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  • Off the Couch and Into Invincibility: Cartoons of Depression, Angst and Triumph plus Skating and Biking Into the Wind   12 weeks 3 days ago
    Going into the Kitchen...

    Thank you for linking to this. Your superb write-up does it justice. And thank you to Allie at Hyperboleandahalf for creating it. When I find myself in the pits, I recite the "Are you going into the kitchen?..." part to myself. It never fails to make me laugh, which is not conducive to depression.

  • Superbetter & Cow Clicker: Games for Recovering From Injury or Just Getting Addicted to a Parody of Addictive Games   12 weeks 5 days ago
    Better

    OK, the website says:

    SuperBetter is a game that helps you recover from any illness or injury -- or achieve any health goal — by increasing your personal resilience. Resilience means staying curious, optimistic and motivated even in the face of the toughest challenges.

    SuperBetter creates a private, online space where your closest friends and family become allies in your adventure toward health and wellness. The game is played in two parts: First, a set of 7 guided missions that create the foundation for your journey. Then, an open-ended, self-guided adventure that you play with your family and friends in the real world-not a virtual environment-in an effort to achieve your health goals.

    I basically get that. But I think I'd rather go with the old-fashioned way of recovering from a injury: teaming up with Grace Kelly to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a creepy neighbor's wife, like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.

    It puts me off a bit that there are a lot of mentions on the site of it being based on cutting-edge science, but none of the expected references to scholarly researchers or journal articles to back up that claim. And I wonder if having to identify oneself as "ill" or "injured" (even if not a strict requirement) might deter a lot of people from playing the game, even though we could all do better.

    Back to Cow Clicker... Says Wikipedia:

    Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critic and researcher. He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner at Persuasive Games. His research and writing consider video games as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues, including airport security, consumer debt, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, pandemic flu and tort reform.

    He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames as well as the co-author of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and Newsgames: Journalism at Play. Bogost also recently released Cow Clicker, a satire and critique of the influx of social network games.

    So he actually is a for-real scholar, and it turns out that the Atari VCS thing was on the level. (It also mentions that he has a child--a daughter, I presume--named "Flannery"; after Flannery O'Connor I'd guess.)

    But I guess it's all in how you look at it; "accepted on several different levels" emphasizes the silver lining, while "missed the whole damned point" focuses more on the dark cloud--as I'm probably more inclined to do. But I did get the feeling that he was at least a wee bit annoyed at and/or resentful of the people who kept playing the game and never got the joke.

    You can watch him talking about his book:

    He talks about role-playing in games, but he was also playing a role in as the creator of--what was to him a parody of--a time-wasting Facebook game. Back to my Vonnegut quote...

    And wonder of wonders, A Slow Year actually is in fact a collection (a "chapbook") of Atari VCS game poems that comes packaged with Atari console (6502 FTW!) emulation software, for sale here.

  • Superbetter & Cow Clicker: Games for Recovering From Injury or Just Getting Addicted to a Parody of Addictive Games   13 weeks 7 hours ago
    On the Confusion; Coffee Drinking Game

    Hey timv and thanks for the reply. Yep I agree that the piece left out a lot and I did not go play Superbetter (and yes Superbettor is what came to my mind too), but what I got out of it was that it might be useful for all sorts of people who are caught in a loop of some sort. It seems to rely on these people still having friends and family who care and also on having some personal courage, so that leaves a lot of people out, but OK. It seemed like it involved some personal and external assessments and some encouragement, honesty and follow-up. That's where it started to sound like something that might help with addictive behaviors too. I put it out there in case anyone might come across it and find it interesting. 

    Of course, the biggest problem with any game that is designed with a purpose is that it probably misses all the people who like to play games to get away from that particular purpose. Plenty of people enjoy learning from television, but at least as many seem to want television to give them a flashy thing to look at and hear noises from. In the same way, games offer another world for many, especially many who want to avoid this one. 

    Having said all of that, it was interesting to hear about Superbetter and if I get time I may go see what else I can find out about it. If it helps a few people, that is great. 

