Since I took on this self-imposed tech version of the Julie/Julia project, posting 365 Worth The Geek Read™ entries all by my lonesome in a year, I’m using graphics a lot more. I used to put images in every other post and I liked how that looked. However since I’m doing a lot more now I try to think of appropriate imagery to go along with just about every post now, to break up all that text.

I look for nice ways to make it easier on myself and my ever-emerging Photoshop talent. Most of the stuff here I either did or modified to make it more suited to my purpose. My evil nefarious purpose.

Bwa-haha-haha-haha-haha-ha! HA!

However, I still want to make it as easy as possible on myself. After all, if I don’t who will?

**cricket chirp**

That’s what I thought. Enter today’s image of an iPad (ie The Etch-A-Sketch 0.2 by Apple) converted to ASCII courtesy of a fun site called picascii.com. THANKS picascii!

If you want to convert any image to ASCII (stop pretending you don’t know what ASCII is you goofballs) all you have to do is either enter the URL of the image to picascii or click the Browse button to select an image on your hard drive. Enter size desired (1 is smallest, 5 largest and you can figure out 2-4 on your own), check the COLOR box if you want the ASCII image to be color and click the Generate button and POOF! there’s your ASCII converted image. Picascii also give you the code as TEXT or HTML so you can copy and paste it into whatever program or message board you’d like.

It’s nice and simple. So simple a caveman can do it™. And if a caveman can do it well then so can you, Billy boy! Yeah, I know the odds of your name being Billy is slim but hey, imagine the look on Billy’s face when he reads this!

*waves*

HI BILLY!

Anyways, please feel free to point your webby browsie lookie thingamobob to picascii.com and have fun experimenting. ASCII art rules!

(Anyone think the ASCII iPad looks better than the real one? Hmmm…)