Very nice, but beige and about the total size of my whole house.

Kitten with that optical illusion:

My first thought was "Arggg down-lighters!"

The world's most inefficient, expensive and impractical lighting. The work surfaces (left and right) there would be unusable because of the shadow of your own head. A classic example of form over function.

Strip lights on the other hand have been around for a very long time because they work perfectly. And they're cheap, because you only need one. Unless your kitchen is huge.


That's brilliant.

Not really. Any (small) amount of light you block is made up by the lights under the cupboards.
You'll only block out a lot of light if you're 8 foot tall and have a huge skull. All those surfaces are very reflective, which'll help.

Strip lights were brought forth from Satan's rectum.

There are no lights under the cupboards on the left and right, where I indicated.

Sure it's possible to fully illuminate a room with Satan's Nipple's, but you need about 100 of the damned things. If you use halogen, then that's enough electric for a small city. If you use LED then they cost a fortune, and it already costs a fortune just to install all the fittings all in the first place.

Strip lights are elegant, simple, cheap to install, cheap to maintain and provide largely shadow-free bright illumination which is a pleasure to work in.

In some other parallel dimension. I [LIFTED] hate the things. Ugly, clunky, cheap and give a horrible light.

Strip lights work for me too. I want almost instant bright light, not expensive, shadowy nonsense. If I wanted that I'd light a ridiculous candle

As a result women tend to hate the things

I dunno about anyone else but generally if I'm cooking or preparing food I'm not leaning directly over it. I tend to stand away from the work surface so downlighter illumination wouldn't be a problem for me.

Still think it'd look better in white, even given that takes a bit more cleaning.

Taking quotes out of context





http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news ... ng-issues/

Uber-geeky comic:

First look: Spotify Web Player

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... er-1136057

There are now LED down-lights which are spectacularly efficient. You can replace each 50w bulb with a 3 or 4 W LED equivalent. My bathroom had 4 halogen spots each 50W which I have replaced with 4x3W LED.


It is interesting that they can see the same effects.

It's Hatsune Miku Day. Apparently, somehow Mi/Ku = 3/9 in Japanese. They do their dates backwards, like the Americans.

This amused me because the last post in the Youtube thread is... Miku

I wonder if the date thingy is a result of the US occupation?


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I have no idea. I suspect it's a random fact of language evolution, the same way Yoda at the end his verb puts.