It’s amazing how a site like Gmail goes down and my brain has to change the way it remembers things. So many of my answers sit in Gmail. For example, I was using Gchat just now to have a conversation with my friend @chicagoabby. She asked the name of a bar that we’re going to this weekend. Usually that would be something I could respond to in perfectly normal chat time (under a minute – probably under 30 seconds). With Gmail down I find myself reconnecting dusty synapsis. I’m sure the answer lies somewhere else – on paper, in a text, in my brain… Hell, I know the location – I could just Google map it and hope the bar name is visible in street view, or I could call a friend who knows the answer and he’d remind me in about 1 minute.

As I write this I realize how much my life is like “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” and how Google is my ultimate lifeline. Not sad – amazing.

I will now leave you with some great tweets from people I follow about Gmail being down.

@nick “No results for Gmail,” Twitter Search tells me. Yeah, THAT’S THE PROBLEM.
@caniba Gmail is down. #fail
@InterAwesome Gmail is Down. 502 Server Error. [pic] http://ff.im/-7v8ze
@geraldine how many tweets about gmail down ?
@dariusdunlap Gmail is down? Good excuse to focus on creating something…
@jyamasaki cool… gmail’s down #failmail #whatdoIdonow? #gpocalypsenow
@davewiner What do you do when GMail is down? Go to lunch in Berkeley with Doug Kaye!
@evanhamilton What do you do when Gmail is down? Look at your to do list, get organized, clean up. Use this to your advantage, don’t freak out.
@Stacina I think the whole Interweb is down. EXCEPT twitter. #irony

Not related but funny.
@Traphik of course i have to poo 5 minutes before my class starts