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Laser Etching a Laptop
ptorrone writes "I didn't really plan using a $20,000 laser cutter on my 17" PowerBook to etch a 19th-century engraving of a tarsier, a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur (also the vi book cover), but it seemed like it had to done. The results are stunning..."
The CEO was using it to clean under his fingernails of course.
Someone save me from this sanity.
It's a good thing that those Tarsiers are mainly insectivorous and do not eat Apples! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
How much effort would it take to convert an epilog laser printer into a high-powered moonraker? :P
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Why didn't he use a sheep?
...Is it just me or is O'Reilly trying to show us what geeks are going to evolve into?
You see, that's nothing. In my days, we used the bottom of tea mugs to etch random abstract art! Usually, the result was a series of displaced rings.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
If only one of his coworkers would of switched the image with "hello.jpg"
Just think: you won't have to invite girls back to your place to view your etchings.
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you realize that hello.jpg is the filename for the goatse guy ...
Just imagine it, etching a goatse, with the apple in the middle.
A tiny Tux? Or even better, some weird flying windows? Or an "Intel Inside" logo. You'd get some funny looks for that.
She: Hey, are you a traitor? Me: No, I'm atheist.
liger. It's pretty much my favorite animal.
I'm somehow reminded of Napoleon Dynamite.
Obviously, the animal to engrave using a laser would be a friggin shark.
1) Guy wants picture from vi book on notebook
2) goes to some lab where they have a machine to do it
3) copyrights free image is imported into Coreldraw
4) Laptop is etched
5) picture is on laptop
PS: what is wrong with slashdot? I have to sign in constantly...
PS2:
6) ???
7) profit!!!!
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
If he's done, can we now mount it on a dolphin, please?
They're pretty much my favorite animal.
Why didn't you etch his Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Probably because he has yet to of been anointed by His noodly appendage. Or even worse, he just doesn't believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There is still hope. He may realize the importance on his death bed.
to a Fundamentalist Pastafarian, that would be idolatry, to make a likeless of His Saucy Meatballed Noodliness that couldn't be eaten
" An Apple Powerbook isn't a car"
crap. then where is that quart of oil I put in it every six months going?
and if it's not a car, why does it have a bloody headlight? who puts such a thing on a laptop?
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More likely we cops would say, "What the hell is a tarsier?"
So what were you planning when you placed your 17" Powerbook in the $20,000 laser cutter?
If he really wanted a security etching, he would have used the goatse guy. Who would want to steal a laptop with THAT on the case?!
I can confirm this through real-world experience. I have a large tattoo of a lesser weasel across my chest, and no one has ever stolen me.
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'