I was born at an early age in Ottawa, Canada. My parents still live in Ottawa; my three younger brothers and I live in an assortment of other places.
Many moons ago, Greg Plett and I both lived in the Ottawa area, and did quite a lot of "hacking" on various computer stuff, TRS-80s, FORTH , and such. I never had to learn his phone number, as his family wound up getting a number that my family used to have when, at an early age, I had lived in Manotick, Ontario. He headed to Stanford, whilst I headed to Toronto...