Note to Self: I can write a note to myself to be delivered at a later date using the FutureMe service. It’s a website that allows you to write yourself an email and send it to yourself on the date you, yourself, determine. The people who started it said they want to help people improve memory accuracy. They contend, and I would agree, that memories are less accurate than emails. Although, maybe your sanitized memories are better than reality. Who would know without FutureMe…or a journal from every stage of your embarrassing youth?
The FutureMe guys are also making a book out of the most interesting letters, so if you think you’re really clever (and I’m sure you are) by all means email yourself. You just might get recognized for it. I suspect they wouldn’t pick my email since it would probably just read, “Baby Julie, you look great today.”
One of the “What?” Q&As on the FutureMe site reads:
is this all a front by some corporation to collect e-mail addresses for spamming purposes?
no, your email address is kept strictly confidential and will ONLY be used for the purpose of you sending an email to your future self. so relax. and maybe remind your future self to relax as well.
Yes, I think I’ll go and remind my future self to relax. But it might cut into my relaxation time now. What to do? Wait, now I’m worrying about it, and I should be relaxing. What if I do this in the future? I’ll email myself a warning. But what if I don’t worry in the future? Then I’ve wasted valuable relaxation time now emailing myself a useless command. I wish the past me had emailed the future me what I should do.
In other news of high tech message delivery, I mistakenly sent a text message meant for one to a number of people in my recent cell phone text log. Good thing it didn’t carry profanities or a some shameful secret. You might wonder how this could happen. Well, I have a “select all” button, which was probably meant to save mass texters tons of time. It turned out to be something of a time wasting device for me as it caused a chain reaction of “huhs?”
I said: “What?”
They said: “You texted me.”
I wrote: “Nuh-uh.”
You get the picture. I eventually said: “Oh, I see what I did. Sorry.”
All of these communication improvements could lead to increased miscommunications in the hands of a girl who might like to have an adult beverage or two on a weekend night. Don’t get me wrong, I dig improvements in technology. I like to reach out and touch people. I might even reach out and touch myself with FutureMe. But I don’t want more ways to reach out and touch people inappropriately. I might email myself a note about it. Then again, maybe I should just relax.
[*The art is by Matt Sewell. Good stuff.]
Heather said,
January 30, 2007 at 2:29 am
Note to future Heather: The Swiss bank account password is “ratatouille”. Also, don’t forget the ointment. The eagle flies at midnight. Over.
Jenn said,
January 30, 2007 at 3:25 am
I hope you at least spell checked your mass text message.
julieluongo said,
January 30, 2007 at 3:56 am
I need “spell check in context.”
Matt Lesoine said,
January 30, 2007 at 10:06 am
I was out the other night and someone remarked that they loved to text message people but hated to type. They wanted somebody to invent a “voice to text” feature of some kind where they could talk into the phone and create a message. I was like, “Duh. They have that already. Dial the number and talk or send them a voicemail. It’s a phone, dumbass.” But somehow I just know that this feature will be available before too long…
julieluongo said,
January 30, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Haha!
Christy said,
January 30, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Even advanced voice recognition software is shifty at best now – if they do have it soon it’ll be prohibitively expensive.
julieluongo said,
January 30, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I still want it. My fingers hurt the other day and it scared me.
Cristy Weldon said,
February 1, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I tried the Cool Edit program on my home pc for a while… having my documents read back to me in the 8 different electronic voices was fun… for about 30 minutes. Having the Dragon software was much better (except for the dinky mic that came with it) and worked for all of my programs. I agree with Christy… they may actually create said voice-to-text option on your phone, but won’t come on any of the cell phones you can upgrade your current account to anyway. One of these days I’m just gonna freaking buy the RAZR of my dreams. Kudos on the art selections.
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June 16, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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Jim said,
June 16, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Did you just get spammed by Yahoo?…
Wow, what an honor.
Jesus said,
June 16, 2007 at 4:31 pm
More of an honor than when I commented? Fine. Just because I perform miracles doesn’t mean I have to, you know. Hello! Dead guy, son of God, commenting.