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Ah, the change of the seasons! A dash of color on a landscape of concrete and leafless brittle trees! An opportunity for no snark at all.

Enjoy this, the habitual replanting of the flowers, with us.

Photo by Zach van Schouwen

See also: Spring, Sprung

March 27, 2008 @ 12:36 PM | Comments 29 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by Can I just say: #1 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM (from campus)
As a color-blind Columbia student, I find the color-based human verification test highly problematic. It usually takes me three tries to post a comment. Any chance that you might be willing to reconsider it?

Sincerely,

My mother was colorblind--I had no chance.
Posted by yes: #2 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 12:54 PM
I never know whether it's purple or pink or lavender or fuschia or whatever. It saddens me.
Posted by ZvS (Site staff): #3 (in reply to #1) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 1:42 PM (from campus)
We're looking into replacing it.
Posted by I'm sorry Bwog: #4 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM (from campus)
but I just don't buy the no snark thing. Maybe it is just me, but I find the whole spring thing here a little fake and depressing. I mean, one day, Columbia just plants all these flowers - doesn't it just seem like a sick, depressing comment on the artificiality of the whole place? I mean, it ties right in with the perfectly manicured lawns that we're barely allowed to go on.

So, please, let's be snarky about this, so that I don't feel sad.

p.s., I have the lavender color. purple?
Posted by color test: #5 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM (from campus)
could this pale color be yellow?
Posted by lover not a hater: #6 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:14 PM (from campus)
I LOVE FLOWERS!!!!

they brightened my day.
Posted by suggestion: #7 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:33 PM (from campus)
There are some captchas that use simple math problems to verify a human user.

For example:

"1 + 3 = ?"

And you input 4.

Even non-SEAS students could handle that.
Posted by CCer: #8 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:38 PM (from campus)
SEAS= smelly asians and people who couldn't get into top 10 engineering schools
Posted by #7 poster: #9 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM (from campus)
Jealous?
Posted by Antler Nova: #10 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:49 PM (from campus)
You must suck at acroynyms. That's clearly more than four words, and only the first word corresponds with the first letter. Do us all a favor and never attempt an acrostic poem
Posted by Commenter 1: #11 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 2:56 PM (from campus)
Thanks!
Posted by comments: #12 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:08 PM (from campus)
if you do change it, please don't make it the system where you have to read a garbled word. i hate those, and sometimes the words are impossible to read.
Posted by not true: #13 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:21 PM (from campus)
that's not true some people just dont want to go to umich, georgia tech, or cornell. they just dont have the same nyc thing goin on.
Posted by bah: #14 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:33 PM (from campus)
SEAS don't actually want to do engineering, has people noticed that most of them end up going into finance and medicine? So if any of us were serious about engineering we probably wouldn't have chosen here.
Posted by oops : #15 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:33 PM (from campus)
*SEAS kids and have people.
Posted by springer sprunger: #16 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:35 PM (from campus)
I love the angle on that photo. I was in the library when I first saw it and actually went to the window expecting to see a field of violents where South Lawn's nasty tarp used to be. I was a little disappointed when this wasn't the case, but it was small little moment of wonder when I thought it might be the case. Thanks Bwog.
Posted by Uhh: #17 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM (from campus)
yeah, and no computer could ever crack that captcha
Posted by ZvS: #18 (in reply to #17) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM (from campus)
Well, we don't get hit by terribly intelligent spambots. It'd be pretty trivial to crack this one too. It only picks from something like five colors, if I recall correctly; I implemented this freshman year, the details are a little fuzzy. There used to be more colors.
Posted by umm: #19 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 4:23 PM (from campus)
Jealous of what? SEAS kids transfer to CC all the time, but the opposite almost never happens.
Posted by wow: #20 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM (from campus)
seriously? are we back to freshman year? let's get over this CC vs. SEAS crap
Posted by I, too: #21 (in reply to #16) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM (from campus)
Was quite disappointed to not see a field of violents. I guess the closest we're gonna get was the crowd cramming to watch Ahmadinejad's speech. You know, someone in the middle of a large lecture ought to just stand up and shout "MORTAL KOMBAT!!!"
Posted by Honesty: #22 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 6:56 PM (from campus)
It took me like 2 years to figure out that it was purple. I would always just guess it wrong, and be asked to re-verify with a new color.

Also, hating on SEAS? Do you not have any friends here at Columbia?
Posted by 3423409823: #23 · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM (from campus)
I have always wondered this: Why is "human verification" necessary? What does it do? What does it prevent?
Posted by spam bots: #24 (in reply to #23) · reply · track
March 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM (from campus)
innit?

And I agree, I was always conflicted between purple and pink and all the shades between them.

Posted by jackass: #25 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
March 28, 2008 at 1:42 AM (from campus)
the "smelly asians" in SEAS stereotype is not funny, and it's not ok. it's rude, don't be a jackass.
Posted by oh my: #26 · reply · track
March 28, 2008 at 11:20 AM
look at the pretty flowers! thank you zach. now back to the deadlines breathing down my neck...
Posted by Check: #27 (in reply to #23) · reply · track
March 29, 2008 at 12:22 AM (from campus)
Check some of the spectator online comment threads. You'll see lots of "cool site, thanks [external link to rwizkq.true.ru"] posts.
Posted by JMK: #28 · reply · track
March 30, 2008 at 2:30 PM
A trick around the "capcha"? Right-click and go to view source. Find input type="text" name="captcha_response", and look at the RGB value. This completely defeats the purpose of CAPCHA, and it pisses off the colorblind students. Please change this?
Posted by ZvS: #29 (in reply to #28) · reply · track
March 30, 2008 at 11:18 PM
We're working on the captcha -- except the RGB value doesn't provide you with the solution; the solution is a color word, which robots don't know out of the box.
Name:
(Log In | Register your identity)

Email:
Reply to:

Describe this color in one lowercase word.

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