April Fools 2014

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April Fools 2014

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(20/06/13 00:00:10) Day changed to 20 Jun 2013
(08:12:26) jr-: no problem. i'll wait for your official announcement of accepting job offer from jerry and freeems getting renamed to megasquirt4.
(11:47:46) Fred: ROFL
(11:48:14) Fred: over my cold dead body ;-)
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maybe buy diyautotun.com for the occasion and do a fake page congratulating me


http://dlyautotune.com perhaps
http://diyautotune.com real
http://diyautotun.com missing e
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Fred wrote:http://dlyautotune.com perhaps
YES, I didn't even recognise it! :-)
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Re: April Fools 2014

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TODO:

1) Change all FreeEMS forum sections to MegaSquirt4
2) invite all current users to #megasquirt4 channels
3) write thread detailing the job offer and acceptance
4) purchase the domain and steal the formatting to make a fake page with an article congratulating me
5) write a diary post about it and link to thread
6) change avatar to MS4 logo of some sort

more?
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Re: April Fools 2014

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2 meg:

Image

higher quality 5 meg:

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-26939-Di ... h-cQis.gif

higher res 9 meg:

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-26939-Ja ... f-o1Zt.gif

more TODO:

Setup github account
Setup repos with freeems content and commits changing all instances to ms4
Youtube channel maybe?
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Re: April Fools 2014

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Well, that went pretty well, didn't it! :-D Patience is a virtue. I knew the instant he said that that I had to do it. 9 months later the plan was set in motion and results obtained!

Will publish more of the results here soon, but for now, here's the facebook response, one of the most popular posts ever! :-D

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Re: April Fools 2014

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Image

Deleted! Pretty sure a similar one still exists on msextra.com though LOL :-p
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