To this day, my main — and preferred — point of contact is e-mail, cf., astrofish.net/contact
There are two points about this article I like.
1) It is, to me, a fresh perspective on what e-mail should look like and how the interface could be vastly, yet simply, improved.
2) The name itself, MinimalMac.com, I like the minimalist approach. Less is more.
Unrelated Headline Observations:
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Aurora, CO – I don’t know what the body count is at, last that I heard 14 (?).
Goliad, TX – two, three days later, a truckload of “immigrants” slams into tree. 14 dead, body parts everywhere.
No mention on the national media, eclipsed by the one tragedy.
Not much of a tragedy, not on the same scale. I pay so little attention to certain media, I almost missed it. The problem is proportions.
While by no means either an expert or really even acquainted with the details, I do read easily between the lines. Single car accident with a fixed object? Pretty sure indication of drunk driving.
Compounded situation, the problem, first? Undocumented workers, probably illegals. Then, 23 in a single pickup truck?
None of this matters as much, though, as the idea that — equal body count — no saturation in media.
Unrelated:
Shakespeare on business.
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I agree about the way the media makes celebrities out of certain events, and others are way too unimportant to mention, even. Except that to the people who die, it’s death the great equalizer, and to the families and friends who survive, the grief and shock and survivor guilt are traumatic, highly publicized or not.
When I lost my mother, it was an doubly painful experience to meet all the people offering condolences and running through their meaningless phrases, while shaking my hand. I just wanted them to go away and leave me with my grief and my memories.
I can see why a wake, where reminiscences and stories help the healing, is a good thing. Memorial service? Being hounded by the press? Not.
And your implied point, that the death of undocumented immigrants, was disrespectful to the point of insult, by not being noted, people unnamed and ignored, very true.