About
Benjamin L. Russell is a patent translator currently working in Tokyo, Japan. He was exposed to Scheme and Haskell in college, and is especially fascinated by Scheme continuations. After graduating, he discovered Croquet, a Squeak Smalltalk-based technology for developing interactive virtual 3D worlds, and is currently interested in using this technology to create a virtual world in which users can not only play, but also work, study, and carry out financial transactions. His dream is to harbinger a virtual world version of Alvin Toffler’s “The Third Wave,” which he terms “The Fifth Wave.”
Monadically Speaking: Adventures in Programming Language Theory 
余りにも偶然だから、ということもあって、無紹介に連絡とらせていただいております。何が偶然かというと、小生もそちら様も日本語→英語の特許翻訳を取り扱う翻訳者で、opencobaltに興味もあり、大抵の仮想空間記述の目的地たる理想像までも含めてwe seem to be interested in a largely overlapping area of thought.
(using this technology to create a virtual world in which users can not only play, but also work, study, and carry out financial transactions.)
Actually, I just participated in my first ever weekly opencobalt skype conference call two weeks ago, and am at my first noisebridge.net “gamebridge” meeting tonight.
また「話す」機会が生じると確信して、
エイヤー(別称Timon)
> 余りにも偶然だから、ということもあって、無紹介に連絡とらせていただい
> ております。何が偶然かというと、小生もそちら様も日本語→英語の特許翻
> 訳を取り扱う翻訳者で、opencobaltに興味もあり、大抵の仮想空間記述の目
> 的地たる理想像までも含めてwe seem to be interested in a largely
> overlapping area of thought.
凄い偶然ですね！Wow, what a coincidence!
>
> (using this technology to create a virtual world in which users can not only
> play, but also work, study, and carry out financial transactions.)
>
> Actually, I just participated in my first ever weekly opencobalt skype
> conference call two weeks ago, and am at my first noisebridge.net “gamebridge” meeting tonight.
>
> また「話す」機会が生じると確信して、
> エイヤー(別称Timon)
Perhaps we could collaborate. Until October 15, I’ll be very busy with a couple of translation project, and I’ll still be busy after that every week with new projects, but perhaps we can find a suitable time to work together. I’m usually a night owl, and tend to work better at night. Let me know your schedule for the next couple of weekend evenings, and perhaps I can arrange a time slot.
— Benjamin L. Russell