What Can You Do With a Sentimental Heart
I was in fourth grade when my family got our first Macintosh computer, the LC iii. It was a boring beige box that contained within it vibrant color and unimagined possibilities. It ran the program Kidpix, which is what I used it for 99% of the time. It also had the capability to let you create your own icons, or change the desktop background, by making small pictures based on moving colored pixels around to create a larger pattern. When I showed this trick to my fourth grade class, which had just gotten the same computer, their minds were collectively blown.
A year or two later my parents bought a laptop, a clunky black Powerbook, with the idea that it could be portable and we’d take it on family vacations so they could get work done at the same time (my mom is forever writing books and articles in her free time). It had an analog track ball, which I loved to play with, probably even more than I liked working on the computer itself. People gasp and laugh in amazement when I tell them that my dad still has that computer, sitting in his office, and he still uses documents off of it. About ten years ago he bought a compatible color printer off eBay for 50 cents, although he says he had to pay about 20 bucks for shipping. There’s no other way for him to get information off the computer and on to another more modern one, so when he wants to use a test or quiz stored on there he prints if off on the matching printer and then makes copies off that printout.
A few years after that we bought a candy-colored iMac, bright blue, and my parents actually also still have that computer. When I went away to college I took with me a refurbished blue clamshell laptop, just like the one Elle Woods buys in Legally Blond. It was replaced in two years by an eMac, which was heavy as hell but beautiful, pristine, and crisply white. My mom got a Powerbook and convinced her school to go all digital and buy Apple products for her video editing lab, which now uses Garage Band and Final Cut Pro. When I moved to Chicago for grad school I gave my parents the eMac and took with me a MacBook, which is what I’m writing this on.
When I started running in earnest, my sophomore year of high school, I would carry with me a discman, with a burned cd that held about 15 carefully cultivated running songs. For years I ran while carrying that bulky piece of plastic, an exercise that these days I cannot even imagine. I was a sophomore in college when the iPod came out and I lusted after it for a full year before managing to scrape together the money to buy one. Suddenly my running music, ALL my music, fit onto this one small, lightweight device that never skipped or stopped. A few years after that all the music that I bought to put on that device came exclusively from iTunes. To say it transformed my running would be an understatement. In the seven or so years since I got my first iPod, I have literally never been on a run without bringing my latest iteration along with me.
I spend more time in the collective company of my laptop, work computer, and iPod than I do with any one person. Even if you're not an Apple afficionado, don't have an iPad or the latest iPhone, to say that the technology and design created by Steve Jobs has not touched your life is like saying that you’re not really affected by oxygen. You might not realize the impact it has...until it’s gone.
A year or two later my parents bought a laptop, a clunky black Powerbook, with the idea that it could be portable and we’d take it on family vacations so they could get work done at the same time (my mom is forever writing books and articles in her free time). It had an analog track ball, which I loved to play with, probably even more than I liked working on the computer itself. People gasp and laugh in amazement when I tell them that my dad still has that computer, sitting in his office, and he still uses documents off of it. About ten years ago he bought a compatible color printer off eBay for 50 cents, although he says he had to pay about 20 bucks for shipping. There’s no other way for him to get information off the computer and on to another more modern one, so when he wants to use a test or quiz stored on there he prints if off on the matching printer and then makes copies off that printout.
A few years after that we bought a candy-colored iMac, bright blue, and my parents actually also still have that computer. When I went away to college I took with me a refurbished blue clamshell laptop, just like the one Elle Woods buys in Legally Blond. It was replaced in two years by an eMac, which was heavy as hell but beautiful, pristine, and crisply white. My mom got a Powerbook and convinced her school to go all digital and buy Apple products for her video editing lab, which now uses Garage Band and Final Cut Pro. When I moved to Chicago for grad school I gave my parents the eMac and took with me a MacBook, which is what I’m writing this on.
When I started running in earnest, my sophomore year of high school, I would carry with me a discman, with a burned cd that held about 15 carefully cultivated running songs. For years I ran while carrying that bulky piece of plastic, an exercise that these days I cannot even imagine. I was a sophomore in college when the iPod came out and I lusted after it for a full year before managing to scrape together the money to buy one. Suddenly my running music, ALL my music, fit onto this one small, lightweight device that never skipped or stopped. A few years after that all the music that I bought to put on that device came exclusively from iTunes. To say it transformed my running would be an understatement. In the seven or so years since I got my first iPod, I have literally never been on a run without bringing my latest iteration along with me.
I spend more time in the collective company of my laptop, work computer, and iPod than I do with any one person. Even if you're not an Apple afficionado, don't have an iPad or the latest iPhone, to say that the technology and design created by Steve Jobs has not touched your life is like saying that you’re not really affected by oxygen. You might not realize the impact it has...until it’s gone.
Adjie Massaid Terima Legend Award Dari Insert Adjie Massaid Terima Legend Award Dari Insert
Suasana haru mewarnai malam puncak ulang tahun ke-8 acara infotainment Insert. Acara yang selalu tayang di Trans TV itu menyerahkan penghargaan kepada para selebritis sebagai sebuah bentuk apresiasi. Secara khusus Insert memberikan penghargaan Legend Award kepada almarhum Adjie Massaid.
Sebelum penghargaan tersebut diserahkan, penyanyi Marcel Siahaan melantunkan lagu yang membuat istri almarhum Adjie Massaid, Angelina Sondakh tidak kuasa menahan air mata. Lagu yang berjudul Kau Takkan Terganti ternyata memiliki kenangan tersendiri bagi anggota DPR dari partai Dremokrat itu.
Marcel mengajak Angie ke tengah panggung, air matanya semakin deras. Bahkan ketika memberikan ucapan terima kasih, Angie semakin tak kuasa menahan sedih.
