Hmm. Good point.

Timelies all!

Went to see Christine Lavin at the Ram's Head in Annapolis last night. Fun show, as always, and she hugged me.(I guess she's seen us enough at her shows to feel comfortable hugging us, even if she doesn't always remember our names)

You can definitely make an argument that he's dead.

Argh, so much to do today. Mostly because I did so little yesterday. And what I did do...I'ma have to repaint that wall. Not that I fucked it up, but the color, which is beautiful soft buttery yellow in natural light, has shown an alarming tendency to go all YELLOWYELLOWYELLOW when the lights are on. So I've got some other paint that's a few shades lighter and I hope it will do the trick.

But my sister's friend Ryan is coming with her tonight now, so I have to get this place company presentable before they get here. Yikes.

Brenda, it might be possible to try different lighting positions (torchierre vs center of the ceiling) and/or lamps (bulb, to most people) with a different color temperature. The ones that are marketed as true white (the bulb itself looks slighty lavender) won't make the warm colors pop as much. Compact fluorescents are usually a cooler color temp than the traditional incandescents, too.

has shown an alarming tendency to go all YELLOWYELLOWYELLOW when the lights are on.

You could put in blue or green lightbulbs instead of white....

eta: or, you know, listen to aurelia's answer, which is actually sane....

You could put in blue or green lightbulbs instead of white....

Hee. Now I want to start into my lecture about color theory and the primary colors of light vs the primary colors of pigment.

Lucky for you I need to go to work.

So when I stay in bed too long (the cats were being so cuddly,) I have nightmares about plumbing disasters. It's become a theme. Weird.

Anyway, laundry is sorted and I'm about to head out the door for the day.

ION, occasionally you hear scientists talking about how for the last 50-ish year, episodes of I Love Lucy have been radiating out into the cosmos for any intelligent beings out there to see. (And yes, for some reason these scientists always mention Lucy ). Well, by any technology we posess, the range of television reception would be fairly short, like maybe a few lightyears.

It’s possible to run these numbers against a new facility, the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) now being built in Europe for radio astronomy work. At VHF television frequencies, LOFAR will have an effective collecting area similar to that of the Arecibo dish. Says Shostak:

That’s big. That’s brawny. But not brawny enough. In our SETI experiments at Arecibo, we could find a signal if it were about 0.1 million million million millionths of a watt per square meter. That number, you will notice if you count up the words, is a million times bigger than the “I Love Lucy” carrier at 55 light-years. The aliens’ LOFAR would be inadequate to detect the broadcast by a factor of a million, a not entirely negligible amount. Simply stated: LOFAR couldn’t hear it.

I'm disappointed. But I hold out the hope that aliens would come up with a far-superior interstellar TV reception technology, so there will be aliens out there contemplating how lame I Love Lucy is...

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I am making a lemon pound cake and a chocolate bundt cake for the shower tomorrow. I am garnishing the lemon cake with lemons (way to use that imagination there, Aims). I wanted to garnish the bundt with raspberries, but the ones I'm finding are either a billion dollars apeice or sketchy looking.

What are some other options? Kiwiw, maybe? Or chocolate chips?