You know those home projector laser light show things they have been promoting more and more each year as the Best...
You know those home projector laser light show things they have been promoting more and more each year as the Best Thing Ever instead of the usual christmas lights? Usually referred to as "star projectors/lasers" or "christmas projectors/lasers". Invented by HGM, promoted by HGM, and sold by HGM.
The gentle readers here likely do not need the whole laser light and how it works explained, but I'm just going to note that one of our neighbors, who for years has put up lovely life-sized creches, frequently made by himself, and an assortment of the usual lights, seems to have decided to go a simpler route this year. To wit, one of those stupid laser light show things.
It's even a small one. To all appearances unidirectionally aimed at the front of his house. Except that's the outside can of the light. The inside projector scatters the light over the entire front of the house in a sort of conical projection. These being laser lights, if they haven't hit a surface on which they are reflected, you don't see them. Also, whether you see them or not, they are projecting until they hit something and in an expanding cone because that's how that works.
Which explains why there are these disorienting regularly irregular moving flashes of bright green (laser) light in the rooms in the front of our house on that side. Our neighbor does not have an oddly narrow house, quite the contrary, it's fairly wide. And yet the lights are extending across his driveway and half the width of our lot. Presumably the same effect on his other side neighbors.
And they really are disorienting. If you want to see another reason beyond the brightness of green lasers why pilots get disoriented when somebody points a laser pointer at them, come sit in our house. It's startling and vertigo inducing. If we had a cat, it would be gibbering and drooling in the corner by now, having driven itself insane chasing all the lights.
Closing the drapes helps, but thank goodness nobody's bedroom is in that part of the house. I mean, I have to assume that they themselves do not inhabit any of their front rooms at night or they'd have driven themselves insane by now. Meanwhile, if it's on a timer, it is on very late at night. Past midnight, at least, and probably later.
For the love of god and if you do not hate yourself, humanity, and your neighbors, Montressor, do not buy one of these!
The gentle readers here likely do not need the whole laser light and how it works explained, but I'm just going to note that one of our neighbors, who for years has put up lovely life-sized creches, frequently made by himself, and an assortment of the usual lights, seems to have decided to go a simpler route this year. To wit, one of those stupid laser light show things.
It's even a small one. To all appearances unidirectionally aimed at the front of his house. Except that's the outside can of the light. The inside projector scatters the light over the entire front of the house in a sort of conical projection. These being laser lights, if they haven't hit a surface on which they are reflected, you don't see them. Also, whether you see them or not, they are projecting until they hit something and in an expanding cone because that's how that works.
Which explains why there are these disorienting regularly irregular moving flashes of bright green (laser) light in the rooms in the front of our house on that side. Our neighbor does not have an oddly narrow house, quite the contrary, it's fairly wide. And yet the lights are extending across his driveway and half the width of our lot. Presumably the same effect on his other side neighbors.
And they really are disorienting. If you want to see another reason beyond the brightness of green lasers why pilots get disoriented when somebody points a laser pointer at them, come sit in our house. It's startling and vertigo inducing. If we had a cat, it would be gibbering and drooling in the corner by now, having driven itself insane chasing all the lights.
Closing the drapes helps, but thank goodness nobody's bedroom is in that part of the house. I mean, I have to assume that they themselves do not inhabit any of their front rooms at night or they'd have driven themselves insane by now. Meanwhile, if it's on a timer, it is on very late at night. Past midnight, at least, and probably later.
For the love of god and if you do not hate yourself, humanity, and your neighbors, Montressor, do not buy one of these!
My next door neighbour has one, but their facade is wide and they've got it distanced correctly, so there are no beams escaping from the edges, for which I'm grateful.
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