.

11 December 2012 – Achieve permanence through alternate usefulness. Make plenty of small multi-use rooms with easy access and easy adaptability.

12 December 2012 – One of my groups was pure fantasy and seemed to make real sense, and the other was serious business and made very little sense.

13 December 2012 – I find the problem of total obliviousness to easily obtained facts rampant in human thinking, it is most obvious in TVs yelling heads.

14 December 2012 – To my mind a more reasonable moral of Aesop’s “The Wind and Sun” fable is: The one who makes the rules controls the outcome.

15 December 2012 – “The Fox and the Grapes” moral: Some things you just can’t have, so condemning them makes it easier to ignore and forget them.

16 December 2012 – Who makes the rules for common traditions? If 0 replaced 12 on the clock face there never would have been any problem for AM/PM.

17 December 2012 – A slippery football helmet would save brains. Reducing head impact injuries will let the players be even more aggressive and entertaining.

18 December 2012 – Avoid activities where, win or lose, you are a fool. Choose those where, win or lose, you are a champion. Use your abilities to best effect.

19 December 2012 – 99,999 miles on my odometer and tomorrow is the end of the Mayan world. This is all so appropriate because it is all such a comic farce.

20 December 2012 – Obama’s TIME Person of the year, portrait is reminiscent of the morbid propaganda pictures of World War I, four years into the slaughter.

21 December 2012 – The flapping butterfly weather problem solved; sort of. Rabbits and butterflies behave with their 10^−34. Planck effects canceling out.

22 December 2012 – Are there other applications of Natural Selection waiting to be revealed? A silly question, because the answer is probably — YES!

22 December 2012 – Humanity is a strange thing living in chaotic transitions converting randomness into crystalline routines and productions and purpose.

23 December 2012 – Christmas gifts came year around to me because of this blog. It’s helps me better understand myself and find solutions to problems.

24 December 2012 – Religion binds people together with beautiful words and hope for a better world, with no need for contact with reality.

25 December 2012 – With their pre-Christian religious philosophy every Roman was permitted to have their own personal religion and their own god.

26 December 2012 – Participate fully in things with unlimited upside and no downside, and avoid those with unlimited downside and little upside.

27 December 2012 – We love our mental realities, but we must function within our physical realities.

28 December 2012 – The UU Christmas service is one of Universal warmth.

29 December 2012 – Truth will win after every avoidance of it has been tried.

30 December 2012 – Ever since I departed the US Air Force under A cloud, I have sought cures for humanity’s poor coping with self-destruction.

31 December 2012 – People who create evil must be punished appropriately.

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January 2010

1 January 2010 – New Year’s Resolution is meaningful — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely. Do something every day which will attract attention to the blog.

2 January 2010 – The Top Ten SMART resolutions for the New Year made easier. This is the usual stuff, but I worked up ways of doing them that is easier to keep doing.

3 January 2010 – While lying in the bath tub an hour ago I was wondering why the most distant galaxies appear to be accelerating.

4 January 2010 – A list of 47 blog promoting sites with brief comments.

5 January 2010 – Many of these blog promotion sites are exploratory and thus controversial, so expect dissension.

6 January 2010 – My previous blogs might have been too negative to be read. And yet, the most hits came on the negative, You can’t cure stupid!” especially Detroit-stupid.

7 January 2010 – So, what I need is not just promotion but the right kind of promotion to the right people and to the right organizations.

8 January 2010 – Water in the well can be consumed quite easily until it reaches an end point and then suddenly everything totally changes. Eliminate poverty from the Earth

9 January 2010 – twitter – A new spin on life for me.

10 January 2010 – Robinson Crusoe Island is an okay Google Earth vacation spot, but not much real fun. I wonder what it would be like to live in a remote place like this?

11 January 2010 – The airliner flight A320 Hudson River crash was unnecessary and risky. Radar reflectors in geese food would prevent many serious airplane-bird encounters.

12 January 2010 – The real Sherlock Holmes was also the real Jack the Ripper.

13 January 2010 – Who wants to die on Doomsday day? Not I! Here’s why you should attempt to survive.

14 January 2010 – Maximizing human happiness is my goal. What’s yours?

15 January 2010 – You can survive a heart attack with two aspirin taken instantly.

16 January 2010 – Do for others what they should do for you, gives you the opportunity to observe and change in yourself a habit seen in another person.

17 January 2010 – My big question on timing is when is the Black Swan of Doomsday going to occur and which way to duck? It is impossible to time it, so duck now!

18 January 2010 – Conversations are most productive that appeal to preexisting bias. Don’t bother trying to convince anyone of something that challenges their bias.

19 January 2010 – Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms – The fourth is freedom from fear, is impossible in a world of fewer resources than of people needing those resources.

20 January 2010 – My remembrance of me, has less reality than of the momentarily spinning bread, hanging by its tail. I remember the event not my consciousness of it.

21 January 2010 – When you pander to the greatest possible number people you are driven to approach the basest qualities of most of the people.

22 January 2010 – Nature has its solution, breed maximally and let death sort it out. Earth people are their own worst enemy. In fact their only really dangerous enemy.

23 January 2010 – People value most what they pay most for.

24 January 2010 – Glenn Eidemiller Jr. – A wonderful life in my memories.

25 January 2010 – The primary task when conversing is to be interesting and if you can’t be interesting to listen to someone else who is interesting without interrupting.

26 January 2010 – Insanity is a contagious disease and we should put distance between ourselves and everyone infected with any disease.

27 January 2010 – Newspapers grew consistently until about 1975 then plateaued until about 1990 went into a slow but steady decline and then fell off a cliff.

28 January 2010 – Laurie’s quick-click home page, is a home page of sites my friend Lauie would like, because he likes to keep up on the news.

29 January 2010 – The ideas I present in these blog posts must be crazy. I must be crazy just as everyone says. Who else would wast time trying to save humanity.

30 January 2010 – Old people and children may be the most likely ones to support The EarthArk Project, because they aren’t locked into short term productivity.

31 January 2010 – People are now using coffee shops as internet study halls rather than conversation venues. The coffee shops need you to buy some coffee.

February 2010

1 February 2010 – Any one is excused for coming through the Med’s front door the first time but anyone who comes thru it a second time must be crazy.

2 February 2010 – noise – noiSE – – NOISE — — NOISE — ∞ ≡ ◊< • NOISE — is making everyone crazier and stupider. The curse of modern civilization is noise.

3 February 2010 – The most amazing map of our mother Earth. Shows that humans are a species almost exclusively inhabiting the northern hemisphere.

4 February 2010 – Perhaps philosophers would do more good for the world by shoveling rabbit pellets. If it tastes like rabbit poop it probably is rabbit poop.

5 February 2010 – I drink 2¼ ounces of vodka after I reach the body temperature of 102°F, during my flu-cure bath, to dissolve any plaque that has built up in my arteries.

6 February 2010 – I took two hot baths yesterday to cure my flu and one more this morning and have been feeling okay until about an hour ago, so it’s time for a bath.

7 February 2010 – This flu came on a little differently so it will be interesting to see what happens and how long it lasts.

8 February 2010 – I have cured the H1N1 flu – hurrah – maybe I am cheering a little too soon, but I haven’t hacked up a single loogie.

9 February 2010 – Virginia Woolf – Portrait comparisons – Today I have been 98.6% okay, not perfect but I have to observe very carefully to notice anything whatsoever.

10 February 2010 – Sara and I were chatting about the Virginia Woolf photos on my computer when a woman walked by who had the same aura as Woolf.

11 February 2010 – Today I felt fine, as I did for the previous two days but took a single bath as a backup to any possible rebounding of the flu.

12 February 2010 – So far Doomsday avoidance has been a lonely subject to think about because essentially everyone, instantly gives up on the subject as being intractable.

13 February 2010 – There is a down side to having camp fires if you are covered with an abundance of fur/hair instead of clothes, sometimes hair catches fire.

14 February 2010 – Fun color experiments with your crossed-eyes and brain, using reversed color patterns for each eye.

15 February 2010 – More fun experiments with your eyes using more complex patterns.

16 February 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #3, using soft edges on red/green and a simple blue/yellow transition.

17 February 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #4, using soft circles in one and radial wiggly sunburst disks. Your mind is a wonderful place to visit.

18 February 2010 – A photograph of Charles Scamahorn by Sara Frucht. The purpose of the world it to provide something interesting.

19 February 2010 – A Maturity Quotient MQ-test to replace IQ-tests. Being quick just gets a poor answers more rapidly, but thinking maturely gets better results more consistently.

20 February 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #5. What’s really in your mind is more elusive than Schrodinger’s cat. Proceed at your own risk!

21 February 2010 – A brain concussion can be measured with a falling ruler, dropped by another person and note the distance. I averaged about 16mm.

22 February 2010 – Why are adolescents so stupid? I don’t mean low IQ I mean stupid. Getting a skull tattoo is sort of stupid but getting killed is really stupid.

23 February 2010 – Adult behavior isn’t so stupid as adolescents but it isn’t smart either. Adults make boxes for their mind and get comfortable in there.

24 February 2010 – It takes good intelligence and considerable ruminating on experience to develop maturity to its fullest, and it’s good conversation that polishes the maturity.

25 February 2010 – To behave as a sage requires intelligence, experience and thoughtfulness. A sage does things that help everyone as well as themselves.

26 February 2010 – Childish behavior is okay for children but very poor for older people. A human being loaded with childish habits will behave as a child.

27 February 2010 – To maximize happiness behave at your highest maturity level. Pause occasionally and consider — What is a better way to do this?

28 February 2010 – Probaway – PATHS TO MATURITY – Chart expanded into into 60 plain text sentences. The maturity of a person is observed in the habits they choose.

March 2010

1 March 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #6. Various basic color combinations for cross-eye fusion experiments. A white border on the central dot helps convergence.

2 March 2010 – The new rules of conversation in coffee-shops or at dinner. Newspeak is about things which involve your friend that you can influence.

3 March 2010 – How to fix your umbrella’s tie points with ShoeGoo for next year’s rain. Note – Repairable umbrellas are free after the first rain or a little wind.

4 March 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #7, using red/green of various densities spirals going clockwise and counterclockwise.

5 March 2010 – The answers to the eternal questions varies greatly depending on the situation and what the person is able to bring to the moment.

6 March 2010 – INDEX by subject of this blog with a list of my most popular posts.

7 March 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #8. It uses a gradient with an index so you may make notes of where and when and how quickly your brain shifts.

8 March 2010 – I asked major players, “Are there any plans for restoring humanity to a pre-Doomsday condition?” If it happens humanity will not survive, so why prepare?

9 March 2010 – Instructions on how to fix a leaking Delta faucet, with photos.

10 March 2010 – Nobel laureate Yuan Lee speaks to some Berkeley International House students and me.

11 March 2010 – Coffee shop mouse sh!t, bull sh!t and elephant sh!t We are pity-worthy beings trapped in sh!t producing bodies and minds.

12 March 2010 – America must lead the way for population control but it can’t generate enthusiasm for future based ideas that interfere with present pleasures.

13 March 2010 – There are too many people on planet Earth for long-term sustainability but if viewed from the right places in the South Pacific there appear to be very few people.

14 March 2010 – The poorest people are incapable of expressing empathy because they live too close to survival to make the effort, and the richest have no motivation.

15 March 2010 – Intentionally prepare for and do those things that maximize participation in the situation around you in the most mature way of which you are capable.

16 March 2010 – Most people I talk to say they want the H-bombs to fall directly on them when Doomsday finally arrives. To my way of thinking that’s crazy-stupid.

17 March 2010 – I deny that I am worthless. I feel what I do is working and it is valuable. It has not been rewarded monetarily, but it will increase human happiness.

18 March 2010 – The real power of Silicon Valley is the willingness to generate ideas that usually fail but the effort lays the foundation for eventual success.

19 March 2010 – Experiments with your eyes and brain #9. Is your brain tired yet? If not try these new cross-eye pastel color fatiguing mind-fuzing examples.

20 March 2010 – A list of 35 biggest man made holes in the world. Gold, copper, diamonds.

21 March 2010 – Live longer by surviving heart attacks with aspirin taken immediately upon appearance of symptoms. Keep aspirin in your wallet by your money.

22 March 2010 – How to make an aspirin case. Glue an elastic string, from an old name card holder, to the back of a Listerine mouth freshener case.

23 March 2010 – A Google Earth lair is found here in Berkeley. They copy my eleven year old effort but have Google’s backing, better equipment, and more motivation.

