Where’s My Radar?
May 13th, 2008 - 11:59 pm
What is this fresh hell I am seeing on my weather radar channel?! It sucks! I watched for ten minutes, and I only saw a full state overview of the radar for what? Two seconds?! One three hour loop?! In two seconds?!
What’s really annoying is that as the radar switches around every few seconds to all the sections of the Austin Metro area, my neighborhood — neigh, not even just my neighborhood but my block — is always split on the edge of the map. Except for the brief showing of the Austin overview, during which the streets are so small, even on a 60″ hi-def TV, I can’t tell if that big red blob is going to crawl slowly right over my area, or if it’s going to pass a few miles away. Sometimes, this matters.
And wouldn’t it be nice if I could get a better look at the bigger picture to see if there’s anything developing further out than the end of my city’s nose? Yes, yes it would.
This is freaking upsetting. I want to register my strong disapproval of the new News8 Weather channel. I want my NOAA radar back, please.
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Love your Dorthy Parkerism.
Parker was a goddess. A sad goddess, but a goddess all the same.
Indeed. I heard that her cremated remains lay in her lawyer’s filing cabinet for some 40 years after her death, no one to claim them. Then a few years ago a biographer, a M.Lit. student took them and raised a suitable memorial. She would have said, I told you so. or No one makes passes at girls who are ashes!
No one makes passes at girls who are ashes!
That would be so her! One of my high school Lit teachers was nuts about her, and I got hooked too. Incredible talent and whit.