1.Hey guys,this is an odd question,but I figure you can answer it best.I'm 16 (amost 17) years old,going into 11th grade,and it's about time to figure out what I "want to be when I grow up." I have a little bit of web design and programming experience,am VERY good with computers (making them do things,fixing them),and have done a bunch of stuff in linux (compiled a kernel,yadda yadda).I just like being around computers,and discussing them.What kind of job do I want?!Have any of you guys seen The Screensavers on TechTV,where they just research new programs,help people fix their computers,and talk about computing news and new hardware?I think that would be the perfect job for me,but that's shooting a big high...Help!What should I look for?
2.was six years old when my father bought me a home computer.It was Commodore 64,the legendary thing.I mostly played games with it.Sometimes my father typed in some programs from computer books,and I was thrilled to try them.When I got bored to just playing,I began to write programs of my own.It required quite a lot of concentration and nerves,and usually I never finished my programs.
At times my parents tried to cut down the time I spent with the computer.Some days I woke up,turned the computer on,and sat next to it until it was evening (I didn't even bother to change my pyjamas to day clothes).But on the other hand,my parents said that I seldom complained about dullness.The computer always kept me entertained.In addition,I think that my English skills are very much derived from it.Sometimes it was necessary to read a manual of few hundred pages to completely understand how to play some complicated game.Also much of the computer programming literature is available in English only.And what comes to future,I expect a computer-related career.All in all,I think that the computer has been a very significant thing in my life.
3.And now we have this wonderful,versatile machine and a word processor that keeps writers sane,more or less.Certainly for a writer it is -- to borrow from the younger generation -- awesome!I go merrily along,typing thoughts,having occasional inspirations,throwing them out,retyping them,being sure there are no split infinitives,counting the words,adding some more,moving them around.In fact,I have moved this paragraph three times and may decide yet that it belongs someplace else.And when I need to know a date,I switch over to the Web and ask Google.When I need to know the history of pencils,I ask Google.When I need to know who said what in Congress,I ask Google.Google knows everything.Google is at the moment,the leading search engine.
E-mail is a gem.It keeps scattered families in touch.I check my e-mail in the morning before I have my coffee to see what my kids are doing.E-mail connects the whole world.For a little while I was corresponding with a person in Scotland.I had no idea whether it was a man or woman,but he/she was quite surprised to learn that Colorado was part desert.
Nothing is perfect,including computers.But I find myself agreeing with Marshall McLuhan that,"The computer is by all odds the most extraordinary of the technological clothing ever devised by man.Beside it the wheel is a mere hula hoop."
4.My Family
My Family
Originally uploaded by mrswonderful.One of the fabulous things about "getting things done" and decluttered is that you run across old photos.
I love these people.I am not sure who they are exactly.But they are my people.I think I know,and there is someone still alive who is in the photo so he might know.
But what a grand mystery...what a wonderful day that must have been,and what is behind all those different expressions?Which one would die too young,which one would die an old lady who "bequeathed" her 150 Harlequin romance novels to me during the summer I had surgery and was on crutches?
I love this photo,and these people.
5.The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together,just like Christmas in the West.All people living away from home go back,becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival.Airports,railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees.
The lively atmosphere not only fills every household,but permeates to streets and lanes.A series of activities such as lion dancing,dragon lantern dancing,lantern festivals and temple fairs will be held for days.The Spring Festival then comes to an end when the Lantern Festival is finished.
China has 56 ethnic groups.Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people,and they have different customs.