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Christmas is Coming
Couple of Christmas bits to get ya in the spirit: We have a link to
Planet Christmas as well as the tech details and even
some danger. This thing
features 96,790 miniature Christmas lights, 7.2 miles of wire to connect everything, 110 strobe lights, the 8' inflatable snowmen, handled by 425 computer controlled circuits. A slightly
less ambitious project was submitted by apago. This project lets winamp
control christmas lights, complete with schematics for the serial interface
and source code for the plugin.
4 North fucking sucks. Go fucking drink more beer and think you're on top of the world. WOOHOO I CAN DRINK BEER BECAUSE MY MOMMY ISN'T AROUND TO STOP ME I WANTED TO JOIN A FRAT BUT I HAD TO STAY IN THE DORMS FOR A SEMESTER.
Sorry, I just needed to vent. Goddamn Pearl Harbor and Saint Patrick's Day pissed me off, every. fucking. year. I was there. You'd think a school that's presumably supposed to generate some of the best engineers in the world would have a student body that could think of better things to do than just get rip roaring drunk at the slightest provocation.
Anyway, 4 North hasn't done this for years, at least not every year, because I know for a fact it wasn't done in the winter of 1998. The lights were up, but they were just lit, nothing more.
Shut the fuck up already with your pissant multicultural crap for johnny come latelys who want to ride on the coattails of Christmas.
Yeah, Christmas is an extention of the Roman Saturnalia and the Church chose this time for Christmas to make their holidays more attractive to non-Christians to join. "Hey, look at the fun they're having!!!"
Still there's that crazy nigger holiday made up by some professor who thought Christmas was too white. There's that tired Hannukah "festival of lights" where Jews keep their houses darker than a witch's heart. What? Passover and Yom Kippur isn't enough?
Don't forget the latter-day-Christians we know as Wiccans who run around naked and worship a female deity while retaining the "be nice" teachings of Christ. Wicca's such an old religion too made up by Gerald Gardener to serve his BDSM fetish under the guise of interviewing those who follow "the old religion" as if it was organized in the first place but put down by "The Man ®". It's nice to conveniently forget that the pagan religions were the original oppressors of Christianity.
Now you're calling in other fucking minorities and embrace them as if they should have "ME TOO!!!!!11111" time near the solstice because everyone should buy into Western ideology.
Despite my invective, Christmas can be celebrated by anyone not just Christians. Hasn't Christmas become secular enough for your tastes that anyone can buy into the joy, charm and festivity of Christmas without referencing the birth of Christ?
Cram it up your ass with your forced multiculturalism ideals of being a pasty-white, fat suburban fuck who believes negroes are just faerie creatures which are a nice idea and that Jews are the Pepsi of Middle Eastern religions.
BTW, I can't believe that you completely disregarded the Linux community at this joyous time of year. I'm sure there'll be some celebration at the release of the 2.4.17 kernel!!! Or the high Tolkein holiday that just passed!!!
Let there be peace on Earth and goodwill towards all men, except the fag in the parent of this post. (aka u)
3) Like most americans, you're extremely materialistic.
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it works for everyone, even other americans.
So fuck off.