tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post6208242646654952094..comments2023-07-17T08:19:24.624+01:00Comments on Delusions of Adequacy: When the electricity stops flowingArgenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-66199005788310871062010-06-05T09:09:10.098+01:002010-06-05T09:09:10.098+01:00Get into abacuses. If computers go down the pan, t...Get into abacuses. If computers go down the pan, they'll make a comeback!Dominic Rivronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02618013365521035400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-30238700293325265832010-06-04T16:02:28.855+01:002010-06-04T16:02:28.855+01:00I love blogger in draft, the only thing i don'...I love blogger in draft, the only thing i don't love is the upload. on the draft forum everyone is yelling and complaining about it, so i am sure they will fix it soon.MadSnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163140037276496519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-86912184812156032662010-06-03T10:50:11.173+01:002010-06-03T10:50:11.173+01:00@Watercats - Can I come and live with you when the...@Watercats - Can I come and live with you when the doo-doo hits? You have skills! Actual proper skills! And you wouldn't do too badly in the entertaining yourself as it goes. And it's not wrong to be smug either.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-61453778176871512102010-06-03T10:30:36.971+01:002010-06-03T10:30:36.971+01:00lol!.. they'd surely need someone to entertain...lol!.. they'd surely need someone to entertain everyone! Sure with your voice and song writing and word weaving ability.. much more important than knowing how to sew on buttons!<br />Is it weird to admit that I feel smug sometimes that I know what time of year to plant seeds, how to break in a horse and know how to shoot... because of the whole 'apocalypse at any moment' thing... (I'm not paranoid)Batteson.Indhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10846214578565824955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-75891120207129955282010-06-03T08:02:10.706+01:002010-06-03T08:02:10.706+01:00@Friko - Thanks for the vote of confidence but I s...@Friko - Thanks for the vote of confidence but I suspect the stress of the situation would rob me of any glibness.<br /><br />@Bug - Hehe, looks like I'm going to be in good company out there. You any good at fighting zombies?Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-9414203843049235722010-06-02T03:38:24.638+01:002010-06-02T03:38:24.638+01:00I would probably be out in the wilderness too - th...I would probably be out in the wilderness too - they'd kill all the lawyers so there'd be no need for a legal assistant :)The Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-34384125579856762702010-06-01T23:11:06.920+01:002010-06-01T23:11:06.920+01:00No, I don't see it that way at all.
Your answe...No, I don't see it that way at all.<br />Your answers to his questions would not really be as lame as this, you'd have a few snappy snippets to hand out and you'd be the head court jester in no time.Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-19246516430956698612010-06-01T13:29:40.725+01:002010-06-01T13:29:40.725+01:00@Sandra - Yes! I've read Postman (way better ...@Sandra - Yes! I've read Postman (way better than the movie) and it would be like this I think. Even those things that don't require electricity to function were probably made using electricity, so once they're broken/worn out there'd be no easy way to re-create them. Old crafts would have to be re-learned. All we could hope for is that enough people with these skills survive and that, being (in the west anyway) a reasonably literate society, we can preserve our science until we can get stuff going again and not have to re-do from scratch.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-37422359206384173502010-06-01T13:23:25.680+01:002010-06-01T13:23:25.680+01:00this made me think of the movie Postman, no electr...this made me think of the movie Postman, no electric mean no anything we have now adays and is very scary, we watched Live Free Die Hard last night and if that happens to our world, there would be no IT people needed for sure. we sat down and listed what we would have that worked with no electric available, truly scaryMadSnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163140037276496519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-90336734985644743742010-06-01T13:09:50.746+01:002010-06-01T13:09:50.746+01:00@Niamh - Yes, we're going to need pots, cos th...@Niamh - Yes, we're going to need pots, cos they're always getting broken - they never dig up a whole one on Time Team, do they?<br /><br />@DFTP - It scares me just how little I actually do know about the technology we all rely on so much. My hope is that the Dummies books will survive the catastrophe.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10532506690426639326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-13200948187938472952010-06-01T13:04:43.288+01:002010-06-01T13:04:43.288+01:00there's some kind of scary fact that if the wo...there's some kind of scary fact that if the world did suddenly end then there isn't a single person that understands the whole of any given technology - so for arguments sake if electricity was still about then you'd need 8-10 different people who all understood different aspects of technology to get the TVs working and watch Britain's Got Talent - and actualy stuff that mattered like brain surgery (always assuming there are NO zombies) would be beyond us.<br /><br />Well at least I'd have company out in the badlands then...Don't Feed The Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05380146661526476947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254559936115487829.post-92005529771703487792010-06-01T12:54:20.580+01:002010-06-01T12:54:20.580+01:00that's brilliant... esp the referral to the bl...that's brilliant... esp the referral to the blog!! Scary too, time to sign up for that pottery class!Niamh Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06519443787482685320noreply@blogger.com