Jeff Stuart - Memoirs of a CPUNERD

After countless years of having barren walls, I finally broke down and put up some posters. I went looking online for posters of some of the national and state parks to which I’ve been. But the sizes I wanted, about 24×36, were all way expensive, like $75-$120 expensive. Then I realized, wait a second, I’ve taken pictures of all of these places, and I’m pretty savvy with a computer, why not just make some posters out of the pictures I have? So that’s exactly what I did. The GIMPing (photoshopping for those of us to cheap pay for photoshop) didn’t take too long. Well, that’s a lie. It actually was going to take a while, so I just wrote something in Java to take a JPG and shove a frame around it with some text at the bottom. It was actually pretty simple, you can get the code here if you’d like. Below are the images I used (they’ve been downsized for le web, the originals are about 27 MP each). Oh, and if you’re curious as to where I got them printed, I found this place through Google called Posterbrain. It was significantly cheaper than any other place I could find (only $18 + taxes and shipping!), by about 65%. Oh, and the other cool thing is that I think they’re located somewhere close to Davis, because even though I selected 3-4 day shipping (the cheapest option), the posters got here in like two days! w00t!