Entries this day: barefoot-me-on-tv moe-joe-mo-problems

barefoot me on tv

15:12 Tuesday 29 December 2015 JST

Okay so when I got back from OZ, upon arrival in Narita, I was approached by a TV crew who asked why I was barefoot and why I was coming to Japan.

I wish I had just been honest, but I told them what I wished I was doing: traveling barefoot around the country for 3+ months. They were like, "wow so can we follow you around?" I was caught in my lie! I would LOVE for you to come follow me around Japan, if only I were going to travel around Japan!

Dammit, so I kept the lie going, "um, no, um because it's difficult um because if I'm on camera I might not act natural." (true, see? here I am lying because of the camera)

They said okay and asked if they could see the bottom of my feet. No worries.

Okay, so bye! and I walked away, assuming the camera was watching me, I didn't look back until I got out of sight.

Okay, so they got their footage (hehe), but now I gotta go confess. I went back up the escalator and found them.

"Yeah, um, so I lied because I thought it would sound good on TV. I actually live in Japan and have lived here for 12 years, but yes, I often go around barefoot."

I started composing a reply, but before I could get to an internet connection, he wrote again:

Sorry for mailing you again.  In the airing, we keep the fact that
you live in Japan secret until the end of the airing.  ("the end
of the airing" means "the scene you come back to our clew to
explain your living in Japan") So, the picture should be taken in
the U.S or, if taken in Japan, the background of the pictures is
not Japanese like.  Do you have pics like that??

I replied naively

Hmmm; I might have some, but I'm not sure.  My wife and I are
going to the US in late January, so I can take those types of
pictures in the US and send them to you by February 1.

I'd be happy to do another interview on camera, or even have your
camera crew with me for a day in my actual normal life.  We could
go somewhere fun like Yomiuri Land, or Korakuen.. or somewhere
normal like Yoyogi Park or Meiji Jingu.

As a start, we could simply go to a shrine for New Year's Eve this
coming Thursday night if you like.

You can interview my wife about my bare feet as well.

And he replied as follows. (Of course they already have plans for new years!)

Thank you so much for your reply.  The airing will be Jan. 25th,
and I'm glad if you send them before the date of airing.  So, the
picture is to be taken in Japan if you don't have one taken in the
U.S.  I think pictures of you in Yoyogi park or somewhere in the
street can be either way to be taken in U.S or Japan.  (Like you
sitting on the bench, or walking on the street)

As for another filming, it could be true if we meet up in the
airport again.  In the New Year's Eve, we are going to Comic
market and film OTAKU foreigners.  So, please wait until next
year.

moe joe mo problems

19:05 Tuesday 29 December 2015 JST

Bah the CB website is acting up. I happen to have been in Harajuku so I'm heading in to the office now.

21:25 Tuesday 29 December 2015 JST

Well, I don't know what caused the problem, but everything seems to be working again. It happened last night for a few hours and again tonight for a few hours, so I guessed it was simply being overloaded by traffic, but Google analytics says it's not particularly swamped right now.

Alfonzo assumed it was an expired SSL cert, but that doesn't seem to be it either, because that wouldn't cause problems every 24 hours.

But the good news: I now have the .pem to log in to the server so I can better troubleshoot things and blah blah.

Satomi uploaded the final image(s) they needed to upload before the end of the year and we walked to the station together after closing up the office.

We're kinda planning to have a take-a-party at her place to try and fix her old iMac, which might just need a new hard drive..