Happy Holidays Everyone!

In the laser entertainment business, at least "back in the day", sometimes unexplainable mishaps occurred during show prep, that become endearing.

One of mine, and forgive me if I've mentioned this before, happened when loading images from floppy disk to computer memory buffer locations for a Christmas/Happy New Year show theme.
Two images were "Merry Christmas!" and "Happy New Year!".

When previewing the image loads with the laser projector, one buffer displayed as "Happy Newstmas!" It was a perfect single-frame concatenation of those two frames that happened once and only once.

So with that bit of historical reference...it became an endearing memory of this great laser artistic form.

Happy Newstmas!

Bah, Moonbugs, said Grinchgas after he burped glowing green Krypton.

Seriously, Happy Holidays, Remember the reason for the season is not going to the mall for that new Xbox.

A memory of a ittle boy, maybe 10 or 11, running 300 yards in the snow after hopping out or his parents car, to see my 20 foot tall Laser Santa, is my favorite. Snow or no Snow, no coat, He just had to see Santa up close. His Mom pulled the car into the church parking lot, and was laughing overjoyed. 3D Santa swaying. Mom said she had never seen him dance like he was,. Young man had something causing brain issues, and she was just thrilled to see him happy and running.. I don't think anything was ever said about leaving a stopped car without permission. :)



When I was a late teen, trick or treat night had a popup Bat and Ghost with open loop scanners. Kids and Parents would look over the screen door with the glass window removed, Mom would hand out the candy, and F4 would call up Pangoscript on LD500 Amiga... My second favorite laser holiday event. Back then, before LED, that was state of the art. 5 mW of HENE plus Snickers Bars. What could have been more fun.

MERRY Christmas.

BLESSINGS.

steve

And now for some music.

https://youtu.be/sID0vyENNBU

Attention Humans.
It's Happy Christmas !

What is wrong with you people? O_o

FFS It's not that difficult to work out !!
Take a look at your calendar.

Wow! Soforene! There's a username I haven't seen in a while. :) Hope all is well with you and yours, pal!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone on the forum.

Adam