Firstly, this guy actually failed the Turing Test.

In my defense, I had followed someone on DeviantArt who had a similar handle, so I thought this person might have had a legitimate reason for contacting me. Also there were reasonable time and [Typing...] breaks between statements.

(12:10:04 PM) eccelecrimat: hey.
(12:10:20 PM) Arctic - AIM: Hello
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Within minutes after posting to my LiveJournal, I got an IM from a stranger.

(4:04:27 PM) ViralSalmon: I'm from the Internet. I'm here to help ( Read more... )

MS Word seems to think that the subject-verb pair "Nanotechnology can" should either be "Nanotechnologies can" or "Nanotechnology cans." I thought for a moment that, since I probably had to add "nanotechnology" to the spell check dictionary, it didn't know for sure that the word was a noun, and maybe it thinks it's an adjective describing a "can ( Read more... )