ASCII Dwight

Friday, September 26th, 2008 | 19 comments

The Office Man, do I love geeky stuff like this.

During last night’s season premiere of ‘The Office,’ Pam shows Jim an art project while they are chatting online — an ASCII version of Dwight.

(For more information about ASCII art, check out Wikipedia.)

I think Dwight would have liked it, don’t you?

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19 comments

1. phyllis*farm Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 11:25am
Cool beyond words. I hope Pam got extra credit.
2. sometallusjinks Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 11:33am
Ha ha! Once I saw that last night I was hoping they would put it up so that I could print it and put it on my wall!
3. I Braveheart Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 11:36am
This is awesome. Mad props to whatever staffer on The Office that actually completed this!
4. beewcar Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 11:37am
Dwight would have definitely liked it. Maybe he’d hug Pam, but she’d leave before he could do so.
5. Cayce80 Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 12:50pm
I was hoping some awesome person would make this available. Thanks!
6. Aaron Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 12:57pm
This is now my Facebook picture
7. littlepinkfeet Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 1:14pm
For those interested… in addition to commercial software to create ASCII art, there are quite a few online generators that will do it for free. Do a Google for “ascii art generator”, or there are several links at the bottom of the linked Wiki page.
8. mailinator Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 1:17pm
Why pdf and not a text file?
9. Bryant Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 1:51pm
Ditto as #6…Awesome image!
10. CallofDuty Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 2:14pm
I can’t believe NBC has a shirt out already. Good grief! :)
11. Erin Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 2:35pm
Pam’s got mad skills.
12. JP Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 4:49pm
It was such a stretch to call this a “summer project” when it was so clearly created by any of a number of online ascii art generators in a matter of minutes. My only gripe with the episode.
13. Starcasm Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 5:38pm
Pam could do better, but we still love our little artistic prankster Spamela.
14. krentistthedentist Fri. Sep. 26, 2008 | 10:51pm
I’m pretty sure this was generated with the ASCII generator on the web, but still, it shows that she actually learned something in her “expressive typography” class that she wasn’t supposed to be in.
15. SL Sat. Sep. 27, 2008 | 11:00am
#8 It’s a pdf because printing a plain text file doesn’t guarantee that it will be centered, with the right margins and the right size, the right font (if you choose a non fixed width font it’ll all be garbled), or even whether it’ll fit on a single page. With a pdf you don’t have to worry about all that. Plus, if you just want the text file you can copy and paste it.
16. Ann Sun. Sep. 28, 2008 | 12:27pm
Give Pam some credit! Looks like she edited it a lot to add more white-space, or started out with her own illustration, before using one of those generators. Hers is clearly more illustrative than the ones I’ve seen online.
17. Diapers Schrute Sun. Sep. 28, 2008 | 12:31pm
Love it! I want the shirt.
18. Paulina Sun. Sep. 28, 2008 | 3:03pm
Love this!! ohhh man I absolutely loved Jim’s “talking” head and his reaction to this hehe
wait, #12 and #14, I don’t know if you were being sarcastic, but I’m pretty sure Pam was just kidding around when she said summer project? Obviously she did not spend a huge amount of time on this, right? I don’t know, maybe it really was supposed to be a project, but I thought she was just trying to make Jim laugh! haha
19. nic Wed. Oct. 1, 2008 | 3:29pm
this is AWESOME if someone could give the margins to get it into a word document that would be awesome, or if there was a way to enlarge it that would be SICK