That was until today. As i opened my email to check today's messages after class, i noticed that Google was introducing some new email tools, one of which was called Google Custom Time. To my suprise, this feature allowed you to post-date your emails, as if you wrote them a day or a few years ago. You could even select an option that placed the email in the recepients box having already "been read" by the recepient. They would think that they just glanced over your email, and that you did send it to them when you said you would.
This came with a variety of testimonials from users who had "cheated the system" by winning contests, getting out of missing an appointment, or etc...Not looking at the fine print too closely, i immediately began to lay out just how i was going to use this as a teachable moment with the 3 of you who read my blog. You would have learned just how this is related to the decline of morality in America, and the need for the truth of the Gospel to penetrate every aspect of our society once again as it did a few centuries ago.
Upon doing some more research for the Google-bashing blog post, i began to notice a few things. First, one of the main ingredients that allows Google to post date emails is what they call an e-flux capacitor. Now...this may slip past many of you, but not by someone who's favorite movie trilogy series is Back To The Future! The Flux Capacitor is what allowed the time machine to go back in time. It was somewhere around this point in my studies that i realized the excellent April fools prank that the entire staff at Google had just laid hard on me (and hopefully 1/2 of America as well).
All i can say is this: Well done, Google...well done.
2 comments:
I was tricked too! That was good.
Don't feel too bad about it- Megan and I had already talked about writing an email to complain...
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