Two Nerds do Christmas

Well it is that time of the year again; Christmas. Lights, trees, candy canes and... a nerdy flare!

Our first Christmas in Florida we found ourselves in need of a tree. While live trees may smell nice, we have candles for that, and decided to go the route of artificial. At Walmart we looked at some pre lit Christmas trees and others which had no lights. but the one we settled on was a 32 inch fiber optic, for a whopping.... $12.88! It glows through the colors of the rainbow and is just the right size for our apartment.

Over the past 2 years we have collected a myriad of ornaments, most of which are from some of our favorite movies (I apologize for picture quality...)


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Star Wars

 

Indiana Jones

Other more "traditional" ornaments

Well, as with any Christmas, there has to be a little drama right? Well... one of our Star Wars ornament's has raised some eyebrows. If you've been watching Star Wars since the very original movies you might remember  George Lucas's decision to change the scene in the cantina where Han and Greedo have the conversation about Jabba's money.  Originally, Han didn't wait for Greedo to fire a weapon. Being a bit of a rogue, he shot him first to save his skin. 

Well, Lucas changed that in later versions of the movie while adding in extra scenes and tweaking the graphics. In the new version, Greedo takes a shot (and presumably he is a terrible shot despite being a seemingly seasoned bounty hunter) and then Han shoots him.

When we first posted a picture of the ornament, and mentioned it talked through the scene, the question immediately came up, "does Han shoot first?" Admittedly, while we had listened to the ornament before, we hadn't really listened to it, so we checked it out to be sure, and then proudly posted that this lovely ornament followed cannon and Han, did in fact, shoot first. 

 I look forward to doing a follow up post later about who gets added to the tree this year. If you enjoyed the start of our Christmas tree (yes start, we intend to continue to nerd it up) You should also check out this article and see the trees some of our fellow nerds came up with. rather amusing: Geeky Christmas Trees [Pics]