Merry Christmas!
True story. A few nights ago I ended up at the 331 Club for the length of one gin & tonic. Not only would I get to see a man in a grey t-shirt playing stand-up bass, but this would also be the setting for The Incident In Which I Was Introduced As My Website™ for the first time. Ever.
"Norwegianity.com, this is Sopheava.com."
Sadly, Norwegianity and I stood stood there like a couple of idiots going, "Ohhhhhhhhhh." Because of course his name (which I don't remember) meant nothing to me but the website, yeah. It all became crystal clear. God I feel like a strain of highly evolved ubergeek who speaks only in snobby internet code. \m/
So I wanted to share what I got up to yesterday (besides hat shopping) because I know I'm not the only ubergeek out there! I had heard about this thing called The Rasterbator some time ago and mostly thought about how it sounded like a giant pink vibrating jelly dildo in the shape of a rabbit... I mean, with a name like "The Rasterbator" you're just asking for trouble. Hello. But it's totally something that has no apparent affiliation with anything vibrating or shaped in the form of a rabbit. It's actually this really cool little online app that will take any image, blow it up for you, and then spit out the final result in a PDF document which you can print on your home printer. You then take the pages and stitch them together for a giant-sized version of your original photo.
Like you need to ask if I did it - of course I did (as if I could control myself). I decided to do a little test - excuse me while I totally geek out, um, again - and picked this image as my guinea pig. First I transformed the image in to a high-contrast black and white piece (cuz when you're printing at work, you don't want to be the dickhead who used up all the magenta). Then I rasterbated it, and whoala!
(I stuck my foot in the image so you could get any idea of the proportions....)
Now that I know how it works I'm going to print off a giant, larger than life picture of myself for everyone I know to hang on their living room walls. Go check it out. You won't be sorry!
And finally, it is with deep regret that I tell you I'm preparing myself to be *gulp* away from the internet for a couple of days. Oh *god* the pain! THE PAIN! I'm headed back to Wisconsin tomorrow morning to spend the weekend with the fam, and you probably don't know this but they don't really have that whole internet thing going on in Wisconsin. Ha, I had you for a second didn't I? OF COURSE they have the internet! Thanks to AOL everyone can dial-up with Version 9.0 'n everything. That geek thing, I'm doing it again aren't I? Well at least I know that *I* laughed at my own little joke. Anyway, I'll be back early next week in which we will discuss British TV Advertising and swap drunken relative stories.
Merry Christmas!
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If you pass a Passat on the way to Sheboyben or Fon Du Lac, or where ever your going, wave. It may be Jessica nd I heading back to the land technology forgot. Sussex, WI. Fortunately, we'll make a stop in Chippewa Falls for some Linnie's.
Enjoy your Christmas darlin! I knew you were joking about the internet thing really, we know you can't last.