April Fool's Day

[filkertom]

I am continuing my tradition of not participating. (Except that one time. But that was... you know.) However, there are already a few good ones out there, such as the one at Steve Jackson Games.

How are you celebrating the day? I'm working, and then cleaning, and then making tacos.

ETA: Okay, I've got the winning April Fool's Day joke right here -- Woot is selling their Bag O' Crap... but only if you beat a video game.

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[hms42]

Local radio station has been playing Christmas music since Midnight. (Along with the holiday adverts.)

[kshandra]

Probably 15 years ago, one of the SF Bay Area stations (nominally an alt-rock station) did a 4/1 format change to K-GAY - showtunes, dance music, queer musicians, etc. It wound up being so phenomenally popular that they've done a K-GAY weekend for the Pride Parade ever since.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Today, I - Little Miss Google-worshiper - signed up for iTunes...

No, really. I did: I bought Spice's album, and I'm finally redeeming all those Starbux "free song" cards I've accumulated. (Both of them. ;-) )

Honestly, I'm not exactly a big "fan" of this particular date either, as it's been a historically bad one for me. So, I'm hoping to remember the date all day long to remind myself that I should be be extra skeptical of things, before taking them too seriously and panicking due to a poorly-thought-out "funny" prank.

[sdelmonte]

I've kind of lost the taste for April Fool's Day. Mainly because half the jokes are too obvious and the others are too good. Every year, Superman Homepage runs at least one joke news story about a comic or TV show that I wish was real, and I am then really bummed when I remember the date. That just isn't cool.

Then again, maybe I am just a big grump sometimes.

[danceswithlife]

I'm taking 3 days vacation and doing a five day "retreat" to finish the first major section of my thesis so I can GRADUATE soon. I'm trying to bribe myself: if I get it done by Monday night I get to take a drive out to the coast on Tuesday and look at the ocean and blooming things. We'll see if I make it.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope and believe the current page at General Protection Fault is a joke -- and would not be entirely shocked if it were not.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that there is a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, and that their motto is 'Protection is our Trademark', is scarier than the idea that GPF might have been taken down.

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

http://www.sabrina-online.com/

Eric Schwartz (the furry artist, not either of the comedy musicians) did it too, but with a different slant

[maiac.livejournal.com]

In another forum, a friend posted a link to an obituary for Dick Cheney. I should have known it was an April Fool's Day prank; Satan doesn't want the competition.

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

I look forward to Google's joke every year. They did not disappoint. :)

I always intend to come up with a great joke, but have not come up with anything to beat the time Jason and I convinced a bunch of people that we were moving to Germany. It pissed a few people off too :( but most had good humor about it.

Jason always manages to fool me about something, though every year I tell myself that this year, I'll be ready for it. :P

[ericcoleman]

I'm waiting, waiting a year or two and making my co-workers very very nervous. They expect me to do something, and are frequently convinced that I have. Maybe next year I'll pull an actual prank.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

The best prank I've seen was in a college dorm. The blew up balloons in the hallway and soaked them in liquid nitrogen (in a styrofoam cooler). The balloons shrank and then the people shoved them under the RA's door with a stick, where they warmed up and expanded again. 500 balloons.

So the RA went to sleep behind locked doors, and woke up with balloons filling his entire room.

[kshandra]

Holy Christ, that's brilliant. (And my brother-in-law went to Harvey Mudd, so I've heard of some pretty damned inspired pranks in the past.)

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I'll be ignoring the foolhardy hardlyfools jokes myself. As for the day, I need to troubleshoot one of my lights as one channel (blue) has gone out for some reason.

[vid848.livejournal.com]

YouTube, to celebrate there 100th birthday, has posted Top Five Viral Pictures of 1911 (http://youtu.be/CNm8ZCJ7Fx8?hd=1).
My personal favorite was "Buggy Intruder".

[jss]

At least one of Google's pranks has been mentioned. They've got two I know of, the GMail Motion and searching for Helvetica.

There are at least three Internet RFCs — 5984, 6214, and 6217 — that came out today.

A friend's junior sysadmin pranked their mutual coworker by replacing his desktop computer.

