How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse Book

[Granville Turley]

Thanksto video games like Resident Evil, Left4Dead, and Dead Rising, movies like 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, and Army of Darkness; and TV shows like the Walking Dead and Hannah Montana, zombies are EVERYWHERE these days.

Now, how the heck does one stay in shape during an apocalypse? After all, a simple trip to the gym becomes significantly more difficult when you have to kill a few zombies between deadlifts. Instead, I would advocate quick, efficient workouts that can be done anywhere: on top of a building, in the bottom floor of a basement bunker, and any place in between.

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It's hard to know what to ask in when interviewing. The typical interview questions seem to just test the candidate's ability to interview. But we don't want a good interviewer, we want a good teammate.

For a long time I have searched for interview questions that reveal the person. For the most part, I have been failing. That is, until my wife, who's an avid fan of B movie horror fan made this suggestion: "How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?"

The best answer, as far as I can tell, is about teamwork. In a zombie apocalypse, nobody can survive alone. There are just too many things to think about: food, protection, medicine, and so on. Not one person has the skills to survive in the zombie apocalypse world alone.

I am a big fan of the apocalyptic genre, some of my favorite were books (e.g. Alas Babylon and Once Second After) that featured the aftermath of nuclear war. Since the end of the cold war, most of the newer fiction focuses on zombie-based apocalypses, which I have recently started to enjoy very much.

I image a world where the initial panic is over and survivors are struggling to endure a long road to rebuild civilization. There is little to no electricity and the technology we have today is rendered useless.

Without electricity, networks, or the Internet, my skills would be rendered useless. Being a web developer or coding as a profession is not going to happen, but how can I help with the skills I have developed as part of my education, practice, and experience?

Then, it hits me. The one skill I have, and the base of my career and profession, like most true software engineers, is that I am a trained problem-solver. I use code to deliver instructions to an implementation device, however, my main skill is the ability to create unique solutions to unique problems. This skill is independent of computers or electricity and can be used in a post apocalypse world in many capacities.

I then come to another realization: not all software developers are engineers. Software engineering means applying engineering principles to the creation of software. Some developers are coders, technicians who know one language well enough to be functional and spit out code. Software engineers, on the other hand, begin with a thorough study of requirements. They work through the development process in a systematic way and provide the BEST POSSIBLE/OPTIMAL solution to the given problem (i.e. one that performs the best and fastest with the given resources). All solutions are not the OPTIMAL solution.

In a post apocalyptic world, whatever community remains will be in the difficult position of having to create a community from absolutely nothing. Whether it is the establishment of a sturdy fortification, the construction and maintaining of structures, the harnessing of energy sources, the implementation of agricultural strategies, or any number of unforeseeable endeavors. The software engineer and his/her problem solving talent will be crucial in the re-establishment of civilization.

After the apocalypse begins, civilization will become drastically different from what it is now, but people still have the same basic needs. They need to eat, they still get sick, and there still needs to be some form of order. Therefore, there is a wide variety of problem solving, which will still be very necessary to form a functioning society.

As a zombie limping through the world looking for a good meal, a school may seem like a good place to start. Lots of people trapped in a building for an entire day sounds very appetizing, but you might need to beware of some traps. Follow these tips and you might be able to survive.

Like I said above, any zombie looking for good brain always knows that they have a fresher taste after the bodies that accompany them have some sort of movement. In a traditional classroom with those all-in-one desks, this might be hard to find, but with recent research about the positive effects of movement and the brain, more and more classrooms are integrating #brainbreaks into their daily routine. Look for these classrooms as you groan your way through the halls of the school.

Step 2. Create an emergency plan with your loved ones. Designate a meeting point that everyone knows (e.g. do not forget to tell your middle child where the meeting point is because you assume either the oldest or youngest child will tell them).

Step 3. Check your phone. A zombie apocalypse would be an example of a time when it is not a good idea to be one with nature and disconnect. Stay connected as your government will contact you, as long as they are able to, with information on the situation.

Step 4. Know your evacuation route. The city of DC has 19 designated emergency routes that all radiate out to the 495 Beltway. If at the very least you do not know where you need to go, just know that you need to end up on the 495 Beltway if you need to get out.

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Leaders emerge, conflicts must be navigated, ethical questions must be asked and answered. All of these vital things now need to happen without a centralized governing entity that mandates these things.

Things like safety and governance and conflict management. A lot of functions that had been centralized and institutionalized before the zombie apocalypse now have to be talked about and argued about and decided on.

Next, we have our "full-height" bar that is actually using a little bit of CSS magic to offset the height of the bar below it (notice how that bar is always positioned at the bottom of the screen). Additionally, notice how the text and buttons inside this bar respond to the sizing of the viewport all without the need for JavaScript.

Then, we have our last visible bar that houses our logo and navigation. This bar becomes sticky as you scroll down the screen, and also shrinks to a specified ratio of its original size. Notice how the links maintain their positioning and the logo scales automatically. Also, we've turned on our "content scrolling" for this bar, allowing its contents to be scrolled horizontally on smaller screens, a pattern we're seeing much more of on mobile devices these days.

Finally, as you scroll further down the page, you'll notice a final sticky bar slide in...from out of nowhere! This utilizes our "initially hidden" option, which allows you to bring in content further down a page as needed, perfect for the calls to action in our example.

If they define pacifism as I will neither cause harm through direct nor indirect action well...they are pretty screwed and frankly...they should get eaten. Its one thing to be a pacifist toward other humans...another thing entirely to not be willing to smash in the face of a brain eating, undead, nature violating monstrosity.

If on the other hand they hand they are willing to bend the rules a bit they could define pacifism as I will cause no direct harm to any other creature. Well now we have some wiggle room for them to defend themselves.

In this case they would need to rely on geography and traps, or mercenaries, probably best to go with both. A small area surrounded by lava works nicely (I may have been playing mine craft lately...).

The best example of this in existing fiction is The Walking Dead Season 2, in which the protagonists encounter a group of people living on a farm who are convinced their zombie friends will be cured eventually and thus treat them like farm animals: using tools to corral them safely and feeding them regularly.

As long as the pacifists actively contain zombies they encounter, and can stay put in an area that is secure and can provide for their needs (e.g. an island), there is no reason this won't work. The area does need to be secure or remote enough to not only keep zombies away, but also less moral people who wouldn't mind taking over what they have. (Pacifists have no defense against other people in a zombie apocalypse except not being found.)

I love Zombieland. I happened to watch it last week on FX a couple of times in a row, and I was thinking after the movie that it never really showed us about their eating habits and how they survive during the zombie apocalypse. We know Harrelson's character was obsessed with Twinkies, but he didn't find one until the end, and there was this truck with snowballs in the movie. There was no reference further in the movie if they were surviving on that.

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