"Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."
These are the words of Harrison Ford's character Deckard in the movie Blade Runner.
For some reason they often run through my head when I have no choice but to use a Microsoft Windows-based computer, commonly called a PC (versus a Mac...which is a type of Apple computer). I think this is because I am having difficulty imagining how PCs aren't my problem.
I am not going to waste our time going into a rant about the ways in which PCs upset me. Those who have used a Mac or an ipod or an iphone will maybe understand why I have decided to suspend my blog until I have access to an Apple computer. Sitting in front of a computer is in itself a grim enough experience; when it is a PC it verges on the obscene. The reality for me is that with an Apple this blogging stuff can be quite pleasurable, but on a PC it becomes work.
This is the main reason why that my blog is currently 3 months behind. Since it is unlikely I will see a Mac for some time, it will become further and further from where I actually am in my travels.
A Goodbye Update:
Currently I am in India: I arrived on Jan 6 in Calcutta. I left Calcutta to go a trip across northern India (Jaisalmer-Jaipur-Agra-Varanasi-Bodhgaya). I am now back in Calcutta and will stay here until at least March 6...I am thinking of extending it a week or two because there is still so much I would like to see and do in this amazing city. It is by far the best place in India I have been.
Before coming here I had spent 6 weeks at the British School at Rome. In short, Rome was absolutely incredible. Perhaps it was partly the experience of living in the overwhelming beauty of Rome that has added to my disdain and repulsion of the ugly world of Microsoft's operating platforms. I said it before on this blog: Life is too short to use a PC. My travels thus far have only strengthened this position.
So like the Rebels in Star Wars, I will now go into hiding from the evil Empire and the dark side of the Force.
If you want real time travel updates, you will have to call me.
My mobile phone number here in India is (91) 9748182483, and please remember that I am 10.5 hours ahead of Toronto time.
ciao for now,
-Burke, refusing to give in to the Dark side.
(n.b. All you PC users: don't forget to turn off your computer when you are done - you will find the "turn off" button by clicking "start")
