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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 06, 2012, 08:43:27 AM »

Speaking of which, I hate how unstable Safari has become since iOS 5. It is crashing all the time. I was expecting the last few updates to fix it, but it's still slow and unstable.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 02, 2012, 11:19:05 PM »

I still have 10 calendar days to go. Finals start on Wednesday.

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Local Forecast / Re: June 2012 Playlist

« on: June 02, 2012, 12:18:54 PM »

Frail, solar sailer and winged mammal theme were also on the overnight

I haven't heard it on any other daypart.

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Local Forecast / Re: June 2012 Playlist

« on: June 02, 2012, 10:27:55 AM »

I'm loving In the Light and Take on Me, and I like that Solar Sailer is back.

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TWC Today News / Re: New Global Moderator!

« on: May 31, 2012, 08:23:19 PM »

Congratulations, Andy!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 31, 2012, 08:19:39 PM »

One thing I've noticed about the HD national LDL is that when it's blue, the days of the week above the forecast boxes are in mixed case, but when it's black, they're in all caps.

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:31:26 PM »

Godwin's Law will never apply here. Likewise, Hitler was the nicest person you could know.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 26, 2012, 06:49:36 PM »

I haven't had the STAR in awhile, so I may be incorrect, but it is to my knowledge that purple comes before maroon in air quality alerts.  Purple means "very unhealthy" and maroon means "hazardous."  Purple is not normally shown on the STAR unless it is needed, of course.  I think the worst level I have seen on a STAR is red.

Also, I believe a Weather Bulletin for an air pollution watch is shown for levels orange and above, not just for maroon.   I am not sure if there is such as thing as a bulletin for an "air quality alert" though.  (I assume there is a difference.  To me, the alert is like a warning.)

I remember recently the AQ on my IS was orange, but there was nothing for it on the Weather Bulletin.

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General Discussion / Re: Recent music purchases

« on: May 26, 2012, 12:53:02 AM »

Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 25, 2012, 10:54:33 AM »

On Xfinity, I've noticed that the SD and HD feeds of some of the channels I watch are not in sync. The HD feed would be ahead of the SD feed, like on Univisión, or it would be the other way around, like on TWC. I'm curious as to why this happens.

I'm pretty sure this happens on all cable/satellite providers.  For me, any HD channel always seems to lag a few seconds behind any SD channel.  I am not sure why, although there may be some discussion about it in the WUWA thread?

HD is much larger than SD, sometimes 2-4 times that size, so it takes a bit longer to transmit to your television.

Thanks, but that doesn't quite explain why the HD feed would be ahead on different channels. I guess that's a mystery.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: May 25, 2012, 12:10:13 AM »

On Xfinity, I've noticed that the SD and HD feeds of some of the channels I watch are not in sync. The HD feed would be ahead of the SD feed, like on Univisión, or it would be the other way around, like on TWC. I'm curious as to why this happens.

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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: May 25, 2012, 12:05:13 AM »

Banned because I would up the ante, but them my post would be nothing but emoticons.

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The Game Room / Re: Stupid Questions

« on: May 23, 2012, 11:45:51 PM »

IT'S A CONSPIRACY, I TELL YOU!

Which goes first, the cereal or the milk?

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General Discussion / Re: You Tube subscribers...

« on: May 23, 2012, 09:22:48 AM »

I haven't paid attention to the number of my subscribers, but what I've noticed go down is overall viewership. That's for another topic, though.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 22, 2012, 09:51:09 PM »

Wow, this must officially be the end of the 2 minute flavors then. 2 minutes has always been the longest amount of time possible for the LFs since J flavours were discontinued in the late 90's.

IMO, this shouldn't be the case.  Now the National Feed no longer shows the city-by-city 5 day forecast (3-day on SD), which leads to a greater lack of information.  Bad move.

Not too sure on the SD feed, but the 5-day forecast is shown on 1:00 LFs on the HD feed

There's no city-by-city forecast on 1:00 flavors on the SD feed.