Funk Babblings

Yeah, I know lumens are the real measurement to look at for brightness, but since incandescent bulbs have similar brightness (within a few hundred lumens) for a given wattage, it's easier to compare with that, at least until I can actually see the brightness with my eyes, and don't have the lumen measurement handy. (It tends not to be printed on my bulbs like the wattage is.)

I tend to prefer the natural sunlight color temperature too, and since my CFs are 5000K I would've expected them to look just like my full-spectrum incandescents. You make a good point about fluorescents emitting a few narrow bands of color rather than a full spectrum centered at the given color temperature.