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Sounds like FUN!

I was translating an article about computer vision today. In the author bios at the end I found that these guys are working at an interesting place. The Future University Hakodate! More specifically, the graduate school. Wouldn't you like to attend The Graduate School of FUN? I think they even realize themselves how this sounds in English.

It sounds kind of appealing, but the big draw for me is that it's in Hakodate, which is a neat city. It's the gateway to Hokkaido, so they have some nineteenth century, Japanese frontier meets the Industrial Revolution architecture. The geography of the city is very cool too. I like how you can see the star shaped fort in that satellite image. I only got to spend an afternoon there in my travels way back in 1988 and we had to run around with one eye on our watches to be sure we didn't miss our train. One thing I remember, in a touristy area near that fort, there was a little old man carving and painting wooden rings with pictures of the special things of Hokkaido and Hakodate (lilies of the valley, a couple buildings, a mountain). He jumped out at us, said something in unintelligible English, and shoved one of those rings on my finger. It was a present for the blonde alien girl!

Ah, Hakodate.