Generation Zero Back To The Future Easter Egg

[Marsilius Boa]

To that end, Alexa's cloud-powered smarts are packed with fun and wacky Easter eggs, and Amazon adds new features every so often. So, whether you have an Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Dot with Clock, the chunky Echo Studio or a smart display such as the Echo Show 10, Show 8, Show 5 or the Show 15, you can get started with the Alexa fun today. Here's a roundup of all the Easter eggs we know of currently.

The Star Trek references are the tip of the iceberg. Alexa will respond to several classic Star Wars quotes (and she'll maintain that Han shot first in the original theatrical release of A New Hope, too). She'll explain the theoretical consequences of crossing the streams. Fans of Game of Thrones can tell Alexa "Winter is coming" to hear one of several quotes from the show in response. If you're a fan of The Big Bang Theory, she'll even take you on in a game of rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock.

Alexa's oddly fond of any piece of science-fiction that depicts artificial intelligence gone awry. That includes obvious classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey ("Alexa, open the pod bay doors") and Terminator ("Alexa, are you Skynet?"), along with titles that might be a bit more obscure for some, like 1983's WarGames ("Alexa, I want to play global thermonuclear war").

Some of my favorites are Alexa's Monty Python references. You can, for instance, ask her for the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow, and follow up by asking how she knows so much about swallows. Or you could cut right to the chase and tell her that her mother was a hamster.

Alexa is gamer-friendly, too. In addition to downloadable Alexa skills that can remind you of crafting recipes in Minecraft or tell you what armor is up for sale this week in Destiny, Alexa will recognize several classic gaming references.

For instance, if you're a fan of the Portal series you could try asking Alexa if the cake is a lie, or if she knows GladOS (yet another evil-AI with whom Alexa has an unsettling degree of familiarity).

Alexa might not be nominated for a standup comedy special anytime soon, but some of her quirky responses might just make you crack a smile. Besides fun games and trivia, Alexa can also serve up some of the corniest dad jokes. Here's what to ask to bring out Alexa's dad-approved cheesy humor.

Celebrities are starting to get in on the fun, too. Following their appearance in Amazon's first-ever Super Bowl ad, you'll hear guest appearances from Alec Baldwin and from Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Dan Marino if you ask Alexa how many Oscars Baldwin has won or how many Super Bowl rings Marino has (the answer in both cases is "zero," though neither Baldwin nor Marino are content to leave it at that.)

But since 2016 when Alexa made it possible to utilize celebrity voices, numerous other voices have been added to its repertoire. Here's a list of celebrities you can talk to with Alexa and an Echo speaker.

There are three simple voice commands to enable celebrity voice cameos. Simply say, "Alexa, enable (celebrity name)," or "Alexa, introduce me to (celebrity name)," or "Hey (celebrity name), tell me a joke." From there, you can ask the celebrities all sorts of fun questions. This feature works on all Echo speakers, second-generation and newer.

Not every Easter egg is an obvious pop culture reference or a play at a movie star's ego. Sometimes, Alexa will offer surprisingly spot-on answers to tough questions, or nuanced evasions to questions you might not want her to answer.

This might come in handy if you have small children -- if they ask Alexa about Santa Claus, she'll play along and tell them she's heard great things about the guy. Ask her how babies are made, and she'll stammer out an awkward reply instructing you to try asking Mommy or Daddy.

Alexa also has a handle on the types of scientific questions you'd hope she'd be familiar with. Ask her about the laws of robotics, and she'll give you a pitch perfect rundown. Ask her about the Turing test (and whether or not she passes it), and she'll explain that she doesn't need to pass it because she isn't trying to pass as a human. No word yet on whether or not she could beat you in a game of Go, though.

I wonder if this generation realizes how important it is to become eye-single to our Christian values. There is an unwritten law: That which we do not use, we lose. Everywhere you turn, the world leads our children to the secular meaning of Easter. Stores bulge with chocolate bunnies, eggs and cellophane-grass-filled baskets. There are lilies in flower shops, plenty of egg coloring in every supermarket and candles on every shelf.

Back then, we could recite the meaning of the symbols of Easter. The eggs and bunnies mean new life. The cellophane grass and baskets remind us of the newness of spring. The bright eggs colored with the colors of the dawn make us think of a new morning and the resurrection. There were crosses and pageants, Masses and special worship services around the world. Who really thinks about the Christ in the hubbub of celebration now?

We have a three- or four-day weekend. We plan picnics and trips to the lake. We bask in the new sunlight and hide Easter eggs for the kiddies to find. We have Easter egg rolls and lay in wait for the Easter Bunny to see if they really bring the treats, and we teach our children to do the same. I wonder how many times we mention Jesus.

