ASCII Art Doodle
Oh my, I just realized that while I was on the phone to my friend Gilles, I ASCII art doodled in TextMate!
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\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ / / \ .................... \ / . ______ . / \ . || . \ / . [] . / \ . [[]] . \ / .[:|--[[ ]]--|:]. / \ . [[]] . \ / . [] . / \ . || . \ / . ------ . / \ .................... \ / / /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
I normally doodle on paper when on the phone but, AFAIK, this is the first time I did it while using my laptop. Should I be worried? Or have I just reached a new level of geekiness? 
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Alex
Erwin Verdonk
William from Lagos
Clarkson
Hendrik
You’re weirder than I thought.
That is a good thing, though.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:28 pmMichiel van der Ros
i think you once again raised the bar for geekiness
April 28th, 2008 at 5:56 pmLee McColl Sylvester
There used to be a really cool app on the net that could ASCII any image you cared to upload. I’m sure it’s Googleable (I’m patenting that word). It’s not doodling, but it’s great for putting after your signiture in an email
April 28th, 2008 at 7:42 pmDavid Arno
@Lee, there are a number of them. Ones like http://www.glassgiant.com are really simple to use. Just upload an image and select the image size. Here is one of my gravatar image for example:
. ............... . ................. , ...:OO$,..... . . .788MMMMMNMNO777=...... , ..+78MMMMMMMNMMMMDZDZ,. ...., ..... ...,OMNMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMO7... .... ..... ..+7NMMNMMDOI7OONZI8MMMNI......, ..... ..:ZMMMMM?=:~~~~:~:~:IMM7......, ..... ...8MMMM$~~~~~~~~~:~:~ZMO,. .. ...........ZMMMD=:~~~~~~~~~~~~+OZ,....., ...........DMMN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~D.. ...., ..........=~NM+~~~~=++=~~~~~~:~O......., ..........=~:D+~~~?8Z=+~~~?$I=?=......., ..........+~~?~~~~~~~~~~:==I==I......... ..........,+=~~~:~~:~~~~~~~~~~+......... ..... . ...,~:~~~~~~~~~~~:~~~~~........, ..... . .....+~~~~~~~~=+=~~~~:........., =~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=.......... =~~~~~~=~====~~:=.......... .. ~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~:........... ..+~~~~~~~~~~~~~=... ......, . ........,+~~~~~~~~~~~~~=............. .........=?=:~~~~~~==~~~~~=,............ ......~I77O$7=:~~~~=~~~~~~=?$?...... .. ...,$7IO8Z?ONN8=:~~~~~~~~~:I?+$+I~.... , ,,8Z$II?NMDDMDM$$==========?7?+D??I:...,Great fun; if a little pointless!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pmDavid Arno
Oh what a silly arse I am at times! I forgot it would need pre tags around it. Doh!
April 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pmLee McColl Sylvester
pointless is what I do best! 
April 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pmNolan
Here’s another one
April 30th, 2008 at 10:21 pmhttp://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/
Aral
Hey David, I added the pre tags for you to your comment.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:40 amJames O'Reilly
hmm, very interesting. This symmetrically designed pattern indicates the capacity to perceive yourself and others as not only whole objects, but whole objects with multi-dimensional properties as seen with the extensive use of square brackets. The vision is encapsulated in a series of slashes which represent your desire to comment or make a statement. However, almost contradictory is the use of the back-slash which could be your inner-psyche’s attempt at escaping from a world obsessed or even confined by design patterns. Alternatively, it could just be art for arts sake.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:38 pmAral
ROTFL James, thanks!
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am