Window Flickers

Window Flickers	October 22nd, 2011
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Walking home past a tall apartment building, I saw some synchronized blue flickers in the dusk. I stopped for a bit and watched. Five floors apart, the light levels of two different apartments were moving in parallel. I wonder what it would be like to walk past a similar building forty years ago when there were only a few television channels.

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