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[jazzfish]

Incandescent light bulbs are warm. Sitting directly under a 60watt bulb for several hours, with a laptop on my legs, is a recipe for broiled jazzfish. uilos picked up a compact fluorescent for me a few days ago. It's a lot less warm and makes me a lot less uncomfortable, temperature-wise. I spent much of yesterday afternoon on the couch with the laptop and felt perfectly fine from about the cheekbones down.

My eyeballs, though, felt like Andre the Giant had been using them for strength-training his hands. They're still sore this morning.

I'd been assuming this was due to the thing where monitors running at a 60hz refresh rate cause eyestrain, particularly under fluorescent lights (since those /also/ flicker at 60hz)... but poking around online it seems that the 60hz refresh rate shouldn't be a problem with an LCD screen. So, I'm at a bit of a loss. I suppose the thing to do is to camp out under the light with a (paper) book for a few hours and see if that causes the same hurting.

Thoughts?

Comments

[rbandrews]

Put a white piece of paper next to the monitor, then lower the brightness on the monitor until it's about as bright as the piece of paper. Also, try switching your editor to show white/gray text on black, instead of black on white.

[jmax315.livejournal.com]

I'm also quite fond of the LED bulbs that are starting to appear (I've only seen them at Home Despot or equivalent so far). Possibly worth investigating if the CF proves unsuitable.

They're still rather expensive though.