Tasty Snacks '96

☎ Here's a picture of a really tasty snack, the PopTart-Compatible Toastette.

Personally, I like Toastettes better. Mmmm-mmm!

This photo was taken using the QuickCam.

The astute reader will say, "But wait! It's in color!" Ah yes. I bought 3 pieces of translucent plastic (at TAP Plastics) today - one red, one green, and one blue. Total cost for the 3 2" x 2" squares was $1.62 (including tax), and the guy even let me keep the scraps. Anyway, back to the story. I used each piece of plastic as a filter, and took 3 snapshots of the box. Photoshop was then used to create an RGB image from the 3 separate color components. Viola! Pretty fresh, huh?

That's me. OK, here's another snack: the wonderful Slurpee:

After seeing all of these snacks, you may have wondered about the ornate backgrounds you see behind them. Believe it or not, this is merely my desk! See, those snacks are balanced on a box of business cards. You can see a few books in the distance, as well as a pile of old T-shirts and the corner of my phone.