“Chigaijin” is a pseudo-Japanese compound, with two decompositions. The first one (in green), is “chi-gaijin,” where “gaijin” is a slang term for “foreigner.” The “chi” is appropriately in katakana, the script used for loanwords. The second meaning (in blue) is “chigai-jin,” or “different person.” Either way “jin” means person, which is why it alone is in red.

Jordy (the webmaster) does more web design and programming at Belkadan Software, a one-person freeware company that mostly makes Mac software. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Computer Science, and spent five and a half months teaching English in Cambodia. During his time in college, he was a TA as well as a member of the performance group Theatre Rice. He also used to sing with the UC Men’s Chorale, and 学了两个学期的中文.

In the past, he was a member of a small men’s a cappella group, Ancora, which he helped start in high school. He also did Speech, ran a club called Tino-Net (ostensibly), helped out in JETS, took Calculus D for fun, and 日本語で話せるようになりました. He wrote an entire blog system (known as BlogAgain) from scratch using PHP and MySQL, then eventually scrapped it for this Jekyll-based blog instead.