24 March 2010 – I’m here at the Med with Laurie trying to show him how to make a blog and how very easy it is to do.

25 March 2010 – People only grow when they are personally in charge and responsible for outcomes. Truth is what we giving you and lies are what those ugly people are spouting.

26 March 2010 – A migraine prodrome aura cure with a strange cross-eye exercise that forces the visual centers of the brain to work harder.

27 March 2010 – Wing extensions on airplanes would save fuel, and we need to save fuel every way we can!

28 March 2010 – The EarthArk Project vaccine bank. Preparing for the distant future would pay for itself with the first crisis.

29 March 2010 – How to fix the global warming problem for a while by having water pumped to high flying kites to create clouds to reflect solar heat and create shade.

30 March 2010 – It isn’t until you can identify the cause of a particular unpleasantness that you can consistently make changes that make improvements possible.

31 March 2010 – Copy the habits of the most successful people in your intended environment. Observe your improvements and then improve on them.

April 2010

1 April 2010 – Remember to take your pills by having the container as part of your table setting. Set up your habits so an absence of something becomes noticeable.

2 April 2010 – My observational self is about a half a second behind my behavioral self and more than a second behind my abstract decisional self. My inner Who is in control !!!

3 April 2010 – Geo Engineering using sunlight reflectors 30×30 meters in an ideal location to equal one small cars heat output.

4 April 2010 – What are the best questions to be asking?

5 April 2010 – I like to work with the fun problems and try to quickly solve and pass by the trivial problems and not get too stuck in the ugly unsolvable problems.

6 April 2010 – Simple addition gives an absolute minimum number of 70 people who could have detonated an atomic bomb on whom ever they chose. This can’t last forever!

7 April 2010 – Here in Berkeley, where the atomic bomb was first conceived, Bostrom’s book “Global Catastrophic Risks” isn’t available in bookstores. How curious is that?!

8 April 2010 – Here we are approaching Doomsday, and the only scholarly book on the subject will be happy to add a brick, to the foundation of a way of thinking.

9 April 2010 – Help someone survive a heart attack where the heart stopped?! — Give 2 aspirin, give CPR and chill the brain with ice cold water wrapped around the head.

10 April 2010 – I can not know what will help to make future people happy, but I can say with certainty that unless they exist they can not be happy.

11 April 2010 – Sudden global climate change has happened before. Big things can happen and if the time frame is long enough some are inevitable.

12 April 2010 – Mt. Toba exploded a short while back, in geological terms just 71,000 years ago leaving only some 6,000 human beings alive on planet Earth.

13 April 2010 – The public response in the form of Hollywood celebrities offering concerts to aid the desperate doesn’t arrive until much later and to call it band-aid is being generous.

14 April 2010 – Homeplanet Security – Update of major risks. The 15 homeland security disasters weighed, and 8 real threats to human survival, and predictive indicators.

15 April 2010 – Enjoy yourself it’s later than you think. Enjoy yourself while your still in the pink. The years roll by as quickly as a wink. Is our manna coming from heaven?

16 April 2010 – The Mt. Tyree EarthArk, has possibilities because it is very high latitude and very high altitude, so it should be very cold the year around for thousands of years.

17 April 2010 – All the Earth Ark requires is collecting some typical samples of commercial seeds, wild seeds from one’s local area and mailing them to – The Earth Ark, Antarctica.

18 April 2010 – We need doubt about the truthiness the government, and the media feed our cowering public whose main concern is security and being accepted.

19 April 2010 – A handful of your local environment in an Antarctic deep-freeze EarthArk will restore your country in the future.

20 April 2010 – I have grown accustomed to my situation. I am me. I live in a certain time and place and I participate where I find myself. Go and find a good problem for yourself.

21 April 2010 – I suggest we chart a course for improvement that incorporates procursive processes, that includes ways for improving the processes themselves.

22 April 2010 – I attended the lecture – Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary – because of my long-held suspicion about a LIFE article leading to the assassination of Trotsky.

23 April 2010 – My proposals for a quick recovery plan from a Doomsday disaster. The Earth Ark Project, The Life haven Project and The Next Year’s Crop Project.

24 April 2010 – You can know what a man’s world view is by the way he behaves.

25 April 2010 – What is it that every person should do? It’s clear that for any sentient person it is to help all humanity, including themselves, into a higher state of being.

26 April 2010 – Propagandocracy. Our lives are immersed in propaganda. It’s the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape our perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors.

27 April 2010 – What fulfilling your infantile fantasies demanding security and power has actually gotten for you is slavery to the bank.

28 April 2010 – Human society is smothered with is hopeful words slathering over supposed good intentions. What we need is an outside stabilizing force such as enforced laws.

29 April 2010 – ChronoZoom is the coolest thing since GoogleEarth. We are imbedded in deep time and this program gives us a way to think about it.

30 April 2010 – If you can never sell the first one of anything you will always be a wage slave. Try to sell something new every day. How much would you pay for … ?

May 2010

1 May 2010 – World War III won’t kill everyone, and the ensuing mega-famine won’t kill everyone either, but all of the diseases released at once might bring extinction.

2 May 2010 – Not everything can be solved by normal market processes, and the inevitable creative thinking by smart people pursuing money.

3 May 2010 – The movie 2012 makes people into helpless pawns controlled by forces totally outside of their understanding and control. The EarthArk Project gives it back.

4 May 2010 – Francis Bacon in 1620 laid the foundation of the modern scientific method with its experimentation to pry into nature’s secrets so people could serve God better.

5 May 2010 – A panel about the health and survival of the human species barely looked beyond the current problems to their distant future of twenty years.

6 May 2010 – Dror Wahrman lectures on Evert Collier’s hidden codes. The truth is out there — somewhere — maybe.

7 May 2010 – When is lying okay and to be forgiven and when is it so bad that it cannot be forgiven?

8 May 2010 – Everyone is dependent upon the good graces of the US navy to maintain their vibrant economies. Forecasting the 21st century must acknowledge that fact.

9 May 2010 – I discover that we must use our nose differently to fully detect the quality of different odors. Pungent odors require a swift flow, but chocolate has staying power.

10 May 2010 – How a permanent civilization is helped by domes. I design a dome built of a spiral of stones that would last for thousands of years, so its functioning becomes cheap.

11 May 2010 – Anything intended to last for 10,000 years must take human shortsighted avarice into serious consideration, alternate uses only as it stands.

12 May 2010 – A name for those people carrying some Neanderthal DNA could be Newmantals. It is a conflation of New-man and Neanderthals.

13 May 2010 – The world is plagued by a disease called Modern Architecture. Give crazy people money and they will do crazy things with it.

14 May 2010 – Architecture should be of the people, by the people and for the people. That is an obvious goal, but mad men with pretensions rule.

15 May 2010 – “Why does anyone care about 10,000 years in the future?” I am a human being and I want human beings to be healthy and happy.

16 May 2010 – Great spherical monuments to Modern Architecture goes way beyond simple-simplistic over into profoundly-simplistic.

17 May 2010 – People can learn from their mistakes but only if they are exposed to them, and the harm an pain they cause.

18 May 2010 – Extreme Ice NOW by James Balog is a fine coffee-table book but it’s preaching ecological guilt to the uncaring wealthy choir.

19 May 2010 – A new possibility for extending your healthy life. This is my speculative idea but the risk is minimal and the potential rewards are very great.

20 May 2010 – Ads are honest white lies told by honest liars in the service of something far grander than our need for true facts — their making money.

21 May 2010 – The way to be interesting is to be interested in what’s happening, and a joke is disruptive and that is a characteristic of boring people.

22 May 2010 – If exposure to interesting stories is the guiding light to human behavior we need to find ways make reality more interesting.

23 May 2010 – The Story of Western Architecture by Bill Risebero back cover has a building constructed on time under budget and has functioned perfectly.

24 May 2010 – I’m exporting my own Buddha qualities. I must confess I have less empathy for mosquitoes and poison oak than flies, but I am working on it.

25 May 2010 – Our modern civilization is built to surprisingly temporary standards with amortization times of only a few years.

26 May 2010 – How can we now create a backup for humanity? Set an example by building a model city to 10,000 year survivability standards.

27 May 2010 – Here is a sketch of a distant future community forced to live underground because of our current destruction of the environment.

28 May 2010 – Modern architects don’t know what architecture is! Architects should create buildings that help people do what they want to do.

29 May 2010 – Architecture is a good starting point for studying a human culture because it is expensive and easy to see.

30 May 2010 – The future is fun to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there. “You see? You see?! You Earth people are stupid! Stupid, stupid, STUPID!!!” Plan 9.

31 May 2010 – Since humanity arose the world population growth rate has been under 1%/100 years. Things are much better now than they have ever been.

June 2010

1 June 2010 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites by country with links – VWXYZ. With links to all other sites.

2 June 2010 – After the one use minerals have been consumed the ancient Egyptian sun god Ra will once again reign supreme. What won’t empower future humanity are the resources we destroy now.

3 June 2010 – Craig Venter’s creating synthetic life will be the most memorable accomplishment this year and probably for the rest of human existence.

4June 2010 – We have some control of our actions of the future but not of our actions of the present.

5 June 2010 – I have cured my common colds with hot baths but Sugar Plum Honey Bun does a much more complete and soulful transformation.

6 June 2010 – Enjoy your life by taking every opportunity for taking legitimately earned pleasure and by avoiding enjoying every unearned pleasure.

7 June 2010 – My zombie has already eaten my brain! Mmm goood! Yes! It was okay but I want more! much MUCH MORE and I want you to get it for me NOW.

8 June 2010 – All sport is based on some sort of advantage and it isn’t cheating until the stated rules change to make the new advantage against the rules.

9 June 2010 – Venter’s creation of artificial life is the second most important event in human history, the creation of intelligent human beings is first.

10 June 2010 – There are lots of simple things I want and these techie people to be providing for me but they are failing in their quest to keep me happy.

11 June 2010 – My Venterium circle of life, in a square, is explained away.

12 June 2010 – It is clear enough, that what really happened that made modern humans what they have become was an extremely strong selective pressure.

13 June 2010 – If we want to control our future actions we must control what our future zombie perceives and that way we can control what our future zombie does.

14 June 2010 – Pandora’s Seed is a beautifully written book, but it is dipped in the National Geographic publisher’s style of honey coating everything.

15 June 2010 – Pandora is such a nice looking girl, who would never do anything bad, and it is such a pretty box, it could never hold anything but pretty things.

16 June 2010 – The EarthArk Project is designed to save as much of the world’s DNA from destruction as possible.

17 June 2010 – In the present world everything will continue to be degraded until only the exploiters survive and everyone else is dead.

18 June 2010 – Is it possible that the majority of people could be raised in situations that developed more time binding habits of life and choice?

19 June 2010 – Dire Predictions: by M.E. Mann shows just how blurry, blank, weak, pathetic and uninspired buck passers conclusions become.

20 June 2010 – Transcend: by Ray Kurzweil, seeks eternal life, and some life extension is now available already, but forever is a very long time.

21 June 2010 – Truthiness, Lie-iness and Maybeness are not to be trusted without verifiable proofs, so it is necessary to verify everything.

22 June 2010 – Transcend: by Ray Kurzweil summed. NEW STUDIES SHOW ALL FOODS BAD FOR YOU. It’s loaded with sugar, so get evaporated cane juice ;)

23 June 2010 – Seek honesty, enthusiasm, and integrity. Avoid dishonesty, corruption, and wet blanketry.

24 June 2010 – Karen Armstrong says, the whole function of fabricated mythos is to fill the void of meaninglessness which permeates the world of logos.

25 June 2010 – Humanity now understands how to build a society that could bring peace, calm, joy and long life to 10,000 years of future people.

26 June 2010 – I get some fancy book learnin’ from Homer Simpson.

27 June 2010 – I am a cigarette addict! Once I admitted that I was able to bring it under control and stop. A bar or coffee shop isn’t a venue for deep thoughts.

28 June 2010 – Afghanistan has been a hole in the ground where nations for thousands of years have sent their armies to be swallowed up and die.

29 June 2010 – There needs to be an abundance of common sayings like — Verify your facts! Check your assumptions! Get corroboration!

30 June 2010 – Tesla automotive needs my automatic charging platform system, because the driver will forget to plug in his car all too often.

July 2010

1 July 2010 – Finding a new house to buy is finding a new life, probably my personal forever, and trying to avoid personal stupid mistakes.

2 July 2010 –Will a100 million future people be forced to live on recycled leftovers of our current high tech civilization.

3 July 2010 – Eco-tourism is hypocrisy on stilts! Eco-tourists would do more good for the world by staying home. They gained nothing except bragging rights.

