DISQUS

Tofugu Comments: Help Me Help You (plus extended nara mascot contest deadline)

  • toole · 1 year ago
    I'm writing a thesis too. I feel your pain.
  • Viet · 1 year ago
    mmm +1 to post count.
  • Viet · 1 year ago
    !! I see someone is using the point system.
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    bwahaha
  • Tyler · 1 year ago
    Howdy Koichi. I filled out the survey. Hope it helps that sad face.

    Good luck on your thesis! :D
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you! Thesis isn't fun :(
  • Popkornage · 1 year ago
    Hey Koichi, the video isn't working. Sorry though, I dont think i can help that sad face because I just started a week ago and I haven't got my textbooks yet :( (and also I can't really answer most of the questions anyway)
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Probably because I just uploaded it. It'll probably work soon / now
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    never mind, i just fail. The video was set to private so only I could view it
  • kevinnwhat · 1 year ago
    i submitted my address, please keep that private. E-mail me if you have any questions, i kinda just typed it real fast, if you want it in a more proper way let me know
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Don't worry, nobody but me will see it
  • JohtoKen · 1 year ago
    I filled in my application. I hope you get it and better check on how I can approve in my studies.

    - JohtoKen
  • lettuceathome · 1 year ago
    My application is probably the most unhelpful one ever! But oh well...I do hope it helps at least a little bit...

    P.S. I like your short hair, Koichi. :)
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thanks much, I like it too. It's so convenient
  • Donny · 1 year ago
    hey koichi, if you send me a card can it be in japanee?
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    sure - just specify in the address section of the form please
  • Neil_Duckett · 1 year ago
    Done, let me know if you need anything else.!
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    Man, I just filled out a lot, I hope it got through!!! :( If not I will be mad.
    I hope this helped! I hope I didn't just make you read a lot for nothing.
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    If I ever get to that picture thing. I want to do an Invader Zim style picture. But since I most likely won't. Someone do that for me. :D
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it!
  • soar · 1 year ago
    Good luck with your thesis Koichi, I've just submitted my survey. It should hopefully help you out.
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you so much!
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    Just got home and saw this, I started to fill out the form, but as I scrolled down, I saw I a lot more to fill [I'm extremely tired, drove 250 miles today, and now it's 1:45AM. This is the reason why I didn't finish this form, haha.]. I downloaded the RTF file and I'll complete the rest of the form from there. It'll probably submit it by tomorrow. I hope your thesis goes well.

    My Quote of The Day:
    "If you're not, then bugger off... you know?" lol
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Take your time kurisu,
    that's a lot of miles to drive. I've got a big drive ahead of me pretty soon, but it's only around 180 miles, so you deserve a break :P
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    Just submitted, I hope the form got through because my browser lagged as I clicked the submit button. Let me know if you didn't get it and I'll go ahead fill it out again.
  • Aleks · 1 year ago
    Just finished the form. I'll be happy to answer any of your follow up questions, if there are any. I tried to be detailed, but I also didn't leave you with an essay to wad through :)

    I also live in Canada. I hope that won't be a problem. ^_^

    - Aleks
  • Aleks · 1 year ago
    Oh, and best of luck on your thesis. ^_^
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you so much!
  • Aivy · 1 year ago
    Konnichiwa Koichi-san

    Just submitted the form. Hope that helps =D
    I just started watching your video's on youtube and it's interesting!
    keep up the good work!!

    Ganbatte!

    Aivy
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you very much!
  • Casey · 1 year ago
    *yawns* I did it! woot! *does random dance* If you do send the thank you, just put my name on da' envolope, or else my mom just throws it away.


    Laterz!
    Casey
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    will do, thank you!
  • Thomas · 1 year ago
    wow, i spent about 90 minutes to answer this survey but it was worth the time ^^.
    i had much fun filling it out and i hope it will help you in some small way :)

    - Thomas
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    wow man, I look forward especially to reading yours then. I like it when people fill out a lot. Thank you!
  • mikku · 1 year ago
    Lol looks like youre quite buisy these days writing cards! *evil laughter*
    Sugoii desu ne? xD
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Yeah, it will be fun writing them for sure :P
  • gerbyl · 1 year ago
    I filled out the survey as well. I know things like these can be helpful and i hope my answer help at least a tiny bit with your thesis and things. I might have rambled on too much when answering 2-3 questions. sorry, means you have to read through a lot ....

