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I have too much time on my hands

I should be working, but noooooooo.

(Not to say that I don't have anything to do. I have lots of work to do. I just don't have the willpower necessary to actually do it.)

This is a test. A what? A test. A what? A test. Oh, a test.

This is a fnord. A what? A fnord. A what? A fnord. A what? A fnord. A what? A fnord. A what?

I think I have decided that there is one thing I believe in, one unifying force in the universe, and that force is purple.

Well, maybe a midnight blue.

Or a combination.

Where is the line, anyway? You get your dark purple, and your dark blue. When does one become the other?

I remember one time, I was playing this video game called ToonStruck. There was one part where you had to answer a series of questions, and the answers were the colors of various objects around the game. I tried over and over and never got it right. My perception of colors was totally different than what they thought it should be. I saw blue as purple or vice versa, red as orange as yellow as orange as red as yellow, and so on. I eventually had to call a friend over to look at all the items and tell me what colors they were.

He, of course, got them all right the first time.

Perception is odd. Colors are very odd.

I can easily imagine a society in which we would all have been brought up to believe that colors don't matter when distinguishing objects, but, say, location or texture are. If someone held up a red paper and a blue paper, we would say they were identical, or one was to the left of the other, and it would never occur to us that color was a valid distinction. Everything would be different. Computers and TVs might have a claylike surface that bulged in and out to show figures.

And you could tell an Asian person by their eyes and uniformly straight hair.

Oddness.

Lava lamps would still be sold, but not in the variety of colors we see today.

Now mind, people would see the color distinctions, they just wouldn't think them important. If everyone was totally colorblind, that would be a different world altogether.

I think some art could cross over easily. Sculptures. But probably not paintings.

Hmmm.

Ding!