the color beige

[beige_alert]

lisande gave me beige for the color meme. Wikipedia tells us that beige "originates from beige cloth, a cotton fabric left in its natural color." That's appropriate since I'm rather fond of undyed cotton. I have some quite nice "organic" cotton towels, beige cotton rugs in the bathroom, and a very nice soft fuzzy beige cotton blanket on my bed.

I've had a lot of beige computers over the years, though at the moment I seem to be all black, with my big computer in a black box with black-bezel LCD and an all black keyboard (no labels on the keys!). I had a white EEE-PC, now stolen, and now a mostly-black (with silver at the front of the keyboard) Dell mini-10v. Darn near everything in the lab is in a big beige box, though. Protein sequencing, DNA sequencing, time-of-flight mass spectrometry, ion trap, high pressure liquid chromatography, you name it, it's a big beige box.

Also, the universe is beige.