"Assalammualaikum, Saya tahu bahwa Mas Adjie sedang menatap dari jendela surga dan Mas Adjie bangga dapat penghargaan ini. Terima kasih untuk semua yang kasih support buat mas Adjie," ujarnya di atas panggung, Minggu (16/10/2011).
Angie datang bersama adik Adjie Massaid, Mudji. Sejak sepeninggalan Adjie, Mudji selalu setia menemani ke mana pun Angie pergi. Usai penyerahan Mudji langsung memeluk Angie.
"Untuk anak-anak saya, Aalia, Zahwa, Keanu kalian yang terbaik, papa kalian selalu yang terbaik dan selalu di hati," tutupnya.
Syahrini Nonton Langsung Cabang Berkuda di Sea Games
Penyanyi Syahrini yakin, para atlet yang akan diterjunkan di Sea Games ke-26 pada 11 November di Jakarta dan Palembang nanti, telah melalui proses persiapan yang panjang.
"Buat aku pasti sesuatu... Kalau pelaksanaannya dan semuanya itu solid, aku yakin atlet-atlet tadi sudah melalui pengodogan dan pelatihan yang lebih. Sekitar 27 hari menjelang Sea Games, dan aku dengar ada 5 ribu penari di pembukaan nanti, itu pasti luar biasa sekali. Indonesia pasti sesuatu.. Keren!," ungkap Syahrini dengan gaya bicaranya yang khas.
Sejumlah artis datang pada peresmian gerakan Ayo! Indonesia Bisa di Jakarta, Minggu (16/10/2011), untuk mendukung para atlet yang akan berlaga. Mereka antara lain Syahrini, Raffi Ahmad, Pinkan Mambo, Ahmad Dani, Mulan Jameela, Nikita Willy, Uya Kuya, Okky Lukman, Helmi Yahya, Donna Agnesia, Wanda Hamidah, Ira Wibowo, dan lain-lain.
"Aku pastinya ingin menjadi sesuatu... Bajuku ini sudah merah putih. Maunya sih bendera Indonesia akan berkibar setinggi-tingginya di Sea Games. Mendengar dan melihat dukungan komentar di twitter Ayo Indonesia Bisa itu sangat luar biasa. Aku adalah satu-satunya pakai merah putih. Kehadiranku sangat mensuport," ungkapnya.
Syahrini juga mengungkapkan kalau sebenarnya dirinya bercita-cita menjadi seorang atlet berkuda. Namun karena kecelakaan tahun 2008 yang dialami, harapannya itu menjadi sirna. Seandainya saat itu, tidak ada halangan, dia yakin akan tampil mendukung tim Indonesia di Sea Games ke-26 tahun ini.
"Harusnya kalau 2008 lalu aku nggak jatuh dari kuda dan tanganku patah, mungkin aku ada di sini (sebagai atlet), karena pelatih kudaku ada di sini (Masardi). Padahal tadi maunya, sambil menyanyi, aku jadi atlet kuda. Tapi khayal dan keburu trauma," ungkapnya.
Sebagai penyanyi Syahrini akan sepenuh hati mendukung aksi para atlet. Dia akan penjadi salah satu pengisi acara di Palembang, selain juga akan menyaksikan olahraga favoritnya, cabang berkuda di kota empek-empek itu.
"Aku mensuport dalam hal apapun, tapi karena profesiku sebagai penyanyi, ya bernyanyi untuk Indonesia. Insya Allah, kebetulan pas pelaksanaan Sea Games besok, aku nyanyi juga di Palembang. Jadi sekalian mampir, pas kebetulan, tepat sama pertandingan berkuda," urainya.
berita terbaru smash !!
Tahun 2011 bisa dibilang menjadi tahun kebangkitan era boyband dan girlband. Dan dari menjamurnya boyband, SMASH bisa disebut sebagai salah satu pengawal era musik yang sedikit banyak terinspirasi dari musik Korea tersebut. Bahkan, SMASH mendapatkan penghargaan sebagai The Rising Stars 2011 di acara Insert Award.
"Kita bersyukur bisa dapet award ini, berarti membuktikan kalo kita berprestasi. Kita juga berharap kalo ekspektasi orang lain terhadap kita bukan boyband biasa, tapi juga berprestasi. Ke depannya kita pengen terus tampil beda, berinovasi dan gak bikin karya monoton," papar Morgan.
SMASH yang ditemui di gedung Trans TV, Jakarta Selatan, Minggu (16/10), melalu Morgan berharap bahwa mereka sama sekali tidak menyangka bisa mendapatkan penghargaan, mengingat nominator lainnya sangat berpotensi.
"Pesaing terberat Soimah ya, dia kan sekarang tenar banget. Kebetulan kita juga suka, selain cantik, orangnya multi talenta banget. Kita benernya gak mikirin award, karena ini semua proses belajar buat kami. Ada dan tanpa award, kami tetap berusaha untuk menampilkan segala sesuatunya sebagus mungkin," tutup Morgan.
give me a little smiLe please!!
Pak Budi seorang pemilik toko pakaian, kaget ketika seorang saingan baru, membuka toko di sebelah kiri dia.
Sebuah spanduk besar telah dipasang, dengan tulisan "PAKAIAN IMPORT"
Pak Budi bermasalah untuk kedua kalinya ketika pesaing lain menyewa gedung di sebelah kanannya, dan mendirikan spanduk yang jauh lebih besar,
dengan tulisan "HARGA TERMURAH".
Pada akhirnya Pak Budi benar-benar depresi, namun keesokan harinya, dia datang dengan sebuah ide.
Dia tidak mau kalah, dia memasang spanduk yang lebih besar dari kedua pesaingnya di tokonya sendiri
... dengan tulisan ..... "MASUKNYA LEWAT SINI"
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