Alek's x-mas lights were a hoax!

[KeyserSoze]

Had me fooled!




KeyserSoze

 

[AgentEL]

cliffs notes?

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: AgentEL
cliffs notes?

For the last two years he set up a webcam so users could control lights during certain hours. He had this huge production, which let you view different zones of the house, and toggle the displays. This year, it got huge, and news of it got international.

Not really a big deal, but just sorta cool how he fooled everyone for two years, and that many people.

No harm done tho. Only an interesting story if you tried to access the lights, lol.




KeyserSoze

 

[Amorphus]

He says, in the first real paragraph, that his name is "Alek", not "Alex". The FIRST flipping paragraph.

Man-wench. :|

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
He says, in the first real paragraph, that his name is "Alek", not "Alex". The FIRST flipping paragraph.

Man-wench. :|

Huh? What does that mean? Yeah, I corrected it, but what is a "man-wench"?




KeyserSoze

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: KeyserSoze

Originally posted by: Amorphus
He says, in the first real paragraph, that his name is "Alek", not "Alex". The FIRST flipping paragraph.

Man-wench. :|

Huh? What does that mean? Yeah, I corrected it, but what is a "man-wench"?




KeyserSoze

wench

except a man.

 

[Amorphus]

It's all in good fun you know. I think you're a beautiful person on the inside.

 

[Oscar1613]

haha... anyone actually find the hoax more interesting than if it were real? 😀

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: Amorphus
It's all in good fun you know. I think you're a beautiful person on the inside.

haha.



KeyserSoze

 

[Shawn]

http://www.comcen.com.au/~here...mage_pancakebunny.html

 

[sharkeeper]

Text

Cheers!

 

[Koing]

Interesting.

Koing

 

[Goosemaster]

Your garage door is open

heh

 

[GeekDrew]

People like that make the *real* computer controlled christmas light folks look bad. :|

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
haha... anyone actually find the hoax more interesting than if it were real? 😀

I think the really stupid part is that this would not be THAT hard to do for real with off-the-shelf parts. He spent more energy making this hoax look realistic than he would have just buying a CM11A and setting up any of a number of free and cheap X10 apps that let you control modules via a web page and putting up some wireless webcams in your neighbors yard (which he did ANYWAY). Many have done similar things in their homes.

Why fake it when faking it is harder than doing it for real?

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Oscar1613
haha... anyone actually find the hoax more interesting than if it were real? 😀

I think the really stupid part is that this would not be THAT hard to do for real with off-the-shelf parts. He spent more energy making this hoax look realistic than he would have just buying a CM11A and setting up any of a number of free and cheap X10 apps that let you control modules via a web page and putting up some wireless webcams in your neighbors yard (which he did ANYWAY). Many have done similar things in their homes.

Why fake it when faking it is harder than doing it for real?

b/c he could😀