One's pleasures where one finds them
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 09:30 pmI never quite understood the concept of a geekgasm. I supposed I'd had them but they seemed much more global-- a continuous state of elevated joy, not a single spasm of geekly jouissance. But now I get it, because I just had one.
The Weather Network is changing its page to frivolities-- videos and cute pics, catering to hand-helds, rather than, yanno, weather data. TWN is unsatisfactory anyway- offers you historical weather for the years since 2001, except that anything before 2009 is 'data is not available for this date.' Can I check my surreal memory that ten years ago, round about the birth of a little friend, we went from a summery 28C on the Monday to winter's return 4C on the Wednesday? No, I cannot.
Someone mentioned Environment Canada, that I'd always found unnavigable. But they've changed their wp too, to something as useful if not as pretty as TWN. I bookmarked it and went poking about the site to see if *they* at least will still tell me what phase of the moon we're at, which TWN won't. Found their historical weather menu. 'But it only has month and year, what good is'... a chart that gives you highs and lows and rainfall and snowfall (not just 'precipitation') and 'snow on the ground' and 'greatest wind strength' that day and a whole bunch of other stuff for every day since 1937. OMG. Can such beauty be?
( Wednesday reading meme )
The Weather Network is changing its page to frivolities-- videos and cute pics, catering to hand-helds, rather than, yanno, weather data. TWN is unsatisfactory anyway- offers you historical weather for the years since 2001, except that anything before 2009 is 'data is not available for this date.' Can I check my surreal memory that ten years ago, round about the birth of a little friend, we went from a summery 28C on the Monday to winter's return 4C on the Wednesday? No, I cannot.
Someone mentioned Environment Canada, that I'd always found unnavigable. But they've changed their wp too, to something as useful if not as pretty as TWN. I bookmarked it and went poking about the site to see if *they* at least will still tell me what phase of the moon we're at, which TWN won't. Found their historical weather menu. 'But it only has month and year, what good is'... a chart that gives you highs and lows and rainfall and snowfall (not just 'precipitation') and 'snow on the ground' and 'greatest wind strength' that day and a whole bunch of other stuff for every day since 1937. OMG. Can such beauty be?
( Wednesday reading meme )
