Monday, October 15, 2007

Minutia

You suspect you've gone over to the dark side when you wonder if all of the guests at your son's "Yellow Submarine"-themed second birthday party will notice that the CDs you've burned as favors for said party are not all color-coded to match the party's theme ("...sky of blue, sea of green, in our yellow submarine"). You're pretty certain you have when you realize you've color-coded the words in the sentence you just typed for emphasis.

Damn the Memorex "Cool Colors" ten pack! Don't they know that black is actually an achromatic color that does nothing to make mixed CDs any cooler? You can't even write on them to identify their contents. So all they're basically doing is taking up 20% of what could have been a reasonable variety of colors that would bolster the cool factor at, say, a "Yellow Submarine"-themed second birthday party.

Oy! If it's this bad now, this kid's Bar Mitzvah is going to kill me altogether.