"The Dress"

Not since Monica Lewinsky has anyone cared so much about a blue dress.

So, in the aftermath, I was basically required to write a post. You know the history: someone posted a picture of this dress on tumblr, everyone disagrees about it's color. Now it's been featured on CNN and the New York Times.

the photo that created unnecessary conflict throughout the web

So, if you google it, you'll find something a little strange: the wrong answer is the most popular one. Yesterday on Buzzfeed, the split was 75/25 for "white/gold"vs. "blue/black". Of course, it's now getting around that "blue/black" is the correct answer, so the polls have shifted a little. A current poll for friday, february 27:

source: buzzfeed 

So, then I had to google a little bit more. How is it possible that everyone sees it differently? Well, it's called the Bezold effect. Here it is: the fucking Bezold effect

is this doing it for you?

Are you seeing some sort of crazy, otherworldly constellation of colors besides green, blue, magenta, and hot pink?

Here's another one:





I should probably credit "Rob-Birn", an art student at TCNJ who is graduating in 2018 , but I'm not sure if I will.

Some of these drawings appear more vibrant to me than their counterparts, but I get the feeling that there are people out there who are looking at these and seeing bizarre colors like white, yellow, or purple instead of green with varying shades of blue.

It seems that roughly 25% of people are impervious to the Bezold effect.

This includes Justin Bieber.

J. Biebs. That's his name now.

Note: this is the last time I will ever feature anything at all related to optical illusions. Judging by the fact that your response to some can diagnose you with schizophrenia, they are nothing but trouble.

My mother is a bitch (Tomatoes/Lead)

My mother is a fucking bitch. She's just a bitch.

She just is.

Want to know something cool?

People used to think tomatoes were poisonous. Don't believe me? You're too skeptical for your own good.

you need to trust someone

If you were constantly lied to as a child, or something, here is a link from the Smithsonian, backing me up: affirming link


Apparently there was a random lunatic by the name of Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson who thought he could just eat tomatoes. He is actually quoted as saying,

"The time will come when this luscious, scarlet apple... will form the foundation of a great garden industry, and will be... eaten, and enjoyed as edible food" (Paul, 2009).

Righhht.


So yeah, in the 1700's tomatoes were also called "love apples", and they were thought to be poisonous. In reality, they were only toxic because they soaked up the lead from pewter plates.


very bad idea, do not eat off of plates containing lead.

It turns out that in those times the rich were more likely to die of lead poisoning. Pewter was expensive, so the poor usually ate with wooden utensils.


Another interesting thing to note, Crystal is just glass... with lead.



at least 24% lead


Why are the rich so drawn to eating lead?

Pretty Cool Pictures (Microsoft Word)

What, you thought this website was about words? No. Here are some pretty cool pictures.

Oh fuck, you know what? It takes a lot of effort to link up pictures all day. Do you remember microsoft word? Do you remember how difficult it was to scale your pictures in microsoft word? Or to format things?

above: an MLA template with a header. Wasn't it fun having to mess around with all these settings, when you really just wanted to print out your book report on Huckleberry Finn?



The problem occurs because Microsoft word seems to think it knows better than you. You don't really want to create a formatted list, but sure enough as soon as you write "1. Tunafish" and then hit enter, Microsoft word will create a list for you lickety-split.


NEVER COME HERE AGAIN!!!!!



Clippy. If I could have reached into the computer and strangled him, I would have. There ought to have been a feature to silently kill clippy, and before you tell me, "oh, there was an off switch of some kind" let me say that I didn't want to turn him off... I wanted to kill him.

Clippy, riding in with his beady eyes and cocky eyebrows. When I was feeling lost, it was Clippy who was there to rub it in. "Would you like some assistance?" Er, no, Clippy, I wouldn't. If I wanted help, I would have asked for it.

Word Art was pretty sick, though.



above: my feelings about word art.

Sea of Nothingness (Mormons/90's ad styles)

I'm literally floating in a sea of nothingness.

Let's discuss mormon television.

Now, the point of this blog is to remember things about my past. Currently I live at home, doing nothing, seeing nothing, achieving nothing. I am in the dark. This blog is my chance to climb into the light. So, let's talk about BYU TV.

BYU TV is a tv channel (obviously) for mormons. How did I find BYU TV? Well, for some reason, I was feeling adventurous with the remote, and... there it was BYU TV. There were all these mormon kids sitting around, being super likable and mild.

The mormon comedy show is called "Studio C". Their logo is very similar to comedy central's. No one will accuse them of plagiarism, though. Mormons are perfect human beings.



They say Harvard business school attracts the 3 M's: Military, McKinsey, and Mormons.


This video led me to more information about mood rings, which led me to hyper color t-shirts, and that late 80's/early 90's video production style. You know, where they just sort of bombard you with random flashes of light, shapes, and sounds?

They just sort of attack you with all sorts of weird special effects. It's like, "high voice, low voice, INSANE GUITAR!!!!"

Just flashing all over the place, hyper color HYPER COLOR hyper color. Like they need to really get that shit in your brain. DO YOU GET IT? IT'S HYPER COLOR???





So, after that I basically wanted to have an epileptic seizure.