The Dreamwidth Journal of zdashamber

I went looking for my Spicy Hermits recipe (the cookies that smell like ACNW! and that's a good thing) and it wasn't in the drawer, so I backed up to the Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip cookie recipe. It occurred to me, though, that unlike the Spicy Hermits recipe I think I only have one copy of the Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip cookie recipe, so it's something of a precious endangered resource. The answer is, of course, as it always is: put it on the internet.

( Recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies )

Homer: Come on, Flanders, there's gotta be something you hate. What about mosquito bites?
Ned: Mmm mmm! Sure are fun to scratch! Mmm! Satisfying!
Homer: What about, uhhhhh, fluorescent lights?
Ned: Oooh, they hum like angels! You're never lonely if you've got a fluorescent light!

I want to like fluorescent lights. Really, I mean, there's the living-lightly thing, and there's the not-burning-out-suddenly thing, and there's the freeging-politicians-jamming-'em-in-our-face thing. But they just suck. They create crappy light.

I've mentioned this to my friends some, and they're like "Oh, but those are bulbs you got from Ikea years ago! Things are advancing really fast!" But I've been doing a lot of research about light sources lately for an idea I have on backlit mouldings, and I can tell you that the trouble is: every single way to make light today that doesn't involve "heating something up" (ie, incandescents or fire) involves quantized light. We excite this thing electrically, and then it drops back down an energy level, releasing a packet of photons at a certain wavelength. Fluorescents have a vapor in them that glows at high UV energy, and coatings on the glass that are excited by that energy and then put out visible light droppings. EL, neon, LEDs, directly drop photon packets.

( So let's compare spectrums, shall we? )