-PotO quote: "Angel of darkness! Cease this torment!", the most random-sounding quote in the whole musical-
My dream was rather disjointed last night (like that's abnormal). The main thing I remember is taking those little "Magnetic Poetry" words and making them into the shape of a swan. I don't remember what I was actually writing with them, just that it was shaped like a swan's neck.
Why are power cords nowadays almost uniformly black? No matter how you look at it, it doesn't make sense. For instance, it cannot be that black is an unobtrusive color (for those people that dislike their power cords showing) since virtually no one actually paints their walls black. Or even very dark colors -- they're seen to make the room seem smaller, I suppose. So why did power cords shift from being all different colors (often white) to almost always being black?
It cannot be practical, furthermore, to have these BLACK cords sucking heat in either. Yet black, as we all know, is a heatsink. So why not make them white? Yes, on the electronic devices they're attached to, white is often not preferred, given the ease at which it dirties to an "unhip" beige, but cords are most often seen running against a wall or carpet, which, likely as not (especially in an unmodified track home) is an unhip beige. Perfect camouflage.
Unless, of course, the cord designers are like me, and actually like the cords to show. But in my experience, most consumers do not have a similar taste in industrial beauty.
Reality check. I've got five fingers -- do you?
6 years ago
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I used to be a decorator, and the amount of rooms I had to paint in magnolia (unhip beige) was horrifying. At the time I put it down to some vile, constantly mutating virus that had infected most of the British population - making their boring glands produce too much bland. Now it seems the virus is not unique to these shores.
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