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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 07, 2009, 06:22:24 AM »

A note of advice to all my friends: NEVER try or drink Diet Crush orange soda. It's nasty, and I just threw up from it. 

I don't like any diet soda, other than diet root beer.

I haven't had a Slurpee in ages, and there's a 7-Eleven just down the street...

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TWC Today News / Re: Site News

« on: May 07, 2009, 06:17:19 AM »

There is a perhaps more important problem with the seven line limit. I have a lot of BBcode tags in my signature which takes over a good part of it (especially in the links to my Facebook, twitter, etc). I really don't have much on there, it's the tags that prevent me from resaving it.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New slogan for The Weather Channel?

« on: May 07, 2009, 06:13:11 AM »

TWC hasn't had a good, meaningful slogan since 1998. As much as I loved the Live By It era, I never understood what "Live By It" meant. Live by what? TWC?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 06, 2009, 09:45:12 PM »

Were these taken when you went to Voorhees?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: They really did clear the old studio out early.

« on: May 05, 2009, 09:46:27 PM »

I only hear sound on that one....... 

You need the DIVX codec to view the video. You can get it at:

http://divx.com

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 05, 2009, 05:09:26 PM »

When I was at the airport there i saw the IS on a tv but didnt have time to take a pic

When were you at the Philadelphia airport?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 05, 2009, 05:08:32 PM »

Thank you, Gary.

I'm not the best at Spanish either. I have a 96% right now, but that's because it's the lowest level class so we're pretty slow at things. If I were at a faster-paced class, I'd probably be lost big time.

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General Discussion / Re: Welcome, Nick!

« on: May 05, 2009, 05:06:20 PM »

Hey, welcome!  We're very thrilled to have you aboard. You do a great job at the Weather Channel.

This is a different Nick, not Nick Walker.

Anyway, great to have you here, Nick!

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:49:21 PM »

I'm going to Philly tomorrow. I'm tempted to record the Voorhees IS but I"m not allowed to bring the laptop. They have a flat screen TV, is there a way I can record the intellistar there if I sneaked in?

I would assume Voorhees would either get 21873 (Camden) or 21896 (Williamstown). Do you have a video camera? I only got a chance to see 21896 once at a restaurant in 2005.

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General Discussion / Re: Swine Flu

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:42:31 PM »

A school up in Hainesport is closed for a few days due to a few people having flu-like symptoms (no confirmed cases).

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:41:33 PM »

Any commercial that has that "news report" theme. It was clever at first, but now it's just getting old. Heck, one of the ad crawls on my IntelliStar have a "breaking news" theme now.

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Local Forecast / Re: Consistant data loss?

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:38:07 PM »

Has this been happening to anyone else?

For the past 2 weeks at least, I've observed that my IS is missing data from the Daypart Forecast (only the first slot contains data), and the Metro Forecast map (3 to 4 locations missing data). This has all been occurring in the evening hours, around 7-9 PM local time.

Don (DJK5555) reported this problem happening with his IntelliStar in NW Indiana too. Didn't hear this happening anywhere else, though.

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Local Forecast / Re: Getaway Frecast

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:33:14 PM »

I recently discovered that the Philadelphia/Center City IntelliStar has Key West, FL on their getaway forecast.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 04, 2009, 03:47:16 PM »

Please don't post Bitmaps. They're ginormous.

Yeah, I noticed I accidentally saved it as that, but was in a hurry and didn't have the time to resave it as something else. Sorry about that.

Dover is still reporting inaccurate temperatures as of this afternoon, currently reporting 3° with a wind chill of -13°.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 04, 2009, 06:36:04 AM »

Wow, something's really screwed up at the reporting station in Dover. Look at the current temp at 5:55 PM, and all the other times!