A Good Laugh

Yesterday was April Fools Day, of course. I only had two attempts to fool me yesterday, one which succeeded and one which failed miserably. However, it was the miserable failure that made me laugh out loud.

As I was walking through the hallways at one of the elementary schools a young girl, maybe 3rd grade, pointed at the ground and said, "Watch out for that!" I glanced down and she laughed. "Ha ha! April Fools!"

I laughed, too, and said, "You got me all right!" But my laughter was forced. It's not that I mind getting tricked. It's just that I didn't think that particularly funny.

A few minutes later, though, I was working on a printer that was requiring me to sit and wait and wait and wait (I don't usually get out to do these kind of workorders, but my tech is seriously overworked right now, so I've been helping her out when I can) and I got on my cell phone's web browser and went to Google's mobile web page. And that's when I saw a link for "New! Google Brain Search." I laughed out loud.

Every year Google puts a couple of practical jokes on its site on April Fools Day, and I spotted this one right away. Still, I downloaded the application to my phone, and it's quite funny. Google's Brain Search uses the power of Google to access your brain's memory. Just start the program and hold your cell phone up to your forehead! It will use a special "psycho-neural matrix radiating 3cm beyond your brain" to read your mind and answer all of those questions you were thinking, like "When is my wife's birthday anyway?" and "That guy's cute. Should I walk over and introduce myself?" The answers are always funny.

I may have ruined some of the humor by telling your it's fake, but come on! Who's stupid enough to have believed it anyway? Here's the link if you want to check it out yourself: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/brainsearch.html. It works on iPhones, Blackberries, and Windows Mobile phones.

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UPDATE AT 7:43 AM: Darn it! I just clicked on the link above and found that the website is gone. And when I looked on my mobile phone I see that the application has uninstalled itself! So I guess it really was an April Fool's joke on me, after all! But I swear I didn't make the above up. You can read about it by clicking this link.