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Darkbeer1

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TP2000

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When I lived in Seattle in the mid 20th century, my neighbor Mr. Waasenaur worked at Boeing and his wife used to make these huge Christmas wreaths made out of IBM punch cards that had been used to create the 747 or whatever Boeing was building.

Mrs. Wassenaur would spend all autumn folding and gluing the IBM cards together and then spray painting them gold or silver with fake poinsettias or Christmas decorations hot glued into the middle of them. I was gifted at least two of them over the years and had to feign delight. They were godawful looking, yet somehow quite charming.

Decades later I am kicking myself for not keeping one of them! I just Googled the concept and came up with this image, which is pretty darn close to what Mrs. Wassenaur used to create for all us neighbors as some sort of weird act of neighborliness. She was partial to plastic Poinsettias as the accent piece, however.

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LastoneOn

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When I lived in Seattle in the mid 20th century, my neighbor Mr. Waasenaur worked at Boeing and his wife used to make these huge Christmas wreaths made out of IBM punch cards that had been used to create the 747 or whatever Boeing was building.

Mrs. Wassenaur would spend all autumn folding and gluing the IBM cards together and then spray painting them gold or silver with fake poinsettias or Christmas decorations hot glued into the middle of them. I was gifted at least two of them over the years and had to feign delight. They were godawful looking, yet somehow quite charming.

Decades later I am kicking myself for not keeping one of them! I just Googled the concept and came up with this image, which is pretty darn close to what Mrs. Wassenaur used to create for all us neighbors as some sort of weird act of neighborliness. She was partial to plastic Poinsettias as the accent piece, however.

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wow! Integrate some little baby LEDs in there now and it would be quite sparkly
 

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