h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is the Aroma Cafe, a haven for the tired and thirsty, and those in search of good conversation. Welcome in, for fine teas and coffees, excellent donuts and pastries, and our unbeating scrabble-playing blue Orangutan, Ook. Oh yes, and the life-like statue on the back porch.

*Makes a desperate lunge for the tape .*

double espresso please Lil .

*Stolls in slowly, looking at BS standing there gasping for air*
You are out of shape!
Caffe latte to go, please. I have to go now. See you tomorrow!

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BluesSlider slides in and gets his double espresso in a first-to-the-forum cup! *applause*

When I was test-driving my pet sloth the other day, (don't ask) I had her in Alabaster and discovered a small shortcoming about that interface. The dots, what I call LED's cos in goo they glow red and have depth -- behave differently. In goo, the LED's start to form a second row. In alabaster they don't! You have to resize the left-hand window in order to get at the end of the row. And the window springs back to default size as soon as it refreshes.

And so now I am warned by experience not to let threads get too long, or else it will inconvenience alabaster patrons...

*Waves weakly at the departing Bumblebee.*

*Decides not to plug the Classic Goo Fan Club just yet*
*Washes up and puts the v/_\3 on, and yes Lil, I'm really colour blind. Would I lie to you?*

Thanks Lil . I use Alabaster but I haven't paid much attention to the dots. Somewhere around here there is a whole discussion on them, I think some get them wrapped and some don't even in Alabaster. I've not had them wrapped though .

I'm trying to remember whether you were there for our discussion on web-safe colours, BB. Seems like ages ago. And no, you would never lie to me.

A thread has to be really really long for one to notice. I "drove" Mindspring to the banquet thread, which has now topped 700 posts, although it was down near 600 when "Springie" was there. As she had never posted to that forum, she was at the beginning, and it was when I looked for the latest LED that I had an unpleasant surprise.

IIEM, one Ook Special and one A L Special, please.
*again notices dirty bundle in corner hidden under newspapers* What IS that? *goes to broom closet* Bot, deal with that in the corner, please.

No , I think I missed web-safe colours discussions, and I'm not overly colour-blind, just slightly. It never bothers me. But then, I've never not been colourblind, so I don't notice.

*BS drains the last of his espresso.*

Right, that's me done for the day. Catch you later .

*stumbles in, looking very much asleep*
do you have any jolt cola? you do? good!
*grabs the jolt and collapses onto the sofa, half-asleep. takes a large drink of the cola. she appears to be much more awake now*
oh, much better

Do you just have red-green colourblindness?
Here you go, Ook.
Ook: Ook! *hand signals*
Out in the wood today? OK, have a good time. See you tomorrow.

*the bot approaches the bundle and extends a data sniffer, then suddenly ambushes it with dustpan and brush. The bundle disappears into the bot's innards*
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG. ZTT
*a clean and mended anorak is ejected out of the side panel of the bot, and lands on the floor neatly folded*
*the bot returns to the broom closet and pulls the door closed*

Red-green, mainly green-orange, and green-brown. Purple looks like Blue so I tell everyone that purple doesn't exist. Which it doesn't.

(Purple DOESN'T exist - it's a figment of people's imagination - the only colour is BLUE.)

If you keep that up you're going to knock the bottom out of the market for paintings by Rothko.

Color doesn't exist anyway. The way light bounces off of mater is picked up by our eyes and translated as color. There is no color in the dark, or from any other animal's point of view.( Well, there's probably a few species whose eyes react the same way.)It's all in our heads.

Easy on there. Most of h2g2 is in our heads.

If colour were only in our heads, how could we possibly agree about what colour is what, or even realise that there was such a thing as colour-blindness?

The bottom line is that matter has no color. It appears(to our eyes) that it does, and therefore we can all agree that it does and recognize when it is not present, but that won't give matter color.

What about transmitted colour?

Actually, matter has color, but the way that we as human beings see it may or may not be correct. What color is is the reflection of light off of a surface. Depending on the color, that particular color of light is bounced off the surface, while all the other colors are absorbed.

Color blindness is when your mind cannot process the bouncing color. So instead of seeing a blank, you see grey.

Oh. Whoops. Um... *jingle* Good morning all! Could I get a super strong coffee, please? *insert sheepish smile here*

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So it is a characteristic of an object that it reflects certain light frequencies?

*chews appreciately on one of Joanna's apple spice donuts -- speckly grayish brown on the outside*