{"id":2432,"date":"2014-06-19T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-06-19\/2432"},"modified":"2014-06-20T01:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:27:35","slug":"milestones-twenty-five-years-since-first-coming-to-japan-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-06-19\/2432","title":{"rendered":"Milestones: Twenty Five Years Since First Coming to Japan, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nHappy<\/span>\nA cake from October 29th, 2008\n( placed on this post in 2014 for reasons we'll see below )\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Today is the 25th<\/sup> anniversary of my first arrival in Japan.\n\u6765\u65e5\uff12\uff15\u5468\u5e74\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff01\n<\/p>\n\n

It was June 19th, 1989 that I flew into Tokyo from California after\nhaving finished grad school and then lived with my brothers for several\nmonths while waiting for my work visa to be approved. I was met<\/span> at the\nairport by Krish\nKulkarni<\/a>, whom I had<\/span> never met, but had no trouble finding because he's\nthe twin brother of my best friend at grad school, Ram Kulkarni<\/a> (who later\nwent on to be the best man at my wedding, and I at<\/span> his).<\/p>\n\n

A day or two later I made my way down to the Kyoto\/Osaka region, where I\nstarted<\/span> work as an engineer at Omron Tateishi\nDenki<\/a> (\u30aa\u30e0\u30ed\u30f3\u7acb\u77f3\u96fb\u6a5f).<\/span><\/p>\n\n

I worked at Omron for about eight years, though spending much of the\ntime in The States at Carnegie Mellon University as a “<\/span>visiting researcher”<\/span>\n(I was<\/span> really a\nbabysitter<\/span> for a room<\/span> full of computers\nthat Omron had donated).<\/p>\n\n

I eventually moved to The States to work for Yahoo!, but not long before\nI met the<\/span> woman I would<\/span>\nmarry. She happened<\/span> to be Japanese, and after\nabout eight years in Silicon Valley we moved back to Japan, setting up our lives in\nKyoto<\/a>. That was 10 years ago this spring.<\/p>\n\n

Along the way we moved\ninto where we live now<\/a>, I picked<\/span> up photography as a\nhobby<\/span> in earnest when I\nbought<\/span> my first dSLR<\/a>, and I started<\/span> to\ndevelop plugins for Adobe\nLightroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

And that brings me to my second milestone. Almost six years ago I\nreleased<\/span> my\nGeoencoding Support plugin<\/a>. It was the<\/span> eighth plugin for Adobe Lightroom\nout of what so far has been about fifty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Back then, when I first<\/span>\nannounced it<\/a> on October 29th 2008, the plugin didn't have any\ndocumentation beyond what I wrote<\/span> on the announcement post. I should<\/span> have\nprovided complete documentation, but I didn't.<\/span>.... until today. Today,\nalmost six years later, I finally<\/span> got around to it, and changed the plugin's home\npage<\/a> from a placeholder<\/span> to a long<\/span> description of all the plugin can\ndo. If you use<\/span> the plugin, check it out.<\/p>\n\n

So why didn't I write up the documentation when I released<\/span> the plugin? My Lightroom<\/span> catalog tells me that I was<\/span> busy that day with a party<\/span> at\nAnthony's preschool for all the kids who had a birthday<\/span> in October. So, I thought<\/span> it would be fitting to post a few<\/span> photos from that 2008 party\ntoday...<\/p>\n\n

\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 38mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nParty Preparation<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 35mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n“<\/span>Happy Birthday!”<\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 900 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBuffet Lunch<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 62mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWaiting To Start<\/span>\nhe'd just turned six years old; now he's<\/a> 11<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 52mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBuilding His Sandwich<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\niPhone 3Gs — f<\/span>\/2.8 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nUsing My Camera<\/span>\nA Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 24-70\/2.8 is heavy stuff for a newly<\/span>-minted six year old\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\niPhone 3Gs — f<\/span>\/2.8 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThree Cakes<\/span>\nfor the three years' worth of kids in the school\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 48mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nShowing His Craft Project<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I was happy to finally get the plugin documentation done today. Some of my other plugins have okay documentation, but perhaps 40 need serious work.\nPerhaps I'll start on the next in another 25 years...<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the 25th anniversary of my first arrival in Japan. \u6765\u65e5\uff12\uff15\u5468\u5e74\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff01 <\/p>

It was June 19th, 1989 that I flew into Tokyo from California after having finished grad school and then lived with my brothers for several months while waiting for my work visa to be approved. I was met at the airport by Krish Kulkarni, whom I had never met, but had no trouble finding because he's the twin brother of my best friend at grad school, Ram Kulkarni (who later went on to be the best man at my wedding, and I at his).<\/p>

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