My Morning at Newark Airport — X‑ray Machine, Bullets, and Port Authority Police

by suburban | Jun 8, 2010 | Airport Security, Personal

A strange thing hap­pened to me at Newark Air­port , of all places this morn­ing.  I was up ear­ly because I had to be on a flight to Los Ange­les.  As I nor­mal­ly do when I go through Secu­ri­ty I took off my shoes, jack­et, belt, etc.  I put my... Read more

My Urban Get Home Bag

by suburban | Jun 3, 2010 | Bug Out, Gear, Preparedness, Survival Gear

When I worked in NYC and live in NJ, Post 9/11 I had a GHB in my file cab­ined draw­er. 1. 1 Bot­tle Potas­si­um Iodide Tablets (inex­pen­sive and fig­ured it was good to have in the event of a dirty bomb) 2. 2 x Small Bot­tle of hand san­i­tiz­er (60% alco­hol / 40%... Read more

Using Offline AI for Family Preparedness and Mutual Assistance Groups to Thrive

by suburban | Mar 21, 2025 | AI, Bug In, Bug Out, Preparedness, Prepping, suburban survival, Survivalism

Using Offline AI for Fam­i­ly Pre­pared­ness and Mutu­al Assis­tance Groups to Thrive When you think about pre­pared­ness, you prob­a­bly pic­ture things like you’re stock­pil­ing food, stor­ing water, shoot­ing, hunt­ing, or learn­ing basic first aid. You may have... Read more

Drones, Espionage, and Preparedness. A Prepper’s Guide to the Unknown

by suburban | Dec 12, 2024 | Preparedness

Intro­duc­tion Over the past sev­er­al weeks, mys­te­ri­ous drones have been spot­ted over New Jer­sey and Stat­en Island, spark­ing wide­spread curios­i­ty, con­cern, and spec­u­la­tion. These sight­ings, often occur­ring at night or dur­ing the ear­ly morn­ing... Read more

AI Apocalypse & Expert Warnings: Prepping for AI Risks

by suburban | Jun 23, 2024 | AI, Preparedness, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Will AI kill us all, just like in the Ter­mi­na­tor?  Could Skynet be a real­i­ty?  The ques­tions are a bit dra­mat­ic in nature, but not real­ly.  I think that all of us have watched the Ter­mi­na­tor movies mul­ti­ple times and have com­ment­ed or... Read more