Comments on: Google's Mail Goggles

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:58:46 +0000

I think this is hilarious.

By: xadrian

xadrian — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:41:34 +0000

Long term, this may also be akin to "Be careful, dumbass, the coffee is hot. Don't hold it between your legs" warning labels. At some point, something bad may happen from a drunk email and Google may be doing this to CTA.

By: sparge

sparge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:39:25 +0000

And I've been reading too many political posts. I don't usually snap at people like that. Sorry.

I actually went to have a look at how it works... once you activate it, the default times are as listed, but it's very easy to change them to suit your own drinking habits.

By: bukowski

bukowski — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:33:36 +0000

I wasn't really clear, sorry, english is not my first language.
Anyway, what i meant whas that the issue is not the tool itself, it could be a useful widget, what i noticed is that "By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend".
This is the by default i did not like, as we need to be taking care of ourselves for everything.
I don't even use Gmail, i was just grumpy today.

By: sparge

sparge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:28:38 +0000

bukowski - so don't activate it. sheesh.

By: bukowski

bukowski — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:04:03 +0000

This is funny, but stupid?
What kind of society with people who need to be assist at every time of their life is that?
Drunk calling, and drunk mailing is a part of experience you need to have.
And no, i don't want help from my big friend google to help me and check if i can send a mail totaly pissed at 4 in the morning.
The bitter taste of having sent something totaly stupid is preferable than having a bot telling you what to do.

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:06:54 +0000

This is now the third blog in less than 24 hours on which I've seen this article... and I only read a few blogs!

It's a good idea, but I prefer the idea with the cellphone that has a breathalyzer attached. Pretty clever idea.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:44:44 +0000

The problem is that I'm pretty great at math when I'm drunk.
Probably better than when I am sober.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:31:07 +0000

we need a usb computer-blocking breathanalyzer!

By: jenjen

jenjen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:19:21 +0000

What I need is a retirement math popup to keep me from drunk shopping.

By: marc

marc — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:03:39 +0000

...but I'm complitely drunkj and had no truble solving thoose problems...it wouldn't stop me talling my boss what a bitch she is. How about a typing trst?