Student: How do you eat crow?
Master: First you must swallow your pride.
Day: April 1, 2009
Bureaucracy R.I.P.
An easy mistake as a freelancer is to get behind on paperwork. Maybe that paperwork is balancing your checkbook or sending invoices or mundane like writing up postmortems for projects and filing the supporting documentation or something more evil like IRS filings. Whatever it is, I’m caught up on all of mine!
Today’s Word
Peptobismo
April 1st – the most worthless day on the Internet
How’s the saying go? "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see" or did I get that backwards. The point is some inanely hugh amount of information on the Internet is inaccurate. I’ve always said 90%. This is why you should always confirm your sources! On April 1st I just assume 100% of the information is wrong. Of course, whose April 1st are we talking about? Darren Rouse of Problogger fame lives in Austrailia so for many people last year his April Fool’s Day joke came in on March 31st making people believe it was real. My first 30 seconds of looking at the Internet today:
- BREAKING: Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay
- U.S. plans role in reshaping GM
- Google introduces world’s first AI tasked-array system
- Introducing Opera Face Gestures
- CADIE: Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
- Honda Unveils Brain Interface to Control Robot by thought Alone (this one is probably true)
- Google’s April Fools: GMail Autopilot
- Church baptises baby with cola
TechCrunch beat me to the roundup. That said, Internet, I’m turning you off today. Even Redditers hate April 1st.
Update: When did April Fool’s Day begin?
From the mouths of babes
Amy, 6.5 years old: "Dad, what’s a death threat?"
Dad: "What did you just say?!"
Amy: "What’s a death threat? On the show iCarly, they talked about death threats."
Dad: "A death threat means I’m going to have to have a talk with Nickelodeon."