I love Easter and the celebration, but I wonder what we are building for the future when we spend more time talking about the Easter Bunny than we do about Jesus, who rose from the tomb that long-ago Easter morning. Do our children know Him? Will they be able to tell His story to future generations and carry on the traditions made special by His life and teachings?

Will our little ones know more about the Easter Bunny than they know about He who gave sight to the blind and cleansed the leper? Will they know that, just as the blind man was given the glorious gift of sight, they can be given the glorious gift of insight? Jesus can heal spiritual blindness so we can see miracles.

Will the furry Easter Bunny remind our children of the miracle of the 10 lepers who were healed by Jesus? Leprosy is a disease where people lose their ability to feel pain. Because they feel no pain, they can be burned, or rats can chew off extremities, and they never feel it. It was a terrible predicament for those who lived in ancient times because there was no cure. Jesus took that disease away with a touch and a word, and He can do the same for us.

Just as Jesus healed the lepers, He can melt our hearts with His infinite mercy. He can give us a new heart. Nine lepers walked away, thinking only of their own miracle, and only one turned back to give glory to God. The nine lost the second miracle Jesus had to offer. He gave the grateful leper a new heart, as well as a new body. Will our children be the nine who go heedlessly on without a backward glance of gratitude, or will they be the ones who receive the second miracle of a new heart because they glorified God?

Tesla[1] products include a significant number of software and hardware Easter eggs among other notable and unique software features, such as a suite of video games,[2][3][4][5] doggy mode,[6] emissions testing mode,[7] "caraoke",[8] and romance mode.[9]

Touching the battery icon inside the Tesla mobile app with the vehicle at exactly 121 miles (or 121 km) of range was discovered to launch a Back to the Future Easter egg.[10][11] All aspects of this Easter egg were observed to occur within the mobile app. A pop-up message displays "Time Circuits Off" and "Be sure to reset your clock to account for temporal displacement". The name of the vehicle changes to "OUTATIME" within the app. "Charging scheduled" changes to "Time Circuits On". "121 miles" changes to "1.21 GW". The "Charging" tab changes to "Fuel Chamber". Below the now "Fuel Chamber" tab reads as "Current Output: 300R" which may refer to the number of Back to the Future replica cars being made per year by DeLorean Motor Company.[12][13] The vehicle location display changes to "1600 S Azusa Ave Rowland Heights", one of the movie filming locations, and a service appointment appears to be scheduled for November 5, 1955, which is an important day within the film.

Voice command "Keep Tesla Safe" or "Keep Summer Safe" were discovered to activate sentry mode.[14] Sentry mode, which was originally depicted on the in-vehicle display as HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but replaced by what appears to be the eye of a sentient sentry turret from the Valve video game Portal,[15] is a Tesla security feature that can be toggled on or off using voice commands, "Enable/Disable Sentry Mode" or "Turn Sentry Mode On/Off". Voice commands "Keep Tesla Safe" or "Keep Summer Safe" can also enable sentry mode.[16] The extra commands are a reference to a scene from season 2, episode 6 of Rick and Morty, entitled "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", where Rick instructs his vehicle to keep Morty's sister, Summer, safe while Rick and Morty venture into Rick's microverse car battery.[17] Elon Musk notably wore a Butterbot T-shirt to the 2018 Tesla Annual Shareholder's Meeting[18] indicating his interest in the show.

Voice commands "open butthole" and "close butthole" open and close the charge port, but may open the trunk instead in some cases.[19] "Open bunghole" and "close bunghole" also work and may be a reference to Beavis and Butt-Head.

Voice command "turn on X seat bacon" where X = Driver or Passenger, will turn on that seat's heater. Alternatively, "Turn on 1, 2, or 3 seat bacons" will activate the seat heater to low, medium, or high respectively.

Voice commands "Ho Ho Ho" or "Ho Ho Ho Not Funny" will activate the Santa Mode Easter egg.[20][21] If voice command "Ho Ho Ho" is used, Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry will play inside of the vehicle. If voice command "Ho Ho Ho Not Funny" is used, Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer will play inside of the vehicle instead. Otherwise, the two commands activate the same Santa Mode Easter egg. While driving or in park, a snow effect appears above the depiction of the vehicle. When parked, the image of the car is replaced by Santa Claus on his sleigh. Using the turn signal will result in the sound of sleigh bells in addition to the normal turn signal sound. In previous versions, the vehicle was depicted as Santa Claus on his sleigh while driving as well as in park, Computer vision showed the road as ice, and other cars were depicted as reindeer while driving.

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