Y2K- The very thought sends some people into mild paranoid fits. But, let's think about this for a moment... What if the scare is true? What if everybody that's going around telling everybody to just stay calm and that nothing is going to be severely affected by the impending millenium are just delaying the blow so we don't freak out and start doing having a Donner party prematurely?

I realize that programmers and systems engineers all around the world are working on making every possible piece of equipment that takes direction from a processing chip that denotes the day, time and year y2k compliant, but what if it's not enough? Shouldn't people really have thought about this a LONG time ago? It's not the first time that the people in the computing/communications industry have flagrantly flaunted their ignorance. Statements were made about nobody ever possibly having the need to have a computer on their desk at home, and that the current number of IP addresses that we have in use would NEVER run out, but look around you...It's happening, and in a BIG way. 

People are trying to become compliant with every possible future, but people just can't think that far ahead...If they could, do you really think that the Pacer would've been chosen ahead of time as a viable source of transportation? I think not... 

Well, I've heard that people are either collecting HUGE amounts of water and food for the impending doom that will assail when the year 2000 hits, and I've also heard that most people really don't give a shit. Some of these brave idiots are actually going to be ON A PLANE IN THE AIR when the clock turns. Well, the gene pool does need to be squeegeed out every once in a while...

In the event that the power grid throughout the United States goes out; everybody and their mother decides to sue everybody else because of their inability to stop the ensuing panic or downtime; everybody yanks their money out of the bank, thus bringing economic ruin into the fray; any paycheck system that's computerized completely bites it, in which case nobody gets paid; and we all just sit around idly watching that fateful night as CNN broadcasts the various countries disappearing as their power shuts down, think HARD on this... 

The RIOTS...the LOOTING...the indiscriminate killing that'll be going on. If you think I'm paranoid, just think about all those drivers on the road that TOTALLY freak out and cause accidents just because it's raining or snowing. Or all the women that beat each other up in order to get the last "Furbee" (sp) at Christmas time. All those people will be getting MAJOR WIGGINS at this point. Just see how long it takes that nice old Mr. Smith that lives down the street to grab up a gun and start skeet shooting at pedestrians... 

Me? I'm going to fill my car up with all the items that I hold dear, like all of my studio equpiment and various other electrical gadgets (being the geek that I am...Yeah, I know if the power goes out they won't work, but I'm hoping the power will come back eventually...), pack a bunch of groceries (canned, of course) and flee out to my Mom's place in West by-god Virginia. I'll hole up with my family and wait it out. Once the satellite reception and the newscasts start again, I'll know it's time to start thinkin' about coming back... 

I'm just hopin' that there's something to come back to... 

I LOVE being paranoid... 

12.24.02

Looking back on this today, I remember sitting up with my mom and my stepfather, eagerly waiting for the electronic version of Lucifer's Hammer to strike.

It was a disappointing night.

Now I just have the economy collapsing and the fourth reich that is the current administration to look forward to.
 

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