{"id":1977,"date":"2011-02-23T04:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T08:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2011-02-23T04:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T08:56:27","slug":"wednesday-ish-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/02\/23\/wednesday-ish-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday-ish &#8211; WTF ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.. I just gotta put it out there .. I&#8217;m in Fukaoka Japan.. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0256.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the airport code is FUK&#8230;. WTF ?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0265.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night I flew here from Shanghai&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My plane was delayed so I ammused myself by watching goverment made health cartoons. Based on the subitles.. I surmised<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;don&#8217;t hang out with bad sorts&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0242.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;boil vegetables well&#8217;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0244.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open the window.. so you won&#8217;t catch cold<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0247.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nmeditate to reduce stress<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0249.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nthrough away dirty tissues (instead of what ?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0251.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\ndon&#8217;t spread germs<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0252.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nlay off the tv (and books ?)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0253.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a first.. our pane was delayed by 30 minutes.. so they fed all of us dinner !.. It was sort of good<\/p>\n<p>dumplinny things with rice, soybeans and noodles.. SOme chcken too, which I ddin;t eat<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0254.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0255.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got to japan about 10PM&#8230; It&#8217;s so weatern.. you ould forget you&#8217;re soemwhere welse.. until you go to the restroom, at least..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0257.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nhere&#8217;s my hotel room<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0263.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and here&#8217;s all the stuff I had jammed in my suitcase.. I had to make a potato cannon for my talk today..<br \/>\nin parts, I guess it looked ok on xray.. amazing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0266.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0268.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>some assembly required<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0269.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nwhich shirt ? (note red whit blue motif )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0271.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe conference started with a talk by the governor of fukoaka prefecture.. very nice guy<\/p>\n<p>My talk went pretty well.. hard to do a tlak like mine in translation.. but people reacted when they wer supposed too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0272.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had several nice conversations since my talk.. which is gratifying<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0274.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0275.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nhere I am with anirudh. new freind Bruce<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0277.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the talk I gave my cannon to the guy whos hosting me (Can&#8217;t quite get his name.. really nice guy)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0278.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nsome cool demos here&#8230; too<\/p>\n<p>this had a very cool motor movement !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then went for a short run through the coruded city.. several cool shrines.. and signs in mangled english.. Gotta love it<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0281.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0282.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0284.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0285.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0286.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought these looked like swans.. no.. I guess like cranes&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0287.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0288.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0289.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0291.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/feb2211\/img_0292.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK.. gotta dash to the reception.. then on to tokyo<\/p>\n<p>stay warm over there folks.. I understand it&#8217;s gonna be cold at home<\/p>\n<p>Hasht mata folks, ashta mata sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok.. I just gotta put it out there .. I&#8217;m in Fukaoka Japan.. &#8230; And the airport code is FUK&#8230;. WTF ? Last night I flew here from Shanghai&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My plane was delayed so I ammused myself by watching goverment made health cartoons. Based on the subitles.. I surmised &#8216;don&#8217;t hang out with bad sorts&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/02\/23\/wednesday-ish-wtf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday-ish &#8211; WTF ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fukaoka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}