Re: [MLUG] getting the current temperature

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The truly geeky thing to do would be to ignore the weather because
you'rer too busy coding.

Barring that, a reasonable alternative would be to convert NOAA
weather maps to ASCII art and transmit them to your Atari 2600 through
a hacked up game port. Any takers?

jking


On 10/30/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Russell Horn wrote:
>
> > Personally I think we can do geekier than this... Those of us with
> > Asterisk running the home phones can use the scripts here:
> >
> >
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/asterisk+at+home+festival+weather+configuration
> >
> > Now you can dial an extension on your home phone and it will read you
> > the current weather
>
> Going back 30 years -- there were phone numbers that would give you a
> weather report!  You could call for the time also.  That would only give
> the current time though.  They should have had one that, like "date -d"
> would have given you whatever time you wanted!  ;-)
>
>
> > If your local NOAA office don't offer an MP3 of the current weather
> > there are scripts to download the text, pipe it to Festival and then
> > play back the resulting audio.
>
> Now that would be a *truly* geeky thing to do!
>
> Mike
>
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