    My take on the Cow Clicker was mostly positive I guess, not so much sad. I thought it was great that someone made something as a piece of art, as a statement, and as a mindless diversion, and that it was noticed, accepted on several different levels, that he made money off of it and perhaps even helped others with it, and then brought it to an end. I thought it was funny that using it brought it's doom closer but that you could pay him to keep the mindless addiction available too. Mostly I was struck that he made something and put it out there. 

    Of course, a key element to his being able to get traction was that he had made other games perhaps of note, AND that he knew people in the game magazine industry that helped proliferate the message of its existence. 

    I thought it was funny he called it a drinking game, when it was a cup of coffee he was trying enjoy in the game, and that he threw in the word, Atari, to bring the sentence to a different context in the last word.

    Two things I've heard about comedy...comedy is misdirection and comedy is repetition. I'd take that as the first one. Of course the x is y and x is z part of that is sometimes untrue. 

    Anyway, I didn't know if he was being serious about it being for retro Atari machines or for emulators, or if he was just trying for pithiness, so I wore my pith helmet today when drinking coffee, with all due respect to Woody, dahling. 

    Which brings me to those two episodes of American Experience: Woody Allen that played this week. Good stuff and pretty much ignored the tacky personal stuff that would have been no huge surprise to anyone who had seriously watched his movies anyway. They are much about human confusion, indecision, inconstancy, &c. I'm glad they spent the time reminding me of the writing, television appearances and movies. The scandalous stuff is always easy to find on the injurenet. 

    Turns out pith was in "Bananas" when "it had great pith" and in 'Manhattan" when Isaac calls Mary "pithy but degenerate." Not sure if there were more. At one point I was really wishing I had all the scripts at hand to do some cross-referencing! 

    One of the best ones is from Max (Woody's dad's real name was Max, and several times it's used for names in Woody's movies) who admits he probably doesn't know all of life's answers, since he doesn't even know how the can opener works. Seriously. Refreshing to hear someone say they don't know it all. 

  • Superbetter & Cow Clicker: Games for Recovering From Injury or Just Getting Addicted to a Parody of Addictive Games   13 weeks 17 hours ago
    Games

    I was confused when I read about a game to play for recovering from an injury. Then I followed the transcript link, where it said that Superbetter was designed to help with "recovery from a traumatic brain injury," which made more sense to me. But then they introduced the show's producer, who had a bad bike accident and used the program and they didn't mention a brain injury as one of his problems. So I'm unclear about it again.

    It sounds like a good name for some kind of a gambling game to me, actually.

    As for the Cow Clicker story, it made me sad. I don't know if it was supposed to or if it was supposed to be amusing, but it did.

    It brought to mind Kurt Vonnegut's first paragraph in Mother Night:

    This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

    And I'm still trying to figure "first-person drinking game for the Atari." I did some Google searches, which didn't help a whole lot, but I saw where one guy on a vintage Atari gaming forum stated that Atari VCS games are all drinking games. And I'll buy that.

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   13 weeks 18 hours ago
    Pretty Funny Stuff About the Season

    So the update from me is that I skated last week with (we'll call him) Walt on Tuesday, which is our day to go as slow as the slowest. Walt has started from zero outdoor skating this year and worked up to where 10K is a normal day at Country Park. That's pretty impressive. He's always looking to make incremental improvements in his skating and skates, and he's doing just that. Next year I fully expect that he'll be doing laps with some new K2 fitness skates or maybe even some speed boots and frames...unless he comes up with a frankenskate option.

    We got in 5 miles or so. It was a good day for me to be out there and to have someone else to enjoy the time and to keep my mind off of myself and my skating. I just enjoyed it as skating and not as training. That's what is so much fun about going to other cities to skate, too. They break me out of the same loop. Skating is a great way to see new places...depending on the places of course. For New York, Miami and Philly I'd say that's true, at least. 

    Today, I skated with timv for the closing minutes of the day and we got 8 miles in before it was too dark. I realized I was going at an OK pace (for me) having not trained any. Conditions were mild so that helps. There's still some aerobic capacity left, as I finished up with a 157 ahr, but I think I could not have sustained that for a full hour and certainly not two hours. My max hr was 172 so we weren't blasting the hills fully but it was a decent workout. 

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   15 weeks 6 days ago
    Going Out for a Leisurely Tailspin

    I am hereby renaming this period the Pissed Off Season. 

