Sober enlists, gets sent to Japan

[fluffy]

[drë]

Just got my orders. 7 more weeks of school, then 2 weeks at home, then I ship out to Misawa Air Base, Japan. I'll either be on the radio, or in a studio producing tv and radio commercials. Fucking hooah.

sweet deal man. there's going to be so much raw fresh sushi there for you there.. ( and i don't the fish ). congrats.

[jack]

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[Sober]

Banana peels is srs bsns.

Hopefully I'll be a live/production radio guy, and not a tv production guy. Won't know til I get there.

[Sober]

THIS PLACE IS THE SHIT, YO.

I'll have my music gear in a month or two, I'll be back in songfightland then.

[Sober]

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OH SNAP. Watch it in HD.

[JonPorobil]

OH SNAP. Watch it in HD.

I fixed it for you.

[Sober]

I clicked the youtube button and pasted the url in the tags. That's how every other tag works god dangit.

[roymond]

That is awesome. Get all you can out of this experience. I spent a few days in Tokyo (business) and then a couple in Kyoto (pleasure). Wonderful place, people, food, music, temples. We hope to spend a few months there in a couple years as part of our round the world home schooling experiment.

Oh yeah, the YouTube tag only takes the ID, not the full URL. I think that lets the local environment use the most appropriate player settings rather than what's suggested in the URL.

[fluffy]

phpBB is a piece of crap and COULD just extract the ID from the URL, but doesn't.

And, have fun in Japan! I went to Tokyo on business a couple years ago, and didn't have nearly enough time to do much aside from go to meetings, but what I did see was a lot of fun. The best part of the trip was going to Shakey's Pizza and embarrassing the hell out of myself to a cute waitress who didn't speak a word of English (and as I later learned, anime is not a good way to learn simple Japanese phrases – the appropriate way to apologize to a stranger is すみません and not ごめんなさい).

[roymond]

Just got my orders. 7 more weeks of school, then 2 weeks at home, then I ship out to Misawa Air Base, Japan.

Is Sober still at Misawa?

"Misawa
Stars and Stripes editor T.D. Flack said Misawa Air Base was hit hard; there was no power and little in the way of communications. People rushed to stores for whatever food and water they could find, ready to brave the night in sub-zero temperatures."

[fluffy]

Just in case I made a people finder record for him.

[JonPorobil]

He's still there, but he posted to Facebook earlier today that he's fine.

[fluffy]

Good to know.

[Sober]

Hey everyone, I am doing fine. Feels good to know you guys COULD care less :]

Roymond: Funny thing, that Stripes article you quoted should link to video I shot. In case anyone is interested, here's the two products I've put out since the quake, which (I'm told) have been on CNN, Fox, CBS, etc:

First big aftershock and immediate recovery efforts OMG SCARY:



First search and rescue teams arrive OMG DOGGIES:



I'll change the title of this thread again, and continue to update here as appropriate. I'm doing 6 hours of live radio per day, and nearly twelve hours of news and support. This morning was the first shower I've had in 5 days.

[drë]

Glad to hear your Ok Sober, good footage by the way.

[roymond]

Ditto, Jimmy. Good work! Hopefully you're mostly holding a camera. It's hard to imagine what's going on over there, but thanks from NY.

[Niveous]

Double that thanks from NY.

[hillbilly]

Sober--- check it out, let me know if it is really sideways