Re: [MLUG] getting the current temperature

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/1/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > The truly geeky thing to do would be to ignore the weather because
> > you'rer too busy coding.
>
> Well, I did write a little script that tells me the temperature from my
> computer so that I don't have to get up and walk to the door or look
> out the window!  Recent result:

Not bad. This reminds me of some early webcam (ab)uses, and the coke
machine they rigged in CS at CMU that you could ping for availability
of your preferred beverage so that you didn't have to walk down the
hall to check it...

> > 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?
>
> Awesome, dude!

I don't have time at the moment, but I'm pretty sure you could hack
one up in perl really easily using any number of web libraries, the
ascii art library and a presumed perl module for Atari 2600, at which
point the only challenge would be to reduce it to a single line.  In
the mean time, I did find mention of this:

http://brainwagon.org/?page_id=2001

I think this takes the notion of geeky pointed pointlessness in the
direction of a new largest eigenvector. :-)

jking

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