Moving stuff around...

[alexpgp]

While I didn't watch the Oscars yesterday, I managed to catch some of the pre-event chat as the stars arrived at the venue for the festivities. Specifically, I caught the few minutes where the media shoved microphones at Halle Berry, who proceeded to focus on the racial aspects of this year's Oscars. Now, I understand that, in her life, Berry has faced the monster of racism up close and personal, but if she really wants to achieve a world where race doesn't matter, then I think the wisest course is not to keep making it an issue.

Then again, perhaps racism is rampant in Hollyweird, and I am an unusual individual who doesn't go around thinking of Denzel Washington, for example, as a "black" actor, but as a "good" actor.

* * *I've been toying with the idea of moving my office around a bit, and today when I got back from the store at 4:30 pm, I decided the time had come..

My main Linux box, 'onegin', was shutdown after an uptime of almost 51 days, 5 hours. That's a little more than 7 weeks of continuous operation. (Contrast that with the store's "back room" computer, 'Borg', which seems to work okay if left on for a couple of weeks at a time, but which eventually becomes so slow that a reboot of its Windows operating system is required.)

I had 'onegin', together with an old Dell 133 named 'zion', on a long folding table that stood with its long axis perpendicular to my desk's long axis. That table moved over to the wall under the window (where the notebook shelf used to be), and 'onegin' now sits on the library table to my right, the former home of 'zaika' (which moved to the position previously occupied by 'onegin'). I'm taking advantage of 'onegin' being down to upgrade the OS to Red Hat 7.2.

Cheers...

Comments

[rillifane.livejournal.com]

The fact that in 73 years only one black had ever won a "best actor" tends to suggest that racism is indeed rampant in Hollywood. For that reason it strikes me as appropriate that Ms. Berry make something of the fact.

It is always, I suspect, difficult for well intentioned and non-racist whites to comprehend the sense of exclusion that non-whites feel and the constant barrage of racially motivated insult and injustice which they experience.

When I reflect on my own experience as a mixed race Anglo-Asian I can only shudder to consider how very much worse it is for African Americans.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Point taken.

Cheers...