On 11/3/06, James Edward Gray II james@grayproductions.net wrote:

On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Jim Plush wrote:

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[2006-11-02: REVISION 1324]

[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock -- ticket 945BEB5D

lol, please tell me people didn't complain about the easter egg?

See the ticket number at the end of that message? :(

http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=945BEB5D

I hope I never grow up or become professional like some of those jackasses.

Pat

there are people out there who are bound to be offended by anything (you know who you are, and you are probably even offended by this message). Don't let it discourage you. I know a ton of people really enjoyed that little surprise. Just as it makes users feel good to see how active you are in this forum, it's great to see that an application as "boring" as a text editor can have a bit of fun.

-dave

On 11/3/06, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:

On 3. Nov 2006, at 18:15, Jim Plush wrote:

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[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock -- ticket 945BEB5D

lol, please tell me people didn't complain about the easter egg?

The rape and human sacrifice was posted on my blog [1], the God of the dead (yeah, I misspelled it in the release notes) was a personal comment.

I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an interesting sociological experience :)

And, while this wasn't meant to be a PR stunt, sales and web traffic doubled in the two days we had the theme, which makes it quite ironic to then read feedback such as I am losing my professional reputation etc. ;)

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On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Jay Soffian wrote:

On Nov 3, 2006, at 6:05 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

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I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an interesting sociological experience :)

I think it's worth pointing out to the folks that got offended -- this theme was never in the official release of TextMate, but rather appeared only in a limited-release "cutting-edge" build.

I'm pretty sure it was a major release.

James Edward Gray II

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:

I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an interesting sociological experience :)

Don't worry, there's a couple people here eager to see TM Xmas egg, April 1st egg, Easter egg usw.

Working with TM was pleasant, now it's *very* pleasant ;-)

Have a nice day,

Allan, maybe you can put in custom images for major holidays, like thanksgiving and Christmas.... On the other hand, seeing how your application is used world wide, it could get out of hand.

Any future plans? On Nov 3, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 3. Nov 2006, at 18:15, Jim Plush wrote:

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[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock -- ticket 945BEB5D

lol, please tell me people didn't complain about the easter egg?

The rape and human sacrifice was posted on my blog [1], the God of the dead (yeah, I misspelled it in the release notes) was a personal comment.

I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an interesting sociological experience :)

And, while this wasn’t meant to be a PR stunt, sales and web traffic doubled in the two days we had the theme, which makes it quite ironic to then read feedback such as I am losing my professional reputation etc. ;)

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On 4 Nov 2006, at 18:01, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

(Coincidentally, Scott Adams posted on a similar subject just today: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/ the_most_obscen.html)

Off topic: he's been on top form lately eh?

I think that the point that the curmudgeons are trying to make is that the "holiday" changes were unexpected and not very easy to get rid of. I thought it was pretty neat, but after looking at it for five days, I just wanted it to go away. Hmm, it was supposed to have gone away with a sofware updated, am I doing that correctly? I am supposed to be getting minor updates only, did I get a cutting-edge update by accident? Do I need to get a cutting-edge update to make this go away? I finally figured out that I should quit and restart TextMate to make it go away. Woo, that finally worked. Unfortunately, I spent ten minutes trying to resolve something that had started to bug me after five days. I guess I did learn something about my Mac (I'm in my 2nd year of post-switch!)

However, as a paying customer, I would have preferred that this had either gone away by itself after a day or so or that there had been a very prominent option in the Preferences to make it go away.

Please don't get me wrong. I loved the thought but didn't love the execution quite as much. The arrival of a Hallow'een logo definitely brightened my day(s). It won't be as much a surprise as this was, but I'll surely smile when and if future holiday art shows up. It's an endearing attribute of the philosophy of TextMate, and it makes me happy that I spent however many euros I spent.

Summary: keep up the good work, but realize that some people either don't get it or just want to edit files.

On 11/4/06, Corey Jewett ml@syntheticplayground.com wrote:

I personally was offended. And once I stopped chuckling I immediately hit up a bunch of my friends to check it out. Keep it up Allan, TM gets better every day.

Corey

On Nov 3, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

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On 3. Nov 2006, at 18:15, Jim Plush wrote:

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[REMOVED] TextMate no longer pays tribute to human sacrifices, rape, nor does it show a picture of the God of the deaths in your dock -- ticket 945BEB5D

lol, please tell me people didn't complain about the easter egg?

The rape and human sacrifice was posted on my blog [1], the God of the dead (yeah, I misspelled it in the release notes) was a personal comment.

I think I got a dozen or so complaints, which though is nothing compared to how much positive feedback I got -- so I took it as an interesting sociological experience :)

And, while this wasn't meant to be a PR stunt, sales and web traffic doubled in the two days we had the theme, which makes it quite ironic to then read feedback such as I am losing my professional reputation etc. ;)

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On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Corey Jewett wrote:

I personally was offended. And once I stopped chuckling I immediately hit up a bunch of my friends to check it out. Keep it up Allan, TM gets better every day.

Your post makes no sense. Did you omit 'not'?