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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you
« on: March 03, 2009, 03:40:26 PM »
Banned for banning yourself.
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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you
« on: March 03, 2009, 03:40:03 PM »
Banned for not using capital letters.
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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you
« on: March 03, 2009, 03:24:02 PM »
banned because that's been recently used.
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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!
« on: March 03, 2009, 02:19:49 PM »
Even though FORTRAN is an old language that not many people use any more, it is still widely used in the meteorological community because it is very efficient at running calculations of large amounts of data. I work with a few meteorological models, and they are all mostly FORTRAN based, with some scripting to tie it all together. IDL is good for visualizing stuff (making graphs, maps, etc). I have found it much easier to work with than Excel if you know what you are doing with it.
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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you
« on: March 03, 2009, 01:58:52 PM »
Banned for agreeing not only here but also in the schedule change thread.
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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!
« on: March 03, 2009, 09:17:58 AM »
I'd like to add to the discussion about classes to take. If you are interested in meteorology, I would highly recommend considering taking some computer programming in college if it is not required. If it is available, I'd highly recommend taking a class in FORTRAN, and/or learning it and IDL on your own, as well as some basic shell scripting. FORTRAN was requiered for my Meteorology degree, and they now require IDL knowledge along with it, and honestly with my job now I am using my programming skills much more than my meteorology knowledge. Having this knowledge can open your doors to many more oppurtunities in the meteorology field.
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: March 03, 2009, 08:32:32 AM »
Think of it this way, the economy should (hopefully) recover at some point, and at that point, lots of places (hopefully) will have lots of jobs to fill. If you can figure out a way to go to college (student loans?) in 4 years time it may really pay off.
I'm scared about myself or my wife losing our jobs and we have twins on the way.
BTW, we found out we're having a boy and a girl.
I'm scared about myself or my wife losing our jobs and we have twins on the way.
BTW, we found out we're having a boy and a girl.
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: March 02, 2009, 05:01:56 PM »
I should have specified it's a KFC/Taco Bell mix.
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: March 02, 2009, 04:55:42 PM »
The KFC in my hometown (Blair, NE) is not too great, there are always complaints there. Once my dad went in there and they had ran out of chicken. My wife used to work at Pizza hut in town, and many times KFC called to see if they could get some cups from them because they always ran out.