Thursday, January 7, 2010
Media / Silverman Morning Roundup: False Blizzard Alarm Letdown Edition
Posted by Jack Silverman on Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:54 AM
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You know, I don't pretend that my food is magically delivered from a sterile vacuum straight to my mouth. I half-consciously expect a few bugs or stray hair or what-have-you to end up in something I eat. It's the world we live in and it's silly to pretend otherwise.
But I read that warning letter: it was horrifying. As soon as I get home I'm boiling everything I own and calling NASA to see if I can get in on some of their dehydrated futuremeals. That report was disgusting.
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Ashley, actually I made a mistake. That link is to the FDA report on my kitchen.
"...post-meteorological-hyperbole syndrome...
One must remember that the first mission of a TV weatherperson is to generate viewers and is most effectively accomplished by trying to scare the pants off the viewing public. Accuracy in forecasting falls to a distant second.
Seven-day forcasting is a huge joke. Even three days away is iffy but they would have you believe their "computer models" are believable. Far from it.
To accurately predict the weather...look outside. That's about as far into the future as you can really see.
I wonder if the weather reporters get a kickback from Purity and Bunny Bread. If they don't, they should because the companies sales skyrocketed in the last 2 days.
Having been a weather forecaster in a previous life I sometimes laugh out loud at their outrageous antics.
Thanks for writing about this. There's a bunch of good tech information on the internet. You've got a lot of that info here on your website. I'm impressed - I try to keep a couple blogs fairly on-going, but it's a struggle sometimes. You've done a big job with this one. How do you do it?
