Poe's law. I'm honestly not sure if blahface is presenting a clever parody of a parochial village-idiot (because surely no one could possibly this dumb) or if he is one (because people can always surprise you.)
Pretty sure it's parody. I wish I could algorithmically explain why I'm certain of this... but let's just stay that the feature vector here gives my neural network 99.9% confidence that blahface's post was, in fact, a parody.
I think it's mostly the fact that he omitted the "g" in "learnin" in order to emulate hick-speak.
I'd probably be able to confirm this by analyzing blahface's post history... if only I cared enough to do so.
Many people were used to the slightly yellowish light of incandescent bulbs and feel that CFLs look "unnatural." The above is a comparison between different kinds of bulbs, particularly concerning the color temperature of the light and which bulbs look more or less "natural."
Here is a review of the Philips' Hue System of LED bulbs that you can change to any color you like using an Android or iOS phone app. It's a very expensive, but versatile system. The bulbs are $60 each.
I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.
And yeah, CFLs just can't produce anything with the qualitative value of a blackbody spectrum. Maybe it's psychosomatic, but the light really does seem "cold."
If (bootleg?) incandescents were still available at a time in my life when I have enough free time and discipline to have a good household maintenance routine, I'd be sorely tempted to switch from summer CFLs to winter incandescents.
Simon_Jester wrote:I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.
No, it does not. I heard that argument before, but people tested it and it just doesn't work. Hot air rises - thus, the best heater is one near the floor, the worst one near the ceiling as almost all its heat is lost. Now, where the lamps tend to be placed?
Simon_Jester wrote:I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.
No, it does not. I heard that argument before, but people tested it and it just doesn't work. Hot air rises - thus, the best heater is one near the floor, the worst one near the ceiling as almost all its heat is lost. Now, where the lamps tend to be placed?
On tables and some times on the floor but with a rather long rod to put them at table height.
It has become clear to me in the previous days that any attempts at reconciliation and explanation with the community here has failed. I have tried my best. I really have. I pored my heart out trying. But it was all for nothing.
You win. There, I have said it.
Now there is only one thing left to do. Let us see if I can sum up the strength needed to end things once and for all.
Wing Commander MAD wrote:I believe he is thinking of what are commonly called light fixtures, typically mounted on/in the ceiling, not table or floor lamps.
Where I live, heaters are on the ceiling and lights are on the floor
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
Wing Commander MAD wrote:I believe he is thinking of what are commonly called light fixtures, typically mounted on/in the ceiling, not table or floor lamps.
Yes, here, not only all are called just a 'lamp', the wall or table ones are in minority. Every room has overhead one, few have table and wall ones. And even if all of them did, if lamp is about head level, you still won't produce much useful, non ceiling warming heat out of it.
Alkaloid wrote:JESUS BUGGERY FUCK ITS HOT!
Here, in bad summer, that chocolate would need to start to smoke, then we could say it's hot
