Easter Eggs 🥚 on SuttaCentral

[Vimala]

Now the new site has been launched, there are 5 Easter Eggs to be found. For those of you who do not know what this means, I refer to the Google Define function (hint: It’s NOT the first definition).

If you find one, please post it here. The Easter Eggs that have not been found by Easter Monday I will make known here and I might post some hints in the mean time.

Happy Easter Egg hunting!

[Brenna]

I know that Easter Eggs don’t actually have anything to do with Eggs, but for some reason I felt a compulsion to do a search for “egg” and found this translation from SN29.11-20:

Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha: “Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons?”

Is this one, or did Bhante Sujato ACTUALLY TRANSLATE NĀGĀ AS DRAGON.

[Vimala]

Well, what’s wrong with dragons? They are pretty cool .

[Brenna]

@Vimala

Well, what’s wrong with dragons? They are pretty cool .

Indeed, they are! For some reason though, “egg-born dragons” was not something I was expecting in a sutta.

[Vimala]

Queen's University researchers hatch world's first dragon eggs

[Mat]

@Vimala

It’s NOT the first definition).

Here’s the second one then: "

2. an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus.

My question is, is it a joke, or a bonus?

with hassa,

[felipe]

Hello.

I always heard that nagas where have human half snake, but I recently learned that they are actually closer to dragons than snakes.

[Subharo]

The Suttas themselves are treasure enough for me. If I find an Easter egg, I think it will be by syncronicity.

[SCMatt]

I just tried the Konami Code to no avail. I give up.

If we don’t find the Eggs by Easter Monday you should start randomly banning people… jk lol

[cjmacie]

@Mat

@Vimala

It’s NOT the first definition).

Here’s the second one then: "

2. an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus.

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In the commercial world, these (“Easter Eggs”) are s/t hidden away in software products as a sort of expression of developer cleverness, a sort of inside joke. Also been known to list names of the developers in corporate situations where that’s otherwise frowned on.

When i was working as ParcPlace Systems (“PPS” - the Smalltalk-80 vendor in the 1980s-1990s), the lead crew stuck such a self-advertisement into a release once, but it got caught during alpha-testing, and didn’t get out the door.

I would guess what’s going on here now is (at least what used to be called) beta-testing, i.e. by a sampling of customers. Debugging done before the release here the other day being alpha-testing (by the developer and QA teams).

With any significant software system, it’s never completely bug-free. Release was allowed, as per the system used at PPS when I was in QA there when: 1) new functionality works; 2) older functionality still works; 3) no “show-stoppers” known.

[Vimala]

The first 4 Easter Eggs have been found. We are still missing one with the hint: Who is Yodha? Sofar I have not seen anything that comes anywhere close. The PTS Dictionary entry is a genuine entry from the PTS Dictionary and is not a joke.

Easter Egg 1

Following on from the Easter Egg thread, I will give a few hints here. The first one is not really a hint but a dead give-away because otherwise you would never find it. Easter Egg 1: Go to any page in pali in latin script and press ALT-M. That’s it. See what happens. This will be extremely exciting for some and very boring for others Explanation: In the beginning, ṃ was more widely available in many fontsets and hence became more widely used. When it came to usage on SuttaCentral, Bh…

Easter Egg 2

@Sabbamitta found the second and third Easter Eggs! Well done! Here is your trophy Easter Egg 2: The Buddha's Words [Screenshot%20from%202018-02-19%2019-12-04] Well, he might have said that at some occasion. But maybe it was not recorded. … Background: On Tuesday 6th February, myself and our whole Dev-team was glued to the screen to watch the live broadcast of Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy Test Flight, which put his Tesla Roadster into orbit with Starman behind the wheel. It was one of t…

Easter Egg 3

And another for @Sabbamitta for finding this one! Easter Egg 3: Metta Sutta What more beautiful language to translate the Metta Sutta in than Sindarin. Sindarin was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth during in the Third Age, usually referred to as “Elven”. In order for the Tengwar font to be loaded properly, go to https://suttacentral.net/kp9 and find the translation by Galadriel in the menu. [Screenshot%20from%202018-03-15%2005-23-06] It was the language of …

Easter Egg 4

And another for @sabbamitta, whose insomnia led her to do some midnight sleuthing and find 3 of the 5 Easter Eggs on the site. Easter Egg 4: Why do you read? [Screenshot%20from%202018-02-26%2019-31-13] When George Lucas met this Tibetan Buddhist rinpoche, he used him as the model for Yoda, the wise Jedi master in Star Wars . [yoda-rinpoche] This is one of the famous quotes from Yoda from the iconic scene where Yoda and the Jedi council consider young Anakin Skywalker’s “…

[sabbamitta]

@Vimala

The PTS Dictionary entry is a genuine entry from the PTS Dictionary and is not a joke.

When I made my first reply in this thread

Easter Egg 1

Following on from the Easter Egg thread, I will give a few hints here. The first one is not really a hint but a dead give-away because otherwise you would never find it. Easter Egg 1: Go to any page in pali in latin script and press ALT-M. That’s it. See what happens. This will be extremely exciting for some and very boring for others Explanation: In the beginning, ṃ was more widely available in many fontsets and hence became more widely used. When it came to usage on SuttaCentral, Bh…

I was unsure first if all the hints were pointing to one and the same Easter Egg or each one to another egg. Assuming the first option I tried to find some connection that links all the hints together, but when coming across the second egg it became clear to me that this cannot be the case.

[Vimala]

As nobody sofar has managed to find the last Easter Egg, I will give another hint.

Hint 1: Who is Yodha?
Hint 2: Where on the new SC site can you find a list of people and the suttas they appear in?

Okay, I’ve made it much too easy now

[Cara]

!
Now I know where it is but my phone wont let me go there

[aconlan]

The names index won’t populate for me in Firefox or Chromium:

[ERose]

lol best scavenger hunt in which i have observed ever! Plus Buddhists as lol keystone cops scavengers! For easter bunny eggs! ahhh lol

one feels great affection for a species.

[aconlan]

Works on my phone:

[ERose]

…what is a nunk? =D

[aconlan]

Cross between an Nun and Monk, I think? Perhaps Ayya @vimalanyani could clarify

The link leads to here

Dhamma doodles

There still seems to be some confusion about the persons in my doodles and about me. So let me clarify: This is how I depict monks: [Anuruddha] This is how I depict nuns: [Anuruddha] And this is me: [Anuruddha] So lets stop discussing gender and get back to discussing dhamma and doodles.