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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:53:50 PM »

I'm really beginning to think that I'll never be able to afford Adobe After Effects. So if I want to do some "serious" WeatherSTAR emulations, I might have to settle for Adobe Premiere Elements. It seems to retail for around $70, which is much more reasonable than the $900 some for After Effects.

Are you sure you want to get premiere elements? It's extremely hard to get the text shadows/stroke correct and to animate the 4000 icons.

Well, what other options do I have? I don't have the money to throw around on After Effects.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:46:37 PM »

I'm really beginning to think that I'll never be able to afford Adobe After Effects. So if I want to do some "serious" WeatherSTAR emulations, I might have to settle for Adobe Premiere Elements. It seems to retail for around $70, which is much more reasonable than the $900 some for After Effects.

No software piracy for beanboy?

No.

I'd like to keep it legal.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:42:57 PM »

I'm really beginning to think that I'll never be able to afford Adobe After Effects. So if I want to do some "serious" WeatherSTAR emulations, I might have to settle for Adobe Premiere Elements. It seems to retail for around $70, which is much more reasonable than the $900 some for After Effects.

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General Discussion / Re: What have you eaten today?

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:40:41 PM »

Breakfast: egg, donut
Lunch: chicken strips
Dinner: sub

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:38:28 PM »

Satellite LF 7:38 PM ET.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 07:30:47 PM »

I have school till June 6 

Wow, that's early! When I was in school we regularly got out around the 12th. If it was a bad winter, we were easily in school until the 20th, sometimes later. 

In high school we would always normally get out the first Friday in June, unless there was a bad winter. The last time we actually went longer was the 2003-2004 school year. IIRC, that year were in school until the second Monday of June.

BTW, I get out on May 9th this year.

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Local Forecast / Re: Nightly IntelliStar Jitters

« on: March 24, 2008, 06:37:08 PM »

Huh! That hasn't happened to me at all

You have satellite, so you won't experience the same problems we do.

Well, theoretically, I suppose the satellite LDL could freeze. It is an IntelliStar after all.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 04:12:00 PM »

I just realized if you click the "..." on any thread that has multiple pages, it will expand out to show all the pages of the thread. For this thread, I had to click it a few times to expand out all 288 pages.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: How many nights a week do you watch Storm Stories?

« on: March 24, 2008, 10:57:44 AM »

I suppose it's worth noting that the poll and the original Storm Stories website I linked to in the first post is now gone; the link redirects to weather.com/tv. Storm Stories still does have a website, but it's nowhere as extensive as their previous site.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: March 24, 2008, 09:44:12 AM »

Apparently the processor in my laptop which is clocked 1.9 GHz only idles at 800 MHz.

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Local Forecast / Re: Nightly IntelliStar Jitters

« on: March 24, 2008, 02:00:22 AM »

I'll be darned... At 1:58 AM ET, my IntelliStar froze during the Daypart Forecast, then cut to the satellite LF. 

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Local Forecast / Nightly IntelliStar Jitters

« on: March 24, 2008, 01:10:40 AM »

Anyone with the IntelliStar notice that from maybe 12 AM ET through about 3 AM ET, the IntelliStar tends to skip, jump, or freeze up during the local forecast? It seems to be a fairly new thing, only popping up within the past few months. It can get so bad that at times the STAR will totally quit midway through the forecast, and cut to the satellite feed.

Just a few minutes ago, at 12:58 AM ET, the STAR froze about five different times for about 10 seconds total, and while it didn't cut to the satellite feed, it ran over the beginning of Forecast Earth. And at the same time the past two nights the STAR had a hard freeze and cut to the satellite feed.

Anyone else experience this, or know what might cause it to happen at approximately the same time each night? Could it be a bad satellite uplink between the headend between TWC?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: March 24, 2008, 12:51:21 AM »

Before going to break at 12:45 AM ET, and for a minute or so at 12:50 AM, there was no audio from in studio.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: Carl & Kristina - Back together again

« on: March 23, 2008, 10:21:12 PM »

I like the team of Carl and Kristina.

Do you keep a notebook of this, or, how do you remember all of this stuff? 

I asked him this exact same question the other day. He just has a large cranial capacity. 

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 23, 2008, 10:05:53 PM »

If it's a clip, and not a full-length song, I thought it was ok.

If it's a clip, and not a full-length song, I thought it was ok.

Where's your post?

It was right there. I was repeating myself, because I think a certain northern neighbor may have missed it.