That is when you decide to email that certain person and you say those things you would never say when sober. Yes, now Google has once again become your knight in shining armor!
Google has released its new product "Mail Goggles" for drunk emailers. We have all experienced those nights when we had one to many margaritas or beers. We then go home and decide to check or write emails.
Before long, we hit send and we are paying for our remarks for years. What is worse is that those emails can stay on a computer indefinitely or even worse printed out for all to see.
Google, however, has your back. The new program works with their Gmail program. The Goggles can kick in late at night on weekends. The feature requires you to solve a few easy math problems in short order before hitting "send."
If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you're sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted.
And if you can't multiply two times five, you'll probably thank Google in the morning.
To activate Goggles, Gmail users should click the "Settings" link at the top of a Gmail page, then go to the "Labs" section.
There's no shame in admitting that sometimes you need a little extra help. Gmail engineer Jon Perlow designed Goggles with his own weaknesses in mind.
"Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night e-mail to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together," he wrote when announcing Mail Goggles on a company blog.
This really pure genius! The implications of this are endless. Can you see the same application on cell phones? They could block calls from two to five in the morning that weren't to 911 or emergency offices. Operators could ask the math questions in order to keep you from not making a mistake you will later forget.
Thanks Google for keeping our lives in order and our jobs entact. Where would we be in life without you?
For more information on the new technology, visit the Google blog at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html
