Weather data uploading to Weather Underground

I have a fairly stable weather collecting scheme going so I figured it was a good time to start sending my weather data to Weather Underground. The station ID is KWABOTHE16. I also linked the webcam to the site as well.


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All sky camera?

Jenn thinks I am crazy, but she started it. My current thinking is that I now want to make not only a time-lapse webcam to accompany my weather station, but I want an All Sky weather camera. More after the bump.There are two main types of all sky cameras out there, and they primary serve two purposes: cloud observation and night sky observation (usually meteor hunting). I'm going for the cloud obversation aspect. The two types that are employed are usually constructed with either:

 


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Weather, now fortifed with video

My weather station, primarily its graphing and trending functions were in jeopardy of being lost due to the decision to move his PC to his room. The weather station was connected to it downstairs by a USB cable. However, the station was resurrected on its own server, my ancient Toshiba notebook.


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Brae Creast Weather Station

Jenn bought me a Honeywell TE923W Professional Weather Station for Christmas. If you're into tracking the weather where you live, its a really fun set of instruments and a base station on which to watch weather in a new way.The unit comes with the following instruments:


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First flight

For Christmas, Jenn bought me a gift certificate for a "Discovery Flight" with Wings Aloft at Boeing Field. It wasn't until now that I was able to take advantage of it.

I was planning to make the flight on a Sunday, but they had an opening of the Friday I had called, so I booked it. The weather would be better today than Sunday anyways. I surprised Cohen at the bus stop with the news as he would be going with me.


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WTF Happened to customer service?

I've had the opportunity to travel to quite a flew places around the world, some where westerners aren't the most welcome, but I was dismayed to find the worst customer service experience right here in my neighborhood.Joe Pesci's character Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 2 was right: "They fuck you are the drive thru". Everyone knows it, everyone has had it happen to them, and sadly, its just a fact of life. You're too far down the road to make it worth going back for that missing side of fries.


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Craigslist is crazy

I have had a lot of dealings with buying, selling and giving away items on craigslist, but the experience never ceases to amaze me.I the past I told the story about how I got a Canon 10D DSL for $75 on craigslist. This time a few thoughts on the Free section on craigslist.

Let me tell you, if you have a garage full of stuff and you don't want to bother with a yard sale and you just can't see it going into a landfill, the Free section is the way to go.


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Vintage Motel Signs

This small photo essay has been a long-time dream of mine, but I've never really had the time to actually persue it until now.


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Lens and Focal Length Usage Graph

Someone on #photogeeks posed an interesting question this morning. Basically asking if people with telephoto lenses shot mostly at the minimum or maximum focal length all the time rather than in between. I thought it would be a neat graph to see.All of the data that I would need to great a chart based on was ready to collect in the EXIF data within the images, I just needed to collect it. So I wrote a script that would scrape, collect and parse the "Focal Length" tag as well as the "Image Digitized" tag.


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Wild Kingdom brought to you by Washington Mutual

Back when I was a kid the whole family would gather round the TV console for another exciting episode of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, with the host, Marlin Perkins. Today, at the office, we got a little taste of that show right on our very own ledge.A coworker asked me, "Liem, do you have your big camera with you?"
"Yes, why?"
"Come see this".


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