Winter Profile

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yep, I plugged in Milnet last night and the rest of the sites this morning. It's tacky, garish and an eyesore... perfect!

 

[Mike Baker]

Yep, I plugged in Milnet last night and the rest of the sites this morning. It's tacky, garish and an eyesore... perfect!

Finally, thanks Mike!  ;D I like 'em

 

[Roy Harding]

Been snowing here off and on for a few weeks now, but last night we got about 5 inches overnight. Went to sleep with the previous snowfall all but completly melted, woke up for work this morning and was very surprised.

On a side note, Roy your up in Terrace?

Yup - lots of snow, but temperatures hovering right around 0 with occasional highs of 5 to 6.

 

[IN HOC SIGNO]

Snow tires....absolutely. Had all seasons on  my truck last year during the gong show storm here in Dec (30 or 40 cm fell in the matter of 3 or 4 hours and paralysed the city...7 hours to do a 20 minute drive home!) and I had a lot of trouble with the all seasons. We're getting a lot of snow this year so far and more today...they are working a charm. As others have stated all 4 are necessary for maximum traction. I'm driving up to Ottawa in early January to begin my exile...uh IR.... and I'm thinking that these will give me piece of mind driving through the snow belt of northern NB and that area of Que between Edmudston and Riviere de Loup.

 

[Franko]

Yep, I plugged in Milnet last night and the rest of the sites this morning. It's tacky, garish and an eyesore... perfect!

Hmmm...I'm not seeing them.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Ctrl-reload or Shift-Refresh (Firefox/IE) should make them show.

Some will likely still see them in February, caching seems to be a problem in some places.

P.S. You may want to shield your eyes on the reload.

 

[Franko]

Ctrl-reload or Shift-Refresh (Firefox/IE) should make them show.

Some will likely still see them in February, caching seems to be a problem in some places.

P.S. You may want to shield your eyes on the reload.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........

Oh well, didn't need my retinas anyways!

Regards

 

[geo]

oooohhhhh... XMass lights to go along with the snow!

Pretty!

 

[Franko]

Now all we need is snow on the "Army.ca" title in the upper right hand corner....and a sound track of Mike gooned trying to sing "Rudolf".

Regards

 

[Edward Campbell]

Stop encouraging him!
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.But that's like :deadhorse:

 

[navymich]

They look great Mike!  And like the big Christmas kid I am, I had to check out how it looked on all 4 sites!

Happy Holidays to almost everyone....and a lump of coal for the rest of you. 

 

[McG]

Some will likely still see them in February, caching seems to be a problem in some places.

I think the DWAN has a network cache that is responsible for a lot of that. 

 

[navymich]

I think the DWAN has a network cache that is responsible for a lot of that. 

Yep.  I still have pumpkins at work, no matter how many times I try to reload/refresh.

 

[navymich]

P.S. You may want to shield your eyes on the reload.

Not quite as bright now Mike, you've got a few burnt out.  You should use LED next year,they'd probably be a bit easier on power for the server! 

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hahah, you noticed!

And LED? Never! I'm an old-fashioned coal-fired hot-to-the-touch greenhouse-gas-emitting blind-the-neighbours painted bulb kind of guy.

None of this vaguely flickering stuff that looks like it was saved from the local peeler bar before it went under.

 

[Greymatters]

Burnt out simulated lightbulbs...nice touch!

Next... blinking Xmas lights?

 

[navymich]

Hahah, you noticed!

And LED? Never! I'm an old-fashioned coal-fired hot-to-the-touch greenhouse-gas-emitting blind-the-neighbours painted bulb kind of guy.

None of this vaguely flickering stuff that looks like it was saved from the local peeler bar before it went under.

I concur.  The old-fashioned bright stuff looks much better! 

Reminds me of a story.  I was in the City of Whitehorse a couple of years ago for a Namesake City visit with some other members of my ship.  The mayor was telling us how someone had done this big study on how much the city could save on costs by investing in LED XMas lights for the city displays.  The city went ahead and purchased all new lights.  Then they discovered a slight problem.  There wasn't enough heat in the LEDs to melt the snow that fell on them and therefore nobody could see the lights anyway!  So much for those savings.