fukaoka | Cohn-zone

Ok.. I just gotta put it out there .. I’m in Fukaoka Japan.. …

And the airport code is FUK…. WTF ?

Last night I flew here from Shanghai… My plane was delayed so I ammused myself by watching goverment made health cartoons. Based on the subitles.. I surmised

‘don’t hang out with bad sorts’

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‘boil vegetables well’

Open the window.. so you won’t catch cold

meditate to reduce stress

through away dirty tissues (instead of what ?)

don’t spread germs

lay off the tv (and books ?)

Here’s a first.. our pane was delayed by 30 minutes.. so they fed all of us dinner !.. It was sort of good

dumplinny things with rice, soybeans and noodles.. SOme chcken too, which I ddin;t eat

Got to japan about 10PM… It’s so weatern.. you ould forget you’re soemwhere welse.. until you go to the restroom, at least..

here’s my hotel room

and here’s all the stuff I had jammed in my suitcase.. I had to make a potato cannon for my talk today..
in parts, I guess it looked ok on xray.. amazing

some assembly required

which shirt ? (note red whit blue motif )

The conference started with a talk by the governor of fukoaka prefecture.. very nice guy

My talk went pretty well.. hard to do a tlak like mine in translation.. but people reacted when they wer supposed too.

I’ve had several nice conversations since my talk.. which is gratifying

The keynote after mne was from my good friend Anrudh.. Funny we had to come all this way to talk.. we got to hang out and talk work and freinds for a while today.. very good catching up