More Espresso Less Depresso

1) Figured this out.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

THIS IS SAPPHIRE

THIS IS TEAL

THIS IS PERIWINKLE

THIS IS AZURE

 AND THIS IS TURQUOISE

WONDER WHY THOSE ALL DON’T LOOK LIKE THE SAME COLOR? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 

OTHER THAN BEING PART OF THE SAME FAMILY OF BLUES, THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! WHY WOULD THEY ALL BE THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! DO YOU THINK WE JUST NAME NEW COLORS FOR KICKS!?!?!?

Images 6 and 7: various stones laid next to each other, in shades of blue and green.

Image 8: screenshot of the post showing all the images above are variations of the same gradient that this website displays when it has not yet loaded an image.

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

The oldest paint shop still running in Barcelona (Catalonia): Pintures Jordi, since 1923.

They sell modern paint and don't lack in technology (like the credit card payment terminal or paint-mixing machines and catalogues), but at the same time their shelves are 110 years old and their cash register machine is 160 years old.

The shop only has one worker, its owner Joan Jordi Romeu, third generation running this shop since it was founded by his grandfather Joan Jordi Ferrer. The shop was founded in 1923 and bought by Joan Jordi Ferrer in 1928. Back then, his grandfather sold varnishes and paint, but also hand-made perfume and detergent, and some food items. With the passage of time, they specialized in making and selling paint, at first always hand-made, and later with machinery.

The shop is located in the city centre, in Antic Esquerra de l'Eixample neighbourhood. The survival of old family-owned businesses is particularly hard in areas like this. As a result of gentrification and touristic massification, most neighbours have felt forced to sell their independent businesses to multi-nationals.