4 July 2010 – A catastrophe is brewing where several cyclic positive feedback processes converge and cause a life threatening situation for all humanity.

5 July 2010 – I don’t know what is going to happen but, I prefer 100 million happy people living 10,000 years to 7 billion miserable moribund ones 1 year.

6 July 2010 – See some cross-eye mind games you can do and understand versus religious verbal mind games that twist brilliant people into mental knots.

7 July 2010 – I doubt Descartes’, “Except for our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power”; even that is not within my power.

8 July 2010 – The scientific method doesn’t claim perfection, but it is better than unverifiable declarations that do.

9 July 2010 – After hearing something that is irrelevant to your life and your work forget it as quickly as possible and use the time more usefully.

10 July 2010 – Evolution was blind but now She sees quite well through the eyes of man.

11 July 2010 – Humanity is now the controlling force but it has nothing controlling it but for the natural processes of the Universe and its own self-created laws.

12 July 2010 – A momentary flash of heat pain will flip the switch on poison oak itch. Inflammatory arthritis may be cured with a moment of heat pain.

13 July 2010 – Techniques and links to web sites for house hunting on the Internet.

14 July 2010 – The continuing chicken and egg fuss shows how ill informed and ill informing the data the media presents to the public actually is.

15 July 2010 – My third home search shocker. – The very most expensive neighborhood in Berkeley had the very worst crime statistics.

16 July 2010 –You pay a big price to live in Berkeley but obviously Berkeley is twenty times better or people wouldn’t be paying the big price to live here.

17 July 2010 – Explore your housing options for at least a month before jumping off, and you can avoid fires, earthquakes, crime and fools.

18 July 2010 – Mysterious product labeling of Ivory soap and Capsaicin — 99 and 44 one hundredths percent pure, and it floats – Ivory versus 0.15% Capsaicin.

19 July 2010 – Why are people so stupid and me in particular? I am still ill-informed, but I am a little smarter about my recognizing stupidity.

20 July 2010 – A new life of opportunities and disasters awaits me when I buy a new house in a new city.

21 July 2010 – A Lethal Obsession – If you don’t believe anyone hates you, read this book.

22 July 2010 – The Baby Name Wizard measures what people are thinking and valuing. Humans are controlled by their weakness’ not by their virtues.

23 July 2010 – What I used to consider fun was talking about great ideas—even if in shallow conversations, it was animating, now I prefer talking about doing.

24 July 2010 – Studying some maps based on happiness demonstrate that good laws fairly enforced are needed for happiness.

25 July 2010 – Global Catastrophes aren’t all that bad. – NOT ! ! !

26 July 2010 – What would I like to have accomplished in 10 years. I will orient my activities to getting an EarthArk into Antarctica.

27 July 2010 – A bottle of wild seeds with your name on it could help restore your whole countryside.

28 July 2010 – A small effort on your part will bring a huge thank you.

29 July 2010 – People are tuned into their entertainment media at the moment of their death. Is entertainment the ultimate meaning of life?

30 July 2010 – What if we had a population explosion in reverse? Going to one half in 40 years. It would take 12 halfings or 480 years to get to 1AD.

31 July 2010 – There is some hope for humanity, but only if they have access to facts not fiction.

August 2010

1 August 2010 – It may be difficult to find someone who will tell you the truth, but it isn’t difficult to identify someone who will lie, and for you to avoid them.

2 August 2010 – Natural Experiments of History, attempts to find multiple examples of parallel initial conditions and compares the outcomes.

3 August 2010 – Identify catastrophic risks and be somewhere else long before they happen, because they are impossible to time accurately.

4 August 2010 – The past, the present and the future of life is in our hands. Act wisely! The top 3 events for humanity! Ever!

5 August 2010 – Top 10 search engines with a surprise!

6 August 2010 – How Superman is able to fly is revealed at last.

7 August 2010 – Help – My clothes are attacking me and falling apart. Now – if only I could find a way to fix all the other stuff I don’t like.

8 August 2010 – Discovery, enthusiasm, delusion, denial, grief, acceptance and libration. The Black Swans are waiting with plentiful rewards or death.

9 August 2010 – Charles Shaw recorked, a simple solution to my open wine bottle problem.

10 August 2010 – Bulls horn their way through deep time, from 17,000 year old cave painting, to Egyptian bulls, to Jewish and now on to Wall Street.

11 August 2010 –Campbell’s Soup Can tipping points and other weird points. The value of anything is how much someone will suffer for it.

12 August 2010 – THE FAITH INSTINCT: How religion evolved. Women chose men who are sociable, the other qualities are secondary.

13 August 2010 – Why keep breathing? Because it’s enjoyable discovering what’s next and how I can participate.

14 August 2010 – Read, Worse than War, weep a little for humanity, then support The Earth Ark Project.

15 August 2010 – Progression of a new idea from distrust to common usage. After some predictable craziness a good new idea will find a useful place.

16 August 2010 – I have no power to think but I do have the power to observe, but I rarely remember to do it.

17 August 2010 – Pain Scale for Intensity Measurement and Management, but think carefully about possible side effects before applying these ideas.

18 August 2010 – Hutton’s Section showing a sedimentary rock in a pyroclastic flow. Darwin’s theory of evolution required this abundance of time.

19 August 2010 – Here are some reasons to eat your desserts all during your meals. Warning! One of my chores as a farm boy was to slop the pigs.

20 August 2010 – With strong passwords you can go to sites you feared to go before. Here is how to create secure passwords.

21 August 2010 – How do we find a comfortable home for old age?

22 August 2010 – The murder rate in Berkeley is a reason to avoid that city.

23 August 2010 – I choose to control my destiny through CTRL+A>Delete, as those thoughts would never approach my goal, the creation of The EarthArk.

24 August 2010 – The Clash Of Civilizations – The world is still bright for the USA but brighter still for others.

25 August 2010 – Spider bites can be fun to watch. Saying nice things about Mother Nature isn’t as effective as playing by her rules.

26 August 2010 – A moving adventure begins with a new house. Modern life isn’t as locked into “location, location, location” as it once was.

27 August 2010 – The disaster in middle America is in positive feedback mode.

28 August 2010 – House hunting gets serious when you walk onto the property. You can live in a house, but with a savings you only look at a number.

29 August 2010 – Purchasing a house requires forethought. Purchase a livable house which you can own outright at the lowest possible cash price.

30 August 2010 – Why the word hope makes me queasy and should make you queasy too.

31 August 2010 – How to do a deep cough to clear inhaled food. Clear inhaled food with a hurling-hacking cough called a trakeshake.

September 2010

1 September 2010 – The TV series Hung finds sex symbols everywhere in Detroit.

2 September 2010 – Making your life better one small step at a time; Why not have buttons at the top of the pants that would go into buttonholes on the shirt.

3 September 2010 – I go to Christchurch, New Zealand on GoogleEarth to find the locations of earthquake photos seen in the news reports.

4 September 2010 – Get FREE toothpaste, and other stuff in tubes by cutting the tube open. Probaway – is hacking a way through life one snip at a time.

5 September 2010 – Is this a photo of a Recluse spider and one of a recluse spider bite?

6 September 2010 – Why should you read a book by someone who admits to avoiding the facts.

7 September 2010 – It’s now a traffic violation in California to be smoking in a car if a person younger than 18 years of age is present.

8 September 2010 – Dancing gives women an easily observed analysis of the physical and mental health of the dancer as well as his social flexibility.

9 September 2010 – Empowering people to hate you, by attacking their symbols, is as stupid as a human can get and should rate a Darwin Award.

10 September 2010 – Arthritis may be eased and eventually cured with a little routine heat pain.

11 September 2010 – Berkeley weather, plants and trees were beautiful today. Len and I have had many conversations on the details of eating, sniffing.

12 September 2010 – Stupid traffic signs cause auto accidents. Fess up now – Did you see the upcoming turn in the drop away tunnel?

13 September 2010 – Pain drugs epidemic caused by poor measurement of pain. The Probaway Pain Scale is a complete system for measuring pain accurately.

14 September 2010 – I overate today so tomorrow I must under-eat. You must under-eat for three consecutive days to reset your body’s “fatostat.”

15 September 2010 – How to enjoy a dental root canal operation. The most important thing I could be doing was sitting still in the dentists chair. So I did.

16 September 2010 – Big events in my life! I am zeroing in on a new place to call home.

17 September 2010 – Sane people I know live in the severe earthquake zone. They say they can’t do anything about a quake, so they don’t think about it. ???

18 September 2010 – I dreamed I was an interloper in a classroom and I discover that paying the game well gives more profit than making snide jokes.

19 September 2010 – We live in easy world! It’s easy because we obey the natural flow of things.

20 September 2010 – The Easy World demands the Easy Life of flowing into the bliss of local existence, but it takes a bit of forethought.

21 September 2010 – Some photos of a Lake Tahoe sunset and then a sunrise on the South Shore. – It is far wiser to be a hypocrite than to appear to be one.

22 September 2010 – We make an offer on a house and proceed with cautious hope that our needs and the sellers needs can both be satisfied.

23 September 2010 – This blog subtitled Life Hacks is intended to find ways to make people’s lives a little better.

24 September 2010 – 70% of known plant species are at risk of extinction, and the civilization we enjoy today could easily be gone tonight.

25 September 2010 – How to remember to take four pills per day. Put them conspicuously on your routine time dependent path.

26 September 2010 – The Most Powerful Idea in the World – a review of steam power.

27 September 2010 – Every time you see a lie reveal it to the public. See here an advertisement of a San Francisco trip faked by a British Airways photo.

28 September 2010 – Easier for the end user means it will be more useful and more utilized, and too many icons are confusing and counterproductive.

29 September 2010 – Seasonal flu – infectivity, susceptibility, humidity, transmission, infections, and I propose an experiment in transmission.

30 September 2010 – Worst Case Scenarios: I brought up A-bombs . He avoided thinking about such things it kept him awake at night and he liked to sleep.

October 2010

1 October 2010 – Cross-indexing huge databases of differently indexed information. This becomes possible and reliable using a stickiness number and JulinA indexing.

2 October 2010 – Show me what you need and I will show you how to get by on less. How to save money on toothpaste and other tubed stuff by getting it all out.

3 October 2010 – Some tinnitus noise might be cured with a self-controlled hiss. May peace and quite be upon you, my friend.

4 October 2010 – Your world may be going to hell in your grocery hand-basket. So shop carefully, the life you extend and save will be your own.

5 October 2010 – Earthquakes in Nevada? Yes, and big ones too. I just analyze things and do what I can do, and don’t waste time on those things that I can’t do anything about.

6 October 2010 – We train our inner zombies with our conscious choices so, it will serve us well; Choose the most mature path of actions possible when given a choice.

7 October 2010 – Winston Churchill was a man who spoke golden words to lift men to glorious action when their real life situation was desperate.

8 October 2010 – The movie Third Man is a remake of Casablanca. The true evil of it all is that Hollywood programs movie viewers into inappropriately responding zombies.

9 October 2010 – Living a good life, most of the time, just means choosing to work toward creating a better life for those who want to have a better life, yourself included.

10 October 2010 – Life gets easier and easier when you live right and eat right.

11 October 2010 – Humanity’s top predator must be universal human laws. There is nothing in the natural world to prey upon humanity and keep us responsible to reason.

12 October 2010 – We can provide for a better future while we have the time and energy available, but the world can’t always be as benign as it now is.

13 October 2010 – Apply your self to enjoying what you have, while you have consciousness to do so, with the implied goal of improved future actions..

14 October 2010 – Top leaders are in effect are saying to us when the A-bombs are exploding. “I told you this would happen! Why didn’t you do something about it?” [I do.]

15 October 2010 – An easy way to pull a cork out of a bottle of wine.

16 October 2010 – Some first steps in creating a religion for attaining more mature people.

17 October 2010 – This counter-Obama poster could have made similar silly comparisons to any and every politician who ever held office, so why the problem and its removal?

18 October 2010 – A recluse type spider bite on my leg, photographed for two months.

19 October 2010 – See better by washing your eyes. We live in a world of sights and sounds and the cleaner our senses the more appropriate our responses and thoughts will be.

20 October 2010 – If your goal is to rule the world The Martyrdom of Man is a good book to read but not so much for others because it will offend you.

21 October 2010 – Richard Thaler isn’t bothered when he makes a mistake. He asks for correction from anyone in the large audience who happens to know the right answer.

22 October 2010 – Dr. Michalek a was calculating the balance of expenses and I was trying to figure out some way to make the whole electric car system work automatically.

23 October 2010 – Atwood and the audience all seemed healthy but they were all clearly plagued with the idea that Capitalism is evil but, as he said, “What’s the alternative?”

