Being stuck at home in snow days seems to inspire a certain kind of creativity ;) Here's some macbook camera timelapse stuff I hacked together during a blizzard last winter: http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/time-lapse-photogra...
Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit ot, but is there a standard way to measure things? (I'm thinking about inches vs cm, or gallons vs liters).
Yes, the metric system. Every country in the world uses it except for the US, Burma, and Liberia.
Even Canada pretends to use it. Except everybody converts in their head.
Re: Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit ot, but is there a standard way to measure things? (I'm thinking about inches vs cm, or gallons vs liters).
Yes, the metric system. Every country in the world uses it except for the US, Burma, and Liberia.
Three valid arguments:
1.My neighbor is a mechanic. He says metric has too many sizes.
2.I was biomed. They have a unit called a Gamma, created just to avoid killing people from confusing millimeter and microliter.
3. Time isn't metric.
Re: Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP
#14Looks like Canada
According to her facebook she lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Most days I imagine she will have no snow on her bucket. Neat idea. I may try this myself, living up in the woods of Vermont I have snow on my buckets from Nov-March.
The bucket is in the village of Arden, Delaware, which incidentally a single-tax Georgist community (I grew up there).
Re: Measuring hourly snowfall with a webcam and PHP
#15Seems to use some units of measurement that are unheard of in my part of the world. Oh 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
A bit ot, but is there a standard way to measure things? (I'm thinking about inches vs cm, or gallons vs liters).
Interestingly, I believe the US customary units are defined by metric values now. If they weren't, it'd probably make international trade between the US and other countries almost impossible.
It certainly doesn't dictate what hobbyists will use for a project. Though what does surprise me is that even people with an interest in science don't recognise the benefits of metric. Mathematical formulas often use metric values for simplicity. No doubt you could adapt them for customary values though it would needlessly add complexity thus increasing chances of error.
Wow, I'm surprised how much my original post got modded down. Didn't realise how sensitive US people were about their units.