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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCZach's Emulations and Drawings

« on: August 30, 2009, 03:49:13 PM »

Quote from: Zach on August 30, 2009, 03:30:36 PM

With Farmers' Almanac's predictions of wet snow all along the Gulf Coast, I came up with some CC screens. I made my first ever IS v2 CC screen and redid my XL v3 CC screen. Results attached.

Also, please tell me if you see any mistakes, your feedback is great to me.

Excellent job!! They're almost spot-on!

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

« on: August 29, 2009, 03:18:14 PM »

Quote from: Zach on August 29, 2009, 11:04:58 AM

Quote from: Mike M on August 29, 2009, 11:02:26 AM
Last night at the mall I heard Restless Heart by Chris Geith.
Out of all places, I wouldn't expect CG music away from TWC unless it was from the Smooth Jazz II CD.

There are some places that might've gotten their hands on TWC's Smooth Jazz CDs. I'm still waiting for the Irving Mall to do the same.

Early yesterday morning, ABC was playing "Wait A Minute" by Mark Krurnowski on their short weather segment

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

« on: August 27, 2009, 01:40:13 PM »

"Moments in Love" by The Art of Noise was played on 2 stations before it made its way to TWC:

- KOAI (now KMVK) Smooth Jazz 107.5 The Oasis
- KBFB 97.9 The Beat (as background music during their "Quiet Storm" hour)

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Something I found on YouTube...

« on: August 24, 2009, 04:40:36 PM »

I wish Time Warner Cable in my area would play that ad.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast planning to buy Time Warner?

« on: August 24, 2009, 04:26:56 PM »

If that happens, Time Warner here in North Texas will revert back to Comcast.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Charter... gone for good?

« on: August 24, 2009, 04:25:27 PM »

I also think that their recent dispute with Belo Corp. (which is now resolved) might've been another factor.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Michael's TWC Fan Art Portfolio

« on: August 18, 2009, 05:10:58 PM »

As mentioned in the Icons Discussion topic, I saw the "Windy" icon used for the first time on the Current Conditions section of weather.com. Although my local IS only used the "Cloudy" icon in the CC slides and the "Cloudy and Windy" icon on the Metro Map, I figured: Why not show the "Windy" icon on the IntelliStar?

DISCLAIMER: All known materials are property of The Weather Channel and TWC Interactive.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCZach's Emulations and Drawings

« on: August 18, 2009, 02:46:57 PM »

Quote from: Zach on August 18, 2009, 02:42:38 PM

You can tell how dreamy I'm being if I were to see these on TWC at my new High School.

I'll attach them too so you can view them at full size.

We can only dream. Great concepts though!

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General Discussion / Re: Packing up camp, and heading back to the US...

« on: August 14, 2009, 02:04:15 PM »

I'm rootin' for ya Kyle!

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General Discussion / Re: Bad restaurant conversions

« on: August 14, 2009, 09:31:35 AM »

To start off:

- One of my local Denny's restaurants also converted to a car dealership.
- A Long John Silvers/A&W restaurant in central Irving was closed off for a year. It was then reopened as La Isla serving Tex-Mex...only to suffer a demise after 3 months. (Good thing a couple friends of mine found another LJS/A&W location nearby.)
- Another Denny's in Irving was closed and demolished to make way for extra parking for Baylor Medical Center. (The only other remaining Denny's I know of is located in western Irving)
- A Shlotzky's Deli (located on the same street as the former LJS/A&W) was transformed into Texas Car Title & Payday Loans.
- A TCBY restaurant transformed into A-Affordable Insurance.
- A Chinese restaurant (located near my favorite Crystal's Pizza parlor) has been changed to Lone Star Title Loans (like we don't have enough of those around town).
- And lastly, my favorite drive-in homemade burger place was changed into one Temp. Agency after another.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Michael's TWC Fan Art Portfolio

« on: August 14, 2009, 01:03:33 AM »

One thing I've noticed on my local IntelliStar (#22105) is that there are 2 different Irving observation sites. These 2 pieces of fan art will show you examples:

DIASCLAIMER: All known materials are property of The Weather Channel and TWC Interactive. The current IS Background, Interstate and Helvetica Fonts are provided courtesy of by Martin

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCZach's Emulations and Drawings

« on: August 13, 2009, 04:54:37 PM »

HAHAHA

Nice one!!

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Michael's TWC Fan Art Portfolio

« on: August 08, 2009, 12:21:12 AM »

It seems Zach has passed the boredom on to me. I've just created my concept of a Travel Forecast utilizing the current IS Marine template.

DISCLAIMER: All known materials are property of The Weather Channel and TWC Interactive. The "Hot Conditions" icon on the 2nd version is made by Tyler Tomasino. The IS Marine Template is courtesy of Martin. All weather data is simulated.