How I just met kindred spirits on YouTube
So last week I heard about this "documentary" called "Loose Change" which is a conspiracy theorist's history of the September 11th attacks. First of all, I decided that I would like to be a Conspiracy Theorist when I grow up, because you can claim anything you want and anyone that disagrees with you is either lying or has been lied to. Anyway, I watched this documentary and thought it was pretty entertaining for how much BS they were putting out. A few good points, but lots of hearsay and selective hearing on their parts. Then, I looked at youtube's "Related Videos" section and found "Unfastened Coins: The Titanic Conspiracy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHs6J0OXVI) which is made in exactly the same style as "Loose Change" but a parody. I sent the link to my best childhood friend, Kristin, and we agreed that we TOTALLY would have made something like that when we were little.
Then today, I was looking around at other YouTube things and found that there's an oddly large number of people who are The Weather Channel freaks. And not just TWC in general.. no these people know EVERYTHING about "Your Local Forecast" technology. And I mean everything. They have clips of WeatherSTAR 4000, which was in use for many years (which I remember fondly, but that makes me sound weird), WeatherSTAR XL and Junior, etc etc. Two of my personal favs were of 4000's glitches: occasionally, the computer would put up the national forecast rather than the local one, just showing you the weather in big cities all around; someone had gathered a couple instances of that and put it on the web.
Then I saw this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFI7Q0anySM This guy knows who did the voiceovers saying "Forecast for your area" and such. They changed them in 2000, and so he burned the post-Y2K guy's voice onto an old clip of a pre-2000 Local Forecast.
Quoth the poster: "Remember back when the WeatherSTAR 4000 and Junior had Dan Chandler's narration on The Weather Channel? Since 2000, Allen Jackson had been doing the narrations. This is what the WeatherSTAR 4000 and Junior would be like with Allen Jackson's voice"
Are we all nuts? At the same time, I"m a little relieved to know that there are other odd people in the world. But does this bode well for my students, present and future?
Then today, I was looking around at other YouTube things and found that there's an oddly large number of people who are The Weather Channel freaks. And not just TWC in general.. no these people know EVERYTHING about "Your Local Forecast" technology. And I mean everything. They have clips of WeatherSTAR 4000, which was in use for many years (which I remember fondly, but that makes me sound weird), WeatherSTAR XL and Junior, etc etc. Two of my personal favs were of 4000's glitches: occasionally, the computer would put up the national forecast rather than the local one, just showing you the weather in big cities all around; someone had gathered a couple instances of that and put it on the web.
Then I saw this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFI7Q0anySM This guy knows who did the voiceovers saying "Forecast for your area" and such. They changed them in 2000, and so he burned the post-Y2K guy's voice onto an old clip of a pre-2000 Local Forecast.
Quoth the poster: "Remember back when the WeatherSTAR 4000 and Junior had Dan Chandler's narration on The Weather Channel? Since 2000, Allen Jackson had been doing the narrations. This is what the WeatherSTAR 4000 and Junior would be like with Allen Jackson's voice"
Are we all nuts? At the same time, I"m a little relieved to know that there are other odd people in the world. But does this bode well for my students, present and future?