24 October 2010 – Winwood Reade was striving toward a new meaning for human existence founded on a more honest relationship with the world around us.

25 October 2010 – We don’t need to have a belief in a life after death to be happy. We need a belief that something we are doing is making our world better.

26 October 2010 – Setting boundaries within which the real world solution must lie gives you the ability to avoid massive mistakes and large wastes of time and energy.

27 October 2010 – The volcano Merapi kills the old sage Maridjan, its famous guardian. It’s better to prepare for untimable local events by avoiding obviously dangerous locations.

28 October 2010 – Or, live your life the way you want to, even if it’s in an active volcano’s mouth; Of course you may soon become a dead person..

29 October 2010 – A theory of evil: A book review of ‘On Evil’ is a light shot at a very heavy subject, that comes up short of a positive solution. Just being nice isn’t enough.

30 October 2010 – Atwood, says people are more easily duped by the American dream than by other idealistic ideologies. Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, is very appealing.

31 October 2010 – Science or Religion: Good versus not so good. — Act as if your present behavior will be locked in for the rest of your life.

November 2010

1 November 2010 – The current laws make everyone suffer because the responsibility for actions are shifted away from where the decisions are being made.

2 November 2010 – It is wiser to own outright a small house within walking distance of every necessity and when you have the cash plus some slack buy a better one.

3 November 2010 – Controlling our own emotions is also controlling the emotions and behavior of those around us and thus it forms all our habits and our future being.

4 November 2010 – Artificial gravity for a Mars-bound spaceship could be created by having two equal portions of the ship on a cable and spun about their center of gravity.

5 November 2010 – The TV show The Office last night used one of my flu fighting techniques almost exactly and then made a nice comic argument against it.

6 November 2010 – With better measurement of pain a much more refined analysis would be possible. — Seeing reality better gives you more options for coping better.

7 November 2010 – Is humanity worth saving? No? Yes? Maybe? It’s you who must decide if saving humanity is worth the trouble.

8 November 2010 – Free just equals free and free means worthless.

9 November 2010 – On TV there was missile rising from the sea. This was crappy reporting at its most manipulative and disgusting, and I was totally duped by its careful editing.

10 November 2010 – Swindling and Selling by Arthur A Leff, a Yale professor of law, studies the personal experiences to be learned directly from practicing con men.

11 November 2010 – The media’s posting of false information is an irreversible action and it can created irreversible hysteria and potential havoc, none of which can be undone.

12 November 2010 – Aspirin can save your life or kill you. Taking aspirin doesn’t fix anything but it does help dissolve clots.

13 November 2010 – Human minds need an important goal to be happy. Idle fingers make for a bored brain and a bored brain makes for an unhappy person.

14 November 2010 – 175 separate posts about Doomsday and how if humanity created a LifeHaven and EarthArk there would something left over to build a Humble New World.

15 November 2010 – It is easier to learn the habit of keeping other people on subject than to keep ones own mind on subject. A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

16 November 2010 – Treat diarrhea with 1 teaspoon salt, 8 teaspoons sugar in 1 liter clean water. — Be somewhere else when the shit hits the fan, when it’s laden with cholera.

17 November 2010 – We are living humans and we must find our existential meaning based on real people and real life and not abstract prefabricated gods.

18 November 2010 – Decision Points by George W. Bush is a must read book for Bush lovers, haters and everyone in between, it’s about why he made the decisions he did.

19 November 2010 – Did 14.8 million Americans have a major depression last year as CNBC claimed? — Human sanity can’t be measured to three significant figures.

20 November 2010 – I rework some old Abe Lincoln photographs.

21 November 2010 – TIME person of the year – the pre-selection list with the preliminary publicly voted score sheet generates a sorrow the Germans call Weltschmerz.

22 November 2010 – The basic idea for a dry air home cooler is to use a swamp cooler type evaporative cooler to chill air in a heat exchanger and use that cool dry air.

23 November 2010 – You can be perfectly, friendly with dishonest people, just don’t form close ties or expect anything but difficulties to come from them.

24 November 2010 – Zero-sum games are destructive activities for humanity. You can become happier by doing something productive, something that helps other people.

25 November 2010 – Ambrose Bierce, a lovable curmudgeon. If a writer isn’t willing to expose his mortal existence to deadly fire then he isn’t going to risk it with writing either.

26 November 2010 – A new and improved bookmark, and choice passage marking system that lets one find the good stuff quickly, even in books read long ago.

27 November 2010 – Our life is on hold. We have an offer on a house in Carson City, NV, over two months old that was accepted by the owner but not the short-sale paperwork.

28 November 2010 – I now see my primary fault is lack of enthusiasm. I see things clearly enough, but I don’t care enough to carry through decisively and publicly.

29 November 2010 – The role of chief executive of the US is a horrible burden to bear and the president may have the worst burden because he is forced to be so public.

30 November 2010 – More, TIME – Person of the Year 2010, analysis of their idea, that no one impacted our society, our world very much this year.

December 2010

1 December 2010 – Project your mind out 500 years into the future and ask the question: Does exposing someone’s boring emails make that kind of long-term history?

2 December 2010 – Was Washington Irving’s, Headless Horseman, Hans Van Ripper, a model for Jack the Ripper? Hans is the Dutch form of John and Jack is its vernacular.

3 December 2010 – Race mixing in the United States and New York. People always seek the safe and easy and find it most easily with people they feel to be most like themselves.

4 December 2010 – What is important and what can I do about it? All we value will soon be gone thus we must love it and participate with it now, while we’re here.

5 December 2010 – TIME- Person of the Year 2010 – race to the finish. Julian Assange has 40% of all votes cast of 27 named persons, Lady Gaga has 10%, and Craig Venter has 0.6%.

6 December 2010 – Life adapts to poisonous arsenic in Mono Lake. Extremophiles choose phosphorus instead of arsenic when given the chance.

7 December 2010 – What can you do until Doomsday arrives? Enjoy the life you have been given and participate fully with your opportunities.

8 December 2010 – America’s greatest product is dreams, but you can’t live on dreams forever. The world has a love-hate relationship with America and its dreams.

9 December 2010 – Syphilis and tobacco were America’s “gifts” to the Old World, and it’s near impossible to prevent or eliminate diseases linked to pleasure.

10 December 2010 – The media empowers the destroyers of humanity, and as the we become dumber we are more likely to stumble into an abyss, and more quickly too.

11 December 2010 – Bernie Madoff for President ! Bernie has it all — good looks, convincing speaking techniques and loads of experience creating money.

12 December 2010 – “Free” Stuff found on the web you might want, but cheaper. — Don’t buy stuff you don’t need ! Don’t buy anything you don’t have the cash to pay for !

13 December 2010 – Julian Assange is the winner in the popularity vote for Person of the Year 2010 but TIME is not obligated to choose him. The editors have the final say.

14 December 2010 – I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas with Vera-Ellen. With a list of her dance routines on YouTube . And a set for comparison with other dancers.

15 December 2010 – Zuckerberg is TIME’s Person of the Year 2010. “The human effect on the year seemed to be negligible, and that has been what has been frustrating people.”

16 December 2010 – Human happiness for 10,000 years needs purpose. When making projections it is important to set limits and to define what is being sought.

17 December 2010 – What Jesus really said in his Golden Rule. Help others to achieve their utmost human potential.

18 December 2010 – A list of 47 Sentimental Christmas Songs from Probaway. — Abandon all despair for the woes of the world with an hour of Christmas music.

19 December 2010 – Oh no! I just ate some rotten food. Now what? — I got sick! Don’t swallow bad food no matter what! If in doubt, throw it out!

20 December 2010 – Estimating the total world population of humans – historical estimates by seven demographers, and my easy way of remembering population numbers.

21 December 2010 – Earth is different from space and so am I. Point of view controls our perception. Our perception controls our behavior.

22 December 2010 – American’s, have the highest risk of dying in December thru January and the lowest July and August. To live long and prosper you must avoid dying.

23 December 2010 – All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do to them. Help them live more abundantly. That should be the Christmas message.

24 December 2010 – Stop lying to Virginia about Santa Claus. Lying hurts children! Lying to children is leading them into a life of hell by corrupting their ability to perceive reality.

25 December 2010 – Practice the enjoyment of eating before you physically do it, and make your New Year’s diet resolutions on Christmas Eve.

26 December 2010 – For most people to be happy means going into debt by living beyond their means, by spending money they know they don’t have.

27 December 2010 – People love themselves more than they love you. I realize that when I saw a desperate derelict going through a garbage can. Of course he values himself more than me.

28 December 2010 – Given that people will curl up and go to dreamland if given the chance; How do we motivate them to work but with sales of pretty toys and debt?

29 December 2010 – How to find places on Earth from memory, using key points at 30°N and 30°S and multiples of 30° around the globe. 30N 90W = the Louisiana Superdome.

30 December 2010 – How to make a map of the Earth from memory, using a standard 8½ x 11 inch typing paper folded long ways.

31 December 2010 – Humanity’s failure to understand problems isn’t new. — Three years of blogging has been a huge waste of time and money.

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Condensed thoughts from Probaway’s 2009 blog posts

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January 2009

1 January 2009 – Who is important now who will be significant in 500 years?

2 January 2009 – Probaway’s Person of the Year – Jimmy Wales

3 January 2009 – Oceans of wind power are available for humanity’s use.

4 January 2009 – Is Blu-ray dead? Yes and here’s why.

5 January 2009 – How to revive cold-dead people by warming their heart before anything else.

6 January 2009 – Preventing frostbite, finger and toe loss with aspirin, is yet another reason to always carry your aspirin with you wherever you go.

7 January 2009 – The Mayan calendar date will come and go and the best advice seems to be – Live your life, help other people and enjoy the spectacle.

8 January 2009 – So far I am very happy with this Samsung TL34HD and consider it a worthwhile upgrade on my old Casio EX-Z1000.

9 January 2009 – We may soon see The One and it will be us. We are becoming UNITY.

10 January 2009 – Aircraft presently being used for forest fire suppression could be adapted for this purpose. Start metaseeding now for a better future next year.

11 January 2009 – “You can’t cure stupid!” especially Detroit-stupid.

12 January 2009 – Use no more water than you can obtain sustainably.

13 January 2009 – When everyone feels being part of humanity is more important than their loyalty to a part of it we might find a way into a sustainable future.

14 January 2009 – Today the term EarthArk was sent to California’s Secretary of State to the Name Availability Unit to request if it had been already used.

15 January 2009 – By cultivating the habit of responding with a “YES AND” your conversation becomes one of generating enthusiasm and exploring new ideas.

16 January 2009 – To get the best possible service from a person or a bureaucracy schedule your appointment for 8:30 am on Tuesday morning.

17 January 2009 – Would it be possible to put radar reflective tags in wild geese’s food so they could be easily spotted on the airport and airplane radars?

18 January 2009 – Proba way back in 1994 wrote you didn’t need a disease to get the benefits from a fever. Raising a cancer victim’s temperature to 103°F+ kills some cancers.

19 January 2009 – Mars rocks on the cheap. Man on Mars? No need. It’s vastly cheaper to recover extraterrestrial rocks from Antarctic snowfields.

20 January 2009 – If you don’t go viral and become famous you and your ideas don’t exist.

21 January 2009 – “The truth is out there!”—If only you know how to see it. “The truth is written all over our faces”. Paul Eckman – Lie To Me – TV

February 2009

1 February 2009 – The goal of law should be to minimize the suffering of the innocent.

2 February 2009 – Above Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster there is a cenotaph plaque for Alfred Russel Wallace the discoverer of how evolution works.

3 February 2009 – Alfred Russel Wallace was the sole discoverer of a fully functional theory of evolution and Darwin was the popularizer.

4 February 2009 – Charles Darwin reads Robert Chamber’ the Vestiges of Creation in 1848.

5 February 2009 – James Hutton, the father of geology, is one of the giants’ shoulders upon whom Darwinism stands.

6 February 2009 – Charles Darwin himself credits Patrick Matthew with publishing his evolution theory 29 years before he did, but in a rare journal.

7 February 2009 – Charles Darwin owes more than his genes and money to Erasmus Darwin.

8 February 2009 – Darwin and Wallace’s key ideas boil down to an analysis of Thomas Malthus’ population theory.

9 February 2009 – Lamarck’s working definition of how to gather useful knowledge is certainly better than the Sophists who are still being paid to flaunt their silliness on campus.

10 February 2009 – Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), was a key primogenitor of Darwinism.

11 February 2009 – Linnaeus Systema Naturae 1735 creates life’s family tree for Darwin 126 years before Darwin published his Origin of Species.

