| Irashaimase ! Welcome ! You have found yourself in the home page of Mike Stopa. You are welcome to look around, drop me a note, visit my links and look at my pictures. a very silly page indeed |
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| Please note, I have only just begun to create this page. More will be added as time goes by. |
| A brief introduction: my origin: Springfield, MA, USA, December 9, 1954. my intellectual beginnings: Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. my ancestry: Polish on all sides, but both parents were born in the U.S.A. my career: theoretical physicist, specializing in mesoscopic and lower dimensional systems, transport, Coulomb blockade, self-consistent electronic structure of quantum dots and classical transport in biological channels. my interests (fun): Clubs with dancing and nightlife, especially What the Dickens , a fabulous spot in Ebisu, the ever popular Gaspanic II (if you want to stay young), and The Fiddler in Takadanobaba (a little cramped, but an interesting regular crowd). Also, I love listening to live jazz music, of which there is much to be found in Tokyo. A couple good places are Sometime in Kichijoji (link requires Japanese browser capability...unless you can navigate through random characters) and Pearl Bar in Shinjuku. my interests (more serious): I like playing full court basketball and other competitive sports. I like swimming (I used to do the 200 m butterfly in college). I like drawing, mostly portraits. I like photography and I just bought a new MZ-7 Pentax. I play guitar, but I am rusty, I play flute, but I am even rustier. I like movies and my favorite director is Peter Weir. my interests (really serious): Politics, particularly libertarian philosphy. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. I am deeply interested in the structure of Japanese society and even more so in the psychology of Japanese people in comparison to Westerners. |
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| This is my modification for 03/21/03 Happy Shunbun everyone ! |