Re: Cable TV

">parr(*>" wrote:
>| what do you mean, "real weather"?
>Oh you know, like rain and sunshine and wind.

knowing what the weather is doing right here, right now,
is of only limited use in determining what it's going to
be doing in two hours, or tomorrow, and of no use at all
in determining what it's going to be doing tomorrow
afternoon in another city.

>| i watch The Weather
>| Channel for the radar maps, so i can see what's heading towards
>| my location. yes, i can see this online, but the website only
>| works about 75% of the time, and even then, the latest pictures
>| are often several hours old (and nearly useless). somehow, The
>| Weather Channel has access to a better feed.
>I look out the window to see what's heading towards my location.  Do
>they have windows in America?

of course we have windows (and some of us use Windows), but
by the time a weather phenomenon is close enough for me
to see by looking out the window, it's too close for me to
take any appropriate action about it - it's pretty much
already happening, if i can see it. in order to have more
than a few minutes' warning, i would have to be able to see
over the curve of the earth, past the horizon.
 
>| yes, i'm a weather geek, in addition to being several other
>| kinds of geek.
>Are you related to Ioannis?  I'm English myself.  Some people here
>also have dual nationality.

i'm not related to Ioannis at all. some of my ancestors were
English (and some were Scottish, and some were Irish, and some
were Native Americans, and some were fucked-if-i-know-what),
but i'm "American". i'm an all-American geek (note the absence
of an "r").