So, I noticed today that it has been 5 weeks since I posted. Wow. However, this will not be a new post. (Okay, technically it is.) It's just a note to say that I fixed the commenting.
A while back, Blogger started offering the option to have the commenting page appear on the same template as the main page, under the post in question. That's really the way I would like to have it, so I changed to that option. Well, apparently that is not working. At least for me.
Ellen mentioned once that she couldn't post, and I sort of filed it away and never actually tried to troubleshoot the problem. Today I was talking to Herk, while I was online, and he said he was having the same problem. So, I changed it back to the "new page" option.
Commenting should be working now. Alert the mainstream media.
I'm not a big April Fool's Day fan. I knew a guy in college who refused to pull any pranks on April Fool's Day, because that was the day everyone expected him to do it. He would pull pranks on the other 364 days. I'm not like that. I don't like pulling pranks on people. I typically find it to be mean-spirited - taking pleasure in other people looking like idiots.
However...I do love a well thought-out prank. The craftiness, the ingenuity, the borderline believability. The smarter, the better. Of course, the internet provides lots of fodder in the borderline believability department - if it's on the internet, it must be true.
So, take a peek at the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes, as compiled by the "Museum of Hoaxes". I especially like #28 - simple, yet with that touch of believability (with the added touch of being from a government agency). And I know someone who got fooled by #40 - not the internet cleaning part, but the telephone line cleaning part!
And, I don't know if it's on their podcast, but this morning on Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR, there was a sponsorship drop that said (as best I can remember it) "This portion of Weekend Edition Sunday is brought to you by the Soylent Corporation. Manufacturers of protein-rich supplements in a variety of colors. Soylent Green is people." Brilliant.
If you have a child who is getting just left home (for college or whatever reason), if you have a child who will someday leave home, if your child left a long time ago, or if you are a child getting ready to leave home yourself, read this. Don't skip the comments. And have a box of kleenex nearby.
