On the phone this morning my mother goes, "Did you know that if you put the word Google backwards in Google you get a backward Google search page? It's really cool."
I sat with that for a moment, daydreamed about the countless days someone put into a stupid, useless code joke, shuddered at the thought of being trapped next to that genius on an airplane or at a wedding or something ("Hi, I'm Kenny! I created the 'backward Google' search, have you seen it? It was easy really, all I had to do was convert the XHTML code to a running CGI script...") until my mother broke in with, "And whatever you put in the search has to be backward too, like if you put Sears it'll say 'Request for sreaS not found', and all the entries for each search are backward!"
"Neat Mom." I said without any attempt to appear sincere. "But don't you think you have a lit-tle too much time on your hands?"*
"Oh, you're no fun." she said before changing the subject back to the MAIN TOPIC (a.k.a her career); shortly afterward we hung up.
*Sure, I've spent every second since then putting backward searches into the backward Google, like I have a choice. The apple don't fall far from the tree, dude.
Posted by Antigeist at September 5, 2003 12:05 PM