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Sick

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So, yesterday I had a really bad day at work - accidentally ticked off a few customers.  It was, in fact, the very first time I've had a customer call management to complain about me.  Thankfully, nothing came of it.

My usual tradition when I've had a bad day is to eat.  So I swing by Tesoro and grab some Dr Pepper and Bacon Cheeseburgers (I love me some bacon).  Now, I was feeling kind of sick all day - specifically, I was kind of shaky.  Not paying attention to this warning sign, and because I really wanted to eat, I cook up the burgers and chow down.

Biggest.  Mistake.  Of.  My.  Life.

Turns out that shaky feeling was the opening stage of the flu.  Oily foods and the flu do not mix.  I have now been paying for this mistake by attempting to eject my insides via profuse vomiting.

I don't know if I can look at bacon or a burger the same way ever again.  It's disgusting even to think about it.

-Nephy
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So, a couple weeks ago, my hard drive died.  Like an idiot, I had forgotten to backup most of my files.

Soooo....I have nothing to show for the time I was gone.  All of my work kinda went poof.

So, there you have it.  Life sucks sometimes.  I'll just have to start over.

In other news, I transferred departments at my job.  I now work in Electronics.  The lack of proper training and Black Friday looming on the horizon is stressing me the heck out, but I think I'll manage.  Whatever, at least I'm working full-time now.  Sure, I have less free time, but at least I can pay my bills.

-Nephy
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Well, I PLANNED on drawing some more stuff.  In fact, I've made some progress.  Unfortunately, I'm back to job hunting, so less time for that, now.

Anyway, I came across a not-so-recent article regarding the color pink (or, more specifically, magenta), and it got me thinking.  Here's the link:


So, the conclusion of this article is that magenta is NOT a color.  This is a well known "mind blowing" scientific fact that I see quoted all over the place (I first discovered it on TV-Tropes).  They go into a bit of scientific analysis, starting with showing the visible light spectrum, and demonstrating that magenta is not represented, and goes on from there.

It all sounds so amazing.  Magenta does not exist, it's just a construct of the brain to help us make sense of the world, and is just another sign that the universe as we see it is not---

What a second....

"""This means that colours only really exist within the brain – light is indeed travelling from objects to our eyes, and each object may well be transmitting/reflecting a different set of wavelengths of light; but what essentially defines a 'colour' as opposed to a 'wavelength' is created within the brain."""

"""So what does the brain do when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the light spectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light)? Generally speaking, it has two options for interpreting the input data:

a) Sum the input responses to produce a colour halfway between red and violet in the spectrum (which would in this case produce green – not a very representative colour of a red and violet mix)
b) Invent a new colour halfway between red and violet

Magenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b – it has apparently constructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such a colour does not exist in the light spectrum. Magenta has no wavelength attributed to it, unlike all the other spectrum colours."""

....

So color is, by definition, our brain's interpretation of light.  Light enters the eyes, and the brain says "That's _____ color!".  Red and violet light enter the eyes, and the brain says it's magenta.  That makes magenta our brain's interpretation of red and violet light combined.  So....magenta is not a color, how?

In other words: color is an invention of the brain; magenta is a "color" invented by the brain; therefore, magenta is not a color.  Because science.

So yeah, just wasted a couple minutes of your life.  You're welcome!  =D

-Nephy
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New Art Desk!

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So, a few weeks ago I finally went out and bought a proper artist's desk!

Wow, this makes drawing SO much more convenient.  No more fighting my computer for arm space!  No more hurting my back bending over a desk!  No more wondering where the heck my pencils and pens ran off to!

I understand this won't make me into some awesome art machine, but the convenience does make me more excited to sit down and actually draw and practice more often.  Hopefully, that will tell in the long run.

And if it doesn't.  If it turns out I really don't have the talent for this....it's a nice desk =D

-Nephy
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Artist Block

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I really hate it.  I get it so often I sometimes wonder if I'm really cut out for this.

Oh well, at the very least, I've managed to keep in the habit of doing my practice sketches every day, so I'm keeping in practice until my muse strikes me.

Anyone know a way to get the creative juices flowing?

-Nephy
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