{"id":2848,"date":"2018-02-05T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-02-05\/2848"},"modified":"2018-02-05T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:46:00","slug":"jason-and-joey-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-02-05\/2848","title":{"rendered":"Jason and Joey in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i120824\" href='\/i\/JF4_120824.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_120824_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Joey and Jason visiting Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i120824\"\ntitle=\"Joey and Jason visiting Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 125 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_120824.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_120824.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Joey and Jason<\/span>\n<br\/>visiting Kyoto, Japan\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_120824.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2018-02-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Joey and Jason visiting Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Wow, what a weird bit of scheduling twists and turns...<\/p>\n\n<p>Cycling friend and fellow computer geek Jason Eisenmenger, whom <span class='nobr'>I met<\/span> <a href='\/blog\/2016-01-31\/2667'>on this\nride last year<\/a>, had plans to visit me from Okinawa (southern Japan), to do some cycling together here in Kyoto. Then <span class='nobr'>a week<\/span>\nbefore he's to arrive, he asks whether it's okay to bring <span class='nobr'>a friend,<\/span> who had <span class='nobr'>a sudden<\/span> week off to visit him from The States. <span class='nobr'>It was fine<\/span> with me, except <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> to tell him that <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> my own sudden change of plans and wouldn't be here: Google had invited me to <span class='nobr'>a\nconference<\/span> in Jakarta whose schedule matched <i>exactly<\/i> with his trip here. Doh!<\/p>\n\n<p>So, I thought that at best we'd pass each other in the airport, and maybe <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> offer them some ideas for good areas to ride\nin.<\/p>\n\n<p>But, plans changed again as I came down with <span class='nobr'>a cold<\/span> right before <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> supposed to leave, so <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> to cancel on Google. (Sorry\nGoogle, <span class='nobr'>I still<\/span> feel bad to cancel on you like that!)<\/p>\n\n<p>I didn't get to ride at all, but <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> very happy to visit with Jason, and to meet his super-nice friend Joey Bloodworth,\nwho flies jumbo jets.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yesterday I felt enough energy to venture out <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> to watch some cyclocross racing (<a\nhref='\/blog\/2016-01-31\/2667'>like this<\/a>, which I'll write about soon), and on the way out took <span\nclass='nobr'>a few<\/span> quick photos of the pair before they rode off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class='ic tight' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i120812\" href='\/i\/JF4_120812.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_120812_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Too Cool for School -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i120812\"\ntitle=\"Too Cool for School -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 125 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_120812.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_120812.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Too Cool for School<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_120812.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2018-02-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"Too Cool for School -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>Joey always has a smile, but Jason can do the <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>I'm cool just by existing<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> cyclist lean perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic wide' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/Photograph'><a name=\"i120807\" href='\/i\/JF4_120807.jpg' itemprop='image'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_120807_sm.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"575\"\nalt=\"He Even Makes This Look Cool -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i120807\"\ntitle=\"He Even Makes This Look Cool -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/1.6, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_120807.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_120807.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>He Even Makes This Look Cool<\/span>\n<meta itemprop='url' content='http:\/\/regex.info\/i\/JF4_120807.jpg'\/>\n<meta itemprop='creator' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='copyrightHolder' content='Jeffrey Friedl'\/>\n<meta itemprop='dateCreated' content='2018-02-04'\/>\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"He Even Makes This Look Cool -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what a weird bit of scheduling twists and turns...<\/p> <p>Cycling friend and fellow computer geek Jason Eisenmenger, whom I met on this ride last year, had plans to visit me from Okinawa (southern Japan), to do some cycling together here in Kyoto. Then a week before he's to arrive, he asks whether it's okay to bring a friend, who had a sudden week off to visit him from The States. It was fine with me, except I had to tell him that I had my own sudden change of plans and wouldn't be here: Google had invited me to [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848"}],"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=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}