I Am Quite The Mike

So, there's a small push going right now for people to pick up as much survival gear as they can because you never know when your bugout bag might actually become a lifesaving device. That's great! But I have a problem with it. Of course I do and I'm posting about it on the Internet because that's where people go to post brain-dumps about their ideas both good and bad. Especially when it's a brain dump about a problem they want to complain about. Single use survival gear is the least effective thing you can get, and the most wasteful, and worst of all, in a true SHTF (look it up) scenario will be insufficient to meet your needs. So, when building a survival kit, consider why you might use it, and in the case where you cannot make yourself NOT buy a single-use emergency item, buy SEVERAL. Why? Because when SHTF and you need a solution NOW, you will not have TIME to "figure it out". PRACTICE is a major key to survival. Buying a bag/tent/blanket combo...

This space intentionally ... blank? Not quite, but close. I used to have a blog here with some solid history, sage advice, musings over many years' visits to E3 (The Electronic Entertainment Expo), and other random thoughts. Unfortunately I tried to monetize my blog by letting Google display ads on it. After much frustration, I a software engineer by trade could not make their automated algorithms accept my blog for display of ads not for content violation or lack of content or lack of longevity, but rather configuration issues that the automated system was loathe to elucidate upon.  To make it worse the configuration itself is all automated and Blogger is owned and run by none other than Google. I am not so naive as to believe all the products owned by a single entity should work together, but if you're going to hype the fact that it's all magically pre-configuring, you should at least make sure it works and be willing to take bug reports for those who it does no...