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Undertoad 12-25-2002 04:34 PM

12/25/2002: Toast Elvis
 
http://cellar.org/2002/toastelvis.jpg

And once again, I have no comment.

wolf 12-25-2002 05:39 PM

He clearly has a toaster with very precise darkness settings. And no life.

MaggieL 12-25-2002 06:46 PM

But so wasteful!

One image: one piece of toast.

At The Register:
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/19442.html">
Bread as a display device - we have pictures</a>
<img src="http://www.theregister.co.uk/media/506.jpg">
<img src="http://www.theregister.co.uk/media/507.jpg">

courtesy of a Java-controlled weather reporting toaster.

And while refinding that link, I found:
<a href="http://www.toaster.org/">The Toaster Museum</a>

therosser 12-25-2002 09:09 PM

is it just me, or does that toast look really small??

wolf 12-26-2002 12:31 AM

It looks like he trimmed the crusts off to improve the tiling.

therosser 12-26-2002 01:42 AM

"Elvis on Toast
2.4m x 2.4m - 3525 Slices of cocktail toast
July 2002"

via Maurice Bennett's Home Page

Cocktail toast... who would have thought?

MaggieL 12-26-2002 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by therosser
Cocktail toast... who would have thought?
oooooooh....high-resolution toast with close dot pitch.

wolf 12-26-2002 01:04 PM

maggie, I think that is possibly one of the funniest things I've read here in a while (including the "please..." thread).

Clever, on-topic, and with the hallmarks of an ur-geek.

Put me in mind of my college days, it did, when things were so primitive that we had to use stale food stolen from the cafeteria as output devices. Decwriters were scarce in those days ...

MaggieL 12-26-2002 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolf
Put me in mind of my college days, it did, when things were so primitive that we had to use stale food stolen from the cafeteria as output devices. Decwriters were scarce in those days ...
Actually, in high school, when the shipment of stock paper was late, we once stole a roll of paper towels from the bathroom and trimmed it on a bandsaw in the woodshop so it would fit on the paper feed for our Teletype terminal.

juju 12-26-2002 11:15 PM

In my day, we didn't have all this fancy schmancy computer paper. Why, that's for pussies!! Back then, we just had toast and paper towels! And we liked it! Our power supplys were made from potatos, and instead of a keyboard, we just had little switches! If you got hungry enough, you had to eat your monitor!! Those were the days, let me tell ya. Boy howdy!

elSicomoro 12-26-2002 11:26 PM

You have computer paper in Arkansas?

MaggieL 12-27-2002 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by juju
In my day, we didn't have all this fancy schmancy computer paper. Why, that's for pussies!! Back then, we just had toast and paper towels!
I dunno about toast, but I can assure you that neither computer paper nor paper towels are for pussies. Insist on toilet paper, preferably unscented.

Toast sounds itchy, though, no matter how well you might butter it. .

MaggieL 12-27-2002 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sycamore
You have computer paper in Arkansas?
Isn't that near Elbonia? :-)

Torrere 12-27-2002 03:30 AM

Arkansas has some more elevation than the subaquatic state of Elbonia, but I've heard that Arkansas spent part of the decade under whitewater, so that might be changing.

elSicomoro 12-27-2002 04:06 AM

Well, other than Juju and his friends in Fayetteville, there probably aren't any computers around for a good 200 or 300 miles.


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