After so much time away I finally got back to Tokyo. I think it's been over two years actually but there I was back in the ol.. I don't know if there's a nickname for it. I got a chance to meet up with a subscriber who's become a good friend over the years. His story was amazing. For anyone who is determined to carve their own path through life he is a great guy to model yourself after. We talk a bit more on photography and my failing to produce as much as I could from the visit but then we switch gears and get into a discussion of the Lex Friedman Ray Kurzweil conversation that occured recently. Really fascinating stuff on artifical intelligence and in what year was can expect it to pass the turing test. It's not nearly as far away as you might think.