Now, I might be several months late about this, but I only just got around to taking the pictures off my cameraphone.
This was “posted” by the Curie field, and I find it very offensive. Whoever put it up should know why. You have no right putting something of that nature up in public, unless you really had no clue where it came from.
And where would you get a canvas that big from anyway?
Somebody fess up.
(This post should not be taken seriously.)
We have a person of interest!
That is “Happy Cat” and he belongs to team 461
There was an even bigger happycat posted at the Great Lakes regional, I think it as someone from team 451 but we’re not sure. It looks like they used an online service such as the Rasterbator to make it. I’ve done a few “rasterbations,” basically it takes any image and blows it up huge by using dots of varying sizes and shades, then automatically cuts it up into 8.5x11 sheets for you to print out and put together.
This may be relevant:
LMAO!!!
Horray for:
a) A huge Happy Cat!
b) Kevin being a goof ball constantly
c) My awesome photography skillz - (circa: 2004)
LOL
It’s the Happy Cat, also known as the first lolcat of I Can Has Cheezburger.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/i-can-has-cheezburger.jpg
As for making one of these in real life: Rasterbator + Wide Format Plotter = Win.
lmao, where was it hanging this time? It would have been something cool for the seniors to take a picture with and continuing it from 2006…
NEDM (just 1 of many fan sites)
(http://photos-936.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v125/98/44/681370936/n681370936_519707_8975.jpg)
That’s the wall of my suite
I had a huge rasterbated version of Earthrise on my dorm room wall last year.
It was cool, until I later realized that I used an entire black ink cartridge to print it.
The benefits of free printing as a member of the honors college. 
…sadly that privilege no longer exists. People decided to print textbooks (although a “poster” was cited as another reason, which warms us to the cockles of our heart), thus costing the honors college great deals of paper and toner. We now have limited printing privileges.
Alright, calm down.
I know what lolcats are, I know who the cat is, (Who would find a random poster of a cat interesting?) and whoever thinks that he “Belongs” to team 461 is really putting me into raeg moed.
So far, nobody has answered my question.
Who.
Put.
It.
There?
Also, gb2ytmnd plox kthxbai.
Edit: Whoever was asking, it looks like it was in the same spot as the picture you had.
The poster belongs to 461 (Westside Boiler Invasion) and we can all assume that they hung it up.
Wow, that is really funny.
My team has a big joke within our team about lolcats. One of our team members pranked us and made a page on our wiki space called the page o’ humor, and it was immediately loaded up with lolcats by a graduated team member that didn’t even know the site existed (or so we thought). Soon everybody followed up by putting on lolcats.
This page is a mess and it was excommunicated by our team captain. Little does he know it still exists, too bad he rarely uses CD (here’s the link)
The LOLCODE example on that page looks a little familiar… 
It’s kind of funny that our software guy stole that from you, that’s a pretty nice piece of LOLCODE though.
Of course it makes about as much sense to me as real code.
At least I can appreciate the humor in this code, it isn’t funny when our our robot goes backwards in hybrid mode
I guess I’ll have to add the pictures of the cat poster on Curie to my team’s page o’ humor.
The pic itself is hilarious, and kind of a “haha, internetz joek” type thing. If you know the real history behind NEDM, I suppose one might find it offensive, but I think he was being humorous in his post.
If I recall correctly, the 461 tradition of making a huge Happy Cat and posting it around competitions has been going on for about four years now (it started the year was a freshman in college) and as far as I can tell there isn’t any offensive meaning behind it. It’s really just there as a silly joke and to be ridiculous. The bigger one the kids hung up at Ypsilanti this year was adorned by another team with a sign that said “I can has robotz?”
I’m pretty sure the tradition will continue. 
In addition, I’m pretty sure the 461 Happy Cat predates the NEDM stuff, as a number of the high school members were Something Awful forum members at the time, which was where Happy Cat was first disseminated from a Russian cat food company site in 2003. It’s bizarre that people keep history on these things!
Haha, I would be well served to read the entire original post before I post. :o
Nevermind!
