A friend of mine has some glowing green skeleton lights on his porch, and those are pretty cool, too.

In general, tho, I don't hate the lights so much as the stupid glowing santas and jesuses (hezeuses out here in this awful land of mexican-speaking folks) and other commercialmas¹ stuff. Ugh. Yesterday all that crap went up as decorations here at work.

I hate this time of year.

¹ Downvote away, I don't care - christians replaced the winter solstice with christmas so they could convert the heathens, and now capitalism has totally replaced christmas with commercials and a feeding frenzy of shopping. There is no christmas, only ZUUL! errr... commercialmas.

I'll drink to that.

I'm not much for the xmas holiday, but I have to admit, I think the "Bubble Lights" are pretty cool. Of course, that's from a purely technical viewpoint. I like the blacklight idea though. Does somebody actually make those?

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You know, that's not a half-bad idea. Connect 'em up to X10 controllers.. now to see if I can remember this after xmas when they all go on discount!

-marius

Anybody ever check out Mister House? A very cool voice activated home automation program written entirely in perl. Same code runs on Win32 and Linux. It could certainly spice up the Christmas lights...

Dave

Good Gracious! I have all those lights in a big box with my sample x10 controller right on the top of the pile and I never once thought about putting them together! Oh man what a goofus I am! Imagine me kicking myself (which also requires you to imagine me a lot skinnier and a quite a bit more flexible than I currently am too). Now I can't wait to get home and tinker with em.

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$you = new YOU;
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Wow. More X-10 users. Cool. I'm thinking about bulding an X-10 app for X11 running on OS X...

neophyte

For the xmas tree, I prefer setting up a Jacob's ladder for the tree topper.

"Christmas Tree Flambé," anyone? That would be one way to add some light to the room..

Side note: You'll never believe where I looked up the accented e ASCII code -- my copy of "Epson GW-Basic User's guide, (c)1981" It was dangerous work -- I nearly inadvertantly remembered how painful it was. Like -- the gotos, the terror! No, no, nononono, not the gotos! I'll be nice, really -- you don't need that white jacket.. *whimper*

perl -e 'print "Just use $^X$\"$]!$/"'

I thought gosub was the coolest thing when I discovered it...

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

Last week I brought in some blue rope lights to frame my cube. This week, the occupant of the next cube over brought in red rope lights. It's starting to look pretty cool in here!

Moral of the story: I don't like Christmas lights!

ivory

(some time later) Hey! G'day Elvis - love the white jump suit and those blue suede shoes.

Man - I need a coffee.

Hmm, looks like some of that danged Perl code.

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$votes{green}++;
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starts at "" not "0". (:
        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

On the plus side, this means I never got taken by the "icicle lights" fad that hit here a couple of years ago, in which people were paying unbelievable sums for the damn things which come pre-tangled in the box.

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Never mind that it made it hell to drive at night...it looked cool *grin*

Roy Alan

-- tune

Actually, I prefer to use the lights inside. My computer room has nails in the walls begging for a string of the things, other then that I have little use for them. (Although I did light my dorm with them back in my college days)

I have a strand that alternates between Saguaro and prickly pear cacti. I guess it's not really a Christmas thing.

Some seedy bar downtown is missing essential ambiance, I guess.

while ($numlights_thisyear < 4000) {
    $numlights_thisyear ++;
}
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I actually have a string of those draped over my monitor/computer both in my room at school and at work. They make me a little bit happier and actually provide just the right amount of light for working.

vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu

Unless your driveway is 20 feet wide, 2200 feet long, and has lamps placed exactly every 100 feet, I wouldn't be worrying too much about that. Oh yea, and something resembling a VASI.

--Chris

e-mail jcwren

What the hell is a VASI? Tell me please, because my driveway is exactly 20 feet wide, 2200 feet long, and there's cheap outdoor lighting spaced at precise 100 foot intervals. I need to know what a VASI is and what it looks like so I can go outside and remove whatever I have resembling it immediately!