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[elainegrey]

Perplexing things

* Weatherunderground has calculated a 2% chance of rain for this evening with 0% cloud cover.
* Is this dress navy blue or black with a blue cast?
* Does anyone ever notice when one wears black sweater and shoes with a really dark blue navy dress?

From the wikipedia page on Navy Blue, 'The Canadian Forces Dress Instructions specify that, " 'navy blue' is a tone of black".'

* Received a confidential email message that included a link to verify my identity. After a couple of clicks the system lets me know that the server that i was connecting to has an untrusted certificate. (This is apparently the Microsoft cloud email solution's active directory rights management software.) I was grabbing screen images of the cert which mostly looked legit when i received a new message from the same sender prefaced with "Resending without restrictions to enable viewing."

Comments

[amaebi]

Koreans will notice when one wears black sweater and shoes with a really dark blue navy dress. I don't know whether that would put it on the naughty list, though.

[elainegrey]

My mother sure would!

I'm trying to unlearn some of her rigidly observed clothing rituals. Although, if i move back east, maybe i will need to relearn them.

[zlabya]

I say if you can't tell the difference between navy blue and black, particularly for clothes, no one else will. Weird, though, to hear navy described as "a shade of black" when IMHO there's no shades to black; it's absolute. Though there is a sort of pale black/darkest charcoal gray when you wash and dry a black item many, many times.

So many suspicious things sent via the Internet. I had one claiming I was being called into court. Nice try, people, but one word was spelled wrong and I know the gov'ts still send all that stuff via snail mail.

[elainegrey]

I have saved the recording of a voice mail from someone with a near indecipherable accent calling, claiming to be from the IRS.

I too found "shade of black" to be ... odd.