Every year when April 1st comes around, I wonder why I even bother to browse the Web. Most years, I just don’t — or I stick to sites that I know won’t jerk me around. For example, there’s a story at Engadget about someone successfully hacking the Apple TV to run the full version of Mac OSX. But it was posted today around 3am. So I might as well not even bother following their linked information to see if it’s real or not, because it’s a coin-toss as to whether I’ll be wasting my time or not. And if it is a “joke”… am I supposed to be somehow amused by the fact that I just wasted precious minutes that I could otherwise be using to do something constructive (like download porn)?

I’m really not a big fan of pranks and practical jokes in general. I don’t think they’re funny, either when being the target or the prankster. Every time I see some dumb practical joke, I have the urge to prank the joker… to death with a tire iron. To steal a line from Christopher Walken.