    Looking forward to the Preseason, which should begin in two days' time. And just to give myself something to live for, here's looking forward to what that will entail:

    - Focus on technique

    - Dryland exercises

    - Cross-training (low-intensity and duration)

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   16 weeks 3 days ago
    Week 2 of 3 down

    I am at the end of week 2 in the offseason, or the Stay-Off-Your-Skates season. I took up walking for 1 hour a day, mainly to enjoy the nice fall weather, but also to keep the Langoliers away. 

    I'm not really sure how I can skate 102 miles one day and only experience long-distance type muscle cramps which go away within 24 hours, but walk for an hour a week later and feel like my hamstrings are going to snap. It's just walking! 

    It seems to be everybody else's offseason too, because my local parks are practically empty! It's so tempting to ditch the walk, go home, put my stinky skates in my car and go back to the park to skate wildly over every empty inch, just because I can. No football, no cheerleaders, no dog-walkers, no boot-camps, no baseball... Not that there's anything wrong with those things, but when they're all at the park at once I might as well not bother. 

    Then I have to remind myself I'm purposefully not skating right now. Not training. Sure, I could take a leisurely spin around the park ten times - round and round in circles, but that'd get old fast. Go round once and you've seen it all. That kind of leisurely skate is best done on a rail trail, out and back. 

    It feels strange not to be training for anything, but then I suppose this is part of the training. 

    And walking for an hour sure is boring compared to skating. It's slow and cumbersome. The mind-games start about 20 minutes into it, followed by the mind-games resistance and manic planning of things to do as soon as I've done my hour's walk. 

    I will be ready for the so-called Preseason soon. 

  • Carolina Century, 2011   16 weeks 6 days ago
    Very well put!

    " I have never skated a course with better roads and I don't expect to for the rest of my life.  The roads were THAT GOOD."


    It's amazing how big a difference smooth pavement over 102 miles makes. I realized somewhere before Dacula on A2A this year that the hard-durometer wheels were probably a bad idea - and for A2A they were! But for Carolina Century it was smooth rolling the whole way. It's nice to feel the challenge in my leg muscles for once rather than being miserable from ankle or knee pain. 

  • Go On! Get Your Clouds On! Send in the Clouds! Skaters Should be in the Cloud Appreciation Society and More   16 weeks 6 days ago
    Clouds. Sigh.

    Those Kelvin-Helmholtz eddies are stunning! Although that undulatus asperatus photo looks more like Dalí than Cousteau! 

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   17 weeks 2 hours ago
    Paleo Cliff Notes

    Sigh. I wish I had read those Paleo Diet for Athletes Cliff Notes instead of the book! I don't even recall seeing that recovery drink recipe in the book. Thanks for the links! 

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   17 weeks 1 day ago
    I had two weeks off-season before Carolina Century 2011

    After a nice comfortable Athens to Atlanta 2011 (A2A)...well not miserable...I did as I so often do. I spent the rest of the days leading up to Carolina Century not skating AT ALL. Not even close. The original idea was to have something extra for which to train. The reality is it eliminates even the guilt about not training. 

    So no big surprise that the 102 was again painful and crampy. However, after a season of almost no cramps, where it was notable that I bought a HUGE several boxload PILE of GOO and used them all summer on every long skate, I did the smart thing Saturday and while worrying about OTHER stuff I forgot to grab the 10 GOO I expected to need that day. Don't get me wrong. The rest stops were AMAZING. But I needed those on top of the gels, not instead of them. 

    I might have had cramps anyway, but I am at least for now convinced that this is the bigger influence on my day that the no skating thing. Of course, there is a lot of stress, good mostly, that goes with knowing the event is coming and now hear and also oh yeah you need to skate 102 and thank volunteers and try not to be a total jerk if anything goes wrong even if you're tired and want to break down into a million little puffs of smoke particles and dissipate with a bad odor. 

    So after the day of 102, I am back to not skating but am actually feeling like I will skate some in the coming days. Still working on surveys, thank yous, documenting donations, and much more to do with the 2011 Carolia Century. 

    Thanks for writing something thought provoking, eebee. Oh yeah, Speed on Skates by Publow covers some of this too. And Joe Friel might as well, at http://trainingbible.com/resources.aspx. 

