Microsoft’s got a pretty stellar track record of terrible Windows infomercials. Some for the consumer, some internal, all pretty rough. This 1988 video showcases Windows/386, a fairly impressive upgrade to Windows that introduced multitasking among other features. The impressiveness of the upgrade does not come through in this video. What begins as a dry-but-corny corporate…
Five Things – 4.9.12
1. Easter Bunny Test – My wife and I spent Easter in Orlando with my parents and my sister’s family, which included my two nephews. I spent most of Saturday engaged in training exercises with the boys, getting them ready for Sunday’s big egg hunt. After awhile, we noticed that eggs started mysteriously appearing in the birdhouse. After this had happened a few more times, most of us were in agreement that the Easter Bunny was onto our training exercises and wanted to let us know that he was watching us. My nephew Logan, however, took a more practical view of the situation and suspected one of us of being the Easter Bunny. He developed this test to try and suss the Easter Bunny out of the family of suspects he’d grown to trust:
For those of you who can’t read the image:
Test chart of being an easter bunny
Test 1 hop 30 times.
Test 2 don’t make a sound
Test 3 don’t let anyone see you.
Test 4 never be found in a game of hide and seek
Test 5 never get tired of hoping
Test 6 like all children
Test 7 hop all the time
warning: if you fail 3 or over tests you may not be the easter bunny
for what it’s worth, we were all found “not easter bunny”. It remains a mystery to this day…
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