So my brother turned me onto Lifehacker.com which is a blog that offers links to a lot of utilities that supposedly can streamline your daily routine. I’ve had a lot of down time recently and have read through them and there are definitely diamonds in the rough, but there’s a lot of rough. Take for example this genius idea: a website that allows you to keep track of food expiration dates. You would have to be beyond obsessive compulsive to use this site. Can you imagine someone going to the grocery store and them coming home and typing each product into this website to make sure that their canned peaches hadn’t expired? What’s wrong with opening the carton of milk, smelling it and either tossing it or using it? The amount of time and effort it would take to catalogue your food and then track it and remember to check this website each time you were about to cook would completely nullify any potential benefits the utility could offer. This is dumb.
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October 23, 2007 at 6:56 pm
jaredran
I agree that this is dumb. Here’s what isn’t dumb: a web site that allows you to enter wine purchases into a database so you can keep track of what you like and don’t like. It would also spit suggestions back at you for certain occasions. If this doesn’t exist yet, we should start it and make a mint.
October 24, 2007 at 8:54 pm
mbabaracus
Marketer defends dumb idea likely created by marketer: it’s a dumb idea, but if your fridge did it automatically, and you didn’t have to scan each thing, and your fridge could just send a list of what you need to the store, and they could deliver it to you… well? well, then you’d be the laziest person on the planet, but you gotta admit it’s tempting. grocery shopping sucks.