  • Periodization and the Offseason - Or An Attempt Not To Lose It All   17 weeks 2 days ago
    Offseason

    I take back anything I said about the three-week skating abstinence being difficult. After skating 102 rather hilly miles on Saturday, I don't think it'll be a problem :-).

     

    I will check back here to log what I end up doing, activity-wise, if anything at all. I have a feeling the mind will be willing, but the flesh will be...shot.

  • Rat Has No Control: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cane Sugar, Glucose, Sucrose   23 weeks 9 hours ago
    Syrup dressed up as Sugar

    Corn Syrup is applying for a legal name change to Corn Sugar, but regular ol' Sugar isn't liking it, so they're battling it out. A judge is going to decide if Sugar's case has any merit, but it's a can of (sour gummy) worms, really:

     

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/bitter-battle-over-corn-syrups-rebranding-attempt-heads-to-los-angeles-courtroom/2011/09/13/gIQAlgWpOK_story.html

     

     

  • Rat Has No Control: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cane Sugar, Glucose, Sucrose   24 weeks 12 hours ago
    Corn Syrup

    Thanks for pulling some highlights from these studies, Roadskater, and posting them here. 

    If you decide to cut out high fructose corn syrup, you've pretty much eliminated most of the rubbish in the 'middle' of the supermarket! Not a bad thing, at all. 

    I caught another interesting documentary on public TV last weekend: Unnatural Causes - In Sickness and In Wealth. The entire transcript is here:

    http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/UC_Transcript_1.pdf

    It explores the undeniable existence of a hierarchy in American health and life-expectancy, as it corresponds to economic status. There was a similar study carried out among UK civil servants in the 1970s. The findings were similar, despite the difference between the two countries' health care systems. Towards the end of the show, the depressed Macaques with No Control had cripplingly plaqued arteries (same diet), whereas the chief chest-beater's arteries were clean as a whistle. The program points the finger partially at the stress-hormone cortisol.

    "This is a cross-section of the artery of a dominant monkey. The hole in the center is large and that
    means that there’s lots of room for blood to flow through. This is the artery of a subordinate animal. So what’s happened here is that a subordinate monkey has developed a much larger atherosclerotic plaque than a dominant animal, who lived for the same amount of time, ate the same amount of diet and so on and so forth. And that is simply due to the stress of social subordination."

    So no ballooning, but definitely some keeling-over. 

    This has nothing to do with corn syrup vs sugar, sorry. But it has to do with control. 

    I'm just making connections here with your article from yesterday, linking brain-workouts to better fitness, watching emotionally-neutral PBS documentaries before skating, and how to give Joe Bloggs a bit more control over his physical health, mental health and destiny. Perhaps giving up high fructose corn syrup would be a good place to start. 

     

  • Of Course a Fatigued Brain Might Just Want to Give Up and Stop Skating or Cycling Sooner   24 weeks 1 day ago
    Too stupid to win A-to-A

    Well! So many great points in that article.

    My concern with the caffeine theory is...how much caffeine did the study-participants consume habitually beforehand? And after, say, a year of using caffeine, did the effects wear off?

    I found this interesting:

    "More intriguing is the prospect of training the brain to better withstand the effects of mental fatigue: no drugs needed, just a lot of hard thinking."

    Makes a whole lot of sense to me. This could be useful in curing this country's obesity 'epidemic' about ten years from now when these findings pop up in magazine-fluff articles. Unfortunately, Joe Bloggs still won't be in a position (or still won't be able to figure out how to achieve the position) of challenging his brain on a daily basis. For so many the world over, it's a case of: get up, survive, go back to bed. Stress isn't the same thing as a mental challenge. I know there's a world of difference between professional cyclists and professional dogsbodies, but this life might be a lot better if the dogsbodies even made it to practice after work:   

    "For the rest of us, the findings about mental fatigue suggest that doing a workout after a demanding day at the office will feel tougher, even if you’ve spent the entire day comfortably sitting in your chair."

    So many times this year I have decided not to go out and skate because I was too brainfried after a stressful day at work to face the steep hills at the one park, or the dog- and toddler-walkers at the other. Roadskater's couch-vortex theory proves to be a valid hack, in this case ("Whatever you do, don't go home first!").

