Pollen hot spots

[bluegrass]

I have had weather.com bookmarked on my computer for several years now and this is the first time I noticed this feature.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/hotspots/?pollentype=tree&from=pif_loc_allergies
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/tenday/40517?
Put in your zip and you can get a pollen forecast. Even tells you what the highest source is.

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

I have had weather.com bookmarked on my computer for several years now and this is the first time I noticed this feature.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/hotspots/?pollentype=tree&from=pif_loc_allergies
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/tenday/40517?
Put in your zip and you can get a pollen forecast. Even tells you what the highest source is.

Bluegrass, they've actually had this feature for a while, but you have to set your bookmarked page to this instead of one of the other choices such as travel or gardening. Does someone else use your computer that could have changed it to the health/allergy feature for you?

Susan

[drobbins]

this ones pretty good too

http://pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp

Dave

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

this ones pretty good too

http://pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp

Dave

That's way cool! I'll have to bookmark that one, too.

Susan

[Maine_Beekeeper]

Thanks for the great tip! I appreciate it!

[bluegrass]

Bluegrass, they've actually had this feature for a while, but you have to set your bookmarked page to this instead of one of the other choices such as travel or gardening. Does someone else use your computer that could have changed it to the health/allergy feature for you?

Susan
Its probably been set to it all along....I just don't pay that much attention to anything but the forecast. I had to send my laptop back to Dell a few days ago and had to start using the Desktop again; that is when I noticed it. Sure do miss the laptop though....I love to sit out in the yard on nice days reading beesource:) Hope they get me a new one soon...the last one was a lemon.

[Robert Hawkins]

Apple doesn't make lemons.

Hawk

[hummingberd]

Great finds guys! These are really fun to use and integrate into beekeeping journals etc. Maine_beekeeper, I knew you'd be all over these!!! :)

[bluegrass]

Apple doesn't make lemons.

Hawk
They also don't give me a University Discount and have an IT guy on campus who fixes it for free:D

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

Its probably been set to it all along....I just don't pay that much attention to anything but the forecast. I had to send my laptop back to Dell a few days ago ... Hope they get me a new one soon...the last one was a lemon.

I recommend a Mac!!:)

Susan

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

They also don't give me a University Discount and have an IT guy on campus who fixes it for free:D

You won't need an IT guy with an Apple... and the Apple will make up for that university discount by the lack of frustration you will find from it. Plus, Apple has an education discount for educators and students.

Susan

[Ross]

Actually, if you do some on-line searching you'll find that Apple makes about the same percentage of lemons as anybody else, they just make fewer total computers.

[hummingberd]

I recommend a Mac!!:)

Susan

Me three!! :D

[bluegrass]

You won't need an IT guy with an Apple... and the Apple will make up for that university discount by the lack of frustration you will find from it. Plus, Apple has an education discount for educators and students.

Susan
No frustration as I have the desk top as a backup (also a Dell)....just can't go out side with it. Apple's .edu discount isn't the 40% that I get for buying Dell through the University of Kentucky. Apples are only popular with the diehards who started on them years ago....I am too young for that and grew up on PCs. I love the idea of making something from nothing in a garage, but Wozniak never reached the level of success he should have...so that leads me to believe that it is a flawed product. Sorry..... not sold

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

Actually, if you do some on-line searching you'll find that Apple makes about the same percentage of lemons as anybody else, they just make fewer total computers.

I'll bet microsoft came up with those numbers!:D

I realize that my family's experience is just anecdotal, but we've had four Apples and two Dells and my husband and I have had a lot of MS based computers that we have used in jobs. We've had boatloads of problems from the Dells, absolutely hate the MS operating systems but have had nothing but great experiences from our Apples. After having Apples at home and MS at work, our grown kids chose to buy Apples, too. But, we were talking pollen, weren't we?
Susan

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

No frustration as I have the desk top as a backup (also a Dell)....just can't go out side with it. Apple's .edu discount isn't the 40% that I get for buying Dell through the University of Kentucky. Apples are only popular with the diehards who started on them years ago....I am too young for that and grew up on PCs. I love the idea of making something from nothing in a garage, but Wozniak never reached the level of success he should have...so that leads me to believe that it is a flawed product. Sorry..... not sold

That is a big discount! And the diehard statement was once true, but now more and more people are switching over. A flawed product? Hardly. Tell me what you see as Apple's flaws. Most MS fans complain about the cost of Macs, not that they are flawed.

