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Gmail just installed Mail Goggles, which makes you answer five math questions before sending e-mails on late weekend nights, boding poorly for alcoholics and humanities majors...
...diminished. If it weren’t for the drunk e-mail, I wouldn’t understand life the way I do today. With Mail Goggles, my roommate’s opus on the meaning of universe would never have found its way to my inbox. For one, math is not her strength. And for two, she might have paused and thought, “Is this really something I want to send out to half of my address book?” I think I speak for all 76 of us when I say that e-mails like...
...When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday e-mail,” reads the blog, “And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind...
...Math problems! When the clock strikes 10 on a weekend, you lose the ability to send e-mail from your Gmail account without answering a few mathematical puzzles first. Apparently, once you board the train to drunk town, your math skills are the first to go. A perfect solution to a troublesome problem—as we all know what kind of e-mails some liquid courage in your system can prompt you to send...
...with Mail Goggles, those e-mails are no more. Instead of penning verbose diatribes or Shakespearean sonnets, I struggle for hours to do elementary math problems before cursing my computer, giving up, and falling asleep in a state of frustrated, drunken bliss...