    *goes watching the vid now*
  • bmibble · 1 year ago
    hey koichi. Just filled out your survey..hopes that makes that sad face go away. ha.

    I think I'm actually gonna try the contest because it seems not that many people submitted a picture so maybe I'll win....
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    You totally should submit something. I'm looking forward to seeing it!
  • Rua Greenwood · 1 year ago
    I just filled out your survey. I hope I helped you out. Good luck on whatever it is you need it for. ^_~`
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you so much!
  • teamlouise · 1 year ago
    Filling out your survey just made me feel bad about what a slacker I am when it comes to Japanese!
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    then everything has gone exactly to my plans...er...I mean..bwahaha. jk
    thanks for filling it out though
  • Azah aka aja2fighty · 1 year ago
    hi there, koichi-kun =)
    done filling ur survey ...hope ur smiling now!
    thesis o' ganbattene~ p(^_^)q
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    *smiles!*
  • peachy_keen · 1 year ago
    Gah. I feel like I wrote too much for you survey. Don't die of boredom... Pleasee....
    Hope I helpeddd~
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    I'm sure I'll enjoy it thoroughly, thank you!
  • Rebekah · 1 year ago
    First thing I did today was fill out the form.
    I don't feel mine will be of much help. Sorry in advance if it completely fails! ^^;
  • Bluregarde_Q_Kazoo · 1 year ago
    I filled out the form and i'm gonna work on the mascot thing today!

    xD
  • Mizuu · 1 year ago
    I filled mine in the morning, so I didn't have any time left for a comment. But here I am again:
    I'd love to hear the results of your thesis because I'll be doing mine on Japanese glottodidactics (it's a hard word derived from Latin meaning teaching languages to non-native users) - my teachers of Japanese want me to write a draft of textbook of Japanese in my native language, but it takes YEARS.

    I'm really willing to this but it'll be a hard project lasting for several years. But then, hey, I can teach Japanese as the best teacher around, mwahahahaha. ;)

    Ganbatte ne ;)

    PS. I took time to get use to your short hair. But you're not a mythical hero (just a person I look up to!), you don't lose your 3v1l-languages-speaking-powers just because you lost your hair... YOU STILL HAVE THE MAGICAL PANDA HAT, DO YOU?! :DDDD
  • Vicky · 1 year ago
    Well, I have filled in your survey, I hope my answers help ease the pain a little! I remember when I had to write my disertation on Music and the Right side of the Brain. It took me all year! The problem was I only had 20,000 words to do it in!

    Good luck with it all, and I would be very interested to see the results.

    ~Vicky
  • Umbra · 1 year ago
    Filled in my answers just now. After watching the video I just wanted to add that I'm not American and hope you can still use it. Good luck with your thesis... about time for me to choose a theme for my thesis.
  • krystlee · 1 year ago
    heeey so i just filled mine out now too (:


    i hope i was of some help to you somehow. and yeah, just email me if you need more!


    if the one on the survey doesn't work i have more emails haha.

    krystlee@hellokitty.com &kbyuleee@yahoo.com
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you so much for filling it out!
  • Jamie · 1 year ago
    did it ^ ^

    hope it was some help.

    I study in my own time at the moment btw
    I have applied to study Japanese at University starting in September!

    Jamie
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you!
  • kevinnwhat · 1 year ago
    well didnt you hit the jackpot here koichi? alot of ppl submitted ^_^
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Soooo freakin many
  • Karen · 1 year ago
    Good luck on your thesis!

    I think I wrote too much for the survey though. ><
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    More the better! Thank yoU!
  • Molly · 1 year ago
    That was fun, I got a chance to vent. =)
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Hahaha, uh oh. Look forward to reading it, then.
  • RomanticAi07 · 1 year ago
    I finished your survey, hopefully it helps!

