On 23 May 2010, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: > This IS Bulgaria; or, as an American friend once put it; "I love Bulgaria, it > allows me to > experience the same sort of thrills my ancestors experienced in Texas in the > middle of the > 19th century." Have you seen that film "Wild Wild West"; a sort of steam-punk > America > through distorting glasses? The problem about "Wild Wild East" is that one is > unable to > remove the distorting glasses.
This caused me to have another Bulgarian flashback. I was staying in Burgas in a block of flats (apartments) on about the 8th floor back in the days of communism, when I heard the distant but unmistakable whine of a dot matrix printer. I realised it came from a room on the same floor, so I balcony hopped round (I was young, fit and stupid) and peeped in the window. It was a room empty but for about 15 C64 machines all doing stuff, windows open, because of the heat. Almost anywhere else that would have been unremarkable, but I never saw any other digital equipment, in private hands, hospitals or University. It was like coming across a showroom full of sportscars, or a supermarket with a good range of products in it. Whatever it was going on, it had to be state business, which meant security. What was I thinking? David Glasgow _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
