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Giant PDFs in <36 Hours

Linking Microbial Diversity and Geochemistry
of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater
(72dpi JPEG · PDF)

Screening and Characterization of Soil Microbes Capable of
Degrading Cellulose from Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
(72dpi JPEG · PDF)

Remember those layouts I was talking about yesterday? They are done. Finally. Besides work and sleep and showering and pooping I’ve worked on nothing else but these since I woke yesterday morning.

Except for the MAME Cabinet control panels, these are the first poster-size thing I’ve done, and they were done in an extremely short period of time for the scale of work (read: more than a bit rushed), but I’m pretty happy with them. My source material for them was two JPEGs, a word document containing content, and a couple of spreadsheets with unformatted tables and graphs.

These are posters which cover the work Danielle has been doing at ORNL for the past few months. They will be printed at 55″ x 36″ and will be presented sometime this week. Hopefully the presentation will go well.

Now I think I’m going to relax a little. I’ve got a monitor here to test, but I might push that off until tomorrow.

I picked up a Westinghouse LCM-22w3 for US$179 at Best Buy. It’s not a great monitor, but it has a DVI input, is huge, and was cheap. I’m debating using it for my MAME Cabinet, but I’m really not sure. If you are interested one, most of the local shops still seem to have them in stock. Here is the Best Buy page for the item.

4 Responses

  1. lethalinjustice August 7, 2007

    mmm that stuff is almost more interesting than the articles I have to write about at work…

    YAY AGRICULTURE!!!

  2. Anonymous August 7, 2007

    They look fantastic c0nsumer. Given that it would probably take me somewhere between 2 days to a week to do each, what with all the messing about and getting the Reprographics department at work to fiddle around with everything to do with layout and format..you’d done an amazing job!

    1. arron_shutt August 7, 2007

      Sorry, that was me, I forgot to log in :D

      1. c0nsumer August 7, 2007

        Thanks. :) I’m slightly concerned that some of the darker greens in the background will overwhelm the text, but that just can’t be sorted out until a first run is printed. As it’s going to be presented a few times this summer, perhaps we can have them redone if they don’t look right.

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