Tag: april fools

Oh No, Not Again

In the immortal words of the guy from Alien who met the first face hugger thing and then in Spaceballs went through the experience again… Oh no… not again.

April Fools.

10 seconds on twitter was enough of a reminder. Every company on Earth will release fake press releases today. Sigh. I think I am about as over it as one can be.

Remember the first time Google did an April Fools ad? It was clever, it was funny, it was cool. Then the next year they did it again and so did a couple of other companies. Clever. Interesting. Worth a laugh. Then every company on Earth and that was it. Done. 99% of them are stupid and insipid and seem like they were thrown together at 11:00pm on March 31st.

Folks… let’s stop now, m’kay? This is proof that it is possible to have too much of a good thing, right? Right.

April Fools

Happy April Fools Day.  If I get some time today I will scour the internets looking for web site April Fools jokes.  I saw one this morning where Mashable reported that CERN had discovered The Force and that gravity was just some prankster Jedi holding us all down.  That’s pretty good.  Google is traditionally the April Fools King.  I’m looking forward to seeing what they have in store this year.

The real April Fools joke came from my phone though.  The weather channel app told me it was 25 degrees out as I was getting ready to leave for work.  That’s funny.  25 degrees on April 1st.

You realize now of course that the joke was on me… because it wasn’t a joke… it was really seven degrees below freezing on April 1st.  Winter will never end.

April Fools Pranks

There was a time when Google rolled out the best April Fools pranks you could ever hope to find on the internet.  These days, you still get the feeling that April Fools is like Christmas, New Years, and your birthday all rolled into one for many Google employees, but the pranks are not what they used to be.

They have a couple of decent ones today.  I’ve only found two, but I’m sure there are more.

Google Nose (Beta)

Gmail Blue

I have also heard that some one posted that the Red Sox have signed Curt Schilling.  That’s a good one.

I saw one last night too and that threw me off completely.  Soundcloud’s blog posted something that seemed ridiculous.  I thought it was an April Fools joke that leaked early.  A minute ago it dawned on me that Soundcloud is based in Germany.  The joke wasn’t early, I was.  Oh well..

Good Friday

I should wish everyone who believes in Good Friday a Happy Good Friday.

I don’t get it though.  Why not just say Happy Day in Which Your Personal Savior was Slaughtered Like an Animal in the Most Humiliating and Agonizingly Painful Way Possible in Front of the Whole Entire City?

Stick to Easter.  Or what non believers call, The Day Your Personal Savior Came Back From the Dead as a Zombie.  How do you moan, “braaaiinnnns” in Aramaic?  What about Hebrew and Greek?

We usually do family things on Easter Sunday.  This year I’m on call so Jen and I are just going to stay home.  The kids are with their dad this weekend so there won’t even be Bunny festivities, zombie or otherwise.

I find some humor in the fact that this year Easter Sunday is immediately followed by April Fools Day on Monday.

For years I have been on the fence as to what if anything Easter really means to me.  This year it’s just another day for me.  I am much more excited about next weekend, when the kids have some huge events to participate in.  There’s no doubt in my mind as to the reality and importance of next weekend.

I don’t know… maybe I’m just getting my butt whooped at work today and am in a crummy mood.  I don’t know.

Do you think there is any hidden meaning to the season finale of The Walking Dead taking place on Easter Sunday?  Does anyone care?

I don’t know.