'March of the Dancing Electronics' lights up our lives at Christmas (and all year long).
Jerry L. Comer, Comsat-RSI

In the spirit of Christmas, Microsoft kindly left the decorative dreaded blue Screen of Death out of their beta 1.0 of Jingle Windows.
John Anthony, Shenorock, N.Y.

Breaking news: Santa upgrades with fire. Rudolph reported to be next in line for upgrade.
Darrell Newton, Pressco Technology

After years of using pen and paper, Santa finally finds the value of multitasking software.
Don Swaab, Inrange Technologies; and Jim Randazzo

Even the look is hot, but what do you mean this isn't the Firewire you were asking for?
Anthony Vu, Motorola Inc.

Santa dons his all-purpose, handy-dandy, flash memory utility belt.
Mike Harris, Avant! Corp.

Santa's first attempt at delivering an IEEE 1394 Firewire capability for all the kiddies' PCs.
Mark Klemkosky, Intel Corp.

Look at all those value- added services featured on the front of this distributor's Holiday Product Line Card!
Bill Kuehlewind, Digital Devices Inc.

Oh no! Santa's online order-processing system has gone down, and the IT staff have spiked the punch at the company Christmas party!
Steven Robinson, Adaptec

'Twas the night before Christmas
when all through the house,
Every creature was stirring
including the mouse.
The children were singing
and Gramps sort of led,
While visions of eggnog
danced in his head.

When out on the lawn
there arose such a
clatter,
I sprang from my desk
to see what was the
matter.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But Santa Circuit
(a cool engineer).
Then up on the housetop
his tiny elf flew,
With a sack full of
goodies,
and a mule-deer, too.

Santa spoke not a word
but went straight
to his work.
He checked all the circuits
and then turned with a
jerk.
I heard him exclaim
as he went down the
road
'Merry Christmas to all
and don't overload!'
Gerard Drewe, General Dynamics

Don't worry, all our
greetings are fully Y2K compliant.
Yi-Hsien Doo, Texas Instruments Inc.

Let's party! Y2K is still a year off.
Joseph M. Kusmiss, Mitre

As Santa installs a home network for Candy, he ponders the benefits of Lucent's wireless BLAST technology after experiencing Firewire's hot-plug feature first hand.
Glen Sescila, National Instruments

Borrowing from Intel, Santa adopts a Christmas Everywhere strategy.
David C. Barber, San Diego Techwriters

ASIC clause: Adaptable, sincere, industrious chief with experiences in circuit, logic, analog, microprocessor, switching engineering.
Kin Mar, Hughes Space and Communications

Everybody and his brother is into GUI interfaces these days.
Team EETnet: Don Swaab and Jim Randazzo

North Pole: Y2K Alpha Test, stop recording.
Paul McWilliams, PMC

While searching through Christmas database, a discovery was found of a Santa impersonator plotting to delete Christmas list.
Kari Hansen, Intercon

Even with all the hoopla surrounding the latest operating system upgrade, having too many windows open can still cause the processor to overheat and start an electrical fire.
Jon Sawyer, Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center

Another Claus in the Direct3D lighting model.
Thomas W. Fox, IBM

Looks like Santa's elves are firing up the power grid for his landing lights... Oops! Someone appears to have forgotten their lockout procedures...
John Vandermeer, Motorola

To save printing cost on our own countdown calendar, the project deadline has been moved back to December 24th.
-Management
Scott Miller, Intel

You better not shout, and you better not play, because the inadequately designed heat-sink demons may be coming your way.
Daniel O'Brien, North American Capacitor Co.

Hey Kids, Welcome to my home page, 'SANTA BAY.' All the Christmas gifts are displayed online this year. Register your name and make a selection ASAP....
Kishore Srirambhatla, Qualcomm

Firewire's new ELPH (Extended Links for Peripherals in the Home) standard is certain to brighten any home for the holidays.
Rick Bahr, Silicon Graphics

That's CHESTnuts, WATER CHESTnuts over an open fire!
Wayne Boese, Escalate Networks

A classical example of Santa getting flamed on the Winternet.
Andy Turudic, Triquint Semiconductor

Santa's workshop adopts con-CURRENT engineering techniques.
Mark Troeller, Silicon Graphics

Ho, Ho, Ho, you can download chorus choir, snowman, Christmas gifts and even Santa through the wonderful Internet!
Jackson Leung, Nanya Technology

Due to continued government downsizing at the North Pole, Santa lost his sleigh allowance and Rudolph et al was replaced with a brown nosed-mule deer named "Starr-Tripp."
Watson Kilbourne, Compugraphx

Santa performing an electrical load test on his new home.
William Sheehan, Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems

Sun and AOL celebrate while Microsoft tries to pull the plug.
Steven L. Comee, Boeing North American

With visions of amazing graphics, fabulous audio, lots of extra goodies, very satisfied users and warm, friendly sales people, software venders prepared for the Christmas buying rush.
Mike Kolb, Tano Corp.

OK, boys and girls, that's how electricity works. Tune in tomorrow to learn how Bill Gates and his buddies invented the computer operation system.
Joe Hurley, Siemens Westinghouse

When you told me this would be a multi-clause contract, I had no idea. . .
David G. Holm, Joint Software Development

'Twas the night before Christmas, and the motion of a mouse, opened browsers windows singing, "EE TIMES TO ALL, TONIGHT."
Skee (John W.) Derr, AMP

As Santa ties the Firewire knot for AOL and Netscape, the large LCD panels behind him start to display joyous celebration scenes for the merger.
Luen Lin, Argosystems Inc.

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