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Christmas Lighting in Abundance
gral writes "My boss really gets into setting up Christmas lights. He has been interviewed by a couple TV stations, because of his displays. He usually has them setup at his house. This year he has moved to a Church Yard for more space. For 2003, his display sports over 200,000 lights, each string is controlled by computer to light to the tune of a Radio Station playing christmas music. Check out his website at Planet Christmas. Some pictures of this year's display can be seen as well. Have fun and Happy Holidays."
Further proof that Management is useless.
I highly doubt that you will get anymore money out of him. Your Xmas bonus is going to more lights and your co-workers are going to start calling you Rudolph the Brown-nosed reindeer.
As soon as he finds out that it was you that slashdotted him...
I guess, he watched too many episodes of "Home Improvement".
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
Planet Christmas knocked out of orbit by asteroid Slashdot122103
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Yes, I imagine it did.....look just like a strip club, was it complete with expensive drinks served in thimble sized glasses and women that look as if they fell from that guys bike that says "If you can read this the bitch fell off"
They've just raised the national terror alert level to ORANGE. YES, ORANGE! Orange means high, by the way, or 4 out of 5 on the chart.
This is due to two factors:
1, they suspect that terrorists are collecting funds by standing in front of Walmarts with a red kettle, and ringing bells.
2, They discovered 12 Saudis that were taking leasons on how to fly sleighs and getting instruction on basic deer husbandry.
The Dept. of Homeland Defense requests that anyone spotting any flying sleighs that are being led by deer like animals assume it is a Saudi terrorist. Initial indications are they plan to attack on the eve of birth of Christ, as a religious statement against the "infidels". If they try to land on your roof, you should take necessary defensive action. Deadly force is authorized.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled nonsense, already in progress...
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
He didn't happen to test those out on August 14th this year, hmm?
So that's why they need to build that fusion reactor.
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
In related news... 1/3 of San Francisco without power
I have to admit that posting your boss' website on the slashdot homepage is an easy revenge for whatever he did to you...You must be LOL, seeing his webserver melting down :)
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nico
Nico-Live
They are a presumptuous affectation of those who style themselves too sophisticated to make a strong primal statement using color. Children, who's tastes are uncorrupted, prefer colored Christmas lights.
Religion is a red herring. The Christmas star was said to be a single star in the sky, not a thousand stars in the shrubbery. The Christmas tree is a pagan custom from Germany, and there are no evergreens in the mid-East!
The problem of white Christmas Lights originated when the producers of movies and television discovered that colored lights are difficult and expensive to photograph. (Lights are the brightest thing in the picture and tend to be overexposed. When colored lights are overexposed they turn into a washed out white. When white lights are overexposed they just look white.) This caused white lights to be used in movies and television because of expense considerations.
Then the "people" especially the people who wanted to style themselves sophisticated, began to decorate their houses with white lights! They were slavishly following what they saw in movies and television unknowing that those media were motivated by expense considerations!
Well, sophisticates, I have this to tell you: Your white lights are ugly and you are a bunch of low taste idiots!
They discovered 12 Saudis that were taking leasons on how to fly sleighs and getting instruction on basic deer husbandry
The flight lessons I can imagine, but come on! Since when do Arabs need lessons on fucking deer?
The sooner we burn off all oil and gas reserves with frivolous lighting and waste heat, the sooner we all have to convert to wind, solar, biomass and conservation sources. I'm sick of sending money overseas.
Light up I say. And flame away.
What kind of establishment is Slashdot, anyway? They seem to have a persistent track record of linking to stories on sites that are down.
They just don't get it, do they?
If the girls look like that where you've been going, you've definitely been going to the wrong clubs.
jred
I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage...
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased