So is it?

In that you're pointing out that it's ludicrous to spend all that time in airports when life in each of those cities is much more interesting and could be better explored in pretty much any other way possible, yeah, I think it is pretty funny.

I think it's painfully obvious that you aren't challenging the hackish nature of the project, but the actual project itself. So, people who don't seem to get that aren't getting the "joke".

So your contention is that since the premise is so lame, the "joke" is that it raises awareness about what it means to actually visit a place?

In the same sense that the presumably unintentional misunderstanding of irony in the song Ironic can be spun to actually be a (supposed) clever joke about irony.

No, I mean you were "joking".

I'm not talking about the "experiment", I'm talking about the guy who got all uppity about you not being able to enjoy life. I was saying he should be taking your comment (somewhat) in jest.

I didn't mean to get "all uppity". If it sounded that way it's because I sarcastically borrowed some of mhb's wording to make my point. I was just a little surprised that the top comment on HN is "...completely miserable way to waste a month" instead of "hey, this isn't for me, but it's an interesting idea."

I didn't think it was that big a deal to begin with, hence my emoction.

Agreed though that it's rated pretty high, but at the same time that is most people's first reaction, including mine.