🚀 go-pugleaf

Am I the only one who is dissatisfied with these cheap "Midget Lights"
which have taken over Christmas in the past few years?  Doesn't anyone
remember the big classics?  This brings me to two questions which may
or may not have anything to do with this newsgroup.

1.  My parents still have their giant blinking Christmas tree lights
which are probably a couple of decades old.  You know the kind- they
are almost as big as "outdoor lights", but they are translucent (not
frosted) in various colors and they all blink independently, probably
by means of a bimetal bar in each one (it takes several minutes to
warm up before they blink and they all start independently.)  The
problem is that they are burning out one by one each Christmas and
despite desperate searching, we can't find where they are being made
anymore anywhere.  Has anyone seen these at all?

2.  Has anyone experimented with custom or computer controlled
light strings?  How would you go about independently controlling
lights on a string without having a monster thick cable?

- Kurt
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