The key to surviving SPN2K? Vienna sausages. Lots of Vienna sausages. Photo illustration by Danny Schreiber. Photo from Nene on Flickr.
Reader, beware: you may be all alone.
As you peruse this post, the Silicon Prairie News team is holed up in our basement conference room, armed with an electric generator and enough non-perishable food and Diet Mountain Dew to help us survive at least one year. Scores of others across the Silicon Prairie are all but certain to be following suit.
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That, it appears, is the only hope any of us have in the post-apocalyptic Prairiescape that seems likely to emerge in the aftermath of this article being published.
This post is, after all, P2K — the 2,000th post in Silicon Prairie News history. Just as the Y2K bug was expected by some to bring the world to its knees when the calendar turned from 1999 to 2000, so, too, is P2K predicted to precipitate a doomsday scenario on the Silicon Prairie.
Maybe the 2,000th post alone doesn’t seem like cause for concern. But consider this: P2K just so happens to come on the same day that Silicon Prairie News gained its 2,000th fan on Facebook. Coincidence? We think not. It’s clear that we have on our hands a perfect storm that will set in motion SPN2K, a series of events so catastrophic that the Silicon Prairie as we know it will never be the same. We’re talking the collapse of the Silicon Prairie News CMS… the fall of Big Omaha … Macs and PCs processing together … mass hysteria!
Silicon Prairie News gained its 2,000th Facebook fan on Tuesday, which was a nice milestone. Until we realized that it marked the end of civilization as we know it. Screenshot from Facebook.
On Monday, when my esteemed colleague Danny Schreiber alerted me of the impending doom, I began to brace for the worst. I stockpiled cans of Vienna sausages and my five seasons of rented “Gilmore Girls” box sets — because even in the face of the end of the Silicon Prairie as we know it, a guy’s gotta have his daily dose of quality WB programming, right? — and headed to the basement bunker/conference room.
It’s from that safe haven that I published this post. And it’s from here that I hope, one year from now, to emerge from the ashes of SPN2K like some Silicon Prairie phoenix.
But if I don’t see the light of day again, if I meet my demise in this nicely appointed conference room, please tell my parents I love them. And please return the “Gilmore Girls” DVDs to Blockbuster … because if there’s one institution certain to survive the next year — apocalypse or not — it’s a brick and mortar movie rental chain. And I really don’t want my legacy tarnished by unpaid late fees.
Update June 22, 3:20 a.m.
We have emerged from the basement bunker to find that the Silicon Prairie as we once knew it is, well, still the Silicon Prairie as we once knew it. The SPN2K-induced demise of the Silicon Prairie was greatly exaggerated.
Nonetheless, we want to take the occasion of our 2,000th post to solicit your feedback. What, over our first 2,000 posts, have we done well? What would you like to see us do better over our next 2,000? Please share your thoughts in the comment section below or by emailing us at editor@siliconprairienews.com.
From the entire Silicon Prairie News team, thanks for your readership.