12 February 2009 – Lucretius (99-55BC) lays out some evolutionary ideas, although he himself wasn’t a scientist he helped prepare humanity for science. Discovered in 1434.

13 February 2009 – God and nature work in mysterious ways but we are trying to learn and to obey.

14 February 2009 – This is an Earth Ark container. Please place small samples of seeds and soil inside. Use the durable water-proof containers provided.

15 February 2009 – A sample page for The Earthark Project to maximize the long term health of humanity and the Earth.

16 February 2009 – Convert sea wave energy into electric power by using an electric generator installed between a floating platform and a sheet anchor.

17 February 2009 – Everywhere I look there are little improvements which are needed. Here are some improvements for the computer keyboard.

18 February 2009 – Science is the art of standing on the shoulders of giants, seeing a little further than they did and most importantly publishing their visions.

19 February 2009 – The goal of every living system is to find all of its energy potentials for the niche it finds itself within, and adapt to them, and use them.

20 February 2009 – When a song gets stuck in your head instantly start singing a new song, and have several at the ready and use a different one every time.

21 February 2009 – Mnemonics – for remembering people’s names.

22 February 2009 – The 42 best search engines and Wikipedia

23 February 2009 – When processes provide better understanding the result is a rapid improvement. If something works better it gets used. 14 examples.

24 February 2009 – You can’t cure human stupidity even with Wikipedia, because humans select reinforcement of a wished for reality, and reject what doesn’t fit.

25 February 2009 –Stopping automobile injuries with instantly extensible bumper.

26 February 2009 – Antarctica’s Gamburtsev mountains and the Earthark.

27 February 2009 – The gist of both of these authorities comments was, if a major war happens between major atomic bomb possessing powers it’s game over for the whole world.

28 February 2009 – Some Antarctica mountains considered for Eartharks.

March 2009

1 March 2009 – I would recommend spending a half an hour and make this protective cover for your screen devices.

2 March 2009 – Set the power bar timer to turn OFF at a time that you normally go to bed and turn ON again at a time before you normally use the device.

3 March 2009 – If we don’t save our planet’s species soon they will soon be gone forever. Some potential Earthark sites in central Antarctica.

4 March 2009 – Antarctica – some possible Earth Ark storage sites considered.

5 March 2009 – The goal of The Earthark Project is to maximize the long term health of humanity and the Earth, and local mountain top sites will help.

6 March 2009 – The Earthark Project and the Lifehaven Project will not save civilization but it will give humanity a second chance and it is obvious that we will be needing that soon.

7 March 2009 – The top 10 Book burnings. Send your discarded books to The Earthark Project for permanent storage.

8 March 2009 – I accused Arthur Conan Doyle of creating the Drake Plate, the Kensington Runestone and the Piltdown Man, in a paper at the AAAS 1989.

9 March 2009 – If we fail and humanity goes extinct before its time we will deserve the damnation of billions of unborn people who will never exist.

10 March 2009 – A cross-staff will get the traveler well within half a degree of the Earthark and its location would be visible with that amount of accuracy.

11 March 2009 – If 15 guys can turn out a car of the future like the Aptera why can’t Detroit do better than the Chevy Volt.

12 March 2009 – Green Flash is designing new computers based on a is used in tiny cell phone type of computer chips. DOE is targeting an Exaflop computer system by 2016.

13 March 2009 – Today something so extraordinary happened that it takes precedence over my usual more serious issues. I had what can only be called a Chocolate Raptus ! ! !

14 March 2009 – The automatic battery charger is the key to the coming all electric world economy.

15 March 2009 – The ultimate source of most of Earth’s available energy is radiant sunlight, much of which is converted into wind before the energy is re-radiated back into space.

16 March 2009 – The world is full of liars who want to get your money and your goodies. How to lie, cheat and steal, falsify, prevaricate and observe, verify and test.

17 March 2009 – At first innocent but evil ways of Breaking Bad’s a high school chemistry teacher are all for a good cause, aren’t they always, but they soon turn ugly and evil.

18 March 2009 – How our ancient ancestors managed to get out of the water and walk on dry land was the subject of Neil Shubin’s lecture.

19 March 2009 – Neil Shubin showed us the similarities of the bones of many different species through time and their niche space.

20 March 2009 – Wendy Northcutt author of, “The Darwin Awards,” gave me a Darwin Award for my Earth Ark, even though humanity isn’t dead just yet.

21 March 2009 – They gave me a DVI to DVI cable when it turned out I needed HDMI to DVI cable. That is a tiny mistake and easy to make but it means another total round trip for me.

22 March 2009 – One thing that is a bit strange with the flat screen versus my old CRT monitor is the photographs created by my cleanup procedures look different.

23 March 2009 – If we could mentally pop into the future and see to what uses our new tools would be put to we could achieve those new unanticipated results much more quickly.

24 March 2009 – When you are feeling faint contract your stomach muscles rhythmically.

25 March 2009 – People on their cell phones appear to be much friendlier than game playing subjects and happier than when they are alone. This needs to be looked into objectively.

26 March 2009 – The IPCC projections don’t factor in major war because it will look ugly and they can’t get funding or nice prizes if their predictions are ugly.

27 March 2009 – If every residence had a standard 5 gallon closed top bucket filled with water it would be readily available and easy for small fires to be put out.

28 March 2009 – The idea is to bring the whole world into a single economic system of trade-offs of human reproductive rights for other economically fungible rights.

29 March 2009 – Field Guide to the Apocalypse, has good information mixed in with the foolishness but unless you know which is which it is easy to be lead astray.

30 March 2009 – My shirt with red alignment markings on the button hole.

31 March 2009 – Oil consumption collides with disaster in the not too distant future as can easily be seen in the chart below.

April 2009

1 April 2009 – “What makes some particular thing go viral?“: Free, Open, Neutral, Timely and Social, offering some sort of reward for selfishness combined with some result from aggregation.

2 April 2009 – Wikipedia or Craigs List are no longer the future but they did show the way to what is at present the future.

3 April 2009 – We have a lot of built in conflicts in all human interactions and these become very apparent in the application of laws to its citizens.

4 April 2009 – Life is tough here in the San Francisco Bay area! You wouldn’t want to live here because commonly it’s warm in the sun and cool in the shade.

5 April 2009 – Seek stable societies librating about humanities survival, where everyone has unlimited speech, some power, a vote on total population, and the elimination of WOEs.

6 April 2009 – A quick list of essential survival abilities would include the following that all living things must comply with to survive and reproduce.

7 April 2009 – In the long run, whatever the technology, the people will have to be in energy balance with the retrievable solar input and not on mined resources of stored energy.

8 April 2009 – There is the underlying symbolic connection between the energy of the sun and the energy of the wind, that should be incorporated into the modern ecology symbolism.

9 April 2009 – The population party is nearly over but even the informed humans are still tooting their happy horns. Well let’s be stoic, accept the inevitable and be content.

10 April 2009 – Blurry vision? An eye testing device improvement for Optometrists, a sharply flipping lens switch between lenses. This …. or …. this? replaced with This-or-This?

11 April 2009 – The American automobile is going to eat the food off your plate. The Detroit executives don’t care that they are killing their own country and the world.

12 April 2009 –Google Touring is the new way to travel. It’s quick, easy and cheap. Street View takes you to places you would never go and maybe will now choose not to go.

13 April 2009 – Google Earth Street View comes visiting us today. I was able to get my camera out and take this picture of it.

14 April 2009 – A widely published portrait of Jack the Ripper pursued by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Watson, before they were identifiable figures.

15 April 2009 – To create something new, you need to be willing to work very hard on something which others think will fail and be willing to fail in the attempt.

16 April 2009 – To be identifiable is to be categorized into expectations of behavior, but these same categories when identified force expectations on oneself.

17 April 2009 – A new type of aircraft base for long distance aircraft deployments, based on submersible platforms.

18 April 2009 – The Berkeley Avian Influenza Confrence where I sat in briefly on these lectures and gave some xeroxes of my articles on flu to them.

19 April 2009 – What could be a brilliant man, like Conan Doyle’s, purpose be for appearing so stupid as to believe in the Cottingly faries and Spiritualism?

20 April 2009 – The automatic battery charger is the key to the coming all electric world economy. These battery charging platforms should be totally standardized.

21 April 2009 – Bird flu is coming sooner or alter – so prepare for it and promote the idea, “When you are sick avoid sick birds!!! and sick people!!!”

22 April 2009 – If in my distant past Jeremy Waldon had delivered the lecture I heard today I would have tried hard to become a lawyer.

23 April 2009 – This panel of distinguished law professors never gave any consideration to why humans had the particular set of inborn values.

24 April 2009 – Work through these clues and you will be on your way along one of the most exciting Adventures Sir Conan Doyle ever created.

25 April 2009 – I didn’t attend most of the lectures because I felt like an outsider. They were very nice to me; It was my own inferiority complex that was the problem.

26 April 2009 – Some thoughts as bon mots, such as — It is almost impossible to tell someone something they don’t already know.

27 April 2009 – The pressures for immediate action will precipitate rash actions and so we need to plan a librating state toward which humanity might strive.

28 April 2009 – If the United States were to expel 20% of its unhappy people, like Butan, it would seem like a very happy country indeed. We import desperate people from everywhere.

29 April 2009 – When you are sick with a flu avoid people and totally avoid sick birds and sick pigs.

30 April 2009 – Jordan B. Peterson and I wanted to understand why people who were so capable of very constructive things were also so inclined to do evil things.

May 2009

1 May 2009 – PLAN B 3.0: Mobilizing to save civilization by Lester R. Brown doesn’t look at the real problems and so it isn’t going to save civilization or the planet Earth.

2 May 2009 – Viral ideas are self-assembling within preexisting needs. The needs are within a mental environment and the ideas are a way of using the pent-up energy in that environment.

3 May 2009 – A convertible sport car, coupe, minivan, pickup that easily converts from a sport car to a panel truck and everything in between.

4 May 2009 – Four new possibilities for controlling flu. Amy Herr is involved with developing computer chips for identifying the flus and tracking the density of flu germs.

5 May 2009 – I design a new N95 face mask upgraded for the flu sneeze control.

6 May 2009 – I had some fun finding the Santa Barbara fire location using Google Earth. This is helpful activity when there is breaking news as it helps you understand the event.

7 May 2009 – So, you want to be famous.tv popped into my life. I need some fame or notoriety in order to be heard. Because without some clout I will keep getting shut down.

8 May 2009 – 18 ways of reducing the flu threat for everyone.

9 May 2009 – The basic idea of the JulianA indexing system is to stamp all things of interest with a time and location stamp using a simple digital system.

10 May 2009 – My mother’s father was Glen Maurice Eidemiller born 3Dec 1888 of W. Tippecanoe OH, and the 1906 Covington, OH football team.

11 May 2009 – At least on a geological time scale — Doomsday is already upon us; we haven’t gotten to the nasty bits, just yet.

12 May 2009 – Here is tourism to 50 cities without the trouble, expense, wastefulness and fatigue of actually traveling to those distant locations in person.

13 May 2009 – All airplane pilots should have a couple of hours per year of stall and spin training in light planes so the recovery reaction becomes automatic.

14 May 2009 – Isle of the Dead by Arnold Bocklin. The ashes of a life, in a barely visible urn, of some dead hero, is being carried to a fabulous resting place.

15 May 2009 – Or – 3. Create a single world sovereignty with exclusive possession of Weapons of Annihilation (WOE) and regulate the population to a permanently sustainable number.

16 May 2009 – Wine and Temperature – A live taste test on Cabernet Sauvignon. At 58° the wine is smooth while in the mouth but with some astringency coming after the swallow.

17 May 2009 – The inspired person strikes out into the void with utmost confidence because it is what needs to be done to accomplish the task.

18 May 2009 – For the modern treatment of flu there isn’t much now you wouldn’t expect from Imhotep the first physician 5,000 ago except, “Kill as few patients as possible.”

19 May 2009 – A common statement—“farmed animals and crops are much better than they used to be when I was a child.”

20 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( A )

21 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( B )

22 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( C )

23 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( D )

24 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( E )

25 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( F )

26 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( G )

27 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( H )

28 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( I )

29 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( J )

30 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( K )

31 May 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( L )

June 2009

1 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( M )

2 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( N )

3 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( O )

4 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( P )

5 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( Q )

6 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( R )

7 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( S )

8 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( T )

9 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( U )

10 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( V )

11 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites with links ( W X Y Z )

12 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites – Alphabetical List

13 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites – Overview. The primary motivation for humanity is fear. We have built things to fend off the conscious feeling of the void.

