12/25/2002: Toast Elvis

Undertoad · 12-25-2002, 04:34 PM

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.

12-25-2002, 04:34 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	12/25/2002: Toast Elvis And once again, I have no comment.

12-25-2002, 05:39 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	He clearly has a toaster with very precise darkness settings. And no life. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-25-2002, 06:46 PM	#3
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	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> __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

12-26-2002, 12:31 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	It looks like he trimmed the crusts off to improve the tiling. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-26-2002, 01:04 PM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	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 ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-25-2002, 09:09 PM	#4
therosser Neophyte-in-training Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3	is it just me, or does that toast look really small??

12-26-2002, 01:42 AM	#6
therosser Neophyte-in-training Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3	"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?

12-26-2002, 11:15 PM	#10
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	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!

12-26-2002, 11:26 PM	#11
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	You have computer paper in Arkansas?

12-27-2002, 03:30 AM	#14
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	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.

12-27-2002, 04:06 AM	#15
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	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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