Daily Wisdom and IMU are currently on hiatus.
Daily Wisdom
Notes for the day:
Maybe if I try black lights instead...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

I replaced the bulbs in my living room with some "daylight" CFL bulbs. This seemed like a good idea at the time.

I remember several years ago, when the Reveal bulbs came out, I tried a few of them. I liked how it looked, but I didn't realize how much they screw up colors under them.

So, to try something different, I thought I'd buy some "daylight" bulbs. They're called that because they have a different color temperature than standard bulbs that's closer to sunlight. Still not a bad idea yet. The problem comes from the different between daylight and regular incandescent bulbs.

You see, daylight has a color temperature of 6500K, which is almost blue, where incandescent bulbs typically have a color temperature of 2700K, which is almost orange. So now, when the lights are on in both the living room and my office, formerly known as the dining room, it presents a drastic difference. If I leave them on at the same time for too long, while sitting at my desk, it really does give me a headache since the living room is constantly in my peripheral vision.

And in the end, I'm not sure how funny this was, but I thought it was a important lesson about what NOT to do.

Comments
The technical term is...
Basically the "Color Temperature" is measured and defined in Lighting as a CRI (Color Rendering Index). It lets you know what things will look like in the type of light provided by the bulbs.. :-)
Posted: Sep 16th 2008, 11:26 by The_Montero
I'm only exaggerating a little.
Add a comment
Twitter Updates
  • @kezhound Chrome doesn't support it even for raw display of the feed.
  • I don't know how it happened, but there's a DW update today. http://wisdomfortheday.com
  • Posted a new update for DW tomorrow. Miracles do happen.
  • Finally got this week's IMU done, publishes Tuesday. It's a lead up to next week's, which has been done for about 2 weeks.
  • @chrispco The only one I've ever found worth touch was Photoshop (formerly part of ImageReady, but not in the newer versions).
follow me on Twitter
Creative Commons License  The Webcomic List  Top 100 Comics  Subscribe with Bloglines  Find us on Facebook  Get Daily Wisdom Banners!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
© 2007-2010 Jason Burgess
ComicRank.com