14 June 2009 – Your Inner Fish – by Neil Shubin – Book Review – Where did we come from and how did we become the beings who we are.

15 June 2009 –Dance of the Continents by John W. Harrington – Book Review – takes Agassiz, Darwin, Wegener, and explores, why they sought, and what they hoped to find.

16 June 2009 – If someone announces, “I don’t believe in the law of evolution,” they sound insane. It’s tantamount to saying, “I don’t believe in the law of gravity. Axioms of Life.

17 June 2009 – My conception of a good car is one that is absolutely reliable, costs as little as possible to purchase, gets wonderful gas mileage and is invisible to the police.

18 June 2009 – After a thing has been identified with a name attaching a definition interferes with communication and is counter productive to communication.

19 June 2009 – The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) should be the pinnacle of good sense and sensibility related to health issues but the flu article in the current issue fails.

20 June 2009 – Take the best 20 prints away from any photographer and they will become rather lack luster. There were several other similar events, in my photo career, all of them bad.

21 June 2009 – Putting books into permanent cold storage isn’t destroying them but bringing them to life at a later time when, electronic things have failed, and books are needed.

22 June 2009 – We may never know if it was the infamous coffin corner which killed flight 447 unless the black boxes are recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.

23 June 2009 – The Earth is two very different places geographically depending from where you view it.

24 June 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites – with links ( A – Z )

25 June 2009 – Berkeley is a strange place! Some of the most pitiful examples of humanity mixed tightly with some of the most to be envied.

26 June 2009 – I like it here on Earth and after some 4 billion years of adaptations to its qualities I fit right in. Why seek to go some nirvana where nothing works right?

27 June 2009 – Speed up grocery store check out with an additional scanner that scans itmes placed by the customer on the conveyer belt facing a scanner fixed to the side.

28 June 2009 – Why do I start things that I know are too big for the time and energy I can muster up to do them? Who needs a list of links to the 100 Top Museums in the world?

29 June 2009 – It takes 10 times longer to do 100 things than to do 10 things. Some projects are too big to do properly in one day. Every last one is too big to be done perfectly.

30 June 2009 – Why is Jack the Ripper still famous when there have been 200 million people killed since his five? It’s obvious if you think about it.

July 2009

1 July 2009 – The 100 Top Museums of the World – ranked with links to the museum, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and latitude and longitude location.

2 July 2009 – A photograph of the Jack the Ripper in the victim’s eye. This weird clue leads to one person who is multiply involved with that seemingly innocuous clue.

3 July 2009 – If scientists are to create a list of traits of human abilities they should look to those qualities which young women are looking for in their selection of mates.

4 July 2009 – Why are people good to each other? We seek our own approval by behaving in ways of which we approve. We are good people because we judge other people.

5 July 2009 – Field Guide to the San Andreas Fault – a book review. This book would be a great help in making a trip along the fault a life enhancing experience.

6 July 2009 – William Shakespeare – The Chandos portrait restored. I was annoyed by the crazed quality of painting’s face and spent several hours cleaning it up.

7 July 2009 – The EarthArk Project Goals. The EarthArk is a storage place for all of the good things that the Earth has provided and modern humanity has created.

8 July 2009 – A thank you to Nature. Nature is the source of everything I am aware of and I feel respectful to the grandeur of its existence. I belong to this time and place.

9 July 2009 – Dear Boss – Jack the Ripper. This letter is dripping with clues that lead to one man!

10 July 2009 – It’s a great time to be a blogger. Now everyone has the opportunity to improve the world we all live in.

11 July 2009 – The general idea of the 10 day diet is to maintain interest in a diet for ten days, coast for a while, then change to a new diet on the first day of the month.

12 July 2009 – That mined coal and oil energy gets consumed one time. When it is gone it is gone forever and can never power our future needs.

13 July 2009 – How do we involve ourselves in a meaningful way in working out solutions to the overpowering problems? Find solutions or one prodigious ruin will swallow us all.

14 July 2009 – I suspect that WolframAlpha is just the first wave of what will soon be the primary use of the Internet—the access to wisdom.

15 July 2009 – Make a new world possible—support The EarthArk Project. It cannot be otherwise because there is no other viable path to the future.

16 July 2009 – It is necessary to focus people’s attention on The EarthArk Project rather than the demise of modern humanity, they will just deny that as a possibility.

17 July 2009 – Raise the general happiness level of a group by keeping the people’s attention focused on positive goals which they can attain with group work.

18 July 2009 – Jack the Ripper left a trail of clues including signed confessions if only you look in the right places in the right way.

19 July 2009 – The higher one moves along the Happiness Scale the more opportunity there is for long term social interaction and improvement of peoples lives.

20 July 2009 – I have created in a design for a workable self constructing space station of sheets of melted and rolled iron of some appropriate width but of unlimited length.

21 July 2009 – Grim! But grimmer still is the fact that the stresses which we now face with a world war are the same ones they spoke of in 1983 but more extensive and intensive.

22 July 2009 – This world has been given to us as our home and come what may it provides us with our destiny. We belong to this time and place—this is our time and this is our place.

23 July 2009 – If there is any question if I am going to be using something in the near future it is probably not going to get used ever and is going to be making me unhappy.

24 July 2009 – The easiest way to slow the world wide spread of flu is for everyone entering a terminal anywhere in the world to be issued a clean face mask.

25 July 2009 – Don’t poop before you eat.” and “Eat some fibrous food with every swallow.” You need to consciously under-eat for three days after overeating just once.

26 July 2009 – Once the name of this person, a variation of Jack the Ripper and Dear Boss, is revealed it is relatively easy to show the other links to him.

27 July 2009 – If one were to compute the synergism of the top five global disaster factors it would be a good indicator of the longest time before the expected disaster.

28 July 2009 – It was reported today that nerve injuries like the spinal injury that crippled and killed Superman Christopher Reeve, may now be controlled by a food dye.

29 July 2009 – To get back to my point, why are white people so stupid, and participate in life threatening sports, and my answer is, I don’t know. Perhaps, you do.

30 July 2009 – The pre-Columbian Americans did not have domesticated animals because the local animals which might have been domesticated had been hunted to extinction.

31 July 2009 – The Star Rover, by Jack London, is a must read book by all Ripperologists, and by those who want to better understand Jack London and A. Conan Doyle.

August 2009

1 August 2009 – I wonder how many illusions we are currently living with that are inaccurate, as were Columbus’s, and as easily corrected if we only knew how.

2 August 2009 – When a person sets his goal before himself and achieves some high rewards early on in life it locks in his ambition for greater achievement.

3 August 2009 – Sleeping with someone is the ultimate statement of trust. We live in many hours of companionable unconsciousness. A person is totally vulnerable when sleeping.

4 August 2009 – When the subject is one of deadly peril to billions of human beings, being presented by the news from the UN, one could hope for accurate information.

5 August 2009 – I was upset earlier today by a panhandler. This guy was as healthy and sane anyone could hope to be but he was finding it more to his liking to panhandle.

6 August 2009 – Seeing the inevitable collision of population and resources can make one gloomy, but now is the time we must live in a happy state—it has ever been thus.

7 August 2009 – A shorthand system can never be simpler than the Probaway single stroke shorthand system because nothing can be communicated with less than a single stroke.

8 August 2009 – Shouldn’t it be possible to speak and think with greater clarity if the languages we communicated with were repaired to eliminate the obvious problems.

9 August 2009 – Casablanca – Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart – book review. In some ways the book’s better because ideas can be considered longer.

10 August 2009 – Chicago Haymarket Revenge Rache! Rache! poster of May 2, 1886 was disclaimed by the Workers. Rache! was the first word in Sherlock Holmes series.

11 August 2009 – A Woody Allen clone finds a plastic Jesus in a Berkeley dumpster. Excellent information, unless presented by a paying authority, will not get searched.

12 August 2009 – The local time anywhere, at present, all we need to know is the number of vibrations a Ytterbium clock would have registered to the Big Bang at that place.

13 August 2009 – I don’t feel depressed about these negative subjects at all because in every blog I come up with a reasonable way to cope with the disaster.

14 August 2009 – Restating Descartes famous idea as, “I only think I think therefore I only think I am,” acknowledges the turtles all the way down problem.

15 August 2009 – Give stupid people power and they will do stupid things with it. Don’t give FREE Tamiflu to politicians, who have proven they don’t understand the problems.

16 August 2009 – Build a pyramid by using the side of the pyramid itself as a ramp and there is no need to build an external long ramp up to the top.

17 August 2009 – If a person gets a disease of any sort whatsoever, it is some other person’s fault and they should sue—someone, anyone. That’s counter-productive.

18 August 2009 – How can you express yourself when others about you are louder, better informed, more articulate, more passionate, and more cunning than you?

19 August 2009 – Human improvement is a group effort based on conversations and weighing of various qualities of the various men available for Eve’s selection.

20 August 2009 – Perhaps we should not look beyond our nose, For then despair would overwhelm our soul. For what’s to see but loss of all we know And love. We know clear vision takes its toll.

21 August 2009 – Casablanca is a hideous movie for mature people. If you actually observe what happens during this romantic movie it is horrible in the extreme.

22 August 2009 – Warm packs can be placed on the chest of moribund people to keep their hearts and vital organs functioning a little longer.

23 August 2009 – Before you talk to someone important think for a minute about what you want to say. Make it an idea that would be interesting to them.

24 August 2009 – To stay on subject is critical. So to maintain relevancy you must be commenting on the sentence that was just spoken, and then relate to what went before.

25 August 2009 – The World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t recommend going to the doctor unless you had flu for three days, but then what? Tamiflu no longer works.

26 August 2009 – Get your vaccinations or die an unnecessary death and take yourself and your potential progeny out of the gene pool. Darwin Awards are not tough to get.

27 August 2009 – To improve the accident statistics, the risks should be emphasized to those people most at risk and the benefits, should be disparaged.

28 August 2009 – Every day in every way I’m getting better and better — sort of. My learning experience — avoid disease including salmonella.

28 August 2009 – Control hurricanes with sea anchors and canvas that diverts cold deep sea water to the surface and that deprives the storms of their energy source.

29 August 2009 – The ultimate good is to maximize the human hours of vigorous life and the best way to do that is to have a human population in balance with nature.

30 August 2009 – If the governments respond to the eventual famine the way they have responded to the current flu epidemic the problems will get really ugly.

31 August 2009 – Americans paying for the medical procedures some foreigners are getting for one sixteenth the cost, and the bottom line is we are not living longer.

September 2009

1 September 2009 – When I was young that word consumption was still loaded with negative connotations and meant wasting as in the sense of destroying .

2 September 2009 – What feels best now is always what we do, So, feel ahead and limit future rue.

3 September 2009 – How can one possibly explain the pleasures of a Utilitarian state of mind to someone who is struggling to maintain a Hedonistic one.

4 September 2009 – Depending upon the driving conditions the 1/3rd center hard section of the compound tire would be in exclusive contact with the road over 95% of the time.

5 September 2009 – I just discovered, for me at least, a better way of separating two pages of paper that are pressed together.

6 September 2009 – Either you reduce population quickly to some number the planet will support, which is socially impossible, or you do a lot of feckless complaining.

7 September 2009 – I see — No Buter! No-You’re wrong! Twisting-Chin! Side Chatting! Quiet-Secret! — conversation controlling techniques used everyday and lots more.

8 September 2009 – There isn’t anything pre-computer old people want to know that is worth the risk of looking.

9 September 2009 – There can be a beautiful Earth with a few people living happily upon it for a very long time.

10 September 2009 – There is a good chance that even when a world wide famine comes most people will ignore it until their personal cupboards are bare.

11 September 2009 – My experience is that most people are unable to see clues even when you show them. It is their unwillingness to trust the observations of their own senses.

12 September 2009 – When the disastrous worldwide famine will hit is when about half of the money spent by the world’s population is spent on food. Famine Early Warning System

13 September 2009 – Squandering your money will eventually consume your source of money.

14 September 2009 – If what your company and your job delivers can be delivered by someone cheaper, via online shipping, then the public will buy that cheaper item.

15 September 2009 – My World heritage Sites – with links is a fine series but only gets a few hits. The EarthArk Project is the most important thing I will ever do, gets very few hits.

16 September 2009 – I started thinking … this new park law means I can’t walk across the street from my home (for the last 25 years in September) and watch the sunset.

17 September 2009 – The ability that TV pundits need, and clearly have in abundance, is that of exploitation of others around them for their private advantage.

