April Fools
For those who were greeted by my April Fools Gag (which you can see here), gotcha!
I had to take it down after an hour due to all the emails and facebook messages. I didn’t realize so many folks would think it might be serious. Which, in and of itself, is actually kinda sad. And by sad, I mean that folks think it’s not entirely unbelievable that the Department of Homeland Security would seize my domain name.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I thought it was a great April Fools day gag! I laughed pretty good.
April 1st, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I LOL’ed hard, myself. 🙂
April 1st, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Now if they go after you for steeling their copyrighted seizure notice …
April 1st, 2011 at 2:15 pm
When I saw it my 1st thought after I stopped laughing was “Damn, his inbox is gonna get flooded!”
April 1st, 2011 at 2:18 pm
I feel bad now that it’s been too busy at work to take a break and skim the blog.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Now that I’ve thought about it, is kind of funny. Also kind of sad that a lot people thought it was true.
April 1st, 2011 at 2:45 pm
If the notice had been from the ATF I might have believed it.
April 1st, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I’m sorry I missed it.
April 1st, 2011 at 3:17 pm
You should post your true IP address in case the Feds do ever hijack your DNS.
April 1st, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The online comic General Protection Fault did the same gag. A lot fell for it.
April 1st, 2011 at 3:32 pm
That’s awesome. Close second to thinkgeek’s bonsai kitten plushie for April Fools pranks.
April 1st, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Less than a gag, I thought it was a serious commentary on what we might come to expect if we allow certain things to come to pass. We are all TJICistan.
April 1st, 2011 at 6:40 pm
>You should post your true IP address in case the Feds do ever hijack your DNS.
That only works when each site has a dedicated IP address. Many small sites are on shared hosting.
$ ping -c1 “www.saysuncle.com”
PING saysuncle.com (63.247.135.198) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from dali.hmdnsgroup.com (63.247.135.198): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=34.3 ms
However, several sites are sharing that IP address.
April 1st, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Serious? The Homeland Security said they would pay me big bucks to turn you in!
But all they gave me was a t-shirt…
April 1st, 2011 at 8:30 pm
I once caught a catfish, it was as big as a Volkswagon. (<-Vagan?) But, it was a carp. Bit major hose.
April 2nd, 2011 at 3:18 pm
The question is: is that picture copyrighted? lol.
April 2nd, 2011 at 9:05 pm
On April fools day if my mother calls I check the caller ID and ask her for her maiden name and believe nothing on the interwebs until April 2nd.