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04/27/2005: "Revisited..."

It looks like he got bored with his own game.

The last update to Bad Designs looks like it was made in 2004. I have been checking the site every few months to see what wacky adventures this Mike Darnell guy has been getting into lately, be it with a snazzy new can opener or a new non-user friendly box of cereal. I’ve always advocated making life as simple and convenient as possible, but a puzzle here and there is warranted, especially in a culture where just about anything is obtained pretty easily. In some cases you don’t have to get off your ass as long as there’s a computer in front of you. I’ve patronized such services as Peapod and Netflix because my life has grown increasingly inconvenient and I need to buffer that with relatively inexpensive full service operations.

My life, however, hasn’t become so inconvenient that I can’t find the time to learn how to open a new kind of oatmeal box or to utilize a new design of stapler. I’m certainly not careless enough to mistake a bottle of motor oil for a bottle of cooking oil. I assure you that if a cooking oil came out that came in a translucent bottle rather than the clear plastic bottles that canola oil comes in, this guy will comment on it after discovering his car is smoking and smells like overcooked popcorn.

In a fit of sarcasm one day I awarded a VVBA (Very Very Bad Award) to this website, but in retrospect, I actually enjoy this site, but in the same way that I enjoy watching Jerry Springer or various reality shows. It makes me feel good that there are some things out there that I do not understand, that I would rather not begin to understand.