{"id":2632,"date":"2015-10-15T21:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-10-15\/2632"},"modified":"2015-10-15T21:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:59:45","slug":"a-visit-with-rick-and-lily-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-10-15\/2632","title":{"rendered":"A Visit With Rick and Lily Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 5600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRick and Lily Hancock<\/span>\nat the Rokkaku-do Temple (\u516d\u89d2\u5802),<\/span> Kyoto Japan\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I had the pleasure to have lunch today with Rick and Lily Hancock,\nvisiting from Seattle. Rick has been reading my blog for years, and often\ncomments, so we finally met “<\/span>IRL”<\/span> (In Real Life).<\/p>\n\n

We spent all our time talking over ramen at Gogyo (\u4e94\u884c)<\/span><\/a>\nso didn't have much time for an outing afterwards, but walked over to the\nRokkaku-do Temple for a few<\/span> pictures.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/6.3, ISO 4500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nLive Omikuji<\/i> Tree<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

As I described on this post six years\nago<\/a>, it's common at temples and shrines to pay a\nsmall<\/span> fee for a random<\/span> “<\/span>fortune paper”<\/span>.\nIf you get<\/span> a good<\/span> one,\nyou take it home, but if your fortune is bad, you leave it tied it to\nstrings or sticks near where you got it. An\nexample<\/span> from earlier in the year can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

At the place today, they were tied to an actual willow tree.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nEngulfed<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nCommon Scene<\/span>\nOut of town school kids and the taxi driver escorting them around\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The temple dates back at least 800 years, presumably predating the Starbucks Coffee immediately adjacent to it.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBack Window of a Starbucks<\/span><\/span>\noverlooks the side of the temple grounds\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I feel a bit sorry for these in-city temples that have become hemmed in\nby modern progress, though I suppose<\/span> whether an immediately-available\nStarbucks is a curse<\/span> or a blessing<\/span> likely depends on just how much you like\nslightly-overpriced consistently-made good-enough coffee.<\/p>\n\n

(Rick and Lily are from Seattle, but have never been to a Starbucks,<\/span> a pattern<\/span>\nthat I don't<\/span> think they broke today.)<\/p>\n\n

It's Rick's comment\nin April<\/a> that really got me to dig into why Strava elevation-gain value\nfor a bicycle<\/span> ride is unreliable, eventually leading to a massive<\/span> amount of\nwork that ended up in “<\/span>The Voodoo of Elevation Gain and Strava (and How I Get<\/span> Around\nIt)<\/a>”<\/span>. But as it<\/span> turns out, the desire for more accurate results caused\nme to eventually abandon the initial project favor of an even larger one\nthat combines my ride data with road and elevation data from the Japanese\ngovernment. I've finally built up a large<\/span> enough corpus of data on area\nroads that I can<\/span> now get very precise elevation-gain data for my rides. It's been a<\/span> huge amount of work, and it's all Rick's fault.<\/span>\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Rick has promised*<\/sup> to come back in the spring for an extended\ncycling vacation, so he'll finally be able to ride the Kyoto mountains he's\nsaid he enjoys seeing so much in my blog, and enjoy the fruits of the huge\nsoftware project that his comment was my impetuous to build.<\/p>\n\n

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*<\/sup> He didn't actually promise.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the pleasure to have lunch today with Rick and Lily Hancock, visiting from Seattle. Rick has been reading my blog for years, and often comments, so we finally met \"IRL\" (In Real Life).<\/p>

We spent all our time talking over ramen at Gogyo (\u4e94\u884c) so didn't have much time for an outing afterwards, but walked over to the Rokkaku-do Temple for a few pictures.<\/p>

As I described on this post six years ago, it's common at temples and shrines to pay a small fee for a random \"fortune paper\". If you get a good one, you take it [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}