Thank you for your email. I am [on dry land nearest the point exactly half-way around the globe from you]. I will not have email contact until [computed date], but I will try to respond to your message as soon as I return.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Is there an app for this?
I need a gmail filter that sends a custom vacation message to certain people. The filter needs to scan the message for the latest date mentioned and determine the geographical location of the sender. It must next add four weeks to that latest date. The longitude of the sender's geographic location must be advanced by 180o and the latitude multiplied by -1. After triangulating the dry land nearest to the rotated coordinates, the filter must finally send the following "vacation" message:
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HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! If there's not an app for this, then somebody needs to write one PDQ.
I don't use gmail, but if you can forward it to another email address it wouldn't be too hard to set up.
I want that too! Maybe we could take up a collection from all the people who would benefit from this app and pay a developer.
Lesley
LOVE IT!
I have not seen an app for this. It could be done in Cold Fusion or Javascript or C++. The choice depends on the computing environment. We would need a set of rules that describe how you want to scan the message. It would use these rules to determine what to do next.
Geolocation would be a bit tougher. A simpler way to do would be to create a list of vacation spots, some nice and some horrible. The let the app select from the vacation spots based on the rules.
You could create an interface that you can use to add and remove vacation spots and modify the rules.
You could also use Bayesian algebra to chose who gets what vacation spot. That way you teach the app what you want it to do.
This antipodes map should help with the geographic lookup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes
Unfortunately, most land masses have only ocean diametrically opposite to them. I suppose that would explain why you don't have an internet connection there.
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