[Byrntrigan]

I thought it was Santa and a cock ring. man, you can really tell alot about people by how they perceive things, huh? ;D

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Aside from the bowling pin, I love Byrnie's home theater setup. Whatcha got there, bruddah?

[Byrntrigan]

I'll write up a list of all my home theater stuff for ya.

[Lucky]

That's a wreath, you creepy perverted fuckers.

[Habs]

I'll have to agree with Lucky on this one. I'm usually all behind your pervert fucker stuff, but come on! This is Santa!

Close up to keep the discussion going.

[bdbdbd]

Santa Claus can't get down with a cock ring? He's got 300 some days when he's not doing much but making/checking his list while he's stuck in an isolated location with his wide. If ever there was a recipe to build a experimentation, that's it. Cock rings are probably the most vanilla thing they do.

[Fire-Babe]

Not to mention what kinds of naughty things find their way onto his list. He's bound to want to try a few of them.

[Habs]

What's on your list Fire?

[Jack Quinn]

nothing that she can post on here without the FBI becoming REALLY interested

[Fire-Babe]

Dec 21, 2008 11:56:03 GMT -5 Habs said:

What's on your list Fire?

Not my spotlight, habs

As long as Seamus knows what's on it (and not on it), life is good

[Demko]

OK, it's not a Christmas tree, and it's not of my doing, but we went out looking at Christmas lights tonight, and we saw this:



Here's an interview with the creator:

www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=1ACBAE3E469186AE2E2EF5B4094579BE?contentId=5127536&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

I've got to say, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen, and if it hadn't been so freakin cold, we could have literally stood out there all night. It spanned two different houses.

In-cred-i-ble! Anyone else ever seen something this intricate?

[Lucky]

That IS pretty amazing.

Its also easily the most annoying neighbor in recorded history.

[Demko]

Dec 23, 2008 0:17:45 GMT -5 Lucky said:

That IS pretty amazing.

Its also easily the most annoying neighbor in recorded history.

The house is far enough away from their neighbors that it doesn't really impact the neighborhood too much. They did have one neighboring house across the street, but I went and stood on that side of the road, and the music was coming from a part of the house that seemed to be blocked by something. This guy has taken every possible precaution to not piss off the people who could easily call the cops on him for a noise ordinance infraction. :-D

From the interview, he just seemed like a genuinely nice guy, though.

[Lucky]

He did seem nice and I don't doubt he's trying to make people smile. I'm just saying... whether you can hear it or not there HAS to be some moment in which that neighbor wants to put his hand through the wall because of the insane pattern of flashing lights. I'm sure he takes every precaution and makes sure his neighbors are cool. But there has to be ONE night out of 31 where you hate him.

[Byrntrigan]

I knew a guy who was an engineer who did this via RS232 (computer controls), and also broadcasted the music via radio on a "pirate" transmitter. Apparently under a certain power (I believe the wattage is 500 Ohms) you can buy a transmitter so people could listen to it in their car as they drove by.

[Byrntrigan]

Oh, and Lucky, where's a pic of your christmas tree?

[Lucky]

I don't have a camera. If I can borrow one from a family member I'll grab a shot tonight when all the gifts are under it.

Although its pretty basic. I got past the "wacky ornaments" phase in college when we'd have dorm trees and its a family tree.

[Byrntrigan]

That new cell phone of yours doesn't have one?

[Lucky]

I never bought a new cell phone. I over extended my Christmas budget and then a crisis came up and I had to blow my bank account. Plus I bought an Ipod Touch for my mom for Christmas and played with for weeks and fell in love. So now my next big purchase needs to be a Touch or an iPhone. And AT&T's phone plans are all more expensive than Sprint's from what I saw so its not going to be an iPhone.

For now I'm still using the old cheap phone. I stripped the wires on the charger and rewired it to get it working again. Battery holds a shitty charge and I sometimes give myself a very small shock but its working well enough until I have some disposable income. So no camera. I could pull out my video camera... but I don't wanna.

That being said my next phone will only have a camera if I get it free. Because I have no use for that shit in general. That being said when I was looking at the free upgrades Spring would give me I was hardpressed to find one that didn't have a camera.

[Riot Act]

My tree has homemade Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart ornaments that I made when I was a kid.

[Byrntrigan]

Well damn Riot, let's see them.

[Fire-Babe]

Dec 22, 2008 23:46:16 GMT -5 Demko said:

In-cred-i-ble! Anyone else ever seen something this intricate?

Yes.

www.picktownlights.com/

When we first moved out there, it was maybe four houses? Now it's the whole street, including the token Jewish household who puts up blue lights and an inflatable menorrah.

They're a few subdivisions over. I haven't seen it this year, since every time we drive down that way traffic is backed up It's pretty awesome. Everyone who drives through is encouraged to donate food to the local food bank. They have a huge container set up for it and everything

[Fire-Babe]

Yay, new digicam! Okay, here is our tree and shit.

Here is the tree. Note the stockings hung with care.



To prove my geekiness, a close up of one of my Star Trek ornaments. I don't have quite all of them...yet.



Here is the tree with a view of the lighted garland around the loft and banister.



Here is the Nightmare Before Christmas Village, from two angles. Sadly, none of them show the snow on the roof of the Haunted Church or the tops of the tombstones.





We have some holly even, with which we have decked our hall. Yes, that's a skull carved with knotwork. No, it's not real.



And lastly, here is our 'set up' for the last night of Yule. Twelve candles lit one each night, the horn had sparkling cider in it (as it was really a good idea to cut off the alcohol at that point), and the omens we pulled. Yes, those are real furs, antlers, and deer skin.