4th Fun in the Sun 2015 Hooray

Well hello hello. I haven't been on in a while.  I figure its time to explore writing for a bit. I have a big day tomorrow with the kids. Fireworks, parade, concert, and good times with my kiddos.The heat is ridiculous. I'm sure it will hit about 100 degrees. Anyway gonna partake and hit the sack. Im up way too late again. Oh well. I hope to remember to update tomorrow.

Coupon Madness

I am really trying to get into the extreme coupons.  It is really alot to keep up with.  Does anyone have any advice to some good websites that are very informative and very thorough on sale match ups   I currently use about 15 sites, and as you can imagine it gets crazy.

Hunting Ancient Beasts Last Night

I had this crazy dream last night that I absolutely have to share with you.  So my DH has an uncle that is, well, a little off. We love him to death, but he is nuts.  I dreamed he took me hunting with knives.  I had this whole outfit on that had about 10 slots up and down the legs for knives.  These were small knives with curved tips.  I'm not sure if these exist or what they are used for, but I remember them very vividly.  

We were in this pick up driving to the hunting site through back bumpy roads.  He was explaining to me how to make the kill if I see anything.  An analogy was used that cracks me up now that I think about it.  He said, "When you see your prey, smash the can and toss it!"  Now let me explain this to you.  "Smash the can..." symbolizes the thrusting motion required when stabbing the animal with my knife. "and toss it." means to toss something on the animal to make sure it is dead.  What did I toss? I have no idea whatsoever. 

This is my theory.  I was watching a show on ancient beasts last night.  The show was explaining how the migration of early humans may have been one of the causes of their extinction.  One of the things they were showing was a group of about 4 men throwing spears at a buffalo. Apparently I am a hunter in the ancient times now!

Poo

            

Okay, I know its been a few weeks.  When I started this blog, I decided to keep it rolling at least 3 times a week, if not more!  Unfortunately, I have been hit with the never ending virus my kids got and felt like poo .  The weather here in PA has been jumping extremes and I don't know one household that has seen illness.  All I can say is that I cant wait for the summer!

Hooray, Rewards!

Brads Deals

Easy Rewards for online tasks, missions and purchases.  I just started this and usually use the site for online 

coupons.  I actually created an account today and was thrilled to find they have an amazing reward system.  

Anybody else use this sight?  How do you like it?  It seems fun so far, but im curious about your imput on the 

subject.

Flu Season

That Darn Flu

 So my family has been taking turns for the last week on having the “oh so fun” flu virus.  My daughter and I are the only two left out of five people.  I have been through four bottles of Dimetapp and NyQuil  two bottle of children’s Tylenol, and 1 bottle of ibuprofen.  As I call it “The Yuck is Loose!”, so make extra sure to take the precautions to avoid sharing or spreading germs.  It wouldn't hurt to stock up on necessary medications, as well.

Pink is a color, or is it?

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Is Pink a Color? 

MinutePhysics, a popular YouTube channel, posted a video a little while back saying that there is no pink light. This seems to have sparked a debate over whether or not pink is a color - an issue not really brought up by the original video. So, is pink a color? As usual, science is more complicated than you’d initially believe.

Since this is a physics blog, let’s go with the usual physical understanding of what ‘color’ is. Every color, effectively, is just a certain frequency of light. Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength, frequency, intensity, etc. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can visually perceive, approximately from 390 nm to 700 nm), it is known as “visible light,” a range which we breakdown as Roy G. Biv. 

There is no single frequency which our brains correspond to “pink” light. Then, how does pink exist? Effectively, pink is a combination of red and violet light - two colors from opposite sides of the visible spectrum. Since these two colors are literal opposites on the visible spectrum, pink could not exist as a fundamental frequency in nature (if you tried to average out the frequencies and “mix” them, you’d arrive at a color somewhere near the middle of the spectrum, around yellow or green). Thus, pink isn’t a fundamental frequency floating out there in space - a single frequency that we could call “pink” doesn’t exist.

Hold on Tumblr bro, Pink obviously exists, I see it on Nicki Minaj all the time! 

Yes, yes - what we perceive as Pink does exist on its own, but does that necessarily make it a true color? Will Pink be excluded from the highly exclusive Color Club much like Pluto was ousted from the Planetary Patrol?

Take a second to look around you, you’ll see tons of objects - probably many colored ones. When you look at, for example, a red object - that object absorbs all of the other frequencies except red, and it reflects red back to you. However, when you look at a pink object - you are not seeing pink wavelengths of light. An object would appear pink because wavelengths of both red and violet are being reflected - and our brains perceive it as a new “color,” namely pink.

On a very fundamental level, pink is not a fundamental part of the universe - because no color is. The universe is chock full of electromagnetic radiation, and the only truly fundamental properties of it are wavelength, amplitude, frequency, etc. Color is a phenomenon completely produced by your brain - it’s how we perceive the light. Even different animals perceive light differently than us - like certain animals that can see beyond the visible spectrum, including infrared light. As biologist Timothy H. Goldsmith wrote for Scientific American, “color is not actually a property of light or of objects that reflect light, it is a sensation that arises within the brain.” So, by existing only as a human means of understanding the universe, pink is just as “real” as any other color.

So, there you have it - pink is not a part of the light spectrum, it is the effect of our brains filling the gap between blue and violet, but does that make it any less of a color than anything else?
Let’s look at two common definition for what a color is - one artistic and one scientific.

Scientific Definition: The sensation produced by the effect of light waves striking the retina of the eye. The color of something depends mainly on which wavelengths of light it emits, reflects, or transmits.

Artistic Definition: Color is the element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
While there is no fundamental definition of color in all respects, personally, I’d say that pink fits both of these descriptions. Since no color is a fundamental property of the universe, pink does not exist as a part of the visible spectrum, but since all colors are just fabrications of our brain, I have to side with pink here. There are intelligent people on both sides of this debate, and one’s interpretation of definition seems to be how one decides whether to draw the line or not to exclude pink. Where do you stand?

 I found this here!

So lets hear what you think. Is pink a color?  I think so (probably just because it is my favorite).Either way there is alot of information in the article I find intriguing.  How about you?