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Everything Else TWC / Hidden part of weather.com

« on: May 10, 2010, 09:29:07 PM »

A few years ago, someone posted a link to a hidden part of weather.com. It had lots of images and other files. I think the first part of the address was xoap.weather.com. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Long Form Question?

« on: May 10, 2010, 03:24:13 PM »

Long-form programming is one of the many things that destroyed TWC. At least TWC whose main goal was reporting and explaining the weather. Of course, TWC isn't alone in this. Almost every cable network has moved away from its initial idea into something unrecognizable to a loyal or former fan. Nick shared with me an interesting article about what programming execs think about all this. The interesting part is that most seemed loyal to what made the network a brand name. Well, if that's the case, they why the rapid change? Why not just expand and update the original brand? For example, TWC made some great documentaries in the late 80s to mid 90s. Why not do an updated version of that, instead of making shows that are nothing more than "Extreme Makeover" for weather fans?

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General Discussion / Re: Al Gore's New Beach House

« on: May 09, 2010, 08:12:27 PM »

True.  No matter how much evidence you can come up with to prove that Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud most people will not changes their minds about him.

My mom and step-dad are one of those people. It's rather frustrating. They're pretty smart, yet buy into all this Obama and Gore nonsense.

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General Discussion / Re: Al Gore's New Beach House

« on: May 08, 2010, 05:19:27 PM »

Bush and Obama, yes. Clinton, no.

Clinton's housing policy helped create the housing crisis by allowing people to buy homes, regardless of credit worthiness.

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General Discussion / Re: Al Gore's New Beach House

« on: May 07, 2010, 08:35:06 PM »

Al Gore is making a boat load off of his stuff. Its a shame people buy into it

What's frightening to me is that a lot of people are still "asleep" when it comes to the horrible mess our country is in (thanks to Clinton, Bush, Obama, and their ilk). They either don't care or don't believe we're in trouble b/c the person sounding the alarm isn't a member of their political party.

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TWC Classics News / Re: Trimming down content

« on: May 07, 2010, 08:31:55 PM »

Maybe you should stop at 2006 since the relaunch occured at August of 05.

Maybe. I chose 2004 b/c that's when the timeline ends and about how up-to-date the flavor listings are.

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General Discussion / Re: Al Gore's New Beach House

« on: May 07, 2010, 01:27:16 AM »

Al Gore (and liberals in politics/the media in general) are some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet.

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TWC Classics News / Re: Trimming down content

« on: May 07, 2010, 01:23:31 AM »

IMO, if it fits in TWCT's scope, I say it shouldn't be in TWCC.

Yah, I don't think I should post content I'm not familar with. Which is why I think I'll stop it at 2004 or so.

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TWC Classics News / Re: Trimming down content

« on: May 04, 2010, 10:48:11 AM »

I understand...much of the content on there is valuable, but some of it is just—odd. To say the least. So with some of the content, I wouldn't mind to see it go. But that's just my opinion.

Really? Like what?

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TWC Classics News / Re: Trimming down content

« on: May 03, 2010, 08:46:27 PM »

it's a saying in college - "freshman 15" refers to the amount of weight one gains throughout the first year in college from excessive alcohol drinking. 

Oh. Well, in the case, are you sure it's only 15 Ty?

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TWC Classics News / Re: Trimming down content

« on: May 03, 2010, 03:44:03 PM »

Any chance you could trim down my freshman 15 while you're at it?

No idea what that is.

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TWC Classics News / Trimming down content

« on: May 03, 2010, 10:53:06 AM »

Just so none of my loyal visitors freak out, I will be trimming down the content within the next month or so. Thanks to generous contributions from fans, the site has ballooned to nearly 600 pages! As you might imagine, maintaining it has become a real pain for one person with a full-time job. It's also gotten to the point where I've posted almost everything I have, which was never my intention. Also, I haven't watched TWC with any regularity since 2003 or so. While I do enjoy going through recent footage (I often find good songs I've never heard before), I often get questions about recent things and I don't have a clue what they're talking about. So what I plan to do is cycle through content (video and images anyway) every week or so. Much like what Charles did when he was around.

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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherscan music archive

« on: April 29, 2010, 03:40:05 PM »

I looked at the home page of your site. Being a student of piano for two years now, the part about Trammell's equipment was interesting. I googled it and listened to some demos. The drum machine, in particular, had a definite "Trammell sound" to it. I could hear the drums in "Unpredictable" and "The Blizzard Song" when I listened.

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General Discussion / Re: Go TWCFORUM on CompuServe

« on: April 29, 2010, 10:45:03 AM »

The screenshots were from CompuServe, not AOL. And the "forum" was on CompuServe only. This was shortly after weather.com debuted and long before they had a message board there (which I was also a part of).

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General Discussion / Go TWCFORUM on CompuServe

« on: April 29, 2010, 01:32:22 AM »

A while back, I found two screenshots I took while in TWC's "forum" on CompuServe back in the mid 90s. Anyway, I thought they might interest some people. The first one is what you'd see when you first logged into the forum. The second one shows a list of files in the "library" that contain the word "music." And yes, since I was the resident music expert, most of the files were contributed by me.