Friday, January 29, 2010

A Month of Boring Things - Day Twenty-Seven: Adium

Adium is this thing I sign onto sometimes. It theoretically combines all instant message type software into one, so that you can talk to all of your friends. But 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 still equals nada. I talk to Laurie sometimes, but she's always off to do something Big Apple-ish. I remember the days when everyone I knew was on AIM, and we'd get horny together.




Rating: 22%

9 comments:

laurie said...

Thanks for the shout out Andrew. Life in a small town gettin boring?

LoCo said...

this was really funny. i never sign into any messaging things because no one i'd ever want to talk to is ever there, and random people i don't want to talk to always message me and then i feel weird and awkward about getting out of the conversation. i could like blackberry messenger but the only person i know on that is my cousin who every week or so messages me "hI" and then nothing else. also i have a very short attention span, so focusing on having a conversation online can be really

Walter Benjamin and the Mechanical Reproductions (the band) said...

i usted to take adium beforei wrote a freshmen comp paper (comunity collage) b/c it helped me see through the bullshit (like grammar)

I.J. said...

I hate IM's of all stripes. The only person I've IM'ed in the last 2 years was Viking Andrew, once, and he was smashed and doesn't remember our conversation, which was of middling quality. Memorable quote:

"This is America, buddy. It's not about how smart you are, it's about working your ass off."

Viking Andrew said...

I remember parts of that conversation. Middling is the perfect way to describe it. Oh, but we had fun, didn't we John? Didn't we?

I.J. said...

But of course. I only meant that drunken chit chat tends to lose something in the medium of real-time text.

laurie said...

I like IM in all it's forms. You should use it more, Andrew.

LoCo said...

Adium sounds like something I want to take a couple of before I give a presentation.

Viking Andrew said...

Yes. I'd say the tech world rivals only the pharmaceutical world when it comes to making up bullshit words.