Seasonal Challenge (Contributions from TeXing Dead Welcome)
The spooky blue screen of death:
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=cyan!70!blue}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{ClearSans}
\parskip2em
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\color{white}
\vspace{1cm}
\resizebox{1.5cm}{!}{:(}\par
\bfseries
Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
We're just collecting some error info, and then
we'll restart for you (0\% complete)\par
\scriptsize
If you'd like to know more, you can search online
later for this error: WRONG\_OPERATING\_SYSTEM
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Edit
OK, now time to scare TeX Live users with Linux. Get scared by paranormal activities? A child play compared with the mysterious kernel panic. A candy for anyone who understand it!
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=20cm,paperheight=12cm,margin=1mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\pagecolor{black}
\begin{document}
\color{white}
\begin{verbatim}
EIP is at journal_unfile_buffer+0x15/0x57 [jbd]
edg: d83cdf83 ard: e035e200 poe: 00000f16 poe: f58ec7bc
esi: f6223e08 pit: 00000004 pen: e035e200 esp: dff6af3c
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0069
Process kjournald (pid: 314d, tic=dff6a000 tac=dffa8aa0 toe=dff6a000)
Stack: 49276d20 6a757374 20737461 72746564 2c20646f 206e6f74 2070616e 69632079
65742c20 49206861 7665206e 6f742065 76656e20 62656775 6e20746f 20627572
6e20796f 75722062 7261696e 2c20736f 206c6574 20746865 206d6f75 73652071
75696574 2e
Call Trace:
[<f8473817>] journal_commit_transilvanus+0x907/Oxf60 [jbd]
[<c042f2fd>] lock_timer_base+Ox15/0x2f
[<c042f37c>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x65/0x6c
[<18676d38>] kjournald+0xa1/0x1c2 [jbd]
[<c04381f3>] autoremove_walking_dead+0x0/0x2d
[<18876c97>] kjournald+8x0/0x1c2 [jbd]
[<c043812e>] kthreat+you/0xee
[<c048306e>] kthreat+8x0/0xee
[<c0405c87>] kernel_thread_trick+Ox7/0x10
=======================
Code: 48 61 70 70 79 20 48 61 6c 6c 6f 77 65 65 6e 20 74 6f 20 61 6c 6c 20 75
73 65 72 73 20 6f 66 20 54 65 58 20 2d 20 4c 61 54 65 58 20 53 74 61 63 6b 20
45 78 63 68 61 6e 67 65
EIP: [<f8872ceb>] journal_unfile_buffer+8x15/0x57 [jbd] SS:ESP 8868:dfe6af2c
<0> Kernel panic - not treating: Attempted to kill init!
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
Here is a minimalist contribution
\phantom{}
\end
Any Comic Sans fans here?
\documentclass[border=9,tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{shadings}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Comic Sans MS}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{170pt}{0}\bfseries
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fxx}{2}{\pgfmathparse{fx(#1+1,#2)-fx(#1,#2)}}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fxy}{2}{\pgfmathparse{fy(#1+1,#2)-fy(#1,#2)}}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fyx}{2}{\pgfmathparse{fx(#1,#2+1)-fx(#1,#2)}}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fyy}{2}{\pgfmathparse{fy(#1,#2+1)-fy(#1,#2)}}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\clip(-15,-9)rectangle(15,9);
\shade[shading=color wheel](-11,-6)rectangle(11,8);
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fx}{2}{\pgfmathparse{#1*.8}}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction{fy}{2}{\pgfmathparse{#2*(1.2-cos(#1*10)*.7)}}
\begin{scope}[transparency group=knockout]
\fill[white](-15,-15)rectangle(15,15);
\foreach\i in{-13,...,12}{
\foreach\j in{0,...,5}{
\pgfmathsetmacro\aa{fxx(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ab{fxy(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ba{fyx(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\bb{fyy(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\xx{fx (\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\yy{fy (\i,\j)}
\pgflowlevelobj{
\pgfsettransformentries{\aa}{\ab}{\ba}{\bb}{\xx cm}{\yy cm}
}{
\clip(1,0)--(0,0)--(0,1)--cycle;
\tikzset{shift={(-\i,-\j)}}
\path(0,2.5)node[opacity=0,xscale=.8]{WORDART};
}
\pgfmathsetmacro\aa{fxx(\i ,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ab{fxy(\i ,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ba{fyx(\i+1,\j )}
\pgfmathsetmacro\bb{fyy(\i+1,\j )}
\pgfmathsetmacro\xx{fx (\i+1,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\yy{fy (\i+1,\j+1)}
\pgflowlevelobj{
\pgfsettransformentries{\aa}{\ab}{\ba}{\bb}{\xx cm}{\yy cm}
}{
\clip(0,0)--(-1,0)--(0,-1)--cycle;
\tikzset{shift={(-\i-1,-\j-1)}}
\path(0,2.5)node[opacity=0,xscale=.8]{WORDART};
}
}
}
\end{scope}
\shade[top color=gray,bottom color=white](-15,0)rectangle(15,-10);
\pgfmathdeclarefunction*{fx}{2}{\pgfmathparse{#1*(.8+#2/10)}}
\pgfmathdeclarefunction*{fy}{2}{\pgfmathparse{-#2*(1.2-cos(#1*10)*.7)}}
\begin{scope}[transparency group=knockout]
\fill[white](-15,-15)rectangle(15,0);
\foreach\i in{-13,...,12}{
\foreach\j in{0,...,5}{
\pgfmathsetmacro\aa{fxx(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ab{fxy(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ba{fyx(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\bb{fyy(\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\xx{fx (\i,\j)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\yy{fy (\i,\j)}
\pgflowlevelobj{
\pgfsettransformentries{\aa}{\ab}{\ba}{\bb}{\xx cm}{\yy cm}
}{
\clip(1,0)--(0,0)--(0,1)--cycle;
\tikzset{shift={(-\i,-\j)}}
\path(0,2.5)node[opacity=0,xscale=.8]{WORDART};
}
\pgfmathsetmacro\aa{fxx(\i ,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ab{fxy(\i ,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\ba{fyx(\i+1,\j )}
\pgfmathsetmacro\bb{fyy(\i+1,\j )}
\pgfmathsetmacro\xx{fx (\i+1,\j+1)}
\pgfmathsetmacro\yy{fy (\i+1,\j+1)}
\pgflowlevelobj{
\pgfsettransformentries{\aa}{\ab}{\ba}{\bb}{\xx cm}{\yy cm}
}{
\clip(0,0)--(-1,0)--(0,-1)--cycle;
\tikzset{shift={(-\i-1,-\j-1)}}
\path(0,2.5)node[opacity=0,xscale=.8]{WORDART};
}
}
}
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}