I had a college friend, Rich, who graduated a few years before me and moved on up to the real world. He threw a party and a few of us went to attend. He’d picked up this fancy LED light fixture for free as a demo unit through work. It was behind his couch, aimed at the corner, and it cycled endlessly through all the colors of the rainbow. I asked him about it and he said it was crazyinsane expensive. You couldn’t buy them. I couldn’t buy one.  I frowned, my head lowered.  Anyone who remembers my college apartment on Union Street knows this shit is right up inside my wheelhouse – piloting.

Behold! The days of affordable trippy ambiance are finally upon us.  This came out a while ago overseas and I longed for it then, but it’s here now.  There’s a mini version for half the price, with no remote and 256 colors instead of 16 million.  I was going to say, who really needs 16 million colors and a remote, you lazy so and so, but I realized that one of those limitations in color range is the lack of dimming.  And I would definitely want to dim that mofo, for when it’s time… to get dim.  For watching movies and stuff!

The version I saw, lo, those many years ago, was a rather industrial looking flat panel of light emitting diodes inside a white metal box.  Fair enough, it was behind the couch.  This new 10 year old iMac speaker inspired form is neither here nor there for me.  It’s still going behind the couch as far as I’m concerned.

Jesus, the urge to 1-click this is strong.  I’ve been wanting something like this for nearly a third of my life.  How weird to think that college was a third of my life ago?  One thing this purchase has going for it, aside from it bringing me happiness in these interminable days sadness, is that the LED is incredibly efficient.  They last a long, long time.  The ROI is huge.  It’ll be smiling brightly and providing happiness in 16 million colors when I’m gone.  Wow, that’s morbid.  See, I need this lamp and the happiness it will bring.

Wow, happy 100th post everybody!