A Little Blue… A Little Red…

I set up 8 scenes on the light board so we have something useable next Saturday night. I refuse to use what they call "chases" (a sequence of scenes with fade times and longevities) because you have to enter program mode to play them back. That's like opening a file with read/write access when you only need to read it; dangerous and just plain stupid. So in the event that the new one doesn't arrive in time, Lodin will be able to choose from 8 different scenes. But you can only switch between those scenes; no cross–fades. If you hit Scene 1, it changes to Scene 1. If you hit Scene 1 again, it turns those lights off. I would almost buy the argument that the scene selector buttons act as toggles. But then if you hit Scene 1 a 3rd time, not a goddamn thing happens. So much for the toggle theory. Do they only let the criminally insane design lighting controllers? Wasn't there something equally stupid on our Sunn board? Then think back to the TFLB (Tim's Fucking Light Board), which was the bastard offspring of the Black Diemond light board (sans funny name). They were boards—and I mean wooden boards—nailed and/or screwed together to form a sort of wedge, and they had light switches mounted to them. On meant on. Off meant off. TFLB was also covered with duct tape, most likely to make it look more hi–tech.