I finally got all my CDs organized

By Paul Barrett

It took about five tries, but I finally got my CDs organized by color. I know this isn’t the most original idea ever—there’s this and this, and then my friend Zach organizes his books by color, too. These are all books, though, is the key. I’ve never heard of anyone organizing CDs by color, so as far as I know I’m the first one to do it. Anyway, the reason it took me so long is basically I just didn’t really think it out beforehand, like there were some things I didn’t consider. I started out with white at the top, so that was super easy. My plan after that was since several CDs were very, very light yellow, I’d have the whites start to gather hue, and I’d shift subtly from white to yellow, and then I’d proceed logically from yellow to orange, orange to red, red to purple, purple to blue, blue to green, green to black. This, though, didn’t really take into account the fact that within each of these hues there’s also a variance in value, which basically kills any possibility of an aesthetically pleasing gradient, trust me. What you get is a hideous light-yellow to bright-yellow to orange to light-orange to pink to red to dark-red etc., and basically you’re just all over the place. In short it just wasn’t working out, but that didn’t stop me. NB I tried something else in-between this attempt and my third/final attempt but I can’t remember what it was. So let’s just say it didn’t work out, either. OK so it took me three tries, not five.

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Posted by The Better Blog on 07/17 at 09:00 AM
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