{"id":8,"date":"2014-08-01T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:12:41","slug":"daily-create-bsod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/daily-create-bsod\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Create: BSOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/\">The Daily Create<\/a> and one exercise in particular stood out as something I might find fun. There used to be a lot of computer technical support involved in my job, so working on an <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc386\/\">ASCII art Blue Screen Of Death<\/a>\u00a0seemed like a natural. (And it&#8217;s Exercise <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_80386\">386<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0how propitious.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/store.hbo.com\/imgcache\/product\/resized\/000\/540\/461\/catl\/game-of-thrones-all-men-must-die-poster-11x17_500.jpg?k=d31f85ec&amp;pid=540461&amp;s=catl&amp;sn=hbo\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"343\" \/>So the idea was fresh in my mind, when it happened that I walked past a Hot Topic, with a Game of Thrones display in the window. Now\u00a0the truth is I&#8217;m not a GoT fan &#8211; haven&#8217;t read the books, don&#8217;t have HBO, just haven&#8217;t gotten into it. But something about the bird and the swords and the Season 4 slogan struck me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/125791026@N05\/14471277908\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So the first thing I had to do was learn a little bit about ASCII art. I&#8217;m old enough to remember the days before the Web incorporated graphics, but I never actually learned to make the stuff. Fortunately, there are still good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chris.com\/ascii\/index.php?page=rowan-crawford\">tutorials<\/a> available online. (I used the one linked; other resources and examples on that site are good too.)<\/p>\n<p>That brought me to tool choice, and after a bit of dinking around I realized that the best thing to produce a landscape-orientation piece of text art was, in fact, PowerPoint. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Screen_of_Death\">Wikipedia article on the BSOD<\/a>\u00a0was kind enough to give me the font, and so I started to draw.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to draw the raven quickly proved tedious. So I remembered an\u00a0old joke. There&#8217;s just two steps to carving a statue of an elephant. Step one, get a big block of marble. Step 2, cut away everything that doesn&#8217;t look like an elephant. Since this is a solid design anyway, I made a big block of H&#8217;s to represent feathers. The equal signs are designed to evoke the swords, and to open the space up a bit like the original does. Apparently it&#8217;s important that it&#8217;s a 3-eyed raven, so 3 zeros and a beak, and voila.<\/p>\n<p>From there, on to the slogan. A <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.dothraki.org\/High_Valyrian_Vocabulary\">fan page of High Valyrian vocabulary<\/a>\u00a0told me to keep &#8220;morghulis&#8221; for &#8220;must die&#8221;; I made up &#8220;proscar&#8221; for &#8220;all processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then another funny thing happened. I walked to the fridge, came back to my screen, and realized, from far away, that I&#8217;d almost made a different iconic flying animal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/125791026@N05\/14634921886\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking at The Daily Create and one exercise in particular stood out as something I might find fun. There used to be a lot of computer technical support involved in my job, so working on an ASCII art Blue Screen Of Death\u00a0seemed like a natural. (And it&#8217;s Exercise 386 &#8211; \u00a0how propitious.) So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/daily-create-bsod\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Create: BSOD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tdc","category-ds106-2","category-images"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}