Glome.org
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glome
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I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1975, and lived in Alexandria, Virginia until the age of 10. I was always fascinated by science, technology, and computers.
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Tokyo; it was 1986. Just to orient you, this was not long after Thriller, and “Back to the Future” came out in 1985. I knew no Japanese beforehand, but began to learn quickly after arriving. We lived in Kakinokizaka (柿の木坂), in Meguro-ku (目黒区), near Toritsu-daigaku station (都立大学). It was a cool place to live for a kid, since there are game centers right by the station, and a supermarket where you could buy fresh, hot o-ban yaki every afternoon (with either bean-paste or cream inside), and the back-streets were usually clear enough of traffic to cruise on my bicycle.
My younger sister Ainsley (3 years my junior) and I went to Nishimachi International School (西町), in Hiroo (広尾), about a 35-minute train ride from home. We walked about 10 minutes to the station every morning, rode the subway, then walked about another 15 minutes or so, up the steep hill from Hiroo station to Nishimachi. After school, I’d usually stop at a corner store to get some instant yakisoba and some bikkuriman (chocolate with collectible playing cards), after which I’d either head home or hang out with friends for a while – there were plenty of things to do. I voraciously read science fiction and anything else on science and technology. I also did a lot more programming, with BASIC and LOGO.
