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Maybe not so bright an idea

[Saturday: 6 miles; today 3.5 miles]

I may have written about this before.  After a thousand or so of these blog entries I think I am allowed to repeat myself a little bit.

My wife showed me a picture on Facebook, it was kind of a joke thing, like most of Facebook is.  The caption was something about reusing doll heads to make nightlights and it showed an old fashioned doll head with light streaming out of the eyes.  It looked like a nightmare generator to me.

That reminded me of a lamp my sister had.  I don’t remember it giving me nightmares, but I wonder now why someone thought it would make a good soothing subject.

It was a “motion lamp”, the heat of the bulb made air rise and turned an inner liner. The outer part had a design like a forest with a stream and trees.  The effect was to make it look like the forest was on fire.  OK, so who had the bright idea of making a nice bedtime lamp that looked like a forest fire?

I did an online search and found a picture of her lamp, or something like it.  If that doesn’t work, just do a google search for Forest Fire Lamp and you’ll get a bunch.

Here’s a video (with someone talking in French)

 

2 replies on “Maybe not so bright an idea”

Funny, back then I didn’t see it as strange, just liked the way it was designed and how it worked. I do remember having to reset the inner barrel constantly as it would fall off the pin point if the lamp was jostled even a little. Fond memories…thanks, Chris!

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