Fuck yes!

“People north of 40 are schizophrenic about voice mail,” says Michael Schrage. “People under 35 scarcely ever use it.” Companies are increasingly combining telephone, e-mail, text and video systems into unified Internet-based systems that eliminate overlap. “Many people in many corporations simply don’t have the time or desire to spend 25 minutes plowing through a stack of 15 to 25 voice mails at the end or beginning of the day,” says Schrage.

Please don’t leave me a voicemail. Email me. Hell, even text me. But if I even remember to check the voicemail, chances are I will accidentally (uh, yeah, accidentally – that’s it) delete it, or just forget about it.

Voicemail is dead and should stay buried. It’s inconvenient, time-consuming, unreliable and can’t easily be filed in any useful information silo.

Stay in the grave, voicemail. Just stay.

I enjoyed Mockingjay, Part 1.

It wasn’t nearly as good as Catching Fire – which was truly a great movie – but it was entertaining and like the rest of the Hunger Games films nearly singular in its commitment to seriously examine and deal with iconography and propaganda, political power and political choices in a constrained environment, and other issues that are just glossed over even in so-called “serious” films.

I am surprised so many people in their eagerness to express derision completely miss this and rob themselves of some ideas they probably won’t see in any other films.

However, I have to say that I’d watch any and every episode of a TV show where Natalie Dormer as Cressida and Jena Malone as Johanna and of course Katniss Everdeen team up to fight for justice.

It would be like The A Team except, you know, actually good.