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about the weather

yes, both relevant to this post, and a musical reference (song by 10,000 maniacs). anyway.

this post is, actually, about the weather. this past christmas, carrie gave me an Oregon Scientific WMR968 Weather Station. those of you who know me might remember that i’m a weather geek. or you may have glazed over that detail, because it’s mundane. anyway.

like any competent weather station, it measures: temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, wind speed and direction. but the geekiest feature is that the base station connects to a computer via serial cable. i’ve got it hooked up to my server at home, and it’s logging meteorological data 24/7.

there are various open source packages to interface with this data, as well as to submit it on intervals to sites like weatherunderground.com.

i will be developing a widget to embed the data on this site and my other sites, so keep an eye out for that. why do you need to know what the weather’s like on my back deck, exactly? that’s for you to decide. i’m just enjoying the programming challenge.

things overheard in a cat household

just a quick compendium. what are you eating? stop eating that! where did you find that? that’s not edible! get off the counter! get out of there! get down from there! how did you get there? stop fighting! stop yelling! stop… whatever you’re doing! and perhaps the most important… don’t fall in the toilet!

zero + expensive

that’s fahrenheit, not celsius. and when i went to move my truck this morning, the clutch is all screwy. great. update: my truck just left for the dealer on a flatbed. there was clutch hydraulic fluid flowing out of the slave cylinder inside the transmission. pricey!

waking up in 2008

while this time is usually dedicated to blathering on and on about top-ten lists and resolutions, i’ll take the opportunity to look at waking up in 2008, versus waking up in 2007. in retrospect, as i assemble this, it looks like i’m putting out an all-points bulletin for myself. data January 1st, 2007 January 1st, […]

anyone up for wassailing?

in the longstanding tradition of explaining nonsensical-sounding old english traditions at the holidays, i present to you: Wassailing. of course you can go look it up on wikipedia, but they tend to have all the wit and charm of your high school guidance counselor (after they banned smoking in the teacher’s lounge). Wassail is a […]

guess what happened today?

yeah, i sound like a broken record. another 7-8 inches, got all that cleared but now it’s accumulating sleet and might switch over to freezing rain before it switches back to snow.

90 minutes

so i spent another hour and a half shoveling. this time i cleared everything (again) – another 4″ or so fell where i already cleared 5″ earlier today. i also cleared off and scraped both the cars. it mercifully stopped snowing while i was out there. that means, with any luck, it won’t snow again […]

more snow falls

here is an excerpt from a time-lapse i shot out the window during the beginning of this snow storm. 1:10pm 1:28pm 2:05pm 3:00pm 3:40pm 4:20pm

the stout scarab

while we were in maine last month, we visited the owls head transportation museum. one of the pieces on display was a 1935 Stout Scarab. a handbuilt car of which only a handful were ever produced. it was ridiculously expensive for the time. i finally remembered to look it up – get this. rear engine, […]

i have cats in my office

it’s not unusual, since i work from home now. but i was just realizing – they’re the only “people” i talk to all day. and they do talk back, occasionally. plus i’ve never had my co-workers jump in my lap and rub up against me before. and i’m glad. GLAD! glad glad glad glad glad […]