Gray, gray day

[sinanju]

Meteorologically and emotionally, that is.  I feel...blah.  Tired, yeah, but mostly because I have no energy, no enthusiasm for anything.  I'm probably not getting enough sleep this week, but that's because bedtime comes--and goes--and I just can't.  Not yet.  I want to listen to a little more of my bouncy ragtime piano music, and then a little more, and then one more; that helps, somehow.

I am tempted to call it a day at work and I just got here.  I have no pressing obligations at work; all the really big stuff was finished last week.  There'll be more, but this week it's mostly just catching up on small things, back burner projects that I've finally got time to work on.

Maybe I will.  Go home, I mean.  We'll see.

In other distractions, we Tivoed Jericho the other night.  Haven't watched it yet, but I'm skeptical.  It's apparently about a small town cut off from the outside world after they witness at least one nuclear mushroom cloud in the distance.  So they wonder and fear and can't get any information from the outside world.

Which is where they lose me.  Okay, the phone lines are dead.  Fine.  Ditto for cell phones.  But nobody in that town has a satellite phone--or a satellite dish?  Nobody has an amateur band or shortwave receiver?  Or hell, a CB radio?  Unless there was a nuclear conflagration so complete that they'd have no doubt about it, there would be people chattering on those radio bands.

Or they could, you know, drive out and see what's to be seen.  Apparently, though (and admittedly, this is based on a short 10-minute preview ad) they're afraid to let anyone know that Jericho is essentially unharmed.  Lest, I assume, the Mad Max-style radioactive mutant biker gangs decide to come to loot, pillage, rape and burn.

Comments

Well..

[seawasp]

... you KNOW that the Nookyoular Explosion TOOK OUT the satellites with its EE Emm Pee.

Re: Well..

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But that doesn't explain why they can't use ham or shortwave radios to try to communicate. (And if all their modern cars are still working, don't try to tell me an EMP took out the radios....)

Re: Well..

[seawasp]

You would insist that I be CONSISTENT with EMP effects, in a BROADCAST TELEVISION show???

Re: Well..

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want ME to watch your show, then...yeah. (On the other hand, the huge ratings of LOST clearly indicate that there are plenty of potential viewers who don't insist on coherence, logic or consistency.)

Re: Well..

[seawasp]

You and I are clearly not a demographic they're aiming for.

Re: Well..

[purplerhino.livejournal.com]

Hehe, me neither. Watched the show and was wondering how all those cars were driving around. Not only would the phone and lights go, but any car using a computer chip. And I believe some that don't.

Now I watch LOST, I admit. You know the first thing that got me with lost... Um... how is that engine running when it is no longer ATTACHED TO THE FRIGGEN PLANE. No power or fuel, means the turbine doesn't go, meaning no sucking the guy into the engine.

But seeing as how we don't technically know if the Losties are dead, on earth, on an alternate earth, etc.... I'm partially willing to suspend my disbelief... and have a good scoff/chuckle.

But excuse me... look the fallout rain is coming, git everyone in the basement like it's a bloody tornado and we'll all be fine? Wood and plasterboard aint gonna stop radiation. And if they were lucky enough to have a fallout shelter, you come out and even the ground is contaminated. Not to mention every bit of food and drink. They'd all live a month, maybe.