Easter Eggs!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:15 pm

Hehe, I had fun making this one. Check out the news section on the Easter bunny sars incident... it pretty much sums everything up.

I'll be hiding some "easter eggs" around the site and a competition to guess will take place on easter sunday. I'm not sure what the prize will be yet if there will be one. Most likely a free @iceteks.com pop3/webmail email address.

The eggs will be more visible at some times then others...

There's quite a few ways to cheat on this, but let's play fair here.

Have fun.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:55 pm

Don't know if I'll see any eggs, still getting "done with errors on the page" thing!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:15 pm

Wren wrote: Don't know if I'll see any eggs, still getting "done with errors on the page" thing!

Really? Must be the skin. I'll fix it once I get into making my own skin. The thing with IE is that it detects these "errors" but all other browsers don't care because obviously it's working fine!

There won't be any eggs on the forum layout by the way. If I were to do that, each post, each PM message etc etc would count as an egg... that would be long to count. Most will be on the site's static, or semi static pages. Click on the top logo to go to the home page.

One darn funny article there too.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:26 pm

You will need to get your skin fixed. nothing uglier than a naked squirrel!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:55 pm

This will be fun. I will have to be on the look out!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 4:58 pm

Yep, they are hard to see! I had to count them as I put them or I'd forget where they are.

Sounds typical for a squirrel...

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:01 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Yep, they are hard to see! I had to count them as I put them or I'd forget where they are.

Sounds typical for a squirrel...

This is going to be hard. I usually just look right at the posts, without looking around!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:05 pm

It won't be on the forum ether - all around the site.

This will also encourage further viewing of the site.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:10 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: It won't be on the forum ether - all around the site.

This will also encourage further viewing of the site.

I know I won't see them.... I always just look at text. I never really look at the pictures or anything like that. If you put something in black bold letters, you can be sure that I will see it!

I am going to lose!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:44 pm

Well some of the eggs are actually in text. The size of those ones make it look like just a space but really it's an easter egg if you look correctly.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:49 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Well some of the eggs are actually in text. The size of those ones make it look like just a space but really it's an easter egg if you look correctly.

There may be hope after all!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:35 pm

And like mentioned in that funny SARS news article on the home page, I already started...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:26 pm

Not lot of time left! The contest ends tomorow!!!

I'll give you all a hint. There's only about 4 pages that actually have some, but they are at some "not so obvious" places so look closely!

You need to have the exact number to win the contest.

If more then one person has the right number, I will put up a poll, and it will simply be numbers and everyone can vote any number and it will be kind of like a cyber draw.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:41 pm

Red, I haven't found one yet!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:53 pm

Go on the home page and start from there.

I sort of indirectly said what the contest is, but I'll make it clearer, the point is to find the exact number of eggs there are.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:01 am

I see one!!!!!!!

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:34 pm

15, so far.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:01 pm

Wren, I don't think you are supposed to share the number..

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:05 pm

Why not, we don't know how many there are?

You said one, I said 15.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:12 pm

You guys are pretty off, so you can share the number, and the first one to post the actual number wins. This is just for fun, no prize or anything. Or wait, I did say you get a free pop3 account if you want one.

You got ~half of them so far.

I'll leave the contest go till midnight ET today, so keep on truck'n!

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:24 pm

I think my truck broke down from that heavy load of Easter eggs!

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:41 pm

I was getting an error and caused a double post, seems to be gone now.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:58 pm

Was it that SQL thing? I know it came and I had to do the repair thing in the ACP... Good thing I'm always around when that happenes. If it keeps up I'll email the hosting company and ask if it's something with their server or something.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:08 pm

I copied and sent it to adm, from the error page.

Did the site just slow to a crawl or is it me?

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:11 pm

Guess it was a temporary slowdown, seems ok now!

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