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After the dust settled a bit AC decided in all its wisdom to give us new CP-pages. To revive the spirits a bit methinks. Or just to give some staff something to do. I don’t know for sure what goes on in Denver Colorado, except that it has mountains and Mountain-time instead of normal time. Perhaps their hours are a lot longer than the rest of the world and so they find themselves staring at the walls at times, and boredom sets in.

Instead of going on social websites (which are designed for people who have time on their hands) or playing games like Monopoly, AC has so-called “thinking-corners”. These are designed for the staff who have nothing to do.

While the rest of the AC-office walls are covered in awful floral wallpaper which dates back to the Seventies, these “thinking corners” are designed by Interior Designers. You wouldn’t say so, though; because the floor is strewn with beanbags; also sad left-overs from the Seventies. The walls are in yellow for as one Designer pointed out: “Yellow is the color for activating the brains according to Feng Shui”.

So the plan to change the CP pages was hatched on brown bean bags and in a canary-yellow environment.

This lengthy introduction is to emphasise how deeply AC cares about all of us.

The first CP-page try-out wasn’t what we had in mind. So the staff was sent back into the corner and sank back on the beanbags to ponder. Soon the brain-activating yellow started to work. It worked so well that everybody forgot to go home and worked right through the night. A Psychologist was called in; not for the staff of course. But for us.

While the staff, now completely hyper thanks to the all the yellow, was hopping up and down the Psychologist had to choose the colors for the new CP pages. Not stupid either, at $300 per hour he took his time.

Unfortunately there are only so many colors under the rainbow and by now An Important AC- Person had started counting how much the whole color-scheme was going to cost. And even on Mountain-time it was quite a bit.

It was difficult: A red background was too romantic and would send out the wrong message. Green looked as if AC was part of an environmental group; while black was too gloomy. Charcoal grey was wiped off the table because “it said nothing” and cream looked too much like a wedding-invite. My suggested (tasteful an sophisticated)border of  vines were thrown out because” what on earth has that to do with articles?” And nobody wanted smileys on top of the pages.

The Psychologist finally looked up; a twinkle in his eyes.

“A crisp white background is needed. This will tell outsiders that  your CP’s are innocent as driven snow. Almost virginial I would say. In this world that’s so rare that it will be picked up immediately by outsiders.

And I would add some light-blue. This will subconsiously say: the sky is your limit. Blue is also a soothing color and very natural. Yes, together with the white it will give the impression of sky and puffy clouds. It will radiate calm.”

One staffer started to say that it also looked like a washing-detergent commercial and another said that too much white could make CP’s snow-blind. Which was highly undesirable; you can’t have a writing-site with tens of thousands dreamy snow-blind writers.

After a hot debate the decision was made: The CP-Pages will stay in white/blue, but we’ll send everybody a pair of expensive sunglasses and a can of bright yellow paint. Of course this was the best solution to the problem.

However, there are a couple of snags: 1. There won’t be any notification about it  in the threads. Instead  you’ll come home one day to find a UPS-package containing  1 can of yellow paint and 1 pair of sunglasses on your doorstep without a return-address.

2. You’ll have to do the painting of your walls yourself. AC is busy with other stuff and doesn’t involve itself in manual labor. Only reading articles.

So that’s the full explanation behind the white/blue combination of the new CP pages.

I think. I haven’t heard a better one yet. PM me if if you do.

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