Gary Rubin

"its here!" and its the heavy wet stuff.

Good luck!

For tracking progress, I recommend Weather Underground's Wundermap

My 6-year-old loves looking at the animated radar map overlays during summer thunderstorms. If she can see the storm, how much more we have to go, and when it's going to get stronger, she is much less afraid of the storm.

Topics are slow to load (many seconds). Clicking on reply takes many seconds before I get the edit window.

The main page also takes many seconds to load. THe rest of the web seems to be running at normal speeds, so I don't think it's my pipe.

Oh, nevermind. It's only really slow when I'm connected through my work's VPN.

What do you mean? The website responds to your requests too slowly? The RSS feeds take a while to populate? The number of posts have dropped off?

Topics are slow to load (many seconds). Clicking on reply takes many seconds before I get the edit window.

The main page also takes many seconds to load. THe rest of the web seems to be running at normal speeds, so I don't think it's my pipe.

Has LAVA been really slow the last few days, or is it just me?

I remember being awfully confused as a kid watching movies made in the US that had birds flying south for the winter

I remember when I was a kid wondering something similar about Australia and the rest of the southern hemisphere. Here, "summer", "June, July, and August", and "hot weather" all go together. In the southern hemisphere, that's not the case. I remember wondering if Australians were cold in the "summer" and warm in the "winter".

I tried canceling my subscription to winter last year but it (just like Maxim) keeps coming after canceling.

I hear we (Michiganders) should be getting some snow tomorrow, some where between 6-10. Added to the snow on the ground now will make it 6-10 total.

The 5+ that they're predicting for us on Tues night and Wednesday would be on top of about 8 inches last weekend, 6 inches last wednesday, and 25 inches this past weekend. Please tell me I don't have to move to Michigan to get away from the snow

Our little community (87 townhouses) spent over $12,000 on the last big storm. This one's dumped about 30% more snow on us and it's considerably heavier. I'm not looking forward to the bill...

Neither am I looking forward to the 6-12" forecast for the next storm coming tues/weds. If I can ever dig out, I'm moving south.

I'd like to cancel my subscription to winter please.

My community hired a front-end loader to haul it all away.

Well, I think it's over. I'm declaring it over, anyway. Total snow accumulation: 32 inches

Anyone who wishes they had some of it is welcome to drive a snowplow / dumptruck over here and take as much as you want!

I measured about 25" in our front yard.

Lucky you with the snow removal. We rely on VDOT for our streets. I don't think we'll see a plow for a couple days at least.

My backyard. My wife and I have shoveled the driveway 3 times since yesterday afternoon. We have one more shoveling to go, and I'm not sure where we'll put the snow.

5:45 pm EST, Fri., Feb. 5, 2010

* ACCUMULATIONS... WIDESPREAD STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 20 TO 30 INCHES... WITH SOME LOCATIONS IN EXCESS OF 30 INCHES.

snow snow snow snow snow snow snow........

please, just don't let my internet connection go down...

Ours didn't really start to stick until mid afternoon. Sticking pretty well now though.

Here's what they're telling us to expect:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW WITH NEAR-BLIZZARD

CONDITIONS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM FRIDAY TO 10 PM EST

SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...HEAVY SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 16 TO 24 INCHES.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL BEGIN MID-MORNING FRIDAY...AND WILL CONTINUE

THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE RAPIDLY

FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH HEAVIEST SNOWFALL OCCURRING BETWEEN

SUNSET FRIDAY TO SUNRISE SATURDAY. THE MOST HAZARDOUS WINTER

WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY NIGHT...WHEN THE

COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL REDUCE

VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE-QUARTER MILE...PRODUCING NEAR-BLIZZARD

CONDITIONS.

* TEMPERATURES...HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S FRIDAY. FRIDAY NIGHT AND

SATURDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 20S.

It's not clear where the values in your array are coming from or are generated. However it sounds like you are looking for the initialize array primative.

It appears to me to be a homework assignment related to reshaping/reindexing array values.

Values seem to run from 1 to n^2, and are arranged in a particular order such that they spiral outward.

It's not supposed to do that here in the Mid-Atlantic. Winter is supposed to be 40 degrees and raining for 3 months. An occasional 2-4" of snow once or twice in the season. That's it.

And that's what we've had the last few winters - basically one decent snow per year.

I'm with you though - enough is enough.

At least they plowed my neighborhood after yesterday's snow. Usually, they just wait for it to melt...

I am a big library fan. Free books!

Somebody was telling you you can get books from the library on your e-reader. Is that true?

Instead of plugging into the books available from Amazon could you plug into the Library of Congress for example, and check out books instead of buying them?

Probably depends on your local library. Ours does have ebooks, but it's also a very big library system in a pretty wealthy and tech-savvy county. They also have e-audio books available for download.

Not having a reader, I don't know the logistics of checkout, etc.

I ended up getting a Samsung N150, on the recommendation of our local PC shop. In the process of uninstalling the bundled crap and installing the stuff I want.

No time for an opinion yet, other than it looks pretty nice and feels solid.

Related to the original post:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_sc/us_sci_fear_of_figures

I think I'm in love...

I saw this on Slashdot.

"It's America's fault"!

Priceless.

(But I thought it was Bush's fault ... )

I fail to see how "Climatgate" is "American". The University of East Anglia is in the UK and the emails that started the current "Climategate" scandal were hacked to a server in Russia.

My guess is that it's the reaction to the whole thing (i.e. "Climate Gate") that's thought of as an American thing. My feeling is that much of the rest of the Western world (other than us) think of climate change as a non-controversial fact.

TCP/IP is a good solution.

You're beginning to sound like alfa

True, but he hasn't referred to the wavefront of a person yet.

I don't know about everyone else here, but I would be more willing to listen to a well-seasoned meteorologist, a Certified Consulting Meteorologist...

I don't know about you, but when meteorologists can't predict tomorrow's weather with agreed-upon models and timely data, I have very little faith that they can predict long-term trends.

What are the circle things supposed to be on the cover of this book?

Circles.

Hi,

Is it possible to reset the counters to Zero of my code by using a button?

thanks in advance

Add another selector (the thing you're using to decide whether to increment your pass counter) to each counter wire, and use the selectors with the reset button to determine whether to feed the wire contents or a '0' into the shift registers on the right side.

Thats what I am trying to do, except with a string array, their are only 2 elements in my array right now but I can only see the "0" element of the array. The string array that I am using is dynamic, based on how many devices are found on the network it could contain 2 or more elements. I'm using a local variable of the array to plug into the combo box properties node.

also, I can see both elements in the actual array....just not in the combo box.

Not sure if this answers your question, but could you use a listbox? It provides a property node that allows you to adjust the number of visible rows.