It is done. Adieu, Quicksilver.

It was a good run. So long, old friend.

I love LaunchBar—but she’ll never be another you.

[Now, for our memorial service—please, cue a shitty Harry Chapin song. Any will do.]

The Salad Days

Day 3 of 43 Folders.

Day 4 of 43 Folders.

Day 15 of 43 Folders.

Getting the idea that I really liked Quicksilver?

Yep.

The Breakthrough

Then, a biggie. From the Summer of 2006:

MacBreak 12 - Quicksilver

Very first thing I ever made with Leo. First. Thing.

People still mention it to me when we meet. Which is really awesome.

Because, the first time you saw Quicksilver it absolutely seemed like a magic trick. Seriously. Beyond sufficiently advanced.1

The Sunset Years

…Then? Time passed…

So the years went by,
she stayed the same.
But I began to drift away…

The End

—FIN—

  1. I mean, it became “sufficiently advanced” once you were able to figure out Nicholas’s crazy secret key combo that you had to mash to enable Advanced Features. (OT: Love that guy.) ↩

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    just don’t know if...gazillion years old and unsupported. But I’ve become so use
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    Merlin has switched...LaunchBar. As Patrick Rhone says “if Merlin
  6. donschaffner reblogged this from merlin and added:
    [sigh] Only hanging on because...move on, I guess.
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    Alfred feels like...second generation...Quicksilver,...
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  9. beefrap reblogged this from merlin and added:
    many great times. But in...the ones we love.
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    What? No Alfred? That’s where...ran its last CPU cycle for me in August.