Reply To: Hobby weekender 29/03/2019 – So…. I'm it? HALP!

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@sundancer doing the hobby weekender ?

Maximum pun alert!

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• Why are we doing Aprils fools day?
  ’cause on April 1st Alva lost his glasses ? 😉

Or rather that would be the literal translation … of ‘op 1 April verloor Alva den bril’
It refers to the fact that the city ‘Den Briel’ was captured from the Spanish during the 80 year war.
It wasn’t much of a fight as the Spanish presence was minor, but it was to prove a major morale boost for the Dutch.
As a result it is still remembered and celebrated in that city.
Details :  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Brielle

• Do you do Aprils fools day?
  Nope.
• Do you like Aprils fools day?
  The lack of any actual funny jokes makes it boring.

Google did have a brilliant one this year though :

Drupal is offering a service to make websites Brexit proof :

https://www.drupal.org/project/brexit

Homey offering a new service for their smart home module :

https://adassist.athom.com/

Nvidia getting in on the ‘smart home’ devices too :

(I needs this one)

And this one is kind of funny :

Stackoverflow ( https://stackoverflow.com/ ) had part of its site convert to MySpace styled design, because *eh* reasons …

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Pledge ?
I shall be receiving my Core Space pledge 😀
because I didn’t have enough games 😉
I also shall  continu my adding to my army of minions.