Although Unsolicitedbutoffered normally focuses on Linux and technology, it's nice to occasionally digress and applaud to laugh out loud videos like those of Harrison Ford's interview in the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Long-time fans of Harrison, who is still one of the greatest actors of all time with his roles as Indy, Han Solo, and Jack Ryan as part of his resume, know that Harrison is terrible with interviews and avoids promoting his films. However, he has displayed an incredible sense of humor such as when he had himself handcuffed during an appearance at a comic convention. I was laughing so hard at his confrontation with his old partner in the recent Jimmy Kimmel show (which I was watching on my iPad) that people were looking at me like I was nuts as I waited for my flight.
It's a pleasure to be able to watch video clips such as this especially since there's so much hatred, discrimination, and vitriol on the Internet. As a frequent reader of CNN and BBC news articles, I sadly go through comments from readers from different countries defending and attacking Asia, their own country, neighboring states, religions, and everything under the sun. The sad reality is that as awesome and unifying as the Internet is, there are so many opportunities on the Internet to attack people, governments, religions, and countries.
The politics and the sheer weight of people's perspective on how the world works is more complex than FreeBSD, Unix, PHP, Pearl, Ruby on Rails, and ASP put together. Anonymity is both a blessing and a curse on the Internet. If everyone had the opportunity to travel and live in most parts of the world at the age of 8 (as young Indy did in the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles), people wouldn't be so judgmental and filled with hate. As it is, removing racism and discrimination is extremely difficult in this day and age (just look at the controversy over same-sex marriages) and the Internet, unfortunately, has become the medium for many evils (Tumblr's innocence, for instance, evaporated faster than Craigslist's). As for me, I wish I could just stick to Linux, the command line, and watch Indiana Jones/Harrison Ford video clips and hope hate disappears someday.
"Ford's as awesome as Lee and my 'do!"
Jim Kelly screencap from Enter the Dragon (1973)
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