Ah, yes, it's April 1

on April 1, 2009 8:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I was doing soooo good. No one had pranked me, and I'd almost forgotten what day it was.

So imagine how amazingly shocked I was when I read that Google had created a high-functioning Artificial Intelligence project named CADIE! I called my daughter in from her homework, was telling her all about it, talking to my mom and Hubby... Hubby was honestly getting concerned with the level of cognition shown by this thing. Edited: He says that's an understatement. "I was not opposed to packing up the family, putting us in a Winnebago, and I guess trying to find a remote locate in the Midwest," was his quote. He also suggested paddling to Tahiti.

Aaaand, then Chris stops me and says, "Come on. What date is it?"

Ugh. I don't remember the last time I felt so stupid!! I'm just glad I didn't call my friends at the paper (I'm off today) to see if they got it on the front page. Wouldn't have lived THAT down for a while!

2 Comments

By Philip Warner on April 5, 2009 8:30 AM

I love that this got you... very funny. I look forward to Google's april fools prank every year. I like how this year it was cross platform, showing up on a lot of their sites. I think last year it was "google paper." Thanks for sharing.

By Doctor Partlow on April 8, 2009 7:46 PM

there are a variety of sites from April fools.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-04-01-n16.html
that's all that google did that day. also, this is a site that had all the cool website shenanigans on the internet I just so happen to see that day while at work doing nothing but being a lazy slob and looking at poo poo on the internet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-2009-best-pra_n_181568.html
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