Dear Google

some say you are trying to take over the world and that you force your new products on us without much question of whether or not we want it. they'll complain and draw cartoons depicting you as a sort of beastly monster eating the great lands of the internet.

but those people must have forgotten what it was like to search the world wide web via dogpile, yahoo, and webcrawler.

or what it was like to deal with hotmail, aol, and yahoo. sadly, some folk still run with those email systems rather than your magical gmail-- and i seriously judge people when i hear their email end in anything but gmail.com or some personalized domain like presidentwishnack.com.

anyway, my point is i love you. i love the way you change your logos on certain days because it makes me look smarter in public when i can tell people it's dr. seuss' birthday or the day julia fractals were first discovered.

i love that i have made $5 through your ad services on my blog. i love that you double as a spell check. and i love that you hate microsoft.

and earlier today, i realized a small addition to your services that most people may not be aware of. i was trying to send my art portfolio to a website i rather admire and before i could send the email, you alerted me with the following message:

this is some kind of digital landmark.

everyone has mailed a cover letter to a potential employer, promising a resume, only to find out they forgot to attach the damn thing. and anyone who says they haven't is a cold-hearted liar or simply has not sent out enough resumes to have the chance to make the mistake.

we've all done it. and quite frankly, i'm surprised no other email service has created any preventative tactics to solve the issue till now.

but i'm not surprised that you're the first.

so thank you, google. thank you for knowing what we need. it's the little things that no one has to ask you to do-- you just do it because you're cool-- like the guy who puts the toilet seat back down because he knows a girl is waiting to use the bathroom next. it's just kind and it shows you care about us. if you plan to take over the world, i'm okay with it. at least you're aware of what sort of changes could stand to happen.

impressedly,
president wishnack

p.s. i would like to request that you consider december 22nd, my birthday, a google holiday. and change your logo on that day to celebrate. i'll even draw the logo if you would be so kind as to publish it.