April Fools’ Day

My patience for April Fools’ Day is so short that I could barely read the Wikipedia entry past the part where I learned that it is actualy Fools’ Day not a singular Fool’s Day. It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humour, but this is the kind of day where things that normally would be totally not funny are found funny, or at least you are supposed to find them funny. It is just a bizarre cultural ritual that I don’t really get.

Thankfully I don’t work in an office anymore, so I don’t have to worry about coming in and finding all of my desk contents removed, or worse yet, having my chair strapped to the ceiling, or sitting in a soaking wet sponge of a chair, etc, etc., but I still don’t want to deal with it.

My solution? Sleep in ’til noon. This way you don’t have to deal with any of the B.S. Although this year I have to say that I admired Google’s name change to Topeka, and Philip Bloom’s Canon RAW video post. Those were kind of funny. I think from now on I will experience April Fool’s from the safety of my laptop and avoid any likely embarrassment.