Ellen Simich
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? | So many years ago, long before I ever owned one, I forget actually. I remember that my Dad actually bought an Apple computer long before the MAC came out, which turned me onto Apple in general. The only other thing I remember is either encountering one at work or perhaps at a work friend's and thinking that I'd never seen such amazingly accessible yet powerful technology. | |
| Status: | I don't have a clue. Try person or user/bigwig/hopeless/hopeful. | |
First Mac:
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First one I owned personally, an LC III. First one I ever used, at work, so long ago I don't know. Like probably one of the first models ever made. | |
Current Mac:
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G3 | |
| When did you get your first modem? | Again, at home real recently, like 1993 give or take a year. However, I always had a permanent connection at work, from 1983 or 1984 on. | |
| Who did you call first? | From home, my ISP, of course, from work, too long ago, I haven't a clue. I'm sure l sent email to a friend, but who ? | |
| Present Occupation: | Academic tutor for school kids, Math, Eng., and of course computer science. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Not famous. | |
| Dream Job: | The dream is not to need/want a job, but to be able to do whatever one wants, computers or otherwise. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Different?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| Almost always. For almost all of my high school, college and working life, I have been the 1 woman or perhaps 1 out 2 women in a room of 20, in my math and computer courses and work meetings and departments. Somehow, I managed to believe that it was just fine for me to be there, that I could do it and perservered against all the societal norms and people that said otherwise. |
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| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| In 2 ways. It has made it possible for me to do things I need and want to do for myself and my work. And it has made me see what can be done with technology above and beyond whatever level the "crowd" is at by truly clever people. | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| My home office - in terms of out of place, the sewing machine, in terms of odd - I don't know, nothing seems odd to me, I'm sure many things would to others. | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Music above all else. But also the things I listed above that I enjoy, namely, dance, theater, art, literature, movies, travel, the beach. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| Picking 1 person is impossible. JFK or Barbara Jordan, Beethovan or Paul McCartney, Einstein or Marie Curie, etc., etc. In all cases I would want to ask them to tell me their vision for themselves and the world they were part of and how they came to realize it. | |||
| Do you play a musical instrument and/or are you in a band? | |||
| Used to play violin and guitar and sing. A band - not for a long time. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| A philanthropist/patron of the arts. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Say what? |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | See above. | Education: | Needham High school, B.A. Math, U of Mich. | |
| Location at Birth: | East Patterson, N.J. | Current Location: | Mass. | |
| Where you've been in between: |
Lived: New York, Rhode Island, Michigan Traveled: Too many to list. |
Astrological Sign: | Virgo | |
| Available? | I suppose. | Chat Nick: | Say what? | |
| Favorite Books: | The list is too long, but: The Far Pavilions, The King Must Die, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Three Musketeers, Trinity, all Shakespeare tragedies, etc. | Favorite Music or Band: | Good Lord - easier to say what I don't like, but: Classical Orchestral, Rock, Blues. | |
| Favorite Food: | Seafood. | Cat or Dog Person: | Not much of an animal person in general - neutral. | |
| No Personal Web Site | |
| No Professional Web Site ... yet. | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Dilbert and When Winners Work for Losers |
| Once again I have a thousand favorites, but: "The majority of the masses lead lives of quiet desperation." "No man is an island... therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." "When the Gods want to punish you they answer your prayers." |
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Created Saturday, February 27, 1999; Edited: 3/12/99