    First World problem. 

    Cafe Bustello needs to be a major sponsor for the Conference on Fatigue next year.   

      

     

  • 36 Miles at Greensboro Country Park Thanks to Staff Who Kept the Road Clear After Hurricane Irene   24 weeks 2 days ago
    Just on Saturday

    My GPS/HRM (Forerunner 305) is always set to run full time, not to pause when the speed is below some mph. During events I leave it runninng, and if I think to, I set a lap. 

    At the park, I usually leave the 305 running during breaks, then I loop back to the start before starting the next lap. I have my 305 set to automatically mark a lap every time I pass the point where I started it (there are other options). This way, I have a record of how long my pit stops take. But on Saturday there were other situations, like when people wanted to talk about skating enough that I stopped during a lap, or the time I washed out my jersey, or time where I was deciding whether to do more laps. 

    Yes that was what I was trying to say, that my numbers from Saturday were cheater numbers, and also, not totally useful for proof of a sustainable heart rate (the number I want to know so I can use it to skate by later, to have an idea when I might be overdoing it if I'm on a long skate). I was bringing that number up without hurting too much (good), but was not able to get it to go higher without feeling some difficulty. I think I got it to 150 before taking a long break, and I recall being able to skate at 150 OK, though it was at a slower speed than I had been doing. 

    I'm not sure that all makes sense, but the main point is that I think I can sustain 149-150, but not 154-156 this year. I will have to go back and look at data, however, as this is just based on Saturday. 

    Looking back on Saturday I am almost certain I didn't have enough calories, especially carbs, in me when I arrived at the park. I think I was in calorie  deficit for some of the first two and a half hours, despite some goo and a fair amount of skaterade along the way. 

    But most of all, Northinsouth is just a great skater with talent, strength and a desire to go! 

  • 36 Miles at Greensboro Country Park Thanks to Staff Who Kept the Road Clear After Hurricane Irene   24 weeks 3 days ago
    This year, or last?

    "My AHR did go up to at least 150 (last year I could reliably do 154 by June and 156 by August, as I recall), but that was a skewed number as I turned off the Forerunner 305 during some or most of the resting periods."

    Do you mean last year your HRM was set to not record your breaks and stops, but this year it is, so that's why the number was skewed, or did you just mean yesterday? If yesterday, then your average would've been even lower if you'd included the stops, right? 

    Either way, good point about having the HRM set to not include data when you're stopped. I have never had mine set that way anyway, because I think it's bogus to announce averaging say, 12 mph if that's only a moving average. The bottom line on most of the events we skate, is whether we're going to get to the finish at a respectable time or not.

    Although actually hitting the stop button will possibly yield different results than having the HRM set to only record moving averages, when it comes to monitoring your overall heart-rate.  

  • 36 Miles at Greensboro Country Park Thanks to Staff Who Kept the Road Clear After Hurricane Irene   24 weeks 3 days ago
    Add Another 43 Miles to the Country Park History

    Today I missed out on breakfast and a morning ride but sure did enjoy the extra sleep and time spent learning (for good or not). Northinsouth called to ask if we were skating somewhere so I said sure let's go do laps at Country Park, since the trials are a bit technical and may be under repair by now. So we met about 2pm and he had done 1 by the time I got there. We did about 26 miles together (16 laps) then I must have done another 10 laps plus some other goofing to make up 43.25 miles. 

    Northinsouth was as ever plenty fast without seeming to have to try! He did mention his back early on but later said it felt better. 

    As for me, my AHR (average heart rate) was climbing every lap until about 149 bmp and then I found it hard to make it go to 150 without overcooking. At that point there were various excuses for me to take a break, the best one being the red coolade gunk that somehow got on my yellow Roadskater.net jersey. So when Northinsouth said he wanted to get his water bottle I went to wash the jersey with some soap (yay!) and the rojo went gogo. 

    After Northinsouth did a final solo lap while I did NOT chase, we said our seeyas and I settled into more self-adjusted skating. My AHR did go up to at least 150 (last year I could reliably do 154 by June and 156 by August, as I recall), but that was a skewed number as I turned off the Forerunner 305 during some or most of the resting periods. That keeps the AHR artificially high, along with the average MPH, of course. I was interested in tracking how long I skated and how many miles this time, more than MPH including stops. 

