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13174. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 1:04:29 PM Regarding the weather station that particular gift says more about the giver than the recipient but it is an amusing gadget.
This is the indoor module. It communicates via radio with an outdoor sensor. It displays the temperature, the relative humidity and the air pressure. The model I have also displays a graph showing how the pressure has developed over the last 24 hours. The symbols at the top indicate the weather forecast. It works, I think, on a simple algorithm based on current air pressure and the trend. It is not wildly successful. Right now it shows rain but the sky is clearing. The time display is - inevitably - this is high-tech - governed by radio from the atomic clock in Braunschweig. It shows the phases of the moon, too (not in the picture). 13175. Macnas - 1/12/2005 1:33:19 PM Nifty item.
It reminds me of the time when some of our dept. managers, in their wisdom, shelled out a nice bit of money to purchase similar remotely synchronised clocks.
They were found to be useless due to the structural nature of many buildings on site, which proved to be effective barriers to the particular radio signal they needed. 13176. alistairconnor - 1/12/2005 2:02:51 PM Oddly enough, I was looking longingly at weather stations like that in a catalogue over breakfast.
I'd actually want to go the whole hog, and get the one with the anemometer, rain gauge and PC interface... also programmable alarms on dew point, frost etc for the keen gardener (which I'm currently not, but one day...) 13177. thoughtful - 1/12/2005 3:33:13 PM We have a low-tech weather gauge that needs no batteries.
It's the cat. Throw him outside and if he comes back fluffled it's windy...if he comes back wet it's rainy...if he comes back white it's snowing...if he doesn't come back for a long time it's sunny and pleasant...if he refuses to go out at all it's abysmal.
Our old cat was called our 'thermoscat' as we could always tell how well the fire was burning in the woodstove by how close she was to it. 13178. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 5:23:24 PM 
Yesterday, I wore this type of ski mask with this type of hat in town, both I had somewhere and finally found. Well, the looks everywhere I went were just too much, so today I'm busy knitting one very much like the one Pelle posted. Thanks, Pelle.
13179. judithathome - 1/12/2005 5:47:21 PM You can always rob a bank in that other one, Magos! 13180. Macnas - 1/12/2005 5:47:28 PM Mago, I'm surprised Homeland Security hasn't paid you a visit yet. 13181. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 5:56:17 PM Mac, they know all about us by now--all these weekly calls back and forth to France got them to dismiss us a long time ago.
Judsie, Flexy is the one who worries when people look at my get-ups, do you believe that? 13182. alistairconnor - 1/12/2005 6:11:51 PM ah... he's the jealous type ... you lookin at my wife.... 13183. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 6:29:31 PM Get-ups? I thought only guys had such. 13184. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 6:38:26 PM No, Ali, he is not jealous, just wary of people’s curiosity when we are out together. However, he is a little sensitive about our age difference and so am I for that matter because in spite of the fact that this July, we will be married ten years, there are still some idiots around here and among his family who think I did not marry for love. French women in a conservative area are either wanton or worse, you know.
Hahaha, Pelle! 13185. Macnas - 1/12/2005 6:43:04 PM Smut, Volvo's and Abba. 13186. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 7:02:00 PM Smut, Volvo's and Abba.
Mac, explain what does that mean, please. 13187. wonkers2 - 1/12/2005 8:06:57 PM Volvos, Abba and Pelle all come from Sweden?? 13188. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 8:58:44 PM IKEA and Hives too. And Absolute. 13189. thoughtful - 1/12/2005 9:11:59 PM and Gevalia 13190. judithathome - 1/12/2005 9:15:27 PM Well, just got my phone bill and I called them (SBC) to see if I could get a better rate on my DSL service. They are charging me $26.00 a month for use and are advertising a $19.95 rate on TV for new customers. I tried the old "but I've been paying you for years; don't I deserve a little bonus?" and then they explained that in order to qualify for the new rate, I had to sign on for all this garbage on my residential phone including conference calling, caller ID, unlimited long distance, call waiting...and god only knows what else.
And all THAT plus the new lower rate on DSL will cost me ONLY $75.00 a month plus local and state taxes and "usage fees". I told them I had a foolproof caller ID already which is to pick up the phone and say hello.
What utter garbage. Yes, we'll give you this superduper rate if only you agree to having all this crap you don't need and never use. 13191. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 9:38:37 PM You know about Gevalia, thoughtful? Amazing. 13192. thoughtful - 1/12/2005 10:06:11 PM I used to buy gevalia on a regular basis...still have the cannister and mugs they gave me. Coffee is incredibly smooth and delicious. I got tired of the auto delivery thing and never seemed to get it quite right. Also the stuff was frightfully expensive. So I gave it up. I've since cut way back on coffee drinking anyway, but still remember that smooth taste. 13193. thoughtful - 1/12/2005 10:08:41 PM Don't know if they still are, but at one point they were owned by the same folks who make maxwell house coffee...hard to believe!
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