Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "burp"
From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@euronet.be>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:41:57 +0200

These little surprises are known as "Easter eggs" in the software industry. Just
a way for the programmers to amuse themselves after they have overdosed on
coffee and pizza. The Big Electric Cat of Photoshop is described in at least one
book, "Real World Photoshop".

Nathan

Harrison McClary wrote:

> When you work at a publishing house you learn all sorts of weird
> stuff...like if you hold down the command, option, control, shift keys
> and press delete in Quark whatever you have selected an alien will come
> out and zap it to oblivion using a ray gun......also pretty cool.
>
> On 8/23/99 6:23 PM Alastair Firkin wrote:
>
> >Where the hell did you learn to do this???? I agree its really quite funny,
> >and I'm glad not to have missed out on the big cat ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Harrison McClary
> email: harrison@mcclary.net
> http://www.mcclary.net
> preview my book: http://www.volmania.com

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Nathan Wajsman
Overijse, Belgium
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