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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Gooood Moments From Our Fellow OCMs

« on: August 22, 2010, 03:05:30 PM »

I have a ton of A&B:BTF moments that I remember. Especially the ones from 2006-2008 (before the transition to HD). But, if I were to choose one, it would totally be when Miss America 2007 came to do the forecast with Mike Bettes, and she crowned him as if he was the new Miss America! I know there was a video on TWC but it's not on there anymore .

Oh, and this: (video courtesy of kpetree10)

Ana on Abrams and Bettes Weather Center

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Site/Forum Performance

« on: August 22, 2010, 02:46:59 PM »

This will be conducted in an honest manner.

Page load speed: sometimes it loads fast, sometimes it loads super duper slow, more like a minute or so. But do you see me complaining here? I'm practically used to it.

Audio/Video: Video content is good, Audio... not too sure. Haven't used that portion of the site yet.
 
Search speeds: *searches for Stephanie Abrams* Slow at first, but it does get the results to you. It requires some patience.

Latency: I would say it can depend on the internet browser and/or the internet connection the user has. Jesse has a good input about this, when the site gets a bit active, it slows down the speed of the site. When I lurk around here during after-hours (between the hours of 10 PM and 3 AM PDT) the site is a lot faster, more like 5 seconds.
 
Database/MySQL errors: I do get them at exactly 9 pm my time (12:00 am ET). It is a daily thing. Which is better for me to wait for them to wear off before making those birthday threads. To be honest I haven't gotten any this past couple of days, maybe it's because I've been busy and haven't checked the forums often.

Do "half" scores count? On a scale of 1-10, I'll give the overall performance a.. 7 1/2.

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General Discussion / Re: What is the last thing you bought?

« on: August 21, 2010, 11:58:36 PM »

School supplies (mechanical pencils, pens, 5-subject notebook, drawing pad for graphic design class, 4GB USB Flash Drive, DVD-Rs, and a binder) from Staples.

And some new clothing from Burlington Coat Factory.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 21, 2010, 11:56:00 PM »

I dunno if Directv is inserting local stuff into the :17/:47 inserts on TWC cuz i saw this after reviewing my PME recording from this evening

Haven't seen any on mine.... yet? 

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: OCM Layoff- Bill Keneely

« on: August 21, 2010, 03:43:32 PM »

They won't lay him off.. heck, NBC won't even give him a break!

and neither is Stephanie Abrams.  She hasn't had a break afaik.

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General Weather Chat / Re: Summer 2009 Heat Compared to Summer 2010

« on: August 21, 2010, 12:52:43 PM »

I don't think the west coast reached their average temps. We've been stuck below 110 all summer. Yeah, it's still hot, but not as hot as we're used to this time of the year. We also got a monsoonal thunderstorm here and there, so that's also a plus, because it's been years since we've seen a monsoonal thunderstorm.

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General Discussion / Re: Dish Network: I *may* get it...

« on: August 21, 2010, 01:15:01 AM »

Breaking news: I'm not gonna get it. I got to convince my parents that the promotion they got was a lie. HD free for life? whatever. It's not even free. Also, DVR service is not free either.  So, I'm gonna stay with DirecTV, even though we're still gonna pay lots. :/

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Pix of Bill Keneely at good-bye party

« on: August 21, 2010, 01:10:22 AM »

It's so nice for Nicole to throw him a goodbye party. It shows appreciation, especially to the fact he's been on TWC ever since it first debuted.

For non-facebookers, here's the picture JBC was mentioning.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: possible forum renaming?

« on: August 20, 2010, 08:00:00 PM »

I think "OCMs & Personalities" sounds a lot better. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: August 20, 2010, 07:19:37 PM »

At the very end of the :10 segment in the first hour of Weather Center, I heard "OMG" by Usher playing in the background. I find that.. weird... 

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Suggestion about Forum Notifications

« on: August 20, 2010, 12:17:26 PM »

I have a suggestion. I think notifications for forum posts sent to your email should have a link in each notification rather than just the first that was sent.

We already have those... do we?

All forum notifications by email SHOULD have a link.

I believe there is an option for that. Go to:
Profile > Modify Profile > Notifications
"For topics and boards I requested notification on" select "Instantly".

This should send you the posts that are instantly made (but I highly don't recommend that since it'll flood your Email account. (trust me, I've been there. >_<))

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 20, 2010, 12:12:36 PM »

I refuse to use Youtube these days. I hate the new interface that went live. You can't find any content thats not filtered. The "Most Viewed" stuff in the past has conveniently been from the same 10 people usually. I also can't stand the yellow/green/etc backgrounds with some ugly image rather than just a screenshot from the video. OMG SX WITH YOUR MOM? titles are soo annoying as well. But I guess its all about getting more views and thus more money. What a shame

Another thing I should note about Youtube is that every time I search for content, I get results not knowing that the video has already been taken down by Youtube (due to copyright reasons, etc). Once I click the video that "says" it's available, I get a huge note that says "THE VIDEO YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS NOT AVAILABLE". I think I ranted about this before. But it still bothers me today. Youtube needs to clean up their search results.

My account there has been inactive, as I stopped uploading videos for several reasons. But it still doesn't stop me for watching them since it's the most popular video site on the internet.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 19, 2010, 07:52:32 PM »

*sigh* @ Time Warner. They're in a contract dispute with ABC and ESPN.

Not only ESPN will be affected but most ABC affiliates are taking most of the part in this dispute.

http://www.ihavechoices.com/

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General Discussion / Re: What Type of Cell Phone Do You Have?

« on: August 19, 2010, 07:37:23 PM »

In March I got my Motorola Clutch from BOOST Mobile. $50 a month + unlimited talk/text/web = best price evar.

I'm hoping to get a Motorola i1 from BOOST very soon.. I want that phone!

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General Discussion / Re: Overrated, underrated, and guilty pleasures (in music)

« on: August 19, 2010, 05:52:49 PM »

Overrated: Rap music, Justin Bieber, anything Disney.

Underrated: idk. *thinks* Christian Rock.

Guilty Pleasures: Britney Spears and Selena Gomez. -_-

Gulilty Pleasures: None. IDK what gulity pleasures means.

a guilty pleasure basically means liking something or someone that you tried avoiding but can't.

Hinder, is over rated.  I can't stand that group.

 *ahem*