The Column

Friday, October 10, 2008

Sending out random, drunken emails?

This is interesting ...



Years ago that Atlanta columnist and great American, Lewis Grizzard, wrote about what he called "Black Cord Fever"(BCF), where you spend all night drinking, go home from the bar, and make manic phone calls to Mom, ex-girlfriends, ex-wives, whatever.

The logical update of BCF involves sending emails after working up that all-night buzz. Google offers a Gmail extension called Mail Goggles, which includes something of a brain test to make sure you can actually see through those beer goggles before sending off that incendiary email to your boss.

According to Google:
 
"By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as
that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings."

Now if there was only something for the original BCF.

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