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Better keep the skinnier nuns and all nannies with umbrellas indoors today
By adamg on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 7:25am
Wind gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. through this afternoon, the NWS advises (in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, of course).
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ALLCAPS
My boyfriend and I were discussing the ALLCAPS nonsense pf NWS. But, it's true -- when you see ALLCAPS, it's either the last of a dying race of people who have no idea how to use the internet, or the National Weather Service. It gives it an air of recognizability, and authenticity.
No more on NYC streets
I was reading yesterday how the feds are making New York (and, presumably, other cities as well) change all their street signs from all-caps to first-letter only. In a study that it wouldn't have occurred to me in 140,000 years to conduct, people were wasting valuable microseconds reading the all-caps street signs and getting in car accidents.
Around here, I'd really
Around here, I'd really rather see the feds enforce the decades-old rule that *both* streets at an intersection need street signs, not just the smaller street.
They're thinking about it
Word File describing an ongoing survey to see if they should change it from All Caps or not.
flying nuns
Once again Universal hub makes my day. I saw this post, then drove from WRox to JP past the Arboretum where I saw a petite elderly nun battling the wind on her way back to the nunnery at the rotary (Rotunnery, for short). Nearly crashed my car I was laughing so much.
All Caps - Old Caps
Actually the all capital letters of the National Weather Service is due to their legacy usage of a rather ancient teletype system. What you see on weather sites is coming from that system which has/had a limited character set.
It still puches out on a typewriter-like device in some very limited areas.
And if the 'net gets a bad cold... that still works.
The fire department still uses a telegraph like system when sending out some of its major alarms. Next time you are at a fire station ask to see the "tapper." It punches out a numerical code on a paper tape which is then read and looked up in a reference book to tell them what to do.
And again... if the 'net or radio systems go down, this still works on its own power system like copper telephone lines.