ASCII Art Star Wars: A New Hope

Posted by Shane Becker on 2009-03-12 at 12:51am

<p>This has been in my "blog about this" pile for years now.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3348918990/" title="Screenshot of My Desktop Circa Late 2005 by veganstraightedge, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3348918990_893b5503c2.jpg" alt="Screenshot of My Desktop Circa Late 2005"></a></p>

<p>I'm embarrassed by how much stuff I have on my desktop then. I now keep it under 5 things most of the time. </p>

<p>The three Star Wars icons were hard drives.</p>

<p>You can watch the whole Star Wars: A New Hope as ASCII art two ways:</p>

<p>telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl or <a href="http://www.asciimation.co.nz/">http://www.asciimation.co.nz/</a>.</p>

<p>Simply amazing.</p>

@DerekMerdinyan i highly recommend http://www.moo.com/ for your business card needs.

@planetmoney Welcome to Nationalized Citibank : http://tinyurl.com/blmjy8 :D

@twitter why do you allow usernames to be changed? it breaks loads of permalinks. would someone please think of the permalinks?

Flowers drunk on too much water : http://sukle.com/DW_final02_web400.mov (via @SamiNummi)

@43folders: "this is what your new Elvis looks like" http://tinyurl.com/dxeqxt

ASCII Art Me

Posted by Shane Becker on 2009-03-11 at 3:04pm

<p>Using <a href="http://www.typorganism.com/">typorganism.com</a> (which doesn't have permalinks, because they're one big flash site), I converted my avatar into big pixels and ASCII (plain text) art.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3347172787/" title="big pixel avatar in color"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3581/3347172787_81f4ececc8_o.png" alt="big pixel avatar in color"></a></p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/3347172791/" title="big pixel avatar in greyscale"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3620/3347172791_eb07393c35_o.png" alt="big pixel avatar in greyscale"></a></p>

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In reply to:

twitter.com/ezmobius/status/1309199357

@ezmobius is actually building SkyNet. Species traitor.

@xveganivanx "Distasteful ugly and cheap" not "Disgusting, ugly, obscene." You're right. Though, both work, I think.

At vivace for @seattlerb nerd party. A little bit early. The room is empty and the wifi works. Nice.

♫ Disgusting, ugly, obscene. It's how you make me feel, I said. Capitalism stole my virginity. ♫

Deluxe carrying case for an ampersand : http://tinyurl.com/d92xes

Baby flamingos have funny legs / feet http://tinyurl.com/cj4ta8

Metric is back at it. New record is on their MySpace page. http://www.myspace.com/metricband

Saturday Morning Watchmen

Posted by Shane Becker on 2009-03-10 at 10:17am

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I can't believe that just happened. Srsly.

Favourite things about being back in Seattle: awesome bikes everywhere and not worrying about my phone getting stolen out of my hand.

In reply to:

twitter.com/jawkdna/status/1297444551

@jawkdna veronica hates you

At Cafe on the Ave to meet with @DerekMerdinyan about @BeaconFM. This place is packed.

In reply to:

twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1297172285

@amyhoy <monster truck voice>WE'LL SELL YOU THE WHOLE SEAT. BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE.</monster truck voice>

Consumer debt == GDP. Bad news.

Maybe old news. Dog rescues another dog on a busy highway : http://tinyurl.com/dmkroo

@bookis took me home after picking me up from SEA-TAC. Then the first thing I did was plug in laptop, iPhone, camera & Time Machine HD.

Still on the runway.

"Ive just been informed that you do not have individual TVs. Sorry for that." It may, in fact, be a moth. Look at that wing span.