As the morrow shall see the winds of change come once again to flip the page of yet another season (i.e. fall's gonna start tomorrow), I feel like sharing with you something I learned this summer.
You know how when you turn a lamp on, you have to click it twice for it to turn on, and twice again to turn it back off. So annoying, right? Why do they keep designing them that way? Why not make it quicker and efficienter with just one click for the light to respond?
Well, my dear readership, this summer it suddenly hit me! Pow! Just like that! When I saw a box for light bulbs with three different wattages listed. And I remembered! "Oh yeah!" Just like that! I've been in the presence of lamps that have three different luminances, so you can pick if you want the room brightly lit up, if you want a calmer illumination, or just discrete I-need-to-see-where-I-am-going lighting. It's not the lamp systems that do that, Silly, it's the light bulb. And so there are four settings for the turny-switchy knob thingy: off>bright>medium>dim. But with normal light bulbs, there's only two levels of brightness for the whole circle, so they round the in-between settings: off>bright>bright>off. But they design the lamps that way to accommodate a variety of bulb styles.
It was quite a sudden revelation. You learn some every season…
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