    Good luck on your thesis!
  • WOTDsctoo · 1 year ago
    Filled it out. : )

    I didn't have any intention of entering the Nara contests before, but the fact that they are being extended intrigues me. I just have to get a friend to draw for me. XD
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Sounds good to me ;)
  • cor · 1 year ago
    another one for you homes. good luck on your thesis.
  • ゴジラ · 1 year ago
    Tried to be as descriptive as i could. Please e-mail me if there is anything else I can help with. I always find time to help out my favorite subscription. lol. Anyway, リポートがんばってね

    ショシュ
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you!
  • BananaChocolatePocky · 1 year ago
    Konban wa, Koichi san!

    i filled in the survey!! in some boxes i wrote a LOT of stuff meh.. im sorry
    but i hope this helps you!!!


    cant wait for your card!! <3
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    The more you write the better! Thank you!
  • SimonVaillancourt · 1 year ago
    Sorry I didn't write that much, I just started my learning.
  • Katiekins · 1 year ago
    I filled out the survey, I hope it helps.
  • WingsOfDaidalos · 1 year ago
    I notified my fellow students about this after filling it in myself recently. Should add a few more, hope it helps! :) Didn't tell them about the Thank You card though, since it's over 250 at time of writing :)
  • SimonVaillancourt · 1 year ago
    Koichi Thanks for your great work ! :)
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thank you!
  • heartlessangel · 1 year ago
    Me too and its got horrible grammar and punctuation so sorry an advance lol but thanks I had fun doing it though origoto!
  • Alyssa · 1 year ago
    Konbanwa, Koichi-san!!!
    Filled out your survey, I ended up writing quite a bit >_<" Sorry, hope it helps!!
    By the way, good luck on your thesis, you chose a really cool topic.
    Ganbatte~!
  • JackB · 1 year ago
    I tried to write everything I could (I took me about an hour to think of everything to write >.> ). Feel free to email you if you have any more questions. You must have a lot of responses by now, and mine might not end up making any difference. ; ( But you've helped so many people so far with your youtube videos and blogs posts, so I had no choice but return the favor.
  • theshredda · 1 year ago
    hey I've just filled out the form I hope it helps

    a greeting card would be nice too if you get the time
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    Ahh... I've failed to mention something...
    Who's going to Japan?
    I am. :-D
    I should start studying now.
    I would... if I didn't have a test tomorrow for math and my lovely Music Investigation paper! I'm making a website, but it will most likely suck. :D
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Makin' a website? Sweet. Not that I know very much, but let me know if you have any questions
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    Hmm, I'm in the same boat. What program do you use Koichi? Right now I'm running Dreamweaver. I was messing around with iWeb [thinking I could be lazy], but I'd rather enter many lines of code, than to be frustrated with a program that lacks the tools I need, haha.
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    I just use BBedit, which is a Mac glorified version of notepad for Windows. Basically, I just write everything out by hand. I hear dreamweaver has gotten better, but those things always mess up the code and move things around to places you don't want them in.
  • Viet · 1 year ago
    Newb. It's all about VIM!

    I keed I keed.
  • Viet · 1 year ago
    In all seriousness, if you want to code by hand and don't want to deal with all the Terminal and Command Line stuff, then I recommend the following software:

    Windows
    Notepad++ (free)

    OS X
    BBEdit (as recommended by Koichi, but costs $$)
    Smultron (free)

    I suggest learning the syntax before jumping into a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver. That's what I told my young padawan Koichi and he seem to turn out alright :P
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Smultron, hm? I'll have to check it out. Looks pretty.
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    I just tried Smultron - It's nice since it's free, but I don't like the colors of everything very much. Nice though.
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    I'll take a look at BBedit and also the ones Viet suggested. Yea, DW is pretty good, but sometimes when have a lot of code, I lose track of things. I always find myself returning back to TextEdit to fix a bug/typo, etc. I still have an older version of DW, so I wouldn't know anything about the new stuff they fixed/added.
  • Viet · 1 year ago
    Completely forgot about TextEdit. That's a good one also.
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    Well... I used Dreamweaver... oosp? But yeah... I was learning all that but yeah... I just needed to make something quick. Pretty horrible website but it got the job done. At least I hope so. :-\ It would be awesome if I could learn to write something out by hand. One day. Maybe when I graduate and come back from Japan. The good news is that I got it done in a day and I am now done with all things IB untill the exams in May. By the way, I'm sorry but I borrowed the style of the navigation bar up there or whatever you call it. If one of you is ever bored and feels like learning about Mbuti African music and Scottish Gaelic work songs I may post the link one day. :D
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    I may not have all the fancy color coded goodies etc., but it is good.
  • Tiffany · 1 year ago
    Ohayo! It's 3:12 AM... (x_O")

