No Fooling
When somebody asks me what’s my favorite holiday, if I am given sufficient time to think about it, I end up settling on April Fool’s Day.* I like pranks when I’m in on the joke, and April Fool’s is the day that you really have no one but yourself to blame when you forget what day it is.
Specifically, though, I love the internet on April Fool’s. I like how many websites throw up alternate wacky versions of themselves. It reminds me of the olden days of the “World Wide Web”, when most websites were written by enthusiastic amateurs and it showed; no best practices and no search optimization. It was an awful time; anything that was good was only good by accident--but it has a quaint nostalgia.
That said, in this topsy-turvy world of alternate facts and of political incorrectness run amok, I worry that April first will seem too much like every other day so far this year. Internet, prove me wrong.
*When somebody asks me what my favorite holiday is and wants an answer right away, I usually say Christmas, because during the holiday season I forget April Fool’s exists and I like presents.