April Fool's Day

April 1, 2008 06:35 PM

I began writing this as a response to reaperman's comment on my last article, and figured it really served better as an article unto itself.

The question is, why don't we have any April Fool's Day content?

The short answer is: we're lazy and oblivious.

Actually, it occurred me yesterday that we should have thought of this, but I haven't written anything for the site for a while. I just haven't had anything funny hit me. I'm still going for the "things are going good" theory as to why not. Seriously, if you strip all of the self-deprecating humor out of my writing, you end up with very little that's truly, actually funny.

If I wrote something now it'd probably be all philosophical and crap. I blame the fact that my TV-and-reading diet has changed a bit. I haven't seen Family Guy in a while but my roommates have been watching Carnivale. (Look it up; it's a really interesting show, if somewhat over-the-top in its bizarre plot.) And rather than reading, well, nothing, I found a "selected readings from C.S. Lewis" book at McKay's a while back that I will pick up occasionally.

Also, I blame Smash Bros., because it is incredibly addictive.

Actually, I blame anything but me.

Y'know, now that I think about it, I also blame the fact that no one reads this site. No, really. It's me and The Chef and reaperman. That's it. But at least since things are going well otherwise, that doesn't translate into "no one notices me so I fail at life and hate myself" which in turn leads to more funny articles with self-deprecating humor which no one reads.

Wait, I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

Anyway, back to the original subject. I did briefly consider writing an AFD article with the headline "People Read ChainsawBuffet.com" (because, see, no one does). The centerpiece of said article would have been The Chef's photo Photoshopped onto the cover of People magazine (because, you know, we're famous and all, but we're not, which is the joke). Or, I could have just found some royalty-free free clip art of normal people (the kind that would not read this site, but would read a normal site) staring at a computer. Either way, I have other stuff to do today, so screw it.

For those looking for something funny, I recommend The Daily WTF's article on Front-Ahead Design. Well, actually, that's only funny if you've been exposed to some of the more Kool-Aid-infused ideas floating around the world of programming these days.

In serious news, though, a friend of mine told me that Blizzard announced that the new World of Warcraft Hero class was going to be the Bard. Honest. Which means I can finally accurately recreate the greatest D&D character I have ever played in an MMO.

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The Chef

April Fools' Day

April 2, 2008 10:22 AM

The reason that I loathe April Fools' Day is because on the internet, it's a day to post lies and bullshit and go "hur hur hur, u r stoopid" if anyone believes you. I hate it.

And the holiday started as a celebration of religious intolerance and discrimination.

reaperman

Arpil Floos

April 2, 2008 09:01 PM

April 11, 2008 09:41 PM

And stoners. Don't forget that demographic.

reaperman

Indeed.

April 11, 2008 11:42 PM

For all lovers of cheap furniture.