Massively Parallel Procrastination

BoredNow. (Well, except for that whole lack of time to be bored)

So. It works. at least a little bit. I suppose I should explain what "BoredNow" is since I've been dropping hints for weeks.

These days, everybody has a cell phone. All of them can exchange text messages and email. BoredNow is a system to let you and your friends plan to get together without resorting to a dozen phone calls. You've never used BoredNow before, so you txt to borednow@sms.wescam.org. The text message should read signup nickname.
Assuming nobody got to that name before you did, BoredNow will text you back telling you that you've got an account and are logged in. Hold onto this text message. You can create events and add to your friends list just by replying to it.

Now you've got a BoredNow account. It comes with a nice empty friends list. Each of your friends has a BoredNow account. It also comes with a nice empty friends list. Send a message to BoredNow that reads add friend's nickname. (If you ever need to remove a friend, just send drop ex-friend's nickname.

So anyway, the whole point is to be able to plan events with your friends. Send a message to BoredNow that reads event tuesday 7pm Let's go out for sushi at Ginza. Everybody who's on your friends list who also has you on their friends list will get an invitation to dinner from you. If they want to come, they just reply YES and BoredNow will send you a text message with their RSVP.

Sending help to BoredNow will give you a summary of commands, including some that I didn't explain here.

BoredNow is not the final name for this thing. And it won't live at sms.wescam.org once it gets named. And it's just barely usable at this point. And it might eat your messages. And it might eat your children. But I'm at least going to try to keep it running from here on in.