I’ve wanted to get crampon type deals for my shoes in case it gets icy – like last night. I was going to get Yak Tracks but they looked hokey. I read that you can put sheet metal screws into your shoes and still go running on ice and snow. That seemed like an easy solution so I put in twenty screws in each shoe.
I tried them out last night and they were fine on the ice, I didn’t slip once. This morning I was going to run to work but after getting up to Division I realized it was just wet out, not icy, I went back home and drove in.
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Archive for December, 2005
Sheet metal screws = easy mini-crampons
Monday, December 19th, 2005Keg ball
Monday, December 19th, 2005I’ve had the keg from my halloween party hanging out in the backyard, waiting for some attention. On Saturday Ron came over to eat pizza and look at my broken window. Instead of working on the window we broke out the 16lbs sledgehammer and went to town on the keg.
This is a different version of beer ball, which we did with the 2 half-racks of skunked beer. With the beer cans you can toss them like a baseball and hit them with your broken shovel. With keg ball you just beat the keg.
And there was ice from the backyard and pumpkins from halloween. After we got tired of breaking open the keg, we put the ice and pumpkins on the keg and went after them.
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Snow and Precipitation Reports
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005One of my projects from work has been moved into the real world and is ready for use. I work at a climate center that has climate data for the Western US. The most popular data is precipitation and snow water equivalent (how much water is in the snow).
My program is replacing a static report that shows the precipitation and snow water equivalent for certain areas in the country. One of the problems was the data could change and the static reports would then become out of date. The new program gets the most current data instead.
There are six different reports now, instead of the original one. You can compare the current snow levels to the average, the peak average or to another year. I think it’s pretty nifty, especially if you’re into winter sports and want to know the current snow levels. There is a special report you can run that is tailored to skiing – “Ski West Report” (it will take around 10 seconds).
Here is the entry page to the reporting program.