outback II (was: RE: tlug: Fw: Could Linux Kill NT?)

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne - 3Web writes:
 > >Sapporo, 2 1/2 hours/5400 yen (one-way) by train. I've met Hokkaido
 > >natives who don't know where this town is. So there.
 > 
 > 
 > Actually, it sounds like a nice place, except for the weather.  Hokkaido
 > only has two kinds of weather: too cold (that's the kinds it gets in summer)
 > and way too cold (that's the kind it has the rest of the year) :-)

What are you, from Hawaii or something? Hokkaido gets *pleasantly*
warm in the summer. Unfortunately, Oshamanbe has its own peculiar
climate, ranging from partly cloudy, chilly, and damp to cloudy,
freezing, and damp. Shortly before getting married, I moved down here
from Sapporo. Told my then-fiancee (a Hokkaido native) we would need a
a dehumidifier ... she thought I was crazy. She still does, but not
for *that* reason.

 > How's the fishing around there?

Okay if you're content with flatfish and the occasional second-rate
salmon. But I guess, the shape the oceans are in, you can't expect
much better these days.

 > BTW, you didn't mention how far you had to go to find a place to buy
 > computer parts and stuff :-)

Sapporo!

Cheers,

Matt
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