Hobbies. Life. Philosophy. Japanese culture. Otaku culture. Science Fiction. Anime. Manga. Video games. Plastic models. Photography. Fish named Steve. Enjoy.

Hi, I'm Greg. I live in Japan. I've had this homepage since 1995. I don't have a FaceBook account. It never appealed to me much and Facebook doesn't like me for whatever reason. I prefer to have a table of contents-driven homepage, and this homepage is focused on my hobbies and life experiences. This is also a nexus point to my various social media accounts (except for FaceBook, of course). I guess you can say I am stuck in the retro '90s homepage aesthetic. This site also acts as a guide to my presence elsewhere on the net.

2026 marks the 30th anniversary of this site. It began when I taught myself HTML when I was sick with a cold in January 1996, during my winter break before the spring semester of junior college began. I had only gained internet access the previous month, via a local Arizona ISP called Extreme Internet. I was allotted a few megabytes for a homepage and it was then when I first started building a simple homepage, listing my favorite things, including some poetry I'd written, and I started a section called "Greg's Life" where I wrote about staying up to the early morning hours at a Denny's restaurant, studying chemistry so as not to fail that class. Later that year, I wrote about my pet fish, Steve.

In the mid-'90s, anime character "shrines" were popular, and I created a Sailor Mercury Shrine. Then I inherited the Linna Shrine. I built a Super Famicom fan page. I later moved this homepage to Sakura Net while I lived in Japan, then later I decided to register my own domain and named it after my fish Steve I had in college, the fish that provided me so much comfort and tranquility.

1996... My thoughts have dwelt on that year so often over the past few recent years. I find myself returning to that year so often in my mind. So much happened that year! It was the year when I suddenly had two potential love interests at once, I began traveling independently with more confidence, and it was the year I turned 20 years old. It was an incredible year for me, full of adventure, heartbreak, and hope. It was a pivotal year when I truly came of age, and meanwhile there was a cute girl all the way in Japan who was hoping to someday marry me, just as I had hoped I'd marry her someday as well.

I plan to write some more essays about that year as well as my high school times.

My personal info, with my tastes, favorite stuff, etc.

Greg's Life is where I post essays on life experiences, thoughts, philosophies, and photo galleries with plenty of random geekiness, stuff on Japan, hobbies, toys, video games, and bizarre stuff. Recent essay highligts include #127 Memoirs of a painfully shy, lovesick nerd, #129 Regarding my daughter's poisoning incident in 2020, #130 Serendipity! My dream came true: how I fell in love with and married my Japanese pen pal, #132 The magazine that started it all! Protoculture Addicts #22 inspired me to live and work in Japan, and #143 Memories of my college days at ASU West.

Greg's Stuff & Things is a space for adding quick stuff, whether it be thoughts on life, music, gaming, model builds, anime... anything really. This is a WordPress blog I created for smaller blurbs that I do not feel warrant an entire entry into the Greg's Life section. Also, I like the word "blurb" because it sounds funny.

Check out my anime and SF plastic model gallery.

Check out my Perler bead video game pixel artwork gallery

My own personal photostream page hosted on this site, powered by Lychee. I didn't want to pay for Flickr and I already pay for my own server, so I created my own personal photo site.

Here is the Linna Yamazaki Shrine!, one of the old '90s style anime character shrines you'd find on the Anime Turnpike. I actually inherited this shrine from someone else.

The Anime Super Famicom Web Resource Center is a guide to import games for the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom system.

The Anime PC Engine Super Game Review System is a similar page I started to create for the PC Engine game console. Maybe I'll get around to building it eventually.

The Masaya Fan Page is a project I started, dedicated to the old NCS/Masaya video game company. Another project that never really got off the ground.

This is my extremely outdated page for links. Many of these sites are from the bygone era of the "Wild West days" of the internet, from the '90s, back when the internet was decentralized. I should really spend time to update this.

External links:

Check out my Youtube channel and bask in my nerdy splendor.

Here is my Odysee channel, where I have begun uploading more content after YouTube issued me a stupid "community guidelines strike" for speaking about stuff that keeps being proven to be true. Note that all of my video content goes to Odysee, while only 80-90% of my content is on YouTube.

Here is my Tumblr page, home to my photo-based plastic model build updates and my feed for retro anime, retro gaming, science fiction, and other random nerd crap.

My Flickr photo stream of random stuff in Japan. I stopped updating this when I reached the maximum and they wanted me to start paying for beyond that.

My Pinterest page where I sometimes post pictures of Japan.

My Reddit account which I keep forgetting I have.

My Gab page. I like Gab a whole lot. It's comfy and I like it a lot better than Twitter. My Twitter account had been suspended a few times already for "hate speech" (lol), and when Twitter was congratulating themselves for censorship, they did not appreciate my sarcastic response and I was permanently suspended without a specific reason actually given. (I've petitioned to have my account unlocked but I never get a response.) Groups I am active on Gab are Retro Palace (a place for '80s and '90s anime and gaming fandom) and Linux Users of Gab.

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." --Romans 12:2
mail: greg -atsign- stevethefish -dot- net

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