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Boy, do I feel old. Apparently “drunk dialing” is a term of the past and has been replaced by the phenomenon called “drunk emailing”. But have no fear, Google has recently developed a tool to keep those embarrassing emails to a minimum.

It’s called Mail Goggles – a Gmail add-on that makes it difficult for you to send email during certain times (i.e. 3:00am on a Saturday). Located in the “Labs” tab in your Gmail account, you will be required to answer a series of math problems before the message can be sent. You also have the ability to determine how hard those math questions are. Don’t make them too easy or the system won’t work and don’t make them too hard or you won’t be able to answer them when you are sober.

Remember to set your time constraints and math problems when you are clear headed and in possession of the patience and temperament of a rational person.

So, take a moment to thank Google for preventing that email to be your boss about how under appreciated you are or to your ex just to let them know what they are missing. Have fun this weekend and remember if Google says “Water and bed for you”, it’s probably best to put down the calculator and follow that advice.

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