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I left a file called xmas.js included in an internal tool one time when I left for a 9 month trip in between contracts (in November).

Basically it would check whether it was the last few weeks of December, and whether rand()%20 was zero. If so, it would wait about a minute then slowly fly a little gif of Santa & his sleigh across the background, behind all the controls on whatever form it happened to land on.

They had a team of data entry guys using this tool, and it would take on average a few minutes to enter each record. So it made its way through QA and eventually to the desk of a friend. Got an email on the beach about it. Fun times.



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