    I just completed the form. I'm not really expecting your'e really going to read it though,
    because this would mean that you didn't fin what you needed in the other Aprox. 350 (by now) other submissions and are desperate :P But I still did my best.

    Are you seriously going to send a postcard to over 200 people?
    Oh sweet Brownies that's Alot.
    I pitty your hand.
    I pity your pen/pencil even more! :P

    Good luck!

    -Tiffy
  • Simaldeff · 1 year ago
    I wanted to participate in the Mascot contest ... but I've to present my thesis (which I wrote about the game of Go) on the 14th of April ... so my hands are full right now ( T- T )
  • SimonVaillancourt · 1 year ago
    Koichi did you see that site http://www.realkana.com/ it help practice hiragana and katakana.

    I hope it can help more people ;)
  • Mathias · 1 year ago
    Finally I found the comments again! Since I have a rather strict JavaScript policy (Firefox NoScript plugin) I just didn't see anything below the posts but the footer.

    I would suggest using the <noscript> HTML tag like:
    <noscript>Please turn JavaScript on to see the comments</noscript>

    So, if you have JavaScript enabled you will see the comments, otherwise that message.

    For some reason many websites, even supposedly professional ones of big companies, don't make use of this tag and just expect everyone to have JavaScript enabled by default.
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into working on that after thesis!
  • Akira-sama · 1 year ago
    Hey ^^
    Well, I'm not from America, but I filled it out anyways xD
    I hope my English is not too bad...
  • Cory · 1 year ago
    I just filled it out. Mine was probably the least helpful but I tried!
    Good luck on your paper <3
  • Kinn · 1 year ago
    Oh no I am too late sorry

    But hooray on getting so many I guess :)

    Okay so good luck with your paper
  • mmnessa · 1 year ago
    I bet most people sent their forms because their hearts melted with koichi's picture...I know I laughed :P but was too late to fill it out
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    I'm thinking, at least a bit hoping if not shocked, that 4 billion is an exagerated number?
  • ralukchris · 1 year ago
    oh...i'm too late...i'm sorry
    good luck with your paper!
  • ZippoLag · 1 year ago
    err.. I thought the 4 billion thingies was just an "it's april fools" joke, but I can't see the survey anywhere so..
    I guess you will miss my feedback, and I your super special greeting card.-
  • curbebob · 1 year ago
    Wow, I stay away from the internet and koichi videos for a couple of weeks and I miss out BIG!
  • heartlessangel · 1 year ago
    ahh thats interestingly alot of feed back
  • Kelsy · 1 year ago
    I.. I... I really wanted to fill something out.
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    What's this point system?How did I give Koichi two points? :\
  • Viet · 1 year ago
  • koichi · 1 year ago
    omg, someone has FINALLY given me one point!
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    Make that 2 points ;)

    Haha, I completely forgot about the point system since the last time you updated the look of the comments.
  • Fredy · 1 year ago
    Happy Birthday?! Haha. It was mine yesterday. So Happy Early Birthday! haha. I can't believe you haven't gotten a point this entire time. haha. Oh, and Viet deserves a point for explaning the point system. I think it's only fair.
  • heartlessangel · 1 year ago
    wat is the point system i saw that and i was like huh?
  • クリス · 1 year ago
    Something similar to the good/bad comment system on Youtube. Basically you can give points to the responses of other people on this site. Viet posted a link up there ^^ giving a better explanation of what it is and how it works.

    Link: http://www.tofugu.com/2008/01/22/the-best-site-...
  • heartlessangel · 1 year ago
    thanks I read about it I guess it helps in a way.