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Tag: Christmas
Dec 25 2010
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Dec 25 2010
Popular Culture 20101224: Doc’s Favorite Christmas Songs Updated
I was going to write on a completely different topic, but decided that some Christmas music would be appropriate, since I often write about music here. Most of the songs are either from my childhood or from comparatively long ago. I have no “new” favorite Christmas songs.
What I intend to impart is just this: Christmas is a legal holiday in the United States, but is also a time for people of any, or no, faith to come together and celebrate family and friends. I care not a whit if you are Jewish, Wiccan, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Shinto, Taoist, Buddhist, a believer in Confucius, or any other religion, or none at all.
In the United States, Christmas is recognized officially, for good or ill. If all of the great religious can agree about anything, it is good will towards everyone. With this in mind, please enjoy with me a bit of music that sort of makes the season for me.
Dec 22 2010
What’s In The Brown Paper Bag?
(I originally posted this item in December, 2009, at The Dream Antilles. This is a short story by Luis Ramirez, who was executed in Texas on October 20, 2005. My thanks to Abe Bonowitz for passing this story along to me. The story doesn’t require any commentary, and I’m not going to give any. It’s a gift to all of you for the Holidays, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s, Solstice, whatever holiday, if any, you may celebrate.)
Dec 13 2010
Pique the Geek 20101212: LED Christmas (and Other) Lights
One of the more revolutionary innovations in lighting is the Light Emitting Diode, or LED. This cutting edge technology was first discovered 103 years ago! However, only comparatively recently have LEDs been either efficient or cheap enough for wide use.
LEDs operate just like any other diode, allowing an electric current to pass, for the most part, in only one direction. They are built by placing into contact a P-type (positive) and an N-type (negative) semiconductor and passing a current from the N to the P materials. In the case of LEDs, when the electrons and holes recombine, light is emitted. In most diodes, heat is emitted. Actually, LEDs do produce some heat as well and this becomes important for reasons to be discussed later.
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