To anticipate and prevent
Every good office needs a good supply of gear to keep it running. If you’re a small office, there is probably some sucker (usually the IT guy, or someone else who’s “handy”) who gets all the facilities and similar requests. That sucker usually happens to be me because… I’m handy (that and I love being…
This post is part of a series on disaster preparedness. Each entry will cover one part of the preparations I’m making a “disaster kit”, along with why I’m including the items, how important they are, and how much they cost. See the initial posting for more details. Roughly two years ago I posted a series…
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Recently, the CDC tweeted about the Zombie Apocalypse. I found this intriguing for a number of reasons (not the least of which was that the CDC had a twitter feed). Their post about the Zombie Apocalypse was fairly amusing, and what they were really using it as a vehicle for was to raise disaster preparedness…
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Last night after the Thanksgiving festivities, I sat down to watch some MythBusters. The episode was titled “Inverted Underwater Car”, which turned out to be a revisit of the “Underwater Car” episode from a few years back. MythBusters is always entertaining (doubly so when anything gets blown up. See also: every other episode) and tends…
As part of the Disaster Prep series of posts, I talked about Food & Water. In that post I mentioned buying Mainstay 1200-Calorie Food Bars which I refer to as “Emergency Rations” (ERats). The problem is that a lot of people have a negative connotation of anything with the word “Ration” or “Emergency”. One friend…
Stop. Imagine for a moment, you’re at home, enjoying a nice relaxing afternoon, reading your favorite blog, and suddenly you realize… the Zombie Apocalypse has hit. Outside of your window you see the undead wandering about. Shit, things are going south and they are going fast. You need to get your gear and get out…