You know the desktop look on most Window systems? It looks amazingly like Apple's, but came out much later than Apple's. And Vista? Mac OS X has had these features for many years. Wozniak? He hasn't worked full time with Apple since the late '70's. He still owns stock and is considered an employee but his one time partner Steve Jobs is at the helm.

But Apple stock is trading at $91.31, Dell at 25.37 and Microsoft at 28.65 today. That's nothing to sneeze it. If you go to www.investorguide.com, you can do a comparison between Dell, Apple and Microsoft stock. You'll find that Apple has higher revenues than Dell, too. I'd say Apple has reached a measure of success. But if you are happy with your Dell, then that's what you should use.

Susan

[bluegrass]

Pollen??? Is that what this thread was about:D I love it when threads migrate....alot of people like to scream hijack, hijack, but I think thread migration makes for a more interesting forum.
The laptop is my third dell...and the best thing they have done since I bought the first one 4 years ago is get rid of the Celeron Processor. When I got my BA the college I went to had both in their labs and I never liked the apples....(that was when those ugly blue ones had first come out; 1999 ish) Their keyboards were not comfortable, but it is hard to change from what you are used to. UK buys a few thousand Dells per year so Dell does what they can to keep them happy. I figure if it is good enough for a major University and Hospital its good enough for me....Another benefit is I get the hospitals operating system with it and their HIPAA approved firewall.

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

That's how we ended up with the Dells... required for the kids' colleges. We would have never bought them otherwise. :) I never had one of the various colored computers, though one of my sons and one of my daughters do. Apple has a number of keyboard styles to choose from and there are those you can pick up at most any store that carries computers. We have been through a boat load with the five kids growing up. They were forever spilling drinks in them, etc. My husband doesn't have much patience for keyboards that stick so when he determines that cleaning under the keys is not going to do it, he's off to the nearest electronics shop to get a new one. Most things he can wait for a deal on line. Not a keyboard though...

How 'bout that pollen? I think ours has mostly blown away!

Susan

[bluegrass]

My bees are bringing in pollen today, but I don't see how they are finding it...after the frost last week most everything got freezer burned. I just went out to mark a queen and add a hive body, but its pretty windy...I think the only reason they are flying is because they have to after this past week of cold weather.
Yeah... we just bought a new keyboard a few months ago...my wife washed the old one....in the sink...with water????

[Ross]

Apple stole the mouse and the desktop from Xerox Park Place many many years ago. Don't get me started. I've been doing computer graphics for the military longer than most of you have spelled computer. Dell is the lowest common demoninator in laptops. Buy an IBM (Lenov) Thinkpad and get better reliabilty than Apple and still run Windows (along with 92% of the population).

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

Yeah... we just bought a new keyboard a few months ago...my wife washed the old one....in the sink...with water????

Hahahaha!!! I never tried that. Apparently it didn't work out too well.

Susan

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

Buy an IBM (Lenov) Thinkpad and get better reliabilty than Apple and still run Windows (along with 92% of the population).

Ross, my Mac has never had a virus or a worm, never been in for maintenance and meets the needs of my home and business. I don't know how I could find more reliability than that.

I have been forced to use Windows in former jobs and much prefer Mac's OS X. And I should run Windows because 92% of the population does? Sorry, I don't make decisions based on what most of the population does. If I did, I wouldn't have bees, wouldn't be in business for myself, I'd live in suburbia, my kids would have gone to public schools instead of homeschooling... I could go on.


I've been doing computer graphics for the military longer than most of you have spelled computer.

Mmmm, that would put you doing computer graphics for the military back to about 1966 in my case. I'm sure I could spell it at least by then. Were you working with the military that young in life?

Susan

[bluegrass]

kids would have gone to public schools instead of homeschooling...

Susan

:O :O :O.....another thing I have to disagree with you on;)
I was homeschooled...except for Kindergarden and 8th grade when I went to a private school. I blame all my current problems on it.....I had a really hard few years adjusting into the real world....some say I haven't yet.

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

:O :O :O.....another thing I have to disagree with you on;)
I was homeschooled...except for Kindergarden and 8th grade when I went to a private school. I blame all my current problems on it.....I had a really hard few years adjusting into the real world....some say I haven't yet.

You disagree with the statement that most of the population doesn't homeschool? Mmmm... check the statistic on the number of kids in public schools in the US vs the number homeschooling.

