{"id":35,"date":"2009-12-13T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T03:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-12-13T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T03:21:50","slug":"coming-out-of-a-cold-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Coming out of a cold snap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to rant and whine about how cold it is now.\u00a0 Last night it was forecast to go down to -34.4.\u00a0 This is all Celsius, btw.\u00a0 When it gets past -20 it&#8217;s all just too fucking cold anyway, so I don&#8217;t really know if it got THAT cold.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve been watching the temperature icon on my Weather Watcher Live desktop weather app, and It&#8217;s been from -29 to -28 to -27 and back to -28 today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be hella fucking cold tomorrow, but later in the week it will be 3 degrees above zero.\u00a0 That&#8217;s Calgary for you.\u00a0 One New years Day, I saw the temperature go from about -20 to 16 above in just a few hours.\u00a0 I was nursing a hangover at a friend&#8217;s house, and the sudden rise in temperature made their glass screen door crack.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy weather we have here.<\/p>\n<p>I really love that Weather Watcher Live application, despite it being a Windows only app, and despite it no longer being free.\u00a0 I will fork over cash for software when I use it a lot and when I think it&#8217;s good.\u00a0 I&#8217;d pay for IrfanView too if it wasn&#8217;t free.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"Weather Watcher Live map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Weather-Watcher-Live-map-300x220.png\" alt=\"Weather Watcher Live map\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Weather-Watcher-Live-map-300x220.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Weather-Watcher-Live-map-1024x751.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Weather-Watcher-Live-map.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a map provided out of the program.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not as much dark blue on it as there was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re as geeky as me, you&#8217;ll appreciate the following info: that screenshot was taken by IrfanView running in Windows XP running in VirtualBox running in my Linux desktop.\u00a0 I would have just used the nifty and very efficient SCROT tool I have for Linux, but since I switched from XFCE to LXDE as a desktop environment, I haven&#8217;t yet found out how to set up a hotkey for it.\u00a0 Methinks I will have to google that.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, it&#8217;s fucking cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just want to rant and whine about how cold it is now.\u00a0 Last night it was forecast to go down to -34.4.\u00a0 This is all Celsius, btw.\u00a0 When it gets past -20 it&#8217;s all just too fucking cold anyway, so I don&#8217;t really know if it got THAT cold.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ve been watching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,26],"tags":[27,554,28],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-miscellaneous","category-windows","tag-cold","tag-linux","tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}