Raster Pictures, Pregnancy Update

Just Call Us Raster-Farians!

So I discovered this cool thing online called 'the Rasterbator.' It takes any image you give it and scales it up as big as you want it and creates a pdf file of 8.5x11 size pieces of the image so you can print it out and hang up the rasterbated photo. Not only does it scale the image up but it also converts it into newsprint-style dots. Anyway, after finding this cool tool, George and I couldn't resist trying it. My first test:



This is just all of the pages laid out on the floor. I would cut off all the white edges if I put it up for real. George likes the white edges, but I don't.

I really want to cover an entire wall in our house with a rasterbated image, but this was just a test to see what it would look like.

Then George gave it a go. He wanted to put a blow up of my eyes in his office. Isn't he sweet?





Finished piece hanging in his office:


Close up showing the dots:



After we did all this we discovered that if you use the downloaded version as opposed to the web-based tool, you can make the dots SUPER tiny, so they wouldn't really be noticeable unless you looked crazy close. Maybe I'll do teeny dots when I do my wall. I would really love to do our massive stairwell wall, but we'd have to rent scaffolding for that, so I'll probably end up doing a bedroom wall instead. I'll be sure to post something up here if/when I do.


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31 Weeks And Counting!!

Pregnancy Album Updated!

I am getting big! I am bumping into stuff more, dancing gracefully is becoming more difficult, and I am noticing that my belly gets in the way even when I am just sitting normally. (I sometimes have to lift my belly up to put my legs together!) Still, I am constantly told I am super tiny. Ah well, it's actually starting to grow on me. I mean, I still don't love that kind of attention, it makes me a tad uncomfy, but it is nice to be tiny instead of chubby. Anyway, for those of you who didn't sift through the lengthy previous post, check the very end of it (at the end of the thoughts on pregnancy) for a more thorough update on how I'm (we're) doing.

A Little Note on the Length of a Pregnancy
For those of you who don't know, pregnancy month/week counting is a little screwy. First of all, somebody decided that he thought it should be exactly 40 weeks. (This is wrong as most first-timers go 41.) But even that is a little off because the weeks are counted from the first day of the last period, which in general was two weeks before conception. Yep that's right, I was preggers two weeks before I even conceived!!! Madness! So in reality, when we speak of 40 weeks, it's really 38, so for first-timers it's 39. Confused yet? There's more...

On top of that is the 9-month-10-month issue. How can a woman who claims to be 7 months along still have 3 months to go? Well, think about it, each month in the calendar is not 4 weeks right? So, it's actually 9 calendar months, which just so happens to work out to 10 lunar months (4-week periods). So some people say 9 months, some say 10, some say 40 weeks, some say 38. The vast majority of people do use the 40-week standard, and that includes all the OBs and midwives. But I haven't yet figured out yet what the majority does for counting months. I use lunar months. If you have worked somewhere for 4 weeks, you say you worked there a month, right?

Great! So we can now all be confused together.
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RSS out of order?

FYI -- I don't know why, but the last two posts are listed out of order in the RSS feed. It probably doesn't matter, but hopefully this won't continue to be an issue with future posts or it's really going to bug me.


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