Comments on: No one ever saves the web designer

By: Captain Kirk

Captain Kirk — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:19:20 +0000

@Pam – “…and an IRS agent are drowning…”

I don’t quite see the joke here: why would I let an IRS agent drown? He/she is – after all – one of the major forces keeping the community civilized.

By: John W

John W — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:36:39 +0000

@Jane – no, no, no. What lawyers are good at is arguing! I have a friend who went to law school because she liked the intellectual challenge. When it came to getting employed afterwards though, she quit lawyering because she was tired of arguing!

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:36:24 +0000

My husband knows a young man who is very conspiracy theory focused. He is always talking to my hubby about his ideas as hubby has a wide range of practical skills: mechanical, electrical etc. It wouldn’t be too bad except that the boy is currently obsessed by fears of the future need for semi-automatic weapons. It’s getting kind of worrisome. Hubby keeps trying to inject a little reality, like we’d need much more food and water in such a senario before we’d need guns primarily used for killing/policing people. A hunting rifle I can understand, but an AK-47? Starting to worry me.

And I reckon if writers are dispensible, my printer hubby will be out of work too. Good thing we both have other useful skills.

There’s another post apocalyptic book that’s an interesting read: Made by Hand. I think that’s the title, the author also wrote The Long Emergency, if that’s a help. The main character is a computer programmer that only fared as well as he did because of college summers spent as a carpenter.

By: Quix

Quix — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:32:52 +0000

My only saving grace on an island situation like that is I can make a plan like no other, not much other use for a video game producer….I doubt I’d be saved either.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:17 +0000

Funny, I’ve been thinking about this recently too. I was reading about peak oil and got all freaked out about the end of civilization, and started thinking about moving to the country and growing all my own food. In real life I’m a computer programmer, so I definitely need some more survival skills

By: mademoiselle coeur solitaire

mademoiselle coeur solitaire — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:32:07 +0000

I finished your book yesterday and started a blog today. 49 lbs. to go to reach the “normal” bmi but I’d be happy with a loss of only 25. I’ve got to put myself out there and come clean — maybe some day that will include uncloaking my identity. ;)

Thanks for paving the way.

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:11:09 +0000

@Julie – I loved this book and thought it was spot on when it came to the end of civilization.

Survivalists only look crazy in the context of our values, should there ever be a “reckoning”, the ones laughing will be the ones who can sustain themselves.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:34:37 +0000

Funny, I was thinking about something similar today as I had read a while back about people who only have 1 bag of garbage to put out a year, the rest of it they recycle, re-use, re-purpose, compost, etc. and I realized that I have been trained in the ‘civilized’ world as well and have become comfortable in the land of pre-packaged food and other items in order to make my life go a little faster. What will we do? Oh, probably survive of course… I hope anyway!

By: Laura N

Laura N — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:00:23 +0000

We’ve talked about this several times at our house. My hopes in a total collapse are all in my family–my step dad has guns & can fix/build anything. My mom’s family has land & used to own a farm. If it weren’t for them, I’m sure we’d be totally screwed.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:20:35 +0000

My husband is an engineer, highly educated AND highly practical. I hope I could slide through on his coattails!