Colors

Hello.

I've been thinking about colors lately. Well, for a day or so now. First of all, the video about how birds see. Ok, seeing is weird. And complicated.

At this point I'm going to let you know, that I don't really have one big idea about this, but many small ones, so I might jump from one thing to another so that they don't actually have anything to do with each other.

Also not seeing is weird. Not seeing colors, that is. I would explain how most of the people who can't separate green from red are men cause the gene is in the X-chromosome, but I assume you already know that.
It's also weird how, apparently, some (=half, according to Wikipedia) women actually have four kinds of color receptors in their eye where people usually have only three, because there are two alleles for the receptors, and if you have two X-chromosomes (yes, it's one of those too) you can have both kinds of receptors. So technically your eye would be capable of distinguishing more colors if you have those, but I'm not sure how it practically works.

Did you know, that there is a word for the science of color (I didn't even know there is such thing)? It's called chromatics, chromatography or colorimetry. So, yeah.

Ok, here are some colors from the last few days:

Red.
Something bit me in the ankle when I was in the woods. It left a really nasty huge red itchy spot.
(Itchy is another thing I was thinking about writing today - we had a brief conversation yesterday evening while brushing teeth about why you can't tickle yourself. The answer is: no one knows. Or if it isn't and you can find one, please let me know.)

Purple.
I decided I want to make a pair of pants, and I want them to be dark purple. The only problem is that the stupid dye won't stick to the fabric well enough, so it just ends up an admittedly really nice purple, just not dark. At all. Even though I put in twice as much dye as I should.

Brown.
You know, Easter. Chocolate that I didn't get. Only one small egg. We don't even have Mignons, because dad couldn't find them in a shop (oh, right, I'm still here with them, fighting with the fabric). We do have mämmi, though.
Also the color of mom's car after driving back and forth on soft, small, muddy roads. She made dad wash it.

Green.
The new color of our little sister's rooms' walls. Your room, on the other hand, looks like this now:

 



They had to put the stuff somewhere while they painted, I guess. I wasn't home, because I was in the woods. Which was also green. And so is the ground. The trees aren't quite yet, though.

Blue.
The sky. The sun has been shining here for a few days now. Also the lakes, cause the ice has melted.

On a side note, Aatu just got home and the first thing he said was "Dunkin' Donuts is coming to Finland." So that's... great? Why would anyone want Dunkin' Donuts? The Finnish version of donuts is so much better than the American one.
And now he's distracting me by starting to watch Myth Busters.

Orange.
I dyed my hair again. Also burning coal is orange, and we obviously saw some of that last weekend. You know, after the wood has burned and there's just coal left.

What basic colors do I have left? Yellow, black and white? Hmm... I've got nothing for those, I think. But colors are cool. And fun.

Now I want some of the ice cream he's eating next to me. Bye.

~matu