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  • Where did we go???
  • Magnetic Buttons
  • The Curious Cue Ball
  • Counter Clockwise
  • Blank Keys
  • The One-Way-Roll
  • So What Is I.C.?

• Pigeonholes

  • Creatively Inconvenient
  • Only Slightly Inconvenient
  • Out of the Norm
  • Very Inconvenient
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• Chronicles

  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010

Hello dear readers,

Yes, we haven’t posted in a long time, and to just let you know we haven’t fallen off the face of the earth, here’s what happened!

Life.

and

School.

We will get back to posting soon!!!

Ingenuously,

Lillian and Danny

Inspirational Items:

Shirt Button

Really Powerful Refrigerator Magnets

Created Problem: Button down shirts create so many problems as it is. For instance, if you are dreadfully groggy, you may end up misaligning the buttons and all your co-workers snicker behind your back at your morning wardrobe disaster. Or how about when your zipper gets left down and your tucked in shirt sticks out the open zipper; you’ll never live that one up (and that actually has happened before). Well, we’ve decided to make button down shirts, and really any buttoned piece of clothing and make it ultimately more inconvenient and annoying then it was before: we’re come up with magnetic buttons. Made of the same metal as those really small but surprisingly powerful refrigerator magnets, these buttons would make your casual stroll through the office or kitchen an unfortunate adventure. Paper clips, pens, paper weights, pots, pans, forks, will all be flying to you! (well, your shirt to be precise) On the good side you’d probably find uses for the buttons as storage for any of the above items, as well as a way to be so much more “attractive”. But it the ackward looks and the inconvenient extra baggage that would fly to your shirt would far outweigh any positive benefits.

Inconvenient? Creatively so!

Ingenuously,

Lillian and Danny

Inspirational Items: Billiards Cue Ball

Created Problem: We’ve all been a new player of billiards at some time of our life. And oh how frustrating those first few games were (and for some of us still are) as you tried time and time again to make that little white cue ball go where you want it to, and then make it sink another ball. It seemed nearly impossible for me. I’ve finally gotten to the level that I can almost shoot the cue ball accurately. But of course, there’s always a better player at every party or event I attend where pool is played. I’ve wondered at times how a novice like could bring a expert down to my level, and now I’ve come up with an idea that could cause quite an inconvenience to my opponent (and possibly be a convenience for my own playing): The Curious Cue Ball. How does it work? It’s a special cue ball that looks and feels just like a normal billiards ball but has a slightly modified interior: it’s core is hollow and contains an off-center lead weight. The desired effect would be a slight or drastic (depending on how hard it was hit)  deviation from the intended course. It would have your expert cue ball friends greatly inconvenienced as they are stripped of their pride time and time again as they miss shot after shot. You could even make it more entertaining by also using a modified 8 ball. Good luck getting it in the correct hole.

Inconvenient? It will baffle your billiard savvy buddies as their skills go back to square one.*

Ingenuously,

Lillian and Danny

*Note: You may want to have an escape route ready, or a new batch of friends to spend time with in case your trick is discovered.

p.s. Danny, who is the one who wrote this post and came up with this idea, truly cannot really play pool.  I am tempted to pull this trick on him, but *shhh* don’t say anything to him!  sneakily, Lillian

Inspirational Items: A Clock

Created Problem: How many people do you know who just glance at a clock for a split second and can tell the time? I think everyone I know can do that and does that. It’s quick and efficient. We know clocks go clock-wise and the numbers and hands turn in the direction…until now. We’ve decided to turn probably the oldest convenience known to the world and turn it on end: everything goes counterclockwise. The hands, the numbers, everything goes against how it always has. Talk about seriously inconvenient. You can’t glance at this clock and tell the time if all you’ve ever looked at were normal clocks, by no means. You be sitting at this clock for a while trying to flip your brain completely backwards. How inconvenient! We live life by the clock, and if the clock doesn’t tell time the way it’s supposed to it’s terribly inconvenient. I’d love to see a clock like this be put up in a train station or airport for a day.

Inconvenient? To today’s society driven by the clock, this would be chaos in the making.

Ingenuously,

Lillian and Danny

p.s. Can you tell what time it is?

Inspirational Items: Computer Keyboard

Created Problem: We use computer keyboards and layouts for almost every device used today. But one of the sad things is, not a whole lot of the general public know how to use a keyboard without glancing frequently at the keys. So we’ve come up with way to make those convenient little letter and function stickers entirely inconvenient: remove them completely. We propose that in order to make going to use a library computer terribly inconvenient, the little letters be removed from the keyboard. Can you imagine how much enjoyment staff would have as they watch person after person sit down at the computer and stare blankly at those, well, blank keys.

Incredibly Inconveniencing? You bet!

(note: you can also re-configure your keyboards in a different layout than “QWERTY”. Microsoft even has some great options for “Accessibility Technologies” {oh the irony}.)

Ingenuously

Lillian and Danny

Inspirational Items:

• Ratchet
• Toilet Roll Holder

Created Problem: Holder only turns in one direction: the wrong way. This would mean you would have to place the toilet roll on the holder the wrong way (so that it unravels away from you) in order for it to unravel at all. This creates two excellent problems: those who are picky about how you place the roll on the holder go nuts because it’s on wrong, and when they switch it over to the correct position the roll only rolls in such away it never unravels. You will hear your O.C.D. And neat-nick guests go nuts as they try to do things “the correct way.”

How it works: The holder uses a ratchet type mechanism that makes it only capable of going in one direction. (see graphic) The roll will even make that cool “clicking” sound as it goes in the inconvenient direction. It is impossible to make it go in the “correct” direction and therefore makes anyone with a knowledge of proper “toilet roll etiquette” greatly peeved and inconvenienced.

Creatively Inconvenient? Absolutely!

Ingenuously,

Lillian and Danny

What is Inconvenient Creations?

Well, that’s a good question.  We’re going to use up the space of this blog post to try to explain to y’all what I.C. is.  Being the creative and very quirky people we are, we decided to write a blog about the most inconvenient creations we can find or create ourselves.

Why Inconvenient?

This world’s society is full to overflowing with inventions, contraptions, creations for making life more convenient, so why not talk about something different, like inconvenient creations?  We want to be different, and we want to be creative. So we’re going to try to find creative ways to make life more Inconvenient.

Enjoy the coming posts!

Ingenuously (a word which hereby means sincerely),

Lillian & Danny

p.s. we’d really love your input!

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