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Improv and Google Voice
The improv show went surprisingly well for an emergency replacement show. If I were to quibble, I'd say we were doing more short-form pacing rather than long-form pacing. That's not something anyone who just wants to be entertained really worries about though. Next week, it'll probably be a little less seat-of-the-pants.
We pretty much put this show together over email, text message, voice mail and phone calls. (The first chance we all had to get together was at the show.) I gave them my Google Voice number because I figured it was time I started using it. It works really well.
Keep in mind that I've set the bar pretty low here. The last time someone left me voicemail on AT&T, he'd left it on a Thursday, but AT&T didn't notify me until Saturday. If Google Voice had merely notified me on the same day, that would have been awesome. It'd probably notified me within the minute. (Sadly, any phone call eventually lands on the AT&T network, then gets dropped. This is why I ended up getting voicemail in the first place. The weird thing is that I've never had problems with the data network.)
The only failing was that I'm not used to using Google Voice yet, so I don't always remember to go to the Google Voice website to check for voicemail. Yes, you can have it text message you when you get voice mail. Perhaps unwisely, I'd turned that off. I pay per text message. With the previous phone, I never sent or received any text messages so I got the basic calling plan. I'm not regretting this yet. Even if Google Voice sent me a text message for every voicemail, it wouldn't amount to much. (I don't really get phone calls. This is why I wasn't too concerned about moving to AT&T.)
We pretty much put this show together over email, text message, voice mail and phone calls. (The first chance we all had to get together was at the show.) I gave them my Google Voice number because I figured it was time I started using it. It works really well.
Keep in mind that I've set the bar pretty low here. The last time someone left me voicemail on AT&T, he'd left it on a Thursday, but AT&T didn't notify me until Saturday. If Google Voice had merely notified me on the same day, that would have been awesome. It'd probably notified me within the minute. (Sadly, any phone call eventually lands on the AT&T network, then gets dropped. This is why I ended up getting voicemail in the first place. The weird thing is that I've never had problems with the data network.)
The only failing was that I'm not used to using Google Voice yet, so I don't always remember to go to the Google Voice website to check for voicemail. Yes, you can have it text message you when you get voice mail. Perhaps unwisely, I'd turned that off. I pay per text message. With the previous phone, I never sent or received any text messages so I got the basic calling plan. I'm not regretting this yet. Even if Google Voice sent me a text message for every voicemail, it wouldn't amount to much. (I don't really get phone calls. This is why I wasn't too concerned about moving to AT&T.)