I have heard the term drunk-dialing, but drunk-e-mailing? Apparently, it is a great danger to many, and like a loyal St. Bernard bearing a keg, Google has come to the rescue. Has this ever happened to you? I once sent an e-mail to my boss at three o’clock in the morning after a night of bar hopping. It explained: I will not be at work because I am snowed in. The problem: the forecast was wrong, it didn’t snow. Where was Mail Goggles when I needed them?

“I once sent a drunken e-mail to a professor and told him I had gone deaf in one ear and might have to go to see a doctor,” said Liz Ermis, Guilford’s instructional technologist.

Clearly there is a need for a safe guard. Drunks can not be expected to know better. With email technology being so portable and accessible you never know where it might end up.

“This is an era when so many people carry personal digital assistants containing hundreds of contact numbers – including clients, work-adversaries and bosses – everywhere, including bars and parties,” said Jeremy Bailenson, director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, in an interview with The New York Times.

How it works: it tests your math skills. Type your e-mail, hit send as usual. A window with five math questions pops up. Answer them correctly in 60 seconds, and your e-mail goes through. If you don’t do the math right, it starts the test over without sending the e-mail. It’s pretty simple.

So how are you at math? How do you think you would be after a beer? Ok, how about after two beers?

Well, I used my sweet dear husband as a guinea pig to find out. As it turns out, he’s pretty good at math when he’s drunk.

Disclaimer: do not try this on campus, especially if you are under the age of 21. Drinking beer legally is one of the perks of being a CCE student, sorry ya’ll.

Back to my test. He drank one beer every 30 minutes, and took the test every 15 minutes. Eight beers and four shots of vodka later, he could still log in. He couldn’t walk straight or talk straight, but he could send a crooked e-mail.

My own skills, beer-free on level five, weren’t quick enough to send. Don’t get me wrong, I’m great at math, I earned a 100 percent A for the semester in MAT141, I’m just not good under the time pressure.

“Yeah, right! I can’t do math when I’m sober, so Mail Goggles is kind of futile,” said junior John Morehead, an IT&S student worker. “I’d much rather face the social fall-out from a drunken e-mail than do math.”

If you’re like me and John, it works a little too well. If you’re a math wiz, don’t depend on it. Stick to the old fashioned way and designate a sober friend to send e-mails for you when you’re intoxicated. Friends don’t let friends type drunk.

If you fall somewhere in the middle this is going to be a life-saver. So, all you have to do is open settings and find Mail Goggles on the Lab page then enable it. Last step, in “general settings” select the day and times you get drunk and need protection, and then save.

Voila, no more embarrassing phone calls from your boss or professors looking for an explanation when you’re all hung-over. Thanks Gmail.