Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ex Post Edito

One of the things I would most like to do in life is to find the ability to edit myself better.
I am huge with the over share - I just get to talking, and tell people way more than they want or need to know.

I will call the process Ex Post Edito - as an homage to law school and Ex Post Facto laws. [ Ex Post Facto laws (in case you don't know) are laws that are created after something has occurred that retroactively modify the status of the prior action. (Crude example - in utopian society there is no such thing as murder, thus not a crime and no punishment for that action - a murder occurs and an ex post facto law would be one that made that murder a punishable offense - I think) ]

Now I've solved this problem in gmail with the "Undo" feature. The undo feature gives me 10 seconds to retract an email before it goes to the recipient for good. Therefore I can say all the stupid crap I want, hit send and realize (very quickly) oh crap! and fix it.

I just need a way to do this for things I say aloud. All suggestions are welcome.

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