[IAEP] [support-gang] Easter Egg Time

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Again,
>
> Very interesting... I tried it on 2 different XOs this morning.  It showed
> up on one but not the other.  I think it may have been a case of the clock
> being set to an incorrect time. I haven't checked that yet.  I took a
> screenshot, if anyone is interested in seeing it.
>
> I also went outside in the chilly morning to see the real thing.  Seemed
> strange to be watching a lunar eclipse as the sun was coming up.  Very nice!
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. This is the only Easter Egg I have found in Sugar so far, but it was
> quite by accident. There may be others.  Has anyone else found any?  There
> used to be some on the old Apple iis.

I programmed some into some of my activities... but I won't say where :)

-walter

>
>> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:53:26 -0500
>> From: kevin.mark at verizon.net
>> To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
>> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Easter Egg Time
>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:56:47PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > If you have an XO handy, here is something you might want to see. Open
>> > the
>> > Moon Activity sometime around 6:10 AM PST (14:00 UT) and see what you
>> > find. If
>> > you are living west of the Rockies in the US, you probably can guess
>> > what it
>> > will be. If not, you can also go to this website for a live feed of the
>> > event:
>> >
>> > http://bit.ly/rSwGbe
>> >
>> > You really need to be sure you know what the Moon Activity looks like
>> > normally.
>> > You can see that before or after the Easter Egg makes its appearance. I
>> > first
>> > saw this about a year ago. I hope it still works!
>> >
>> > Caryl
>>
>> Easter eggs are a tradition for programmers, its sort-of like
>> 'gameification'
>> but before it became cool. I hope there are more to find.
>>
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