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title: flaunting Edison
date: 2003-10-23
tags: ["General"]
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During my nighttime contemplation time (2-4am), a realization occurred to me.  My neighbors must be afraid of the dark.  Or maybe bizarre initiates in the church of illuminating the night.  A strange sect that embraces the modern technology of 200 watt halogen lamps to drive away the heathen demons of the night.

I on the other hand am being persecuted for my belief that it should be _dark_ at night.  Lighting the dark when performing task is perfectly acceptable, but I seriously doubt the 5 houses around ours all had people performing yard-work at 3am.  So I sat in bed and looked angrily at the shadows that are being cast all through the room from my dark-fearing neighbors contemplating how likely I would be to hit the bulbs if I owned a bb gun.

Bah.