Evan Jacover (dot com!) » Traditions http://evanjacover.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 03 May 2010 23:49:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Pretty Lights http://evanjacover.com/archives/2007/pretty-lights http://evanjacover.com/archives/2007/pretty-lights#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:41:08 +0000 Evan http://evanjacover.com/archives/2007/pretty-lights One of Columbia University’s best traditions (aside from Orgo Night) was the lighting of the trees along College Walk for the holidays. Michigan Avenue does it up okay, but the trees at Columbia were amazing. There were so many lights wrapped around every branch!

I don’t celebrate Christmas, but I sure like it a lot. I loved those lights and I love Christmas carols and I love It’s A Wonderful Life.

If I did celebrate Christmas, I’d definitely invest in some new LED Christmas lights. If you’re a Chicagoan, you can buy them at a discount from ComEd’s online store. Christmas lights are an ideal candidate for LEDs. Here are five reasons that have nothing to do with “saving the earth.”

  1. LEDs are naturally colorful. It’s only recently that a good white LED was created.
  2. Christmas lights are left on all the time. LEDs consume about 1/8th as much electricity as incandescents.
  3. Christmas lights don’t actually need to illuminate a room. LEDs aren’t actually that bright.
  4. They run a lot cooler than normal lights in case you’re putting them next to something flammable like, say, a tree.
  5. These days, they’re basically the same price as standard incandescent Christmas lights.

So there you go.

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