Apple Mac, Yellow Dog, MakkOS (Fleas) and My Dog-The Connection and the Nation Building
All the above have literal and metaphorical connection.
The common denominator is thee size of one’s pocket.
All except Yellow Dog is going is going up and the trend is exponential with the announcement of our budget which is is economically strangling the nation with debit and credit crisis.
While the black money is going in percentage from 30% to 50% and we are debiting our money in the NBT (Nation Building TAX) and if one is having Rs.33,000/= turnover (above the SME-Small and Medium Enterprises) a day one is taxed for helping the economy in which the current government is unable to encompass and accomplish its energy with unnecessary extravaganza.
Yellow Dog is is open source distribution that can be installed in a Apple Computer.
I do not think any one of us in the university can afford to buy an Apple computer for productivity work.
Leave alone if one us including academics can afford an old netbook, it is a luxury.
Some years ago I figured out the cost of one Microsoft computer not pirated, I could have three computers, one at office, one at home for me and one for my kids for playing games (basically DOS games that are / were very good but out of vogue now).
If I revise my old computations with Apple as an example today I can have almost 50 computers wirelessly connected in my SME business model using Linux as the Link Language.
The beauty is that the economics of the NBT pundits cannot figure it out or understand the Linux OR its open philosophy and versatility.
They are engrossed with hedging deals instead of critical thinking.
What about MakkOS, the dog fleas which are plenty in this country like IRCs in Welikada with some political backing or the vote bank.
But the trouble is the treatment of dog fleas has gone up and I have to live with my dog and its fleas.
There is a saying in Sinhalese, that we say “if we sleep with a dog we wake up with dog fleas”.
That is of course if we are not interrupted by mosquito menace.
Fortunately we have a temporary respite with torrential rain and not full game o f cricket.
That is also a blessing since we can switch off the TV to save on electricity.
Fortunately, I do not watch SORROW-Lankan cricket but more interested in how the hedging deal was accomplished with ex-cricketers in the fray and running the SHOW.
I sometimes think if I hedged myself with an ex-cricketer instead going on an academic exercise called industrial action, I could have earned the entire emoluments in the university in one transaction.
That is only a wishful thinking.
Coming back to my dog which is having an expensive taste is refusing to eat the meager meal provided.
I did a survey and realized he wished that I should be back on with industrial action lest he missed all the fun we had during the prolonged strike.
Yes, we had dog food those days without our salary being paid but the dog food we shared had more meaning than all the 6% increase in educational funds we were asking for.
I am in full agreement with my dog who does not understand anything about Work or Free time (duly paid after three months) or Strike.
Yes the company we had eating dog food was worth in gold than the promises we were entertained by the economically Enlightened Economists.,
We are treated like Pol Buruwas by the elite.
Fortunately my dog who is eternally wagging his tail is a Pol Buruwaa but I am not.
Who else are the Pol Buruwas?
They are the poor voters
