Moved to Tokyo because New York is too small, prefers "Mikie" to "Mike", can fix nearly anything, and never let school interfere with his education.

Michael speaks Japanese and Spanish, and college French. He learned guitar at 12 and likes to play the blues. He collects art, especially of his friends El Hortelano, Miguel Conde and Ouka Leele. He just hasn't bought a John Wellington yet.

He has a venture called Smart Systems. He useta build industrial buildings in New Jersey. His last project was SciPark, a laboratory development near Princeton.

He plays Go (5 dan US), and helped found Good Move Press, which first published the Learn to Play Go series.