You'd think that what with all last semester's agony over getting a micontroller to operate weather sensors, the last toy I'd want around the house is a weather station.
"But look, it has Atomic Time! I think Atomic Time is so cool!" And you don't have to set the clock yourself. Just about everything in my house has a clock in it and I have given up on keeping them all set. Self-setting clocks are the bee's knees.
We're at Best Buy so Oz can shop for a dryer (his old dryer is not making things dry anymore), but we've been driven into personal electronics in an effort to escape Tom Cruise who is smooching around on the flat screen televisions that are built into the fronts of the high end refrigerators. Oz tells me to pick out a weather station and we mess with the annoying talking display to compare the different models. We find that just reading the labels works better.
Anyway, our new weather station is really cool: Atomic Time, weather trends, indoor/outdoor temperature, relative humidity, moon phases, sunrise and sunset. Now in glorious gray LCD, I can access all the information that I now get by walking outside or checking the internet and the indoor/outdoor thermometer installed by the previous owners of my house.
218 words | June 28, 2005 08:30 PM | WiredBut did you get a new dryer? Or perhaps you found out about the magic power of the sun to remove water vapor from linens. Oops, sorry, that was supposed to be a secret.
Posted by: Derek at July 8, 2005 12:43 AMHe got a dryer the next day. That magic sunshine drying system needs a little more supervision than he can provide, what with not being at his house during the day to make sure the clothes aren't getting rained on.
Posted by: Nee-chama at July 8, 2005 09:23 AM