Easter Egg
Aug. 5th, 2005 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljpliceaseOne of the things that I covered in my presentation at the CST was the new Load Physical Design GUI borrowed from ChipBench. I don't think technically it qualifies as an Easter egg, since it is a button on the main tool bar that shows up any time EinsTimer can find ChipBench
[1], but in a The Purloined Letter kind of way, I think it does qualify. Nobody at The Company will ever recognize it as such, but I took the icon from a post apocalyptic computer game that I wrote way back in high school, the second in my Sunset series: Homeland. Here is a screen shot from the game which was used to make the icon:
The accidental and kind of neat thing about this Easter egg is that it is itself a reference to an Easter egg. This floppy disk was one of the things in the game that you could pick up which didn't actually help you in your adventure. It is a copy of a previous game that I had written in real life way back in middle school: Space Game II: Operation Remus. The original version of Operation Remus was written in FORTRAN under VMS.
Also: I remember one day in a meeting Jennifer was demoing a new button she had added to the GUI and she admitted to having drawn the icon herself and said anyone could create a better button for it if they were artistically inclined. I remember thinking to myself: Yeah, I think I could probably produce a better icon than that. I tactfully kept the comment to myself.
If the retarded workstations we work on at The Company (which, incidentally are also made at The Company), could effectively use more than 256 colors at a time [2] then I could make some really interesting icons for EinsTimer. I've always been of the opinion that workstations should be user friendly and their interfaces should minimize eyestrain, and servers should be fast. At least are servers are fast.
[1] This not being a hard thing for EinsTimer to find most of the time.
[2] 256 colors was actually pretty good... in the late 80s.
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Also: I remember one day in a meeting Jennifer was demoing a new button she had added to the GUI and she admitted to having drawn the icon herself and said anyone could create a better button for it if they were artistically inclined. I remember thinking to myself: Yeah, I think I could probably produce a better icon than that. I tactfully kept the comment to myself.
If the retarded workstations we work on at The Company (which, incidentally are also made at The Company), could effectively use more than 256 colors at a time [2] then I could make some really interesting icons for EinsTimer. I've always been of the opinion that workstations should be user friendly and their interfaces should minimize eyestrain, and servers should be fast. At least are servers are fast.
[1] This not being a hard thing for EinsTimer to find most of the time.
[2] 256 colors was actually pretty good... in the late 80s.
