# My Story

I have been studying the history of technology for about 40 years. My brother and I were early Mac users. We started using the Internet as soon as we got access. I created this website to make a record of what I have learned and the people from whom I learned it. I have always been an intensely curious person. I got interested in technology when I started reading about MIT's Media Lab in the 1980s.

Over the course of my life I have done a wide variety of things. I learned to cook at an early age then worked in restaurants and learned more when I was trained by professional chefs. When I was 20 years old and in my senior year in college, I went to Japan to do foreign exchange. Halfway through the year-long program, I dropped out of school. My homestay mother found an independent study program run by Quakers in Kyoto. I convinced my college to give me credit for the program. They agreed on the condition that I wrote a hundred page paper on a pass-fail. I studied the oldest continuously performed form of theater in the world, read 40 books, attended 50 live performances and wrote a 150 page paper. My college accepted the paper. I passed and graduated college.

I have always been a bit of an entreprenuer. I started my first business making chocolate lollipops, chocolate houses and cakes decorated to look like cartoon characters, the pink panther and Big Bird.

<figure><img src="/files/cEgZZrpfPupTgRp4Q4pq" alt=""><figcaption><p>This is a picture of a cake that I made when I was about 13 years old.</p></figcaption></figure>


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