February 7th, 2010
Yesterday we had a good snow storm. Very little wind occurred with it but snowfall rates of maybe 2 or 3 inches an hour happened Friday night. I saw it snowing heavier than I remember seeing it snow before. By the end ot the storm we had about 20 inches of snow on the ground. Not bad considering the storm was forecast to be better just south of us which has happened more than once this year. Near the Mason Dixon line into Maryland have been the big winners.
This was the most snow we’ve received since the President’s day storm of 2003. That storm had given us close to two feet also..
The nice thing is that the snow should stick around for a little while with it getting to near 30 during the day and low teens at night to refreeze the melted snow.
Now looks like maybe some lite snow Tuesday into Wednesday. That should be fun.
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January 2nd, 2010
December was a good month.. We had above average snow with the storms overdoing the original forecasts and plenty of cold air. There is still some snow on the ground from the surprise 3-4 inches we received for New years. Now we’re between an ocean storm off the new england coast and high pressure over the northern plains states.
We’ll see what happens later in the week.
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December 22nd, 2009
This season so far has been pretty good for snow.. Saturday was our third snowfall of the year and Lancaster set anew record December snowfall at 16 inches. Southern parts of the county received 20 inches or more and northern parts received as little as 8 inches of snow. Here at home we got about a foot. Rain for Christmas though will probably help melt alot of the snow away then early January looks to be warmer.It was
a nice dry snow but we didn’t have much wind to blow it around.. Hoping for more snow later!
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March 1st, 2009
It’s March first and looks like we might actually get some snow. State college has us under a winter storm warning for five to eight inches of snow here. The problem is we’ll be on the back edge of the precipiation and it’ll have a sharp cutoff. I’ll take the snow though. It’s much better than anything we’ve had so far this winter.
Now my at my parents’ house in Bucks county are forcast to get eight to fourteen inches. When I still lived there it seemed like there was always more snow north and west of Philly but Lately it seems to be more from Philly east, go figure. It doesn’t even seem like they’ll have to be concerned with a changer to rain.
Oh well, it should be interesting to watch things unfold.
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February 12th, 2009
Yesterday a strong storm system developed and moved into the great lakes bringing with it a strong cold front. We had highs in the 60s with Sun most of the day and that helped create a really impressive squall line moving east across Pennsylvania. At one point it was moving east at 75 mph but it was just a bit too late for us in northwest Lancaster county. I broke up and we barely got a shower. Still it was impressive for February. I’m sort of disapointed I wasn’t home to watch things develope.
Today we have a high wind warning and the winds have been pretty strong. Once again I am wishing I had the means to setup the wind sensor for my davis vantage pro2.
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February 12th, 2009
Amazon’s new kindle 2 looks pretty intersting. I’d consider getting one if I coud just see it first. It seems like you can change the text size on it so that might just be the perfect thing for me but I’d like to see it in person too so I can tell whether the contrast is good for me.
It also seems to includee a feature to read the book to you. That to me is huge and could give other low vision users the freedom to have a book read to them when they want. Sure there are other options but this just seems so convieniant. It could allow sigted people to listen to a book while doing something else too where reading it isn’t really an option.
This is where the shit comes in. A group that represents writers is saying having the device read the book outloud violates copyright. Thanks autheor’s guild. Isn’t it enough that you can only use the book you bought on the kindle? You want me to have to buy it to read on the kindle then buy a seperate audio book? How about if I buy neither instead?
I just love when greed gets in the way of innovation.
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January 15th, 2009
Woman blames Dell for missing online classes
I saw this online somewhere and just wanted to say that I am really surprised we don’t see it happen more often now that Dell sells Ubuntu computers.
The woman in the article ordered a dell laptop with Ubuntu installed for the operating system and when she got it she couldn’t use it because she needed windows to set up her Verizon internet. I could probably find a way around that and she probably could have too but didn’t. At least Verizon is helping her with that.
It seems to me that she bought the linux computer with out knowing what she was buying and I assume that it was clearly stated that the computer didn’t come with windows. If so then too bad for her. She could always have bought her own copy of windows and installed it herself or had it installed.
For some reason computers bring out the dumb in people. So many people just find it easy to say it doesn’t work than learn or figure out problems on their own. I always thought this could be a problem with dell selling linux computers but it hasn’t been as much of one as I expected.
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January 11th, 2009
The cold has been building in Alaska for a while now and it has mostly stayed where it is. It looks like it will head straight down into the midwest and north east US.. We’ll probably get below zero here but the NWS isn’t forcasting that yet. I imagine it’ll be pretty brutal just a bit north of here where there is snow cover on the ground and if it clears up at night.
I wonder if we’ll make a run at 1994’s numbers.. I still remember that well. I was still in high school and lived with my parents in Bensalem and the temperature never made it above 10 the one day with the sun out. I was also lucky enough to fall through ice and have about 5 blocks to walk home. That year there was also not snow cover.
We’ll see what happens.
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January 10th, 2009
Microsoft is releasing a public beta of windows 7. Once I get my older hard drive installed in this computer I think I may give it a try to see what it’s like. Even though I rarely use windows at this point I need it for a few things like mapping software for our gpsrs and some other little thinks like that.
Vista is on Molly’s laptop and I just don’t like that. I do like windows XP which I have installed on this computer and dual boot but I won’t be able to use that forever. Sooner or later it won’t have drivers that I need or that sort of thing. Her laptop seems pretty stable though so I can’t complain too much about it.
From what I’ve read windows 7 seems to be easier on memory which is nice. Even though ram is cheap now I still would rather it be used for what I want it used for.
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January 10th, 2009
Well I had a Delorme pn-40 which I liked a lot. It had good accuracy from what I could tell but I never really got the chance to use it. The first time I got very short battery life. I returned it and they repaired it. The second time I got it back and it just didn’t power on. Then I received it again and If I had to guess I put the batteries in backwards and it didn’t work. The markings are all but impossible for me to see. I am returning it for a refund which I’m very disappointed to do but I just don’t see it working out for me.
It seemed to be on par with my Garmin 60csx as far as getting and holding a lock on satellites. The screen is smaller but very bright and clear and I could see it just as well as the 60csx. I will surly consider any other gps Delorme may come out with. The best thing about it is the maps are included with the gps unlike some of the other hand held gpsrs where they are an aditional cost (and not cheap.)
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