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the musician

twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2010.05.08

Mari's had her first guitar for only three days. But today she played her first song.

Granted, it's a song of such relative simplicity that she was able to teach even me to pick it out on the piano. But I'm damn impressed.

Here's a funny version of the same song, the "kaeru no gashou".

I think a more appropriate first exercise for a burgeoning programmer in training would be:

system.out.println ("Goodbye World");

—-brrd