{"id":670,"date":"2005-02-18T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=670"},"modified":"2005-02-18T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:20:49","slug":"we-weather-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"We weather the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>C<\/span>oming back from work I noticed how nice it actually was outside. It&#8217;s sunny and it feels like Spring. Except for that the weather forecasts tell a different story: it was supposed to be way colder this weekend (compared to the last days <em>extremely<\/em> mild temperatures), starting today.\n<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, I think the weather forecasts forgot about the &#8216;sun factor&#8217; (as opposed to &#8216;wind chill factor&#8217;). <a href=\"http:\/\/vortex.plymouth.edu\/sun\/sun1.html\">Here comes the Sun!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: Earlier this week I managed to get a copy of the PC version of Ghost Recon Gold Edition, as found in the cheapie-bin for 20 dollars or less. It&#8217;s a bit like the Rainbow Six games, with the exception that the player has a lot more freedom to roam around. One thing I noted: it&#8217;s so linear. You go from mission to mission. You fail, you lose. You win, you go to the next mission. There&#8217;s only 15 of them.\n<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of how Wing Commander used to have its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erasmatazz.com\/library\/JCGD_Volume_7\/Flawed_Methods.html\">node-like win-fail scenario<\/a>. Not perfect, but it would do perfectly for games like Ghost Recon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from work I noticed how nice it actually was outside. It&#8217;s sunny and it feels like Spring. Except for that the weather forecasts tell a different story: it was supposed to be way colder this weekend (compared to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}