18 September 2009 – The comment, “You lie!”, may be a turning point in American politics.

19 September 2009 – Mixing up the plays spreads out the opposition, and always giving the ball to one player even the best player in the world will soon make him look poor.

20 September 2009 – Catholic services are just too calming for my needs. After all, as I said to some women at a garden party a while ago, “I’m not much into pleasure.”

21 September 2009 – When the whole Earth is maxed out the desperation will become ubiquitous. What then? You figure it out. It isn’t that difficult.

22 September 2009 – A migraine aura responded well to light tapping toward the center of the back of my head behind the ears where the visual centers are located.

23 September 2009 – It was a hot day and I was cooling myself with sprayed water but the UC coeds were cooling by taking off their clothes. What ever makes you feel COOL.

24 September 2009 – Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and Vincent Van Gogh were all active in the fall and winter of 1888. How strange is that — coincidence?

25 September 2009 – We need a universal adapters of some very flexible designs to link up to the vast array of currently discarded batteries to other uses.

26 September 2009 – The simple truth is that Jack the Ripper left an blizzard of clues and these millions of sleuths have been too dull to see what is splattered before them.

27 September 2009 – I am Apophenio! I see what others don’t! — Ah Haaa !!! They see the clues, they just don’t see the significance.

28 September 2009 – Apophenio’s only weapon is the power to see obvious patterns. His superpower is symbolized by an icon, completely invisible to all other beings.

29 September 2009 – It is tiring to argue with people who refuse to see what is before their eyes but this is the world that I am confronted with all the time.

30 September 2009 – I had an inkling of these powers for many years but until I acquired the name they were sporadic intermittent, unreliable and thus useless.

October 2009

1 October 2009 – Morality was given to us by young women, and all of the philosophizing in the world by the greatest minds will not change their genetic heritage one iota.

2 October 2009 – Who can say Good-bye to you on Doomsday because it isn’t likely to be good, so perhaps a better departing statement would just plain. Bye-bye!

3 October 2009 – The world we now struggle within will be remembered by our descendents, if they come to exist, as a disastrous time filled with very unhappy people.

4 October 2009 – The Letter from Hell, is considered by many to be from Jack the Ripper but I don’t find any of my markers, so it is highly suspect even if it has half a kidney.

5 October 2009 – The elbow bump could become just as affectionate as a hand shake. Flu is a social disease and like gonorrhea is easily prevented by avoiding physical hand contact.

6 October 2009 – Darwin writes half his Origin of Species trying to define what a species is and at the end he admits it is just a verbal convenience for talking about the subjects.

7 October 2009 – All I am saying is, “Since we can’t stop the fall, We can’t stop the splat.”

8 October 2009 – I was about to toss the book aside as overblown drivel but went to the last chapter hoping by then he would have gotten over his hallucinatory rhetoric.

9 October 2009 – Place tire pressure testing devices, such as pressure hoses across roads to tell motorists that their tires were low and a sign where to get air.

10 October 2009 – The internet is making the world a better place by making people more accountable and thus responsible for their actions.

11 October 2009 – There is an order in which to eat foods to get the maximum satisfaction. The no more than five sweets, and banana should come last after the chocolate.

12 October 2009 – A really good theory should be so fundamental that it will stretch the minds of people for a long time.

13 October 2009 – When someone uses an exclamation (!) mark it should trigger the thought, “Is the exact opposite equally true?”

14 October 2009 – Wikipedia has a built in feedback loop which continually improves the quality of information and of behavior of what ever is based on that information.

15 October 2009 – Darwin’s questionable priority over Patrick Matthew for the causes of evolution of a species to fit its environment, not the evolution of the individual.

16 October 2009 – I fail to sell The Earth Ark idea to Leon Lederman and Walter Alvarez as it was too grandiose even for these super-successful mega-thinkers.

17 October 2009 – Probaway’s 15 level Consciousness Scale starting with self assembling polymers moving through animal, human, electronic, to self responsive Universe.

18 October 2009 – The standard keyboard could easily be improved by changing the overly wide space-bar into a group of five keys. And several more.

19 October 2009 – I seek to maximize human happiness but to do that we need to have a civilization in balance with nature and a revivication of the Earth.

20 October 2009 – I feel sad when a friend dies. My other friends must be feeling sad too, so I must and will be more considerate of their feelings of loss.

21 October 2009 – We should keep the old things and ideas which have been proven to work but consciously move away from those that have been proven not to work.

22 October 2009 – Show up, jump in and Do It, and where there is a positive feedback component in a cyclic activity there will be spontaneous growth and naturally scaling.

23 October 2009 – China is building cars faster than the US and Japan put together, and will soon have more cars on the road. They demand oil from where the oil is the Middle East.

24 October 2009 – It is impossible to face the population issue because it conflicts with the most elemental of all human inclinations the desire to survive and reproduce.

25 October 2009 – Solar energy is as reliable as the sun itself, and wind is a direct derivative of the sun, over time they are more reliable than limited one time use energy like oil.

26 October 2009 – The way to get the energy from the heights is with kites. There are huge amounts of wind energy free for the taking—go get it.

27 October 2009 – Selection – Natural, Sexual, Artificial and Eveish. Modern man was created by ancient women.

28 October 2009 – Consider human life in the year 7,000 CE and one thing becomes obvious, humanity can not carry on the way it presently is doing for that long.

29 October 2009 – What did I learn, after wasting a lot of time, effort and money? Before you do anything do a Google Search and before you go anywhere do a Google Earth.

30 October 2009 – Isaac Mao said the Chinese government doesn’t punish people for accessing forbidden materials; they just make it impossible for people to get certain stuff.

31 October 2009 – Today I saw an even crazier example of stupidity it is a new kind of stupidity and deserves a new name. How about super-stupid!

November 2009

1 November 2009 – We must solve population stability possible and how to make Weapons Of Extermination (WOEs) impossible.

2 November 2009 – Until we find a way to contain our Weapons of Extermination and the knowledge of how to create them humanity is doomed to an early extinction.

3 November 2009 – I design a new keyboard with letters in their usual position but with the controlling keys given a psychologically more logical function and position.

4 November 2009 – Monotheistic religion came into existence in Egypt, with Queen Tiye, coexisted and died with her, and was reborn much later as the people of the book.

5 November 2009 – Dacher Keltner and Kevin Padian lectured on Darwinism and later I discussed with them the implications of the precursors of his theories.

6 November 2009 – Computers with a thousand CPUs faster processors fiber-optic rates of new data flowing to peoples homes will result in a higher quality boredom.

7 November 2009 – Look both ways before starting to walk across the street, and be especially careful when the opposite side driver gives you the wave-on.

8 November 2009 – When thinking about a Google search or how to foucs in on a key idea when about to begin a blog post, think of the unusual words associated with it.

9 November 2009 – I encountered this total lack of thought of a back up plan for humanity when talking to top US government and foreign officials.

10 November 2009 – To maximize human happiness there needs to be healthy people living on a healthy Earth. Every person needs a substantial voting responsibility.

11 November 2009 – Some considerations for making the laws of world society in a stable world in 5000 years.

12 November 2009 – UNESCO – World Heritage Sites prepared here so you may view the best historical sites in the world from anywhere in the world.

13 November 2009 – The subjects in the pleasant smelling surroundings act more charitably towards others on psychological tests, because humans are a whole functioning unit.

14 November 2009 – The best solutions to difficult problems may be hiding in the annoying little exceptions. Seek out exceptions, especially those near the core idea.

15 November 2009 – I fight for my right to be stupid and your right to be stupid and my friends believe I am succeeding.

16 November 2009 – Our New World will be even more spectacular than the last 25 years because so many people are working on the things that will make it spectacular.

17 November 2009 – Love is in the possessor not in the possessed. Contentment is the feeling that a hoped for state actually exists — it does exist and it is you.

18 November 2009 – When I go to bed at night, I place my face on the pillow in such a way that it is stretched into a smiling expression and I feel happier as I doze off to sleep.

19 November 2009 – What are the tipping points for the world? If you can have no effect on the outcome you have no moral or physical obligations. So don’t worry about it.

20 November 2009 – I hope future people’s time will be leisure, that they may enjoy their earth, and rest by the sea and dream; that they may dance and sing, and feel happy.

21 November 2009 – The coaches faces are different. After a second of reactive emotion to a play you can see them thinking, calculating, planning, commanding and controlling.

22 November 2009 – Every idea has some validity depending on the flow of the previous assumptions, and it becomes necessary to define its limits every time it is used.

23 November 2009 – Food is the limiting factor for population but food creation may be limited by the power available.

24 November 2009 – Everyone agreed that wine at 40° F was refreshing but if you swallowed it quickly it didn’t have much flavor, so mouth it warmer before swallowing.

25 November 2009 – Ecology rhetoric is nonsense, not because the words are wrong but because they can’t be implemented. Nature’s LAW is survive and reproduce.

26 November 2009 – Viewing the world from another persons needs is the foundation of respect and soon of love for them and helping them find meaning.

27 November 2009 – Humans are slow learners but they can learn if given unequivocal experience, and to a limited degree foresee the future.

28 November 2009 – The world is not hopelessly lost if the Earth Ark included a sophisticated sperm and oocyte bank.

29 November 2009 – 15 current megaprojects of the near future projected and speculatively viewed from 5,000 years in the future.

30 November 2009 – We all went our separate ways muttering no doubt about who is nuts or maybe not. With sarcasm you never really know what’s happening.

December 2009

1 December 2009 – TIME magazine’s list of candidates for person of the year, but I ask, will they and their accomplishment be relevant and remembered in 500 years.

2 December 2009 – Now is the best of times but it’s about to be the worst of times! How many independent decision makers have their fingers on their A-bomb buttons.

3 December 2009 – Your knowledge may seem commonplace and obvious but the people of the future may desperately need your personal wisdom and will remember you. }

4 December 2009 – JulianA Time and Space indexing system where the decimalized, when, and where, are followed by the who, what, why, whence, whither, LOC,

5 December 2009 – Life is better when you participate to the fullest with what’s available to you.

6 December 2009 – Who will be the most hated person in history? Here’s 47 possibilities.

7 December 2009 – My 18 year old 1996 Geo Prizm consistently gets 51 MPG on the highway but nearly fails the tough California NOx test. But, it does pass.

8 December 2009 – Jack the Ripper was Arthur Conan Doyle. Here are some unchallengeable facts developed into linkages to the creator of Sherlock Holmes the world’s greatest sleuth.

9 December 2009 – The EarthArk Project will have some strange answers to as yet to be asked questions like how to store living things unaccustomed to freezing.

10 December 2009 – How to make big stone domes cheaply is an exercise in finding construction techniques that are long lasting so the amortized cost would be low.

11 December 2009 – Evolution has had the time to balance some pleasurable things with needs but not ego. Perhaps unlimited ego is the natural human condition.

12 December 2009 – There will probably arise simplifications of standard English. These undiscovered things may be similar to the decimal notation system in obviousness.

13 December 2009 – In the future we may have peace but in the present world, it is impossible. The book State Secrets gives 6 reasons not to trust without verifiability.

14 December 2009 – People don’t consider the destructive effects of their efforts to satisfy their need for ego aggrandizement, and yet in old age they claim to be saintly pacifists.

15 December 2009 – How do we bring out the best in people around us and avoid tripping the annoyance button on naturally irritable people?

16 December 2009 – “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!” is a Christmas lie, that permanently injures children. When a child asks you a question answer it truthfully.

17 December 2009 – Jack the Ripper is still famous because the story is filled with so many quirky plot twists that it begs the sleuth in all of us to try to identify the real killer.

18 December 2009 – A list of 87 sites to send your news releases.

19 December 2009 – The evidence is so much stronger against Doyle than any of the other suspects. He wanted the credit or he wouldn’t have put the clues into the crimes.

20 December 2009 – In Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, Wisdom is defined as, Traveling the paths to financial independence and freedom.

21 December 2009 – I noticed my face was hurting. It was a dull inner pain but sharp when it caught my attention, then I realized I had been smiling too long and too hard.

22 December 2009 – 15 Jack the Ripper suspect photos. Some are artists of various types, some are criminals, some are doctors, and one is royalty.

23 December 2009 – Old dried up English blood just isn’t good enough for a news story. Even phoney Hollywood blather blood is better than the real Jack the Ripper red stuff.

24 December 2009 – Everyone should learn from these winners that you need to practice, and to practice with the same intensity that the final performance will require.

25 December 2009 – Jack the Ripper is in a theater near you. Arthur Conan Doyle was a much more interesting person than any of his fictional creations.

