Brooke Fujita

Male

Chiba

Japan

Profile Information:

Occupation:
Software Developer
Company:
Nomura Securities, Co., Ltd.
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
secure and anonymous fly-fishing, snow-shoeing while on caffeine (lots of it)
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
Other
About Me:
4th generation Japanese-American expatriate now living Chiba, Japan (I was born and raised in Honolulu). But if you really want to know, I left my heart in Sapporo.
Website:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brookefujita
Secondary Website:
http://43n141e.blogspot.com/

Comment Wall:

  • Daniel Leuck

    Welcome Brooke! I enjoyed reading your blog, and I agree with your assertion that developers should avoid religious devotion to a single language or platform. Its best to know at least a few languages on the systems/statically typed side and a few scripty languages.

    Jan 14, 2008

  • Cameron Souza

    Wow - you look cold! I bet you didn't wear that often in Hawaii :-)

    Jan 26, 2008

  • Cameron Souza

    > When I was in high school in Honolulu,
    > I would often cut class and hang out in
    > the frozen food section in Safeway.

    ROTFL :-) I hear Hokkaido is beautiful. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side of the mountain.

    Jan 27, 2008

  • Russel Cheng ラッセル　チェン

    Looks cold in Sapporo, like you have shovel snow.

    Jan 30, 2008

  • Brooke Fujita

    Oh, mais ouis, lots of pure snow, just as Charles De Mar says. In my picture, I am actually standing on top of the little mountain that collected when all the snow on the roof came down in back.

    Jan 30, 2008

  • Sub Callnop

    How's the ice festival going? Wish I could be there with you!

    Feb 9, 2008

  • Brooke Fujita

    The Sapporo Snow Festival is pretty nice. I took my family on the eve of the opening, to skate outdoors in front of the Sapporo TV Tower. We saw lots of cool ice sculptures, even one from the Hawaii team!

    Feb 9, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    Hey Brooke, Russel and I were just chatting and your name came up. When are you going to visit and join us for some sake?

    Jul 10, 2008

  • Brooke Fujita

    Yo there, Dan:

    Ah, I was hoping to take the kids back to see Grandma and Grandpa Fujita sometime later this year, but the prices of travel from Japan this year is just skyrocketing... oy!

    Maybe if you and Russ come to Tokyo..? Well, I think I could manage to get down to Tokyo to catch up with you guys...

    But let's keep an unsigned, undated rain check on that sake. I can bring some of the good stuff from Hokkaido!

    Jul 10, 2008

  • JW Guillaume

    Aloha,
    I was stoked to know somebody can relate to my Vic-20. I think it changed my life! I still have it. I hope to someday use it as a prop in my personal remembrance of the early days of technology. In the day I lusted at Heathkit; they had a computer (build it yourself) that ran C/PM, but I couldn't afford it.
    JWGuillaume

    Jul 10, 2008

  • Stephen McMahon

    I just noticed your comment about shipping my vehicle. We actually arrived here on Tuesday evening of this week to a bunch of family members wielding tuberose leis. I've been here many times but that was the first time I've been received like that -- it was very nice :). Now I'm certainly going to have to be careful not to get fat as my in-laws are continuously amazed that I like their food so they are always trying to test me out. Maybe after I've been here long enough I'll even figure out what they are saying!

    Jul 19, 2008

  • Stephen McMahon

    Ahh...Pidgin is no problem. My in-laws are all Filipino and most of them speak Ilokano unless they are speaking directly to me. I understand some of it but I still have a long way to go.

    Jul 21, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    Hey Brooke. We are in Tokyo until Saturday and then we are off to visit family in Izumo. Its too bad we will miss each other.

    Sep 3, 2008

  • Jonah Ungacta

    Hey Brooke! How's it going? Good to hear from you - ya its been a while!

    Nov 14, 2008

  • Mike Curtis

    Hi Brooke - yes, it is a Steelhead...caught on the Umpqua River in central Oregon.

    Mar 19, 2009

  • Mike Curtis

    Nope...caught that one slow trolling plugs in mid-December. Let me know if you need a guide...I've been fishing with the same guy (Todd Hannah) for 20+ years and he knows that river better than anyone I've ever met. I've fished Salmon and Steelhead with him and had great luck with both. In fact, now that I think about it, he also put us onto some huge (6 foot plus!) Sturgeon one year when the river was blown out by a storm.

    http://theoregonangler.com/

    Mar 19, 2009