Comments on: Mac Daddy http://www.tedstake.com/2009/11/20/mac-daddy/ The Blogging Site of Ted Leonsis Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:00:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff Lee http://www.tedstake.com/2009/11/20/mac-daddy/comment-page-1/#comment-36344 Jeff Lee Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:25:35 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=5550#comment-36344 My wonderful mother had the foresight to buy the family an Apple II E right as they became available 81-82?; Elise, older sis by 3yrs; not sure how often Dad availed himself of it ;-] It came in pieces; like motherboard, keyboard encasing:front side, back; this crazy looking thing that plugged into that receptor there; this weird plastic thingy that attached here then ran over there and up there and attached there; you get the idea ;-j It came in boxes and instructions. My mother built over couple-several weeks. The power chord was plugged in, the power button was switched (almost said pushed ;-j, and we began our lives with computers. Again; it is to my mother I owe my initial interest and lifetime work with the PC. As an adult I have come to realize, or at least have an appreciation for the elemental impact on my entire life that my mother had the foresight to research, buy, fortunate have means, construct, and turned on that A II E. This would have been the same year she had me cast as Theodore the Mouse in a local University production of "Cinderella." Thanks Mom. On the way to rehearsal one evening; I wanted to know why I could not be at home with He-Man and Castle GreySkull; which would have been my usual activity this time of night; often naked as was just before bath-time ;-j My mother, Anna Lee, explained that it was time for me to become part of the community. I asked her what that was; didn't know that word. She explained; the people outisde of our house and imediate family; the people at church, school, the buildings we were driving past, the people on the street and in the stores we went to. Suffice it to say; it worked. That was the best possible place she could have taken me to find the community. I found it; to great effect; as a little mouse; running around backstage with the other little boy and girl mice; hiding under the tables. Not only did I find the community; I indeed became a part; by playing a part; a stage actor at 6. I don't use the term "bitten by the theater bug." I'd like to think of it as; Born Into It ;-j Thank You Mom. (and the dudes at IBM let Steve Jobs walk out the front door. Whoops ;-o Break a Leg - Jeff Lee CEO NARRASHARE Inc. Narrashare - Share the Narrative. My wonderful mother had the foresight to buy the family an Apple II E right as they became available 81-82?; Elise, older sis by 3yrs; not sure how often Dad availed himself of it ;-]

It came in pieces; like motherboard, keyboard encasing:front side, back; this crazy looking thing that plugged into that receptor there; this weird plastic thingy that attached here then ran over there and up there and attached there; you get the idea ;-j It came in boxes and instructions. My mother built over couple-several weeks.
The power chord was plugged in, the power button was switched (almost said pushed ;-j, and we began our lives with computers.

Again; it is to my mother I owe my initial interest and lifetime work with the PC. As an adult I have come to realize, or at least have an appreciation for the elemental impact on my entire life that my mother had the foresight to research, buy, fortunate have means, construct, and turned on that A II E. This would have been the same year she had me cast as Theodore the Mouse in a local University production of “Cinderella.”

Thanks Mom.

On the way to rehearsal one evening; I wanted to know why I could not be at home with He-Man and Castle GreySkull; which would have been my usual activity this time of night; often naked as was just before bath-time ;-j My mother, Anna Lee, explained that it was time for me to become part of the community. I asked her what that was; didn’t know that word. She explained; the people outisde of our house and imediate family; the people at church, school, the buildings we were driving past, the people on the street and in the stores we went to.

Suffice it to say; it worked. That was the best possible place she could have taken me to find the community. I found it; to great effect; as a little mouse; running around backstage with the other little boy and girl mice; hiding under the tables.

Not only did I find the community; I indeed became a part; by playing a part; a stage actor at 6. I don’t use the term “bitten by the theater bug.” I’d like to think of it as; Born Into It ;-j

Thank You Mom.

(and the dudes at IBM let Steve Jobs
walk out the front door. Whoops ;-o

Break a Leg - Jeff Lee
CEO NARRASHARE Inc.

Narrashare - Share the Narrative.

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