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and every now and then a little mallet hits you on the head [Wed, 5-Apr-2006 3:07 PM]
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Awakening discomforts

Inside the apartments, known as Reversible Destiny Lofts, the floor of the dining room slopes erratically, the one in the kitchen is sunken and the study features a concave floor. Electric switches are located in unexpected places so you have to feel around for the right one. A glass door to the veranda is so small you have to bend to crawl out. You constantly lose balance, gather yourself up, and occasionally trip and fall. There's no closet space; residents will have to find a way to live there. "[The apartment] makes you alert and awakens instincts, so you'll live better, longer and even forever," says Arakawa.

Completed last October, the apartments are selling for $763,000 each -- about twice as much as a normal apartment in that neighborhood.

See? Being perpetually irritated will make you fucking immortal.

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[User Picture]From: [info]valentwine
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:18 PM (UTC)

Tom and Jerry Forever

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See? Being perpetually irritated will make you fucking immortal.

Looks like you won't be catching the bus anytime soon.
[User Picture]From: [info]dmlaenker
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:19 PM (UTC)

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For a second I thought I was reading [info]imomus and you were being completely serious.

Of course, not discounting that you could still be completely serious.
[User Picture]From: [info]bistronaut
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:30 PM (UTC)

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I am everything!
[User Picture]From: [info]da_zhuang
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:30 PM (UTC)

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"See? Being perpetually irritated will make you fucking immortal."

I knew there was a reason grumpy old people never kicked the bucket...
[User Picture]From: [info]deadmoose
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:31 PM (UTC)

Perpetually Irritated == Immortal?

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Suddenly it makes sense why vampires in movies are always so damned angsty
[User Picture]From: [info]zorblek
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:33 PM (UTC)

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Somewhere, Wowbagger is scowling.
[User Picture]From: [info]dogbreathcanada
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:34 PM (UTC)

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This is geard for old people? Hello hip surgery.
[User Picture]From: [info]jagger
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:36 PM (UTC)

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Hey my apartment was built in the mid 1800s and has all those features plus only $900/month to live there.

Mmm randomly sloped floors + heavy book cases = excitement!
[User Picture]From: [info]xinit
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:56 PM (UTC)

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Buyers have been described as having "more money than brains" many times in their lives, so I'm sure they're used to it.
[User Picture]From: [info]tfofurn
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 10:59 PM (UTC)

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There's no closet space

Forget the rest. The absence of closet space is enough to throw some people into perpetual irritation.
[User Picture]From: [info]cavorite
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 11:13 PM (UTC)

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Coders will live forever, no doubt.
[User Picture]From: [info]xenogram
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 11:44 PM (UTC)

Career choices

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I was thinking it would have been better to have been a marine biologist and hang around in a swimsuit, or a geologist and drive around blowing up rocks. I glad that there's a reason to be a coder after all.
[User Picture]From: [info]dixieflatline
Wed, 5-Apr-2006 11:53 PM (UTC)

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I think it'd make more sense for the Japanese to start using this concept in their prisons.
[User Picture]From: [info]cocoajava
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 12:17 AM (UTC)

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Great. Now normal people can experience what it's like to be me, all the time.

*clunk, thud* Whoops.
[User Picture]From: [info]evan
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 12:26 AM (UTC)

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Hm, no address available. But that crazy park by the same guy is like $6 to enter! Maybe I'll go there this weekend...
[User Picture]From: [info]jkonrath
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 12:55 AM (UTC)

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Do they come with a computer running a version of Linux that constantly requires you to rebuild the kernel?
[User Picture]From: [info]zonereyrie
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 1:00 AM (UTC)

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No, there is a home automation system running on WinME.
From: [info]kfringe
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 2:38 AM (UTC)

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I see that New Jersey remains on the cutting edge of irritation R&D. Can't fall behind the curve, after all.
[User Picture]From: [info]luserspaz
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 6:22 PM (UTC)

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I maintain that they outsourced their irritation R&D to Pennsylvania's department of transportation.
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 2:57 AM (UTC)

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what, no "Dear Japanese people, please stop exploring your architecture's sexuality. It really freaks us out. signed The Orthogonal People"

also, where are the tentacles and robots?
[User Picture]From: [info]kamaraga
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 3:33 AM (UTC)

The architectural equivalent of paying a dominatrix to abuse you?

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> also, where are the tentacles and robots?

A focus group of stupid yet wealthy people that hated themselves admitted that robots and tentacles turned them on, therefore the absence of these would actually cause the potential customers more frustration.
From: dasht_brk
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 7:41 AM (UTC)

wait... no.. that's sarcasm?

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> See? Being perpetually irritated will make you fucking immortal.

Don't mess with me, man. I mean, if that isn't the g-d-f-mf case, then what exactly have i been doing all these years?

-t
[User Picture]From: [info]greatbiggary
Thu, 6-Apr-2006 4:48 PM (UTC)

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This reminds me of my idea for a smart house weight loss program. Treadmills all over that always oppose you, making your walks to and from the fridge about 10x longer, stairs that go up and down through every doorway, requiring you to both scale them, and duck through the doorway, and counterweights that make every door remain closed, with at least 100lbs of force required to get through them. It's like weights on a bat, but in house/apartment form.

Wasn't there also an article about how people who constantly use programs with terrible UIs have way sharper brains, because they're minds are always expecting an uphill battle?
[User Picture]From: [info]jhf
Fri, 7-Apr-2006 5:36 AM (UTC)

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See? Being perpetually irritated will make you fucking immortal.

Finally, an explaination for Castro.