March 15, 2011 11:28 am / 3 comments
CERT is awesome, but it’s not going to work during the Zombie Apocalypse. Because CERT is all about search and rescue, and search and rescue is just going to spread the contamination. My CERT class. To be fair, there are lots of skills that CERT teaches that will be invaluable come the day: How to [...]
February 28, 2011 10:50 am / no comments
In the Santa Cruz mountains. Can’t think of a better place for it. These folks run a five hour class on surviving in the wild, as the native Americans might have. My guess is that they’ll be on the crunchy-granola side of things, but that’s fine by me. If the edible plants class we took [...]
February 10, 2011 3:39 pm / 2 comments
Did you know shooting ranges can provide you with zombie targets? I did not, though it seems obvious in retrospect. Eight of us went shooting, and I wasn’t even the least experienced person! That was awesome. We decided to go for an indoor range since it was cold out and we were worried about rain. [...]