So you think untangling your Christmas tree lights is tedious?
A group of programmers from an ecommerce development company called Scandiweb spent two months building and testing a 412-step Rube Goldberg machine – a World Guinness Record — that when finished with its 15 minutes of wackiness electrified the capital city of Riga’s Christmas tree.
Fear not, you don’t have to watch all 15 minutes, as this slick video boils it all down to about three:
The official’s dig at the United States near the end seemed somewhat gratuitous, but, hey, we’ve heard much worse from our … never mind, we’re in the Christmas spirit here.
And since today is National Christmas Tree Day, the good folks at Guinness have compiled a list of “10 terrific tree records.”