26 December 2009 – Electrical plugs, like audio plugs, are improved with an exterior rounded shoulder strain relief built into the device.

27 December 2009 – The new Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jr. is frivolous fun. With a total lack of good motivations for any of the characters.

28 December 2009 – Important things should have short easy names. The easier a thing is to use the more useful it is, and it is easy to create new words which sound good.

29 December 2009 – My thoughts are getting weirder. I have no idea what will happen next year, but if the trend continues it will be interesting for me and disturbing for my friends.

30 December 2009 – TIME’s Ben Bernanke saved those who are too important to fail, and rewarded those wrong doers for their avarice by robbing the middle class.

31 December 2009 – Probaway’s Person of the year Nadya Suleman (Octomom) will be remembered because of population collapses caused by overpopulation.

The probable future of humanity

24 Wednesday Dec 2008

Posted by probaway in EarthArk, psychology, survival

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Christmas, Future of Humanity, human survival, Pope, prediction, predictions, world peace

There is a lot of speculation about the future! Everyone seems to have their own ideas based on their own experience and hopes, and if these could be graphed out they would mostly be straight line projections based on their past personal experience concerning whatever particular subject is at hand. Generally speaking this is a reasonable procedure and some things are remarkably predictable. Some physical phenomena are predictable out to 15 decimal places, like the atomic clocks. These tiny vibrating atoms are much more predictable than more massive things like our Sun and Earth, which if you observe their behavior carefully isn’t nearly that predictable. Because of the irregular rising and setting of the Sun, the universal clocks must be adjusted a second or two every couple of years because of natural wobbles.

When people talk about prediction they generally are not referring to these predictable physical events but rather to human events on a grand scale like political elections, stock market swings, global warming, sea level rise and the weather. These are the kinds of things which people believe they can and should make some sort of preparation for, like carrying an umbrella, selling their beach properties and stocks or moving out of the country in case the wrong party gets elected. Most of the time there isn’t much a person can do about these things but it is fun to worry about them and discuss them in profound ways with our casual friends.

There are really important future events that are predictable but people are conditioned by culture and personal anxieties not to discuss them. For example, no one wants to talk about the obvious fact that they are going to be dead in a thousand years and yet a moment’s reflection makes that an obvious fact. Some authority figures will try to con their followers into believing that they can prevent this eventuality by some ritual, but how convincing their pronouncements are just shows how clever their lies are. That ability to deceive will be less obvious with other less obvious things but if they are telling so blatant a lie one can be sure they are also telling other less obvious lies.

Other obvious lies we hear every day are latent in such statements as: “if things continue the way they are going ,” or “if there isn’t a war,” or “we will find a way out of the problem because we always have found a way out and always will.” I am a fairly cheerful person and yet I see the human population of the Earth heading at top speed directly for disaster. We couldn’t be going faster toward Doomsday if we put it as a national priority, a global priority, a personal priority of every person on this planet. The previous blog, Coming disasters might combine for worse effects, attempts as a mental construct to overlap the obvious coming problems projected out to a 30 year time horizon and the problems are terrific and synergistic. An obvious follow up to 30 years’ projection is the question of permanent sustainability for all humanity projected out into a distant future, say 12,000 years. The answer is something like, if we can destroy the Earth’s ability to sustain us in 30 years we should be able to do it 400 times over given that amount of time.

So, how can I be cheerful? It becomes easy when I realize I have no choice and it feels better to be cheerful than miserable. So, I do what I can to save humanity and all other living things with the EarthArk project. Give the EarthArk project a try.

It is Christmas Eve and time to watch the Pope doing his annual televised plea for world peace. I will listen carefully to see if there are any suggestions which will actually help humanity. Will he say, for example, “Reduce population, educate women, stop eating meat and stop burning fuels”?

Founding a Billion Dollar Company by James Truchard

06 Thursday Nov 2008

Posted by probaway in policy, reviews

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Free money, James Truchard, National Instruments, philanthropy, Self made billonaires

James Truchard – CEO of National Instruments

National Instruments ni.com was founded in 1976 by James Truchard, and it has grown into a nearly 5,000 person company valued at over a billion dollars, and is consistently rated as one of the 100 best companies to work for. His company grew in part because of Truchard’s absolute enthusiasm for what he is doing. It is a trait held in common with the other self made billionaires which I have met with briefly this last year. All of them just glow with intelligence, good sense, enthusiasm and a willingness to hear out ideas with which they are not familiar. They have the traits in common with my conception of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but fortunately have had better outlets for their abilities than he did, and have given wonderful things to the world. He mentioned that he read a lot, and listed some of his favorite books: Thriving on Chaos by Tom Peters, Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore and The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen.

♥ You can now view this lecture as a video at View from the Top.

At the beginning of his company’s development he worked with some basic principles:Strategies for Success

Dominate your corporate niche
Be product-oriented
Be distinctive/unique
Strive for focus/coherence/Have a committed, high profile executive
Give executives, and employees opportunities
Use innovation/new products effectively
Be perceptive of external environment
Evaluate growth/profits trade-offs carefully
Be flexible/opportunistic

What I particularly liked was his time sense, and setting up his company on a multidimensional strategy with time as one of the factors. Each of the time related subjects has its own type of strategy for implementation.
Future: Building a long term company Clock
100 Year Plan – Core Values, Culture, The National Instruments way.
10 Year Plan – Core Strategic Vision, People, Training, Platforms
5 Year Plan – Products/Markets, company Goals, Growth Goals, Quality Goals
1 Year Plan – Sales Forecasts, Goal Deployment
Quarterly Plan – Financial Goals, Sales and Profits, Update Goals

One thing Truchard emphasized was feedback. But the chart he presented struck me because of its similarity to Jeff Hawkins’s (founder of Palm Pilot) idea of how the intelligence of the brain works as presented in his book On Intelligence. That is, it is not just random feedback from everywhere to everywhere else, but rather it is hierarchical with feedback at any given level rapidly going back and forth between the association layers above and below it. Not just feedback from anywhere, but just from those specific sites and constantly occurring. Communications of the type, “this is what I think you said does that help you see better?” As these type of queries go up and down the interactive layers an intelligence like result develops. Truchard didn’t say that but it seemed to be implied in his diagram.

After the lecture I talked with him and a couple of other folks about my Earth Ark, and Gene Barrel solution to the Doomsday problem. That’s quite a challenge to hit someone with from out of the blue, but after the first shock they seemed to like it.

Later when talking to John and Laurie I broached the idea to them of supporting the Earth Ark, Lifehaven and Gene Barrel ideas by giving a substantial contribution in their wills. They sort of liked the idea of a seed bank in Antarctica with their name on it which would revive humanity after the Doomsday events. This may be the way to generate some enthusiasm for those ideas and to fund those parts which will need outside money. Like the shipping costs to their final locations. To do this would require my setting up a non-profit organization.

Later, I went to another lecture over at the Faculty Club. It was by Laurence R. Simon, professor of International Development at Brandeis who wrote, Cognition and Affect: A Developmental Psychology. This lecture appeared to be well received by all of the audience except for me. Quite frankly I was offended by the lecture because of its simplistic naivete (in the bad sense) and yet here is a person who has held many extremely responsible positions throughout his career. He gave the usual liberal slams at capitalism, and accused capitalists, of being greedy, and at the whole system as being corrupt. He wanted rich people to give all of their money to poor people. Well he didn’t say all of their money, but until these people were as poor as the poor they were giving their money to they should keep giving. Although he had a pleasant demeanor, and a smooth professorial delivery everything he said was of the short sighted counterproductive type which I criticized in my blog on the Copenhagen Consensus 2008.

Money is always in short supply so it should be used in a way which solves problems rather than making them worse which is what Simon’s simple solutions will ultimately do. A better use of the money is to send the surviving children to school rather than feeding the starving ones. That way in twenty years the children that did grow up would be more productive and richer and less populous for the local area. Feeding the starving children with the same quantity of outside resource money only makes more children twenty years hence, and puts the survivors at even greater ris,k and in an even more desperate environment than they already are because at that future time they are stretching the local resources even further.

My generalization about self made billionaires as being the best people to spend their money on philanthropy is in agreement with Andrew Carnegie. He said that ninety percent of money given to charity would do more good if it were thrown into the sea. Today I saw Carnegie’s wisdom played out before my eyes by Truchard and Simon.

Lifehaven – War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

14 Wednesday May 2008

Posted by probaway in Lifehaven, survival

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Apocalypse, Doomsday, famine, Lifehaven

The time is ripe for Doomsday.

The Four Horsemen

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse

— War, Famine, Pestilence and Death —

The engraving is by Albrecht Durer

Yesterday’s blog, Lifehaven – The time is ripe for Doomsday, made an attempt to list the various factors that will magnify worldly stress, and the positive feedback cycles that will make the Doomsday event inevitable. The blog from 2008 May 9 Lifehaven – Request to dock the ship Queen Mary in Tasmania. gave some estimation of the effects upon humanity of the Doomsday population crash. These thoughts are outrageous to most people, and they would rather not think about them at all. I hesitate to disturb their tranquility, but as a general rule it is better to see problems clearly, and to prepare for their eventualities in ways which are most likely to promote ones long term life, and vigor. When one sees the problems clearly it usually gives us time, and opportunity for reasoned, and reasonable action.

The ultimate problem is food.

Population increase of itself is healthy, and a good thing, but when the population outruns its supply of food then whatever population exists beyond the supply must go hungry. Generally what happens is everyone cuts back for a while, but then sometimes there comes a time when that isn’t enough. From experienced observation of some famines in agricultural regions a general rule is that the men are the first to die. Apparently this is because the men are consuming more calories in an environment where more work isn’t enough to get more calories to cover the outlay of energy. Also women have work that consumes fewer calories, and requires less out-of-the-house energy consuming travel. When there is less food to go around it brings on a general state of poor health for the whole community, and that gives disease access to more victims. These sick people can’t be very productive, and bring a further strain on the general welfare. People in an extreme of privation will take anything available to sell for food, and soon the infrastructure will not support whatever economic activities there had previously been. When there are groups of people organizing to take other groups of people’s food in order to survive themselves then complete social ruin is soon upon that society.

At present there are worldwide supplies of food shipped at little cost to almost anywhere. That is very good for the health of all of the people of the world now living, but when there becomes a serious shortfall of total food supplies there will be robberies on the trade routes. This will require more policing to prevent the robberies, which will run up the price of food, and decrease the quantity, and decrease the rate of the delivery of food to everyone. That is a positive feedback cycle which will elevate total cost, and decrease supplies, and bring on famine to some regions. At present there are few or no robberies from food distribution channels, but when that begins to be commonplace it means the whole system is in crisis, and near the breaking point. Here in America there hasn’t been anything like that for over a hundred years, even 1816, the year without a summer, wasn’t bad enough to bring on a general famine. However, last month, here in a world of apparent abundance, there was a food crisis in Mexico where many poor people who are living on corn were in a crisis mode because the American farmers were converting their corn into ethanol for transportation fuels. This gives us well fed persons some reason to pause, and think: perhaps the total number of calories needed by the human population, and the total number of calories available for human food are closer together than we generally think.

World population

Obviously there is enough food at present for 6.7 billion people, or else they would not exist. However, in 1960 there were only 3 billion people and that was in the middle of a continuing population explosion so there was plenty of food at that time. There is something obvious, and that is that the amount of land isn’t double what it was 45 years ago. What permitted the increase in population was improved farming methods. But, what is that? Better plowing, better irrigation, better fertilizer, better transportation and better genetic crops. All of those other than the better genes require an input of energy, and most of that energy came directly or indirectly from oil. Without an abundant supply of oil the quantity of food crops would shrink. How much I don’t know but, if the supply of oil dropped by half one would expect that the supply of food would drop by some large fraction of that half. Well, there is coal, and natural gas, and these will help take up the shortfall, but they will require conversions, and that takes energy too, and all of these energy uses are polluting. They all create CO2, and that is already creating the havoc of global warming, melting glaciers, rising sea levels etc.. Well, here is a simple question, “Can the world double its human population?” It did just that in the last 50 years and its current population doubling time rate is about 54-61 years

Each of the positive feedback aggravating factors — population increase, resource consumption, farm land consumption, biological threats, aggressive groups, appropriation, warring states, modern weapons — all are being more stressed, and there in no alleviation of any of this in sight. They are all synergistic, and on a collision course with Doomsday. When they get close to that day there will be a moan heard around the world. We should have done something about that. Or rather being human it will be someone else’s fault, and the plaint will be — They should have done something about that. — But, the time for you to do something is now. I think the Lifehaven Strategy should be supported.

— The time is ripe for Doomsday —

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