Extreme Christmas Lights In Orlando

tripmine writes "The Orlando Sentinel has a story about a geek who can't get enough Christmas light. 'This Christmas, tech-savvy people such as Hansen are increasingly building the biggest, most elaborate holiday lights in neighborhoods across Central Florida and throughout the country. They typically work in fields such as computer programming, Web development, engineering or audio and visual services and are armed with a technical knowledge that the average person lacks. They trade tips and stories on message boards and set up Web sites with step-by-step descriptions of how they installed their lights as well as pictures and videos of the finished product.'" Many cities have neighborhoods where the spectacle takes up blocks at a time, not just individual houses, too, as anyone who's strolled down Austin's 37th Street can attest. Links invited (in comments) to the best / worst light-spectacles you know of.

Global warming

[Yusaku Godai]

What's the point to banning some incandescent light bulbs if this bullshit is allowed?

So 90's

[Cthefuture]

These type of flashy animated displays are like flashing HTML text and all the other tacky crap from 90's web design.

It can be done a lot more tastefully.

Re:Global warming

[digital_rich]

Who's the tree-hugging scrooge who modded this insightful?

Re:Global warming

[One Childish N00b]

What's the point to banning some incandescent light bulbs if this bullshit is allowed?

Shut up. This has been a year to end all years. We've been bullied into accepting bullshit laws left, right and center, we've seen our countrymen lose their lives in a neverending bullshit war, and the holiday season is the one time of year when we get to let our hair down and have fun without petty moaning getting in the way.

Yes, it's garish, and yes it's a "waste of energy", but you know what? I feel like getting up and going to work every day just to fall into bed and do it all over again tomorrow is a waste of energy, too, and I look forward to the fun and silliness of the holiday season, and things like this add to the fun. Pretty much everything else fun has been legislated to death, if we start legislating Christmas then we might as well give up the fight altogether and become mindless automatons retiring to our alcoves for 8 hours 'recharge' in between 365 days of work.

Re:Global warming

[Basehart]

"Interestingly enough there is no record of when Jesus was born."

Interestingly enough there isn't even a record of Jesus being born at all. Assuming his mother was a virgin I'm doubting a birth was even possible, but hey what do I know.

Re:Good Thing It's Not in Boston

[19thNervousBreakdown]

rashionally

I doubt this was on purpose, but it is an outstanding word. I propose that it means, "perfectly rational, if you are crazy."

STFU

[Anonymous Coward]

It is annoying, pedantic whiners like you who give the rest of us atheists a bad name. Who cares when Christians want to celebrate the birth of Jesus? Cultural tolerance should extend to local culture just as much as to all the others. So as long as you aren't being physically forced to participate, just ignore them and stop whining.

Re:Global warming

[hpebley3]

When the New Testament was being translated from Hebrew to Greek...

Huh?!? The New Testament was originally written in Greek. Any Hebrew version is a translation from Greek, not to Greek.