As for feeling that your current problems are because you were homeschooled, it would be difficult to say that the homeschooling itself was the cause. Three of my five kids are financially independent, socially active and have successful careers. I would go as far as to say that they are well adjusted. One of these three is married and has one child whom she would like to homeschool. Hubby is not so sure about that as he was a public school student and had no exposure to homeschooling growing up. They have a few years to decide on this.

Another of these three went to college in Hawaii on a full scholarship. I think it says something about how well adjusted she is, that as an 18 year old girl she could pick up and move half way across the world from her family. And it was her idea. She set that goal pretty early on. We told her no way we could afford to pay for that particular school. She applied for admission and for the scholarship on her own.

Of the other two kids, one will graduate from high school this year and has his plans for college in the works. He is very outgoing and musically talented, having spent three years as a dual enrollment student at the NC School of the Arts. The other is in his twenties, not well adjusted, extremely high IQ but refuses to do much of anything besides spending time on computer and working on his car. The point I'm trying to make is that there are well adjusted and not well adjusted kids in public, private and home schools. If homeschooling was a bad experience for you, then I am sorry to hear that.

Incidentally, some of my kids liked homeschooling, some didn't. Most all of them hated the little time that they spent in public school. In my opinion, homeschooling is more like the real world than sitting in a classroom full of kids who are segregated by age. We don't do that in the real world. There are a limited number of places that kids can't go, but for the most part we interact with people of all ages in the real world. My kids were active in sports, dance lessons, music lessons, voice lessons, church activities, book club, foreign language club, travel, community service and socializing. My youngest son still is. What I'm trying to say is that the image of kids stuck at home without friends, never seeing the light of day is not the norm for most homeschool families. I'm not that I'm saying that was your situation... I don't know what your situation was. Whatever your situation was Bluegrass, I wish you well.
Susan

[bluegrass]

I was just disagreeing with the homeschooling part...not the stats... I know the stats, generally home schooled children score higher than the national average in national tests. We have no intentions of sending our kids to public school, but I am working on getting on the school board here so I can make a difference for somebody elses kids. We don't have kids yet but are saving so we can put them in Montessori school when that time comes. Have you seen that Nightline special called Stupid America? Its a real eye opener when it comes to our public school system. I come from a state where most towns have the voucher system and I would fully support it if it were to go national. My wife got a great public education because most public schools in Vermont are forced to compete with the private schools or close their doors. She got a scholarship to Smith after highschool and after undergrad she got a graduate scholarship to UNC in their genetics program.
I think that our education system should be the most important issue on this countries agenda. If something is not done soon we are going to be in serious trouble on the international front.

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

I think that our education system should be the most important issue on this countries agenda. If something is not done soon we are going to be in serious trouble on the international front.

I agree. And just giving them more money to work with is not the answer. More money is spent per child in the public schools than ever before. Freeing up some of the red tape so that teachers could concentrate on teaching instead of dotting all of the mandated "i"s and crossing all of the No Child Left Behind "t"s would be a great place to start.

So I take it from your signature that you were probably an unschooler?

Susan

[bluegrass]

So I take it from your signature that you were probably an unschooler?

Susan

:D :D More like noschooler.
Set me back alot in math, but I was able to stay at the top of my class through college the first time around and am doing it again now. Good thing the public school system is less than no schooling....gives me the advantage. My biggest complaint is that if I had the formal education foundation I would have done so much more in my college career. (maybe) I really like the sciences, but lacked alot of the basics to do really well in them. So instead of graduating at 30 with a MD. I will be graduating with an RN and a BA in social work; on top of the BA in political sciences I already have.

[Gregory and Susan Fariss]

:D :D So instead of graduating at 30 with a MD. I will be graduating with an RN and a BA in social work; on top of the BA in political sciences I already have.

You can add an MD to that list any time you want to. :D

I used to work with a doc who gave up his career in engineering to go to med school. He was forty years old when he made this decision. Graduating with an RN? You must not be too bad in the sciences. You made it through Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Chemistry and the corresponding labs.

Susan

[bluegrass]

You can add an MD to that list any time you want to. :D

I used to work with a doc who gave up his career in engineering to go to med school. He was forty years old when he made this decision. Graduating with an RN? You must not be too bad in the sciences. You made it through Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, Chemistry and the corresponding labs.

Susan
A and P is the easy stuff....That Chem and Medical Micro are the killers;)
four more semesters and I am done with college for good...I think. Time to work and pay off these loans.