Comments on: Nipping it in the Bud, Part II http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Irene Delse http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19117 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:45:22 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19117 Eek! So, people kept whining about the pink header, so our host replaced the old quiet, classy blue background by a sickly pinkish hue, that’s it?

Way to go, people. Way to go.

Now excuse me, I’m gonna wash my eyeballs. They hurt. ><

]]> By: Shrike58 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19116 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:15:07 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19116 To JS; thanks for reminding people that this is a contest and not a cakewalk. Obama will thank Hillary for being such a meany later when the GOP fires up the old noise machine.

]]> By: Andy Wilton http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19115 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:27:31 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19115 I’ve just dropped a grab of this page (from IE) into PhotoShop, and the numbers for the background are:

Darker stripes – R = 239, G = 214, B = 210
Lighter stripes – R = 245, G = 222, B = 216

Both have a 12% saturation.

Conclusion? Obama supporters would say that it’s clearly red, and the B and G channels should concede before they make the page look bad; while Clinton supporters would argue that it’s basically grey, and even a tiny swing could push it over into cyan.

Of course, the real litmus test is to ask an 8 year-old boy if he’d be prepared to wear something that colour. I don’t have the equipment for that experiment right now (time difference, school hours etc) but I’m pretty sure it would come out as, “Err! Pink! No!”

]]> By: An Eric http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19114 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:09:23 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19114 Arterial, blood-clot red? I’ll grant you that it’s not that far off from the color of Klingon blood in Star Trek VI. So, you know, maybe on some planets this color is “arterial.” But it’s not red. Red is a primary color. This thing on my monitor is pastel. Could be pink, could be dusty rose.

John, are you having monitor problems again?

]]> By: Paul http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19113 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:57:50 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19113 I can’t believe we got all the way to comment number 66 before someone mentioned the egregious pun in John’s post. If I’m not mistaken, slipping that in (heh) was the entire reason he wrote this entry.

]]> By: Paul "Good thing Whatever is not censored in Saudi Arabia" http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19112 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:26:59 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19112 I’ll bite : its ….light blue on my monitor. Or did M. Scalzi just happen to change it this morning ?

Having said that, I’d like to point out a bit of recent French history as a counterpoint, or a parallel, or parable, to the debate.

Granted, we French have no history of primaries. But this year, our Democrats (the Socialiists) had at least 3 candidates they couldn’t choose from, so they primaried it … long and protracted battle which our Hillary (Segolène Royal) and our Bill (François Hollande, no really, they where together, and he was Party Boss to boot) won. After tiring the whole country with empty retoric, and fighting it out nastily in public.
In the end, even though everyone was tired of our own Republican president’s 10 year tenure (the UMP and Jacques Chirac), at the general election his easily nominated, wildly differently styled, successor (Nicolas Sarkozy) won the presidency hands down.

So my prediction is this: Hillary will win the nomination, loose the election to John McCain, she will then divorce Bill, McCain will divorce his wife and remary Tyra Banks.

]]> By: JLR http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19111 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:14:37 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19111 I’m not seeing the whining out there, but regardless, I’ve lost the faith…. the man who publicly calls it red, when it’s pink has lost all executive judgment. No longer fit for presidential posts, I say. This said, however, his Ohioan support for Obama may be evidence Scalzi is indeed color blind.

]]> By: Chris B http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19110 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:42:51 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19110 “It’s massive, arterial, blood-clot red.”

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

]]> By: Soni http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19109 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:59:50 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19109 I don’t know what any of you are talking about. It’s massive, arterial, blood-clot red.

(employs Jedi hand wave)

Well, maybe, if that blood happens to come from Jedi SugarBuns bleeding out into a big bowl of fresh cream.

Dude. It’s pink.

]]> By: crabby lady http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/05/nipping-it-in-the-bud-part-ii/#comment-19108 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:24:31 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=459#comment-19108 It may BE red, but it LOOKS pink.

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