• Apocalyptic Fiction

    From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to All on Thu Sep 15 12:51:00 2011


    I've been reading apocalyptic fiction lately - zombies (World War Z,
    Walking dead, 28 days later), ecological crises (The Road),
    plagues (The Stand is an oldie but a goodie), comet impact (Lucifer's
    Hammer) and so on.

    I just finished "World built By Hand", a book about a post-oil, post
    government america where the economy has collapsed and communities are
    forced to become self-reliant.

    When the dust settles, people are forced to start again. While there's lots
    of salvage to be re-used, manufactured products are scarce and eventually
    will be gone. People are living a life I'd estimate comparable to pre-industrial revolution culture, but with salvaged modern materials.

    Most of the skills people had before the event are irelevant, and many of
    the skills people need to survive are long-lost in today's disposable, mass manufacturing culture.

    What skills do you have that you could use or teach to help start over?

    I'm tempted to make pre-indutrial crafting into my new hobby. Who knows, it might come in handy. :)

    --kW



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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Nov 12 01:52:00 2011
    I've been reading apocalyptic fiction lately - zombies (World War Z,
    Walking dead, 28 days later), ecological crises (The Road),
    plagues (The Stand is an oldie but a goodie), comet impact (Lucifer's
    Hammer) and so on.

    I just finished "World built By Hand", a book about a post-oil, post government america where the economy has collapsed and communities are
    forced to become self-reliant.

    When the dust settles, people are forced to start again. While there's lots of salvage to be re-used, manufactured products are scarce and eventually will be gone. People are living a life I'd estimate comparable to pre-industrial revolution culture, but with salvaged modern materials.

    Most of the skills people had before the event are irelevant, and many of
    the skills people need to survive are long-lost in today's disposable, mass manufacturing culture.

    What skills do you have that you could use or teach to help start over?

    I'm tempted to make pre-indutrial crafting into my new hobby. Who knows, it might come in handy. :)

    Kurt.. this echo is dead.. but that not that kind of dead <lol>.. I think you meant to post this somewhere else? :) :)

    Btw, I do love Walking Dead, season two <grin>

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Janis Kracht on Sat Nov 12 13:38:02 2011
    HEllo Janis,

    Kurt.. this echo is dead.. but that not that kind of dead <lol>.. I
    think you meant to post this somewhere else? :) :)

    YEp, saw that one back a few weeks ago. There are a few of
    us squish users still lurking here in case anybody needs
    help with the product, or squish related software such as
    sqafix, etc.
    Marc LEwis and I both offered to co-mod but were rebuffed,
    but the mod did at least take advantage of access through
    Marc's system iirc, so there are still folks around if
    somebody needs assistance or info.


    Regards,
    Richard
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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Richard Webb on Sat Nov 12 12:31:16 2011
    Hi Richard!

    Kurt.. this echo is dead.. but that not that kind of dead <lol>.. I
    think you meant to post this somewhere else? :) :)

    YEp, saw that one back a few weeks ago. There are a few of
    us squish users still lurking here in case anybody needs
    help with the product, or squish related software such as
    sqafix, etc.

    It's been years since I used Squish and Max but I still feel a kind of loyalty there, ya know? <grin>.. Well at least to comment here...

    Marc LEwis and I both offered to co-mod but were rebuffed,

    Aw..

    but the mod did at least take advantage of access through
    Marc's system iirc, so there are still folks around if
    somebody needs assistance or info.

    Very cool - good of you two to do so... I was talking to a fellow who ran Max in the 80's last night.. Hopefully we'll get him set up to come back on his 2011 Linux system... would've been neat if I could have told him the Linux version was realistic :( Well we'll see which package he decides to try out..

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Janis Kracht on Sat Nov 12 22:44:37 2011
    Hi Janis,

    On Sat 2011-Nov-12 12:31, Janis Kracht (1:261/38) wrote to Richard Webb:

    <snippety doo dah>
    It's been years since I used Squish and Max but I still feel a kind
    of loyalty there, ya know? <grin>.. Well at least to comment
    here...

    IT's still quite good. When/if I move back to the city I'll probably try integrating binkley/squish/max with IRex, once
    we've got the network card configured for this machine and
    cabling probably dos ver. Gotta find a place to freq it
    though, I might play with it on my slow dial-up ppp
    connection a bit to get familiar if I find it for freq
    continental u.s. Been reading its technical reference docs
    a bit.

    Marc LEwis and I both offered to co-mod but were rebuffed,

    Aw..

    but the mod did at least take advantage of access through
    Marc's system iirc, so there are still folks around if
    somebody needs assistance or info.

    Very cool - good of you two to do so... I was talking to a fellow
    who ran Max in the 80's last night.. Hopefully we'll get him set up
    to come back on his 2011 Linux system... would've been neat if I
    could have told him the Linux version was realistic :( Well we'll
    see which package he decides to try out..

    Iirc, blew away the whole message base, but think I've seen
    reference to squish compiled for linux as well, and iirc
    there are a couple folks hammering away at maximus under
    linux as well. Suggest he ask here and in muffin for
    current info.

    Regards,
    Richard
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  • From Kevin Klement@1:342/77 to Janis Kracht on Mon Nov 14 13:29:29 2011
    Hi Janis,

    Saturday November 12 2011 12:31, Janis Kracht wrote to Richard Webb:

    It's been years since I used Squish and Max but I still feel
    a kind of loyalty there, ya know? <grin>.. Well at least to
    comment here...

    I still use the combo here (Squish Max). Still works GREAT!

    Kevin

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  • From Mvan Le@1:218/700 to Kurt Weiske on Fri Aug 31 23:25:20 2012
    I've been reading apocalyptic fiction lately - zombies (World War Z,
    Walking dead, 28 days later), ecological crises (The Road),
    plagues (The Stand is an oldie but a goodie), comet impact (Lucifer's
    Hammer) and so on.

    [cut]

    Most of the skills people had before the event are irelevant, and many of
    the skills people need to survive are long-lost in today's disposable, mass manufacturing culture.

    What skills do you have that you could use or teach to help start over?

    Lies, deceit, politics, social engineering, manipulation, propaganda, business,

    leadership, management, religious and/or Bible knowledge (for social control and manipulation) would be some I have.

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  • From Mvan Le@1:218/700 to Janis Kracht on Fri Aug 31 19:43:38 2012
    I'm tempted to make pre-indutrial crafting into my
    new hobby. Who knows, it
    might come in handy. :)

    Kurt.. this echo is dead.. but that not that kind of
    dead <lol>.. I think you meant to post this somewhere
    else? :) :)

    TUB is not dead.

    It is in suspended animation with 1 or 2 beats a year.


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  • From Janis Kracht@1:218/700 to Mvan Le on Sat Sep 1 01:02:58 2012
    I'm tempted to make pre-indutrial crafting into my
    new hobby. Who knows, it
    might come in handy. :)

    Kurt.. this echo is dead.. but that not that kind of
    dead <lol>.. I think you meant to post this somewhere
    else? :) :)

    TUB is not dead.

    It is in suspended animation with 1 or 2 beats a year.

    so, in the tradition of Princess Bride, it's just "mostly dead" :)

    :)

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  • From Mvan Le@1:218/700 to Janis Kracht on Sat Sep 1 05:21:44 2012
    TUB is not dead.

    It is in suspended animation with 1 or 2 beats a year.

    so, in the tradition of Princess Bride, it's just "mostly dead" :)

    :)

    I'll accept that.


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