Nothing amazing so far, with the possible exception of what Mother Nature is doing to the northeast.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Where on Earth can you actually find a working C64 nowdays?

[alverant.livejournal.com]

I bet mine still works. I haven't touched in in years. It's been save in its wooden box in a closet in my parents' home.

[jss]

One's personal storage space of dead computers? (Personally I've gotten rid of most of mine.)

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Not celebrating, unless changing the furnace filter and flipping the matress count as celebrating. But I would by the new Devo Spice album (Gnome Sayin) on iTunes ... IF I had iTunes (sorry Devo but you never gave us non-mac-product-users an option).

[jss]

iTunes exists for Windows as well. Just sayin'.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

It's still a mac product and I won't download any mac products knowingly.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Your call. But I've never had a lick of trouble with iTunes on my windows boxes. Windows Media Player, on the other hand, has been the crashiest nastiest thing I've ever run. Only the latest version that comes with Win7Pro64 works at all.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Funny, I never had any problems with WMP. iTunes, on the other hand, wants you to use it for everything and even if you say "no" it still tries to worm its way into your start menu and media library. Worse there's NO way to get rid of it. No matter what you do, there's still a little piece somewhere trying to get you to reinstall it like the T-1000. When it was on my last computer, it acted less like a program and more like a virus.

I don't want apple monitoring what I listen to and trying to make decisions for me.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

I got taken by Dork Tower for about five minutes.

Work, hurry home to pay rent, keep scheming about a teenage superhero character concept. Goth or bimbo? Goth or bimbo?

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

How about both a Goth AND a Bimbo? Or one for her secret identity, and one for her superhero identity?

[caraig.livejournal.com]

I'm not fond of this day. Just bad experiences with jokes that are mostly just plain cruel and mean.

That being said, Google and the RFCs are always good for a laugh. =)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Which is why I gave up on the practice many years ago -- except for, as I said, that one time (http://filkertom.livejournal.com/13362.html).

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAA!! I love that you really got some people going.

~*::Meow::*~

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) has a good this going right now and Hulu (http://hulu.com) wants you to think it's 1996 :)

Reddit is being evil...

And I wish this were real: http://www.sniqueaway.com/con-nuri/

~*::Meow::*~

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

Labyrinth kid's camp? Does it come with Jareth?

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

~*::Meow::*~

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

Somebody better not tell the double rainbow guy...

[bonnie-rocks.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA!!

~*::Meow::*~

[delazan.livejournal.com]

Did you see what John Kovalic, aka muskrat_john, posted?

This morning, I told the husband that I was thinking of converting back to Catholicism.
-L.

[ladycheron.livejournal.com]

ThinkGeek's got their usual "New Products" listing, including Star Wars Light Saber Popsicles (with working LED). One of last year's prank listings, the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, proved so popular with their customers that they got a license from LucasFilms and started producing them.

Meanwhile, I've got a 10 year old in the house who started the day with "Grandmom, school is closed today." Then hit me with April Fool after I'd gone to look up the school calendar.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

My favorite vid from ThinkGeek today:

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I always thought that the Empire theme was a take on "Spoonful of Sugar" (Mary Poppins). Sounds right coming from that truck.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

It took me half an hour to determine that Helvetica: The Movie is actually real. So perhaps I am going back to bed.

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I've actually watched it, but my job makes me predisposed.

I found it more than a little informative, but it could've been shorter :>

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

We have a new player - Whole Foods Market.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Considering my parentage and the con folk I grew up around, I've learned to lay low and just stay out of the way, LOL...I stay on the porch and let the Big Dogs have their day.

Other than that, we sent off care packages to our friends in Japan and will be getting the roomie ready for her first 5k run next week.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

My first interview of my job hunt is also the first day of my job hunt.

That's not much to celebrate, but it's faster than any job hunt before this one.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Good luck! And that's no prank.

[kshandra]

The Existential Flame War appears to have been taken over by Callahan's Place (only fitting, considering it started there). Come play!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

The Kingdom of Loathing has a trophy available today only. It's for ascetics who have under 10,000 meat (the currency of the Kingdom) in their inventory. It costs 10,000 meat to buy it.

You start to see the picture here?

[ldyerzsie.livejournal.com]

Blizzard has funny ones this year.