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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 31, 2010, 08:19:12 PM »

My YT account has been flipped back and forth between the old and new layouts for the past month.  I'm afraid the new layout will be what all of us see in the future, and we'll just have to live with it.

It debuted for everyone permanently starting today. Also I should mention that this change wasn't completely Youtube's idea, apparently going by one of their blog entries, many YT viewers wanted some of the changes made.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 31, 2010, 07:18:09 PM »

Crap. I have the new YT layout and everyone else I talk to too has it now.

Yep, I do too. Horribly inconvenient and not user-friendly, like weather.com.

I used to have it but I got switched back to the old one for some reason. To be honest I really don't like it. I'm more into rating vids than just "liking" them.

I actually like the layout.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 31, 2010, 03:52:22 PM »

I have yet to see anyone use the videowall today, perhaps the annoying blue bar is being fixed? 

Maybe so, I didn't pay much attention to it until last week and seeing that run down the middle of the video wall was getting annoying.

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: March 30, 2010, 10:42:10 PM »

I wanna buy a Dodge Charger as my next car imp.

Honda Civic, ftw, in my pants

My sister has a Black 2003 Honda Civic imp.

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The Game Room / Re: Stupid Questions

« on: March 30, 2010, 08:09:54 PM »

Maybe.....

Did I just make my 2500th post?

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday, Derek & Travis!

« on: March 30, 2010, 04:17:04 PM »

Happy birthday Travis and Derek!

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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places

« on: March 29, 2010, 09:41:08 PM »

Came from dinner at Wolfgang Pucks' and heard "The Thrill is Gone" by BB King.

That was the last song I uploaded from my primetime list.

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: March 29, 2010, 09:13:23 PM »

I'm only 9 subscribers away from the 100 milestone on my YT channel imp.

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Emulator Videos / Re: SnowManiac's Emulations

« on: March 29, 2010, 09:09:27 PM »

Ok, due to my test playlist and other STAR emulations I was doing this year, it's been a while since I've done a 4000 emulator recording so here's one on the Summer-like temps coming our way.

WeatherStar4000 Emulator - Goodbye 50's, Hello 80's!

Features "Rising Moon" by Doug Markley which will be featured on my April 2010 Overnight Test Playlist on my Youtube channel.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Member Badges/Stars

« on: March 29, 2010, 09:05:14 PM »

I really like Jonathan's design the best. 

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The Game Room / Re: What Are You Watching Right Now?

« on: March 29, 2010, 08:11:45 PM »

An old episode of Family Guy on TBS

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 29, 2010, 07:57:27 PM »

I can certainly spell or say summer this upcoming weekend.  Temperatures will be climbing into the low 80s for me on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

A couple of our local mets are forecasting the same, if we do, it'll even earlier than it was last year. Time to break out the shades!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 28, 2010, 10:24:49 PM »

Yep, that's definitely Helvetica.

Oh ok, I thought it might of been. It's kinda odd because I don't remember our FOX affiliate using that font the last time I saw a warning crawl on there. I guess I didn't realize how popular that font really is.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 28, 2010, 09:29:34 PM »

Not sure if anyone has noticed, but the SkyTracker/TITAN radars now show data from the past 3 hours instead of the last hour... something that should have been implemented years ago...

Hmm, I never noticed that...

I know this is random, but is it just me or does the font of the Tornado Watch/ Severe T'Storm Warning look similar to the font that's used on the blue LDL where the "now" tab is?

EDIT: After looking at it again, even the font of the crawl looks similar to the crawl on the blue LDL. 

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Vortex2 2010

« on: March 28, 2010, 07:03:22 PM »

Hey folks, sorry I've been silent for so long. I've been keeping busy with work and my personal life. Nonetheless, I just wanted to pop on and keep you guys up to date on The Weather Channel's plans for Vortex2 this year.

Let's go over some of the changes and highlights...

• TWC will only be following the armada for the first 3 weeks, unless the last week is expected to heat up.
• There will be no live chat or streaming on weather.com, can't afford it this year.
• There will be very little, if any coverage in the outside of morning hours (weather permitting), coverage will be focused on the morning hours.
• The Green Machine will not have it's Blooomobile attached to it this year, as the satellite fees last year were too expensive.
• Because live and on the go uplink (Bloomobile) is not available this year, the actual live in the field coverage will be in SD and via cellular 3G broadband (roughly 30+ second delay) (There is no 3G coverage, see how this will cause problems?) The only HD feeds will be during the morning reports as they are not on the move and the standard HD uplink/satellite truck will be in use instead. It is impossible to operate a standard satellite truck while in motion.
• Instead of a crew of about 6 people this year, it is currently planned to have Mike, a camera operator and a satellite truck operator.

I'll post more information as it becomes available, but I just thought I should post this information now since I just got it.

These changes make this year's Vortex2 sound so boring compared to last year.