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Gmail Custom Time

  • Apr. 1st, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Bwahaha
Dangit, the one thing I wish WASN'T an April Fool's Day joke.

The best part is the math:

N = Total emails sent
P = Probability that user believes the time stamp
φ = The Golden Ratio
L = Average life expectancy

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[info]j_cheney wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 08:56 pm (UTC)
Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless.

The best part.....

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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC)
Heh. I got about halfway through the testimonials and started groaning. Did you see those?
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[info]j_cheney wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
Yeah, but I never trust them anyway...and if that guy's an Epistomology Professor, I'll eat my shorts...
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 10:31 pm (UTC)
Unsalted shorts??? *L*
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[info]j_cheney wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
No, salted and buttered, of course....
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[info]maryrobinette wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:03 pm (UTC)
I would so use this.
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:27 pm (UTC)
That's the sad part... I think we'd ALL use this!!
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[info]maprilynne wrote:
Apr. 2nd, 2008 12:42 am (UTC)
Until I realized it was a joke I was like, "Oh man, I feel dirty even having a Gmail account!"
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[info]lisamantchev wrote:
Apr. 2nd, 2008 01:30 am (UTC)
*L* You know you would have used it eventually!
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