It’s Official - I am Color Impaired (from: Ted Leung)
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Tonight was our biweekly meeting of the Bainbridge Island Geeks, a local gathering of software types on the island. We’ve been working our way through Josh Kerievsky’s “Refactoring to Patterns”, but we didn’t quite get to it tonight, in part because turnout was a little bit light, and in part because we got sidetracked onto other things.
One of the other things that I got sidetracked into was a long discussion and exploration of color settings on the Mac. Sarah was complaining about the differences between colors on Macs versus Windows and Linux, so Rick sat down to give her (and me, inadvertently) a lesson on computers and colors. During the course of the lesson, we ended up creating several color profiles for Sarah’s Powerbook. Sarah was switching back and forth between profiles, and she and Rick were commenting on the differences that they saw under the various profiles. I was watching along, but at a certain point, I just could not see a difference between the two profiles under consideration. I moved so that I was looking at the LCD straight on, and then I stuck my face quite close to the screen while Sarah toggled back and forth between the profiles. I just could not see any difference whatsoever.
Early on when we got married, Julie used to tease me about being color-blind. While I’m not color-blind (I can see colors), the whole experience has left me feeling “color-impaired”. My eyes seem to be lacking a certain amount of color resolution, because I just could not see what Sarah (and Rick) were talking about.