    I met some nice folk including some who skate or want to skate, and also saw a skater from the old days of ski club skates and such. She was out running with a fellow and they were accompanied by a young gal with a cool hot pink helmet riding a 20"er or so. 

    Not much else to report, except Dan and Geoff were there, and the sounds of the blower and Dixieland Jazz variously stirred the air to the approval of many...or me, at least. 

  • Derby and Other Quad Skaters Skate Across Nebraska for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)   25 weeks 2 days ago
    Cool

    They look like a bunch of skater buddies having a good time and making a contribution to boot. I let my imagination run away with me when the video showed glimpses of a paved-trail in conjunction with this skate across Nebraska. I thought for a minute that perhaps there was a paved trail across the entire state!

    But then there's a clip of the group skating on the road with a support car behind them, displaying a nice, big 'Caution Skaters' banner. So I wonder how much of it was on the road, and how much they were able to do via pavement?

    I like their sense of humor. 

  • 36 Miles at Greensboro Country Park Thanks to Staff Who Kept the Road Clear After Hurricane Irene   25 weeks 2 days ago
    Firehouse Five Plus Two!

    The Dixieland Tram! What a great way to spend half an hour. I believe the CD playing must've been Firehouse Five Plus Two: Twenty Years Later.

    http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/jazz/preview/catalogueinfo.asp?catID=GTJCD-10054-2&path=1

    One of those little kids on the ride loved it, too!

    30 mph gusts, a sprinkling of rain, debris all over the park...but when the front line does its thing, all is right with the world.

      

  • Hurricane Irene: Cone of Uncertainty, Hurricane Tracker, Storm Surge   25 weeks 3 days ago
    Emergency Extreme Weather Information Cheatsheets and Guide

    Here are some useful pdf files with emergency contact information...

    http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/activities/weather-ready-nation/newis/

    For example... 

    http://service.ncddc.noaa.gov/rdn/www/activities/weather-ready-nation/newis/documents/Georgia.pdf

    And here's a good guide to tropical cyclones and how to prepare...

    http://www.weather.gov/os/hurricane/resources/TropicalCyclones11.pdf

  • Hurricane Irene: Cone of Uncertainty, Hurricane Tracker, Storm Surge   25 weeks 3 days ago
    New York Times Hurricane Tracker and Hurricanes.gov mobile site

    This is a pretty nice map showing the path of the hurricane...

    http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene?hp

     

    Also the National Hurricane Center

    http://hurricanes.gov or

    http://hurricanes.gov/mobile

  • Hurricane Irene: Cone of Uncertainty, Hurricane Tracker, Storm Surge   25 weeks 3 days ago
    Irene Time-Lapse
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  • Hurricane Irene: Cone of Uncertainty, Hurricane Tracker, Storm Surge   25 weeks 5 days ago
    Water Vapor and Quantitative Precipitation Forecast QPF Loops

    I should add that the left sidebar as of this writing has a weather block which has been there awhile. I usually forget it's there. It has air quality info, but the first two links open up to display animations for

    The first is pretty self-explanatory. The QPF is just a prediction of the most likely amount of precipitation within a given time segment. In this case it is useful to show who might get heavy rains that might affect the skating and biking events.
    Also I noticed that your GOES loop above can be hacked to get infrared...and probably doesn't have to be hacked to find it either...
    http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html
    Thanks again for the links and overview.
  • Hurricane Irene: Cone of Uncertainty, Hurricane Tracker, Storm Surge   25 weeks 5 days ago
    Some Favorites, Plus Some Great Finds, So Thanks!
    Hey that's a helpful article for all of us who hope to skate on Saturday, and for those who have much greater worries for life and property. That Accuweather color vapor animation is one of our favorite quick looks, along with some other things not so relevant right now (namely the weather.gov 48-hour graphical forecast). The storm surge seems like a real danger on the outer banks, even as much as 10 feet in some places. Wow. Anyway thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience and links, especially to those who watch this stuff all the time when it's not even their job, but their passion! OK. Better get going, but thanks again!
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