Re: OT great christmas light show

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:51:59 -0500, "Magic Mood Jeep©"
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Cheryl wrote:
>> On Fri 02 Dec 2005 07:13:38p, wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
>> (news:4390e332$0$38656$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
>>
>>> Did you notice that the house looks sort of alive? Kind of like
>>> a weird face? The two upper windows on the far-left and
>>> far-right of the house look like eyes, and the band of light
>>> along the roof gutter looks like one long eyebrow. Actually, I
>>> think this whole thing is a coded message for aliens. Cats
>>> signaling the mothership, probably.
>>
>> The first time I saw that I thought it looked like many still
>> pictures all choreographed into a video. Then, today a friend of mine
>> noticed that there is a blinking window that doesn't belong to the
>> house, but is the light in a neighbor's window - a house behind the
>> house? (You can see it under the left eave of the "dancing" house)
>> Anyway, if you watch that light, it clearly isn't part of the
>> choreography because it doesn't have the rhythm the rest of the
>> lights have. Now, I'm pretty positive that it's a bunch of still
>> pictures arranged into a moving work of art. Nice job!
>>
>> --
>> Cheryl
>
>It's either that or somebody with theater experience programmed their lights
>into a computer system similar to ones used in more modern theaters (not the
>movie ones, but the stage-with-live-actors ones). Those are pretty
>elaborate. I imagine if this is the case, the wiring took up most of his
>garage, while the computer that runs it is probably a laptop or similar.
>
>But then again, there was some guy last year that said that people over the
>internet controlled the lights in his house (they could tell which lights to
>turn on & off, etc.). Turns out, he had just a bunch of pictures of the
>inside of his house, and when people said to turn this or that light on/off,
>it just changed the pictures!
>
>Who knows... besides the owner of the house, that is!

Snopes knows!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/xmaslights.asp

:^)
.

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