Sunday, May 18, 2008

Lies, Damn Lies and Internet Cheese

Victoria has taken the daredevil plunge and gone ahead with an Internet Cheese order. Sure, we've all dreamed of it, but she was the only one with the guts to actually do it.

Stilton. From Amazon.

Verdict?

Not so hot.

Meanwhile, it's been close to 100 degrees here (at the highest) for the past four days. Weather.com is pitching the following lies:


Weather.com

Wunderground.com

Weatherbug.com

Actual

Mon

79

95

96

93

Tue

73

85

86

79

Wed

71

79

79

80

Thur

66

74

74

70

Fri

65

76

76

59

Sat

59

40-60ish


72

62


So, I'm supposed to believe that the high is going to drop 20 degrees tomorrow and 40 degrees by Saturday? Weatherbug seems the most reasonable, and Wunderground is pretty close except they're angling for a potentially even colder Saturday.

I'm going to update this daily with the actual high, just for giggles.

Plus, I'm going to install freakin' central air. Global coldening ain't comin' fast enough.

UPDATE #1: Interesting. I was going to rag on Weather.com for being wildly inaccurate. And they were for the first day. Note all the guesses--er, scientific predictions--are off. Today was markedly cooler (hallelujah!) and right in the middle of the predictions. Intriguingly enough, while Weather.com was closer for today, they actually changed their predictions yesterday to match those on Weatherbug and Wunderground, so if you went looking Monday for the temps on Tuesday, they would have been farther off than the Sunday predictions!

UPDATE #2: It was warmer today than all three predicted, but not by much. And it got warmer. This makes the 60-degree target for Saturday seem unlikely.

UPDATE #3: Well, this wasn't particularly enlightening. It's interesting, I guess, that weather.com had the cold starting a day early than it did and peaking a day later than it did. The other two sort of played it conservative, which worked all right until the sudden drop on the weekend.

CONCLUSION: I guess I'll probably stick with poking my head out the window and guessing.

2 comments:

  1. Oh wow, I didn't see this, Blake.

    My further thoughts on the Amazon 4-some of English cheeses. In order of preference:

    Derby Sage
    Cotswolds
    Stilton
    Cheddar

    Basically, the two staples of English cheeses, Stilton and Cheddar, are the two least appetising of their selections.

    The Cheddar is like a rubber doorstop, instead of having a vaguely peppery taste.

    The Stilton is much too salty, without any "bite".

    Derby Sage might rank so high, because I've rarely had it, so I'm going on how it tasted first time.

    Cotswolds, which is a good Gloucestershire, is fine too.

    So there we are. :)

    Cheers,
    Victoria

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  2. So, what is Stilton, anyway?

    Here we get cheddar--many different varieties--but I've never even heard of Cotswolds or Derby Sage.

    Stilton I hear of all the time on BBC (etc) but I never see it at the store!

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