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  1. 1 minute ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    OMG I was just about to post something about that too - my gauge is all jammed up so is not recording any of the rain.  The CAD is holding firm as the temps were progged to go to near or to 40, so the slushy sleety mess is clogging it up.

    lol.  Thought that a bird might have clogged it up, but I checked the Weatherlink map for other stations measuring nothing and there are quite a few.  Plus, there's the fact that barely any snow has melted and we've had quite a bit of rain here.  Would hate to have to shovel anything right now.  

  2. 16 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

    Is that an RGB mousemat? Looks really cool! Just this weekend I upgraded my case that I originally built for a fully enclosed (non-windowed) ~2007 spec machine to something way more modern with a tempered glass window. So of course I had to RGB the heck out of it. :) One of these days I'll have to clean up my battlestation area for to take some glamour shots.

    Sorry for the off topic comment, everyone. But hey, was expecting it to be way more weathery today (even WCU canceled all classes???) but it looks like everything is happening just to our south, for this first punch at least. Oh well, at least I'll be able to smoke some meats in the driveway later this afternoon.

    Yes, it is.  RGB gets addicting.  The keyboard, led strips, and RAM are all Corsair, so they're all synced.  Corsair only makes a mouse pad, not a desk pad, so got this pad from Amazon for around 30 dollars, I think.  Not bad.  

     

    Definitely way off topic.  

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  3. 5 minutes ago, ChasingFlakes said:

    so what's a little ice? 

    A lot worse than snow.  lol

     

    3 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    Back then I also had 3 fish tanks - 2 of them saltwater marine tanks, where one of those was a reef tank (meaning continual measuring of the temperature and salinity and adjusting the lighting because the metal halide lamps back then were not as compact as they are today)... plus I was creating a home theater and buying Adcom amps and one of the earliest Dolby Digital 5.1 decoders, Parasound speakers and a laserdisc player (before the DVD players came out), etc.  This is not counting my gardening. :drunk:  I over-program myself sometimes. :D

     

    A buddy of mine is into fish tanks.  Way too much maintenance for me.  I would definitely kill all the fish.  lol

     

    So, you also like all the expensive hobbies, I see.  haha

  4. 5 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    Almost 20 years ago I had bought some cases and mobos (and a dremel too) and was building machines - including caseless ones, for a SETI farm (and overclocking the CPUs to boot) to sortof do what you have above but had so many other hobbies going on at that time that I never got around to actually getting it done. :axe: :lmao:   As it is, I'm still splitting this hobby with a couple others and even with me being retired, it's still crazy!!

    At least with a 2-in-1 I could plop it in front of me and keep the laptop on its current stand to the side.  I have a desktop across the room with a 24" monitor and that machine is long overdue for an OS upgrade (I run linux on it) but.... other stuff intervened (like the Android Pie upgrade on my Note 9 phone a couple days ago that left me scrambling to re-configure the stuff that One UI changed on my home screen). :lol:

    lol.  Well, if you want a couple hobbies that keep you busy and interested, computers and weather are it.  They never stop changing!

  5. 11 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    Because I am live-streaming 6 IP security cameras on this machine at the same time too. :lmao:

    I wanted to put that on something more "mobile" that I can use almost like a big "tablet". I wanted it to also be a touch screen so I can can pinch and zoom in/out (my current machine is not a touch screen).  And yup it is up there in price but then I don't subscribe to pay model suites or to met blogs so the cost isn't that much different for my hobby purposes!

    Ah, gotcha.  I'm on a gaming rig that I don't game with, so no troubles there.  lol.  I like the idea of having the program mobile, though.  Like a better Radarscope.  

    Here's me during weather, all geeked out.  Haha

     

     

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

    I am considering getting another (smaller - 2-in-1) i7 laptop so I can purchase their GR2Analyst program - http://www.grlevelx.com/gr2analyst_2/

    Why a new machine for Analyst?  

     

    6 minutes ago, CarLover014 said:

    Oh, okay. I've heard of that program. Is it worth the money?

    For me it was.  It's almost necessary for weather geeks. lol  

     

    Here's an example of GR2Analyst with the volumetric mode.  It's nice to have for detecting hail cores and updrafts in thunderstorms, plus you can use level 2 data.  I think it's like 3 times the price of GRLevel3, though.  

     

     

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