{"id":3693,"date":"2006-02-10T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/10\/bruce-the-wonder-yak\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:08:45","slug":"bruce-the-wonder-yak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/02\/10\/bruce-the-wonder-yak\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce the Wonder Yak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6950,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/highschoolblows.blogspot.com\\\/2006\\\/02\\\/easter-egg-found-in-apples_113946667818510758.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231123182306\\\/https:\\\/\\\/highschoolblows.blogspot.com\\\/2006\\\/02\\\/easter-egg-found-in-apples_113946667818510758.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 16:11:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 10:52:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 01:54:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:25:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:25:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6951,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/finalcutstudio\\\/finalcutpro&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110608040927\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/finalcutstudio\\\/finalcutpro\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/finalcutstudio\\\/finalcutpro&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 10:52:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:25:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 03:25:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Someone <a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolblows.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/easter-egg-found-in-apples_113946667818510758.html\" title=\"Random Tech: Easter Egg Found in Apple's Final Cut Pro HD\">discovered a fun easter egg<\/a> in Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/finalcutstudio\/finalcutpro\/\" title=\"Apple - Final Cut Studio - Final Cut Pro 5\">Final Cut Pro 5<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Open up &#8220;Final Cut Pro.rsrc&#8221; (<code>\/Applications\/Final Cut Pro HD\/Contents\/Resources\/Final Cut Pro.rsrc<\/code>) in any text editor and you will stumble upon this hidden message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    If we can&#8217;t ship this puppy by then, we might as well be herding yaks. I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s getting weird again. I didn&#8217;t understand it when it wasn&#8217;t weird. The C switch statement: Mmmmmm! Chock full of nooses! That would be like crossing the streams or something. Mmmm&#8230; Chicago style pizza! I&#8217;ve got my blankie, I&#8217;m good to go. A lot of this job is mental. &#8220;Mostly clockwise, sometimes reverses&#8230;&#8221; What&#8217;s the sound of one luma clamping? I just wanna be in the app! Oh, rough and woeful music which we have! Cause it to sound! The Yak is a delightful creature&#8230; rather like a visit with a bovine Confucious&#8230;\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> more there, I&#8217;ve snipped it for the sake of brevity. I think it&#8217;s a hilarious little random screed &#8212; and my guess is that they just took every little &#8220;in-joke&#8221; from the FCP programming team and tossed them all semi-randomly into a single text file. That&#8217;s what it reads like to me, at least &#8212; with the recurring Yak theme and the general random silliness of what&#8217;s in there, reading it reminded me a <em>lot<\/em> of some of my old brainstorming sessions with friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s a hilarious little random screed &#8212; and my guess is that they just took every little &#8216;in-joke&#8217; from the FCP programming team and tossed them all semi-randomly into a single text file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[118,6,65],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-humor","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}