Weather could make me a star, rain or shine
04 May 2007 Leave a Comment
in Arizona News
Despite common sentiment, there is a lot of variety to the weather here in Arizona and I would love to dispel the rumors that the seasons here are nicknamed “hot, really hot, super hot, and inferno”.
I think that I may have found the perfect venue to talk about our local climate. I just need to enter the weather video challenge . I could become famous by showcasing my weather forecasting talents. If I win, I might even be considered some sort of weather guru by my friends and neighbors. If I don’t want to record myself, I could make a forecast with a mash up of some of their videos and use that to display my creativity and knowledge of my local climate.
I could talk about the rainy monsoon season, and explain that Arizona isn’t always a “dry heat” and that we do get our fair share of summer humidity. I also think everyone would be surprised to find out that there’s enough snow in northern Arizona during the winter to support a thriving skiing industry. I would be thrilled to prove to the skeptics that we do experience a variety of precipitation here.
Then again, I could talk what it was like in Phoenix on June 26, 1990. That was the day the official thermometer reached its highest recorded temperature of 122 degrees and I was here to survive experience it. (That’s 50 in Celsius, if anyone’s wondering.) Come to think of it, maybe the most accurate way to describe that day is “inferno”, because it was it was indescribably hot. Thankfully, it doesn’t get that hot every year, and our average high temperature is only 107 F. Summer nights are usually in the 80s, which is practically sweater weather around here.
See you at PostieCon in Las Vegas
02 May 2007 1 Comment
in News
Yesterday, it was announced that PostieCon would be moved from Orlando to Las Vegas. While I sympathize with those that had to change their travel plans, I have to admit that this news makes it more likely that I’ll be able to attend PostieCon. I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of learning to do, but I think there’s going to be a lot of fun as well.
I may even wander into a casino or two, although I haven’t done any gambling for a very long time. As a matter of fact, I’m a bit too analytical to be too much of an adventurous bettor. I think I’ll just approach it as spending the money like I would for a night out, instead of trying to make a profit. That way, I won’t sit there trying to calculate my odds while figuring out how to walk away without losing my shirt.
Then again, maybe I’ll just spend my spare time putting dollar bills into the change machines. At least that way, I’d be sure to break even.
My post about my AppleTV that I won, but sold on ebay
01 May 2007 4 Comments
in News
I have to admit that when it comes to some technological marvels that I am behind the times. Oh sure, I keep my computer stuff up to date with the latest folderols, but when it comes to television, I had to ask my daughter to make sure that our latest tv is hdtv. It is and I’m glad because it does get much better pictures. Then again, I may be giving away my age, but I can almost remember when color tv was announced and everyone thought it was a big deal.
So, flash forward a decade or two, and we’ve gone from the typical sitcoms to being able to watch videos online. As a matter of fact, I am a fan of reality shows and I try to watch every episode of Survivor. Of course there are gizmos out there that make watching live tv obsolete and I think an AppleTV just may be one of them. I am not sure exactly what an AppleTV is, but I called my son and he assured me that I would want one, lol. He told me that it would run circles around my little portable dvd player. He also told me that it had stunning clarity and I would be amazed it the pictures that I could download from the internet. Then he started doing some of that technical talk that he’s so good at, like mentioning HDMI, ports and interfaces and my eyes started to glaze over like they tend to do when things get too technical.
