jgraves
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I completely missed Bigwill's comment about cheesedog the first time around
Haven't had one of them in decades! Are they still around?
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Today, most tatami mats are about 95% styrofoam on bottom with a tatami cover (try lifting the mats in your room to see which you have).
They're a lot warmer, quieter, and don't have the bug problems that the 100% tatami tatami mats have. Just don't jump up and down too much on the new ones or you'll end up with Edward James Omlos tatami.
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Thunder storms are excellent. When living in California for 4 years of uni, there wasn't a single one. When I returned to the East coast, and experienced my first T-storm in years, it was truly phenomenal.
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Those "sale" prices are exactly the same as in most other shops that haven't marked them as sale at this time of year.
For Jinbocho's ski gai, marked prices are irrelevant. Know what you want before you go, visit a bunch of stores with pencil/paper & make note of the lowest price you find. You can then buy what you want from any shop at that price. They know what the cheapest offering in town is, and if you know it too, all of them will give it to you or even beat it.
The store you chose should be the one with the best after service. I've been happiest with Fuso in that department.
In late spring, you can often find true sales. Not now.
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NZ is quite photogenic. So is the lump.
I know what I'm doing next summer.
That fall must have hurt, but if you don't stop tripping out on it, you'll never get over the fear. I just hope it isn't too late.
Be thankful there was no fence waiting to impale yourself on at the bottom.
Great pics. Great trip. Thanks.
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Nah, a baby brie!
(You stole my joke, AmericansstuckBushlikeapig!)
But congrats anyway Cheeseman!
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26.5 Japanese give or take 0.5Quote:Originally posted by dizzy:
what size r ur feet?
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Yeah for North American ski resorts!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/08/ski.power.ap/index.html
I hope Japanese resorts get some ideas and follow suit.
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mac mac mac mac mac
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Thanks diz. got the pm.
All this talk is bringing back the itch. All my gear is back in the states, though (kicking self). Will try to get the rents to send it over and make it down.
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Dizzy, where is your gym in Tokyo? ? Got a link?
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Congratulations!
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Saw the first pictures of people on such a pre-season run here on the tele this evening.
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Score 2 points for your pr person SJ!
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Don't see why they couldn't . . but. . .
Wouldn't the banrupt owner and/or bank have already sold off all saleable assets including lifts, snow-making equip, etc.???
And aren't property taxes assessed to whoever owns a property on Jan 1?? Thats certainly not an insignifanct hunk of change on a multi-million $ prop.
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I would be extremely surprised if anyone bought any of it at this point.
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Nah, mate. Its santa's reindeer Prancer.Quote:Originally posted by Fossil:
Let me get this straight an okamashika is an african Wildebeest right? -
Weddings and funerals are the two biggest money-makers for churches (and temples, and Shrines, and and and). Of course priests are going to be pissed. Many call that feeling of hurt "sacrilege" or something spirit related, though.
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Just went for a jog here in Tokyo in shorts and a short-sleeve shirt this morning.
Also just looked at my wall and realized the calender on my wall still says its September. Maybe this weather is my fault. I'm ripping pages off right after I post this.
(damn, can't believe I'm joining the sewing circle, too!)
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I didn't know she was related to Condaleeza Rice.
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Yeah, the standard contract at our company is national holidays, 6 pre-determined company holidays. and six days of paid vaca.
You wouldn't happen to be a teacher would you, Indy? I gave up that life. The vaca was great, but the job just didn't get me out of bed in the mornings.
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Unlike in the states, landlords in Japan as a general rule change the locks with each new tenant (that's one of many post-move fixes that reduces your deposit to near-zero)
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Doesn't make up for the lack of paid vacation, though.
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2 in november alone
FEATURE: Green Snow - How winter sports affect the environment
in Snow talk, trip reports, Japan avalanche & backcountry
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This isn't directed at anyone or anyone's post. Just festering feelings that this feature article compelled me to put into words.
I am sick of hearing the same tired old anticapitalist, often misanthropic, doomsday rhetoric about greenhouse gasses.
I am not a scientist, but I have been an academic for the past six years. If there's one thing that experience taught me its that academics (scientists included) are just as (if not more) capable of tunnel vision about their own work and being influenced by other "academic studies" and brainless rhetoric as the rest of us.
Are greenhouse gases one factor of global warming? Yes. Absolutely. BUT
How many millions of square meters of greenhouse gas-absorbing vegitation is lost per year?
And the amount of greenhouse gasses mother nature spews into her own atmosphere from volcanic activity has got to dwarf the amount that a world of people do.
And how many tillions of square meters of black, solar-radiation-absorbing roads are there worldwide now where there used to be much cooler grass and dirt?
I wonder, has anybody ever done the math on the climactic effects of blacktop? Probably not. Roads do not have a corporate logo on them so they do not tend to invite the anti-capitalist wrath of environmentalists and social critics.
Clearly, something needs to be done, but "raising awareness" about greenhouse gasses is getting old. I mean, realistically, have any of you ever actually met anybody who is not aware of, not concerned with, or intentionally ignoring the global warming? I certainly haven't.
I recently posted a thread linking an article on CNN that spoke of several concrete steps American ski resorts are taking to combat the problem, including active government lobbying, installing gondolas in town centers to ski hills to decrease the # of cars (and hopefully roads) up to the mountains, installing new lift systems to increase skiable terrain and increase efficiency of their lift system at the same time. It read a little bit like a commercial, but there were some really interesting developments in there.
As a community of skiers, shouldn't we put our heads together to come up with real solutions to improve the situation and preserve a sport we love rather than beating the problem to death then self-rigtheously railing out at consumerism and the ignorance of humanity and giving each other hive fives for doing so?
Geez, what did I eat for breakfast this morning?