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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: June 02, 2009, 08:23:17 PM »

The outage continues at 8:18 PM EDT and it cuts to "I Don'tSpeak Retard" at the end

No, the second song was Tropical Breeze. I don't know what Matt's title is, but I know it's not that.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Vortex2: The Great Tornado Hunt on TWC

« on: June 02, 2009, 05:16:07 PM »

I don't care how many tornadoes they find, I just want this hype to end!

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General Discussion / Re: Braces

« on: June 02, 2009, 06:18:33 AM »

I've been due for them for over five years, but never had the money or patience for them. 

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Local Forecast / Re: Official June 2009 Playlist!

« on: June 01, 2009, 08:38:20 PM »

That doesn't sound like Guyute. If it is, it isn't the same cut they used in August 2004.

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 08:19:46 PM »

Wow, those lighted signs are neat. When I was in the Harrisburg area back in March I saw a few street signs that were lighted like that. I didn't see any of those other signs lighted like what you posted, like the "One Way" and Left Turn Signal signs.

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 04:00:47 PM »

Here's the font they use now on the street signs. This is the highest quality I could find. It's not the same as the one in my first post; those are older. I pretty sure the signs on the second pic on my first post is Interstate.

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Local Forecast / Re: Official June 2009 Playlist!

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:55:33 PM »

Wow, they're playing Guyute? I remember hearing that back in 2004. I was watching TWC with my grandparents all day when Hurricane Charley made landfall and that song was the one I heard the most that day.

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Contributions / Re: Evening Edition 2001 40 second music clip in ETF

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:52:36 PM »

Wow, nice find! Except, that I don't see any video, and I do have the DiVX codec installed.

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:07:51 PM »

Those are actually older signs from when the lights were installed in 1997, the newer ones use a font that looks a lot like the font in TWC's logo. There are also signs that use Interstate.

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 06:22:45 AM »

First and third pics are old sets of Eagle signals hanging on wires near Newtown, PA. These were replaced with modern mast-arm signals within a few months after this was taken (October 2004).

Second is another set of old signals from the 1970's, with metal plates. These still remain AFAIK, and have always been on flash because this is on an abandoned portion of PA Route 23.

Pictures courtesy of AARoads.

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General Discussion / Traffic lights

« on: May 31, 2009, 09:45:14 PM »

Kind of a silly question, but since traffic lights are different from state-to-state and city-to-city, I figured I'd post a topic to see how they are installed on your area.

Ours (in Lower Bucks) are mounted vertically, on mast-arm poles. Most of them were installed no earlier than the mid-late 90's, though there are still a few older ones hanging around here. Since 2000, newly installed signals have had LEDs on the red and green lights and eventually yellow, and in 2005 most of the existing signals had LEDs installed on them.

Here are a few examples:

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General Discussion / Re: Teletype Machines (Teletypewriters)

« on: May 31, 2009, 09:25:02 PM »

WTF!!!

Craigslist is a job listings website.

Uh... no it isn't.

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Contributions / Re: Mike's Classic TWC Clips

« on: May 31, 2009, 09:22:27 PM »

Here's a satellite forecast just uploaded from 2003:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-13zt0VlE

And another one from 2004:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gIHaP7bbA

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Local Forecast / Re: Official June 2009 Playlist!

« on: May 31, 2009, 12:46:25 PM »

The David Holmes song played at 12:18 PM, looks like they're mixing this month's and last month's playlist together.

This is not the first time that has happened. It happened in November and again in February. They alternate the songs at first, but by the next day, it is totally transitioned over to the new list. Keep in mind, this is May 31 not June 1.

Yeah, I remember them doing this with the September 2007 playlist too.

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Local Forecast / Re: Official June 2009 Playlist!

« on: May 31, 2009, 12:37:15 PM »

The David Holmes song played at 12:18 PM, looks like they're mixing this month's and last month's playlist together.