I should’ve known I’d get myself into trouble. I was hoping to pick up a little extra money because there’ve been all these unexpected expenses like food and those roller coaster seeds I’ve been trying to grow in the front yard. Anyway, I took a contract bit where I just have to work up a name for a newly-invented color, which I figured I could toss off in a moment, the way someone decided that “Cornflower” could be a color.
Anyway, what they want is a word for the shade of orange you get when someone built a community college in like 1971 and put bright orange carpeting all over the walls, because that was something that seemed normal in 1971, and then it’s still somehow up there in 2013. Sure, you know the color I mean from that description, but what are we supposed to do if we need to describe that quickly? Worse, what are people doing with that color that they need it described in a word?
I should’ve taken a temp job making JSON do that thing where you get error messages from your web browser instead.
[ Unrelated: WordPress tells me I’ve now got 250 people following this blog. Thanks kindly to each of you, and I hope that you’re enjoying the occasional glance around these parts. Please feel free to introduce yourselves to one another as there’s a fine student lounge with an indescribable orange-carpeted wall available. ]
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I find that color to be on par with the shade of tan George Hamilton sports. So, why not call it “Hamilton Orange”?
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Let me check my color swaths. You’re not afraid of it getting mixed up with William Rowan Hamilton, the 19th century Irish mathematical physicist?
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I’m going all in and say “probably not,” however you never know. That color of orange does attract the most unusual of people.
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THE William Rowan Hamilton? cohost of ” Rowan & Lighton’s Irish Math-in”?
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That’s the fellow, although I admit I really only watched that show for the poems by Arthur Cayley.
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