Goodbye, Mr. Williams

I have refrained from com­ment­ing much on the death of Robin Williams this week, for no other rea­son than it hit me really, really hard. I have lit­tle pre­tense that any­thing of what I’m about to say will mat­ter in the slight­est to the gen­eral human con­di­tion, but I need to say because it’s try­ing to break open my heart and escape.

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Lord of the IMs, please …

Google Hangouts + Skype + Trillian = A Big Damn Mess

That’s the only place in all the lands we’ve ever heard of that we don’t want to see any closer; and that’s the one place we’re try­ing to get to! And that’s just where we can’t get, nohow.”  – JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

There are days when I wish Sauru­man existed so he could com­bine all the mes­sag­ing apps into one. I find myself with three dif­fer­ent apps open just to com­mu­ni­cate with var­i­ous groups of peo­ple through­out the day and it’s seri­ously get­ting on my nerves.

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