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January 28, 2005
Friday Fragments
Everything is about China these days, even Chinese movies. The other night, I checked out the latest from the director of 'Hero'. Who knows, one day I might even remember his name.
This particular flick can be seen as an astounding allegory for China. In my frame of mind, it is hard to be much of anything else.
Things just keep getting better. The new Mac Mini is going to be a hit. This is just what I could use. Take it to work, use a two port KVM and boom, you've got a really nice little system.
Interestingly enough, I think there's one thing that's keeping me from using Mac on the regular, and that's Microsoft Outlook. If I knew a nice way to synch MS Outlook with all that iCrap on Mac, I might just go for it. What I really want is OS X, because I hear that it runs a nice WinXP emulation, and it's the sane alternative to Linux crap.
I don't talk much about white supremacy these days. There's a couple reasons for that. One is that I've done it to death over at the Race Man's Home Companion. The other is that I've found it very difficult to hold a decent conversation about race once you throw Walter William's monkey wrench into the equation, which is that the significance of race is ever declining in the US.
Most folks I've encountered (but then who am I) find it difficult to talk about race and class at the same time. It's generally either or. So that's my punishment for studying race so long, I understand the shortcomings of purely racial discussions. Be all that as it may, it's often refreshing to jump back into the moshpit of race and have at it. One of my commenters yanked me back into that reality, even though I was really heading in a completely different direction.
As for myself personally, the constrictions of race are rather like the constrictions of face. I look in the mirror everyday and I like what I see, so I don't pay much attention to the people who don't like my face. I don't long consider who might be doing what behind my back because of what I look like.
The most fun thing about computing are the words. Sometimes they are acronyms, sometimes they are abbreviations, sometimes they are invented words, sometimes they are old words given new meaning.
I'm thinking of verbs in the last class:
elided, deprecated, expunged, truncated, prefixed.
And other stuff:
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Posted by mbowen at January 28, 2005 11:46 AM
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