ORIGINS

The creation of the Remarkable Procrastination Device was, in itself, an act of procrastination. So pissed off was I with my inability to get anything done that I decided to inflict procrastination onto the rest of the world, too.

Here's the text from the original home page of the site, which should explain things succinctly.

By the way, I did end up getting two of the three stories written and submitted. They were crap.

Once upon a time, I decided to enter the Machine of Death writing competition.

I wrote out three quick outlines for stories, and kind of left it there until the last minute.

As I type this, it's past midnight. Entries close in less than 24 hours. I haven't written a single damn word, but I have procrastinated quite a bit.

Not only have I procrastinated, I've made a machine to help me procrastinate.

It can help you procrastinate, too. It'll even let you fill it up with filth and smut, and send a specially-formatted link to your friends with said filth and smut intact. You can alter the words on the original Remarkable Excuse Device to create your own edition, or you can reprogram (through your browser, no less - what an age we live in) the blank versions of the two, three or four-reeled Remarkable Procrastination Device to generate just about anything. Porn star names, sci-fi character names, dubious exclamations, Web 2.0 ideas, crap advertising slogans, you name it.

Would you like to see it?

Remarkable Excuse Device
The original idea, given new Web 2.0 remixing goodness.

Remarkable Procrastination Device (2-Reeled Version)
Two reels make this good for generating character names. Defaults to a set of 400 really bad pub names, with "The Queen's Hole" being my favourite.

Remarkable Procrastination Device (3-Reeled Version)
Same as the two-reeled version, but not. Defaults to generating useless inventions, such as self-aware full-body cleansers. Up to 8,000 possible combinations.

Remarkable Procrastination Device (4-Reeled Version)
With four reels, making a total of 160,000 possible combinations, this machine defaults to dispensing Shakespearean insults.

In the next few days, I plan to get some sort of system together for tracking all of the custom versions and putting them into some sort of top ten list, possibly with a voting system. But for now, I'm going to bed.

...